Technical Program
NOTE: This schedule is subject to change. Last updated 12.4.18
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NOTE: This schedule is subject to change. Last updated 12.4.18
Wednesday, December 5th, Day 1 |
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| 7:30AM-12:00PM | Registration |
| 8:00-9:00AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00-9:15AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-10:00AM | Keynote Speaker: Development of Stem-Cell Derived, Islet Replacement for Type 1 Diabetes— Alan Agulnick, Viacyte Inc. |
| 10:00-12:15PM | Session 1: Disease Modelling |
| Session Chair: Randy Ashton, University of Wisconsin | |
| 10:00-10:30AM | Invited Speaker: Human Organs Chips for Drug Development, Disease Modeling, and More— Kevin Healy, University of California Berkeley |
| 10:30-11:00AM | Morning Break |
| 11:00-11:30AM | Invited Speaker: Improving Cardiovascular "Diseases-in-a-Dish" with Complex Materials— Adam J. Engler, University of California San Diego |
| 11:30-11:45AM | Development and Characterization of Brain Region-Specific Organoids from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Modelling of Rett Syndrome— Maria Margarida Diogo, Universidade de Lisboa |
| 11:45AM-12:00PM | Balancing Dynamic Tradeoffs to Drive Cellular Reprogramming— Kate E. Galloway, University of Southern California |
| 12:00-12:15PM | Direct Reprogramming of Glioblastoma Cells into Neurons Using Small Molecules— Chris Lee, Univeristy of Victoria |
| 12:15-1:45PM | Lunch |
| 1:45-3:30PM | Session 2: Organoid Engineering |
| Session Chair: Adam Engler, University of California San Diego | |
| 1:45-2:15PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering the Culture Microenvironment to Control CNS Organoid Morphogenesis— Randy Ashton, University of Wisconsin |
| 2:15-2:45PM | Invited Speaker: Genetically Supervised Engineering to Guide Maturation of Human Organoids Ex Vivo— Mo Ebrahimkhani, Arizona State University |
| 2:45-3:00PM | Engineering Stem Cell Spheroids to Rescue Muscular Denervation Atrophy— LeeAnn Li, University of California Los Angeles |
| 3:00-3:15PM | Transport Limitations in Spherical Human Gut Organoids— Barkan Sidar, Montana State University |
| 3:15-3:30PM | Efficient Controlled Generation of Human Organoids for Hepatic Cell Therapy— Giuseppe Pettinato, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
| 3:30-4:00PM | Afternoon Coffee |
| 4:00-5:00PM | Session 3: 3D Printing |
| Session Chair: Mo Ebrahimkhani, Arizona State University | |
| 4:00-4:30PM | Invited Speaker: Rebuilding the Heart Using FRESH 3D Bioprinting— Adam W. Feinberg, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:30-5:00PM | Invited Speaker: Bioprinting a Novel Combination of Drug Releasing Microspheres and hiPSC-Derived Neural Progenitors to Generate Neural Tissues for Drug Screening Applications— Stephanie Willerth, University of Victoria |
Thursday, December 6th, Day 2 |
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| 8:00AM-12:00PM | Registration |
| 8:00-9:00AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00-9:15AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-10:00AM | Keynote Speaker: Cerebral Organoids:Modelling Human Brain Development and Tumorigenesis in Stem Cell Derived 3D Culture— Juergen Knoblich, Instutite of Molecular Biotechnology |
| 10:00-11:30AM | Session 4: Differentiation and Morphogenesis Part 1 |
| Session Chair: Nicola Elvassore, University of Padova | |
| 10:00-10:30AM | Invited Speaker: Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes as Models for the Mechanobiology of Cardiomyopathy at the Single Cell Level— Alison Schroer, University of California Santa Barbara |
| 10:30-11:00AM | Morning Break |
| 11:00-11:15AM | Cardiac and Pancreatic Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Under Chemically Defined and Growth-Factor-Free Conditions— Xiaojun Lian, Pennsylvania State University |
| 11:15-11:30AM | Cell Fate - Links to Membrane Capacitance and Cell Surface Glycosylation— Lisa A. Flanagan, University of California Irvine |
| 11:30AM-1:15PM | Lunch |
| 1:15-2:00PM | Session 5: Differentiation and Morphogenesis Part 2 |
| Session Chair: Tiago G. Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa | |
| 1:15-1:30PM | Engineering Cardiac Lineage Specification through Application of Low Oxygen Tension in 2D and 3D Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells— Justin Lowenthal, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1:30-1:45PM | Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Brain Pericyte-like Cells through a Neural Crest Intermediate— Sean P. Palecek, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| 1:45-2:00PM | Organogenesis on a Chip: From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Functional Kidney Model— Samira Musah, Duke University |
| 2:00-2:30PM | Afternoon Coffee |
| 2:30-4:15PM | Session 6: Computation Stem Cell Biology |
| Session Chair: Adam Feinberg, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2:30-3:00PM | Invited Speaker: A Microfluidic RT-PCR Platform for Rapid and Direct Enumeration of Rare Hematopoietic Stem Cells— Jennifer Ma, University of Toronto |
| 3:00-3:15PM | Transcriptomic Analysis of 3D Cardiac Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveals Faster Maturation Compared to 2D Culture— Tiago G. Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa |
| 3:15-3:30PM | Automated Cell Tracking of in Vitro morphogenesis to Predict Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate Decisions— David Joy, University of California San Francisco |
| 3:30-3:45PM | Boolean Network Modeling of T Cell Development Predicts Heterogeneous Single Cell Transcriptional Trajectories— Matthew Langley, University of Toronto |
| 3:45-4:15PM | Invited Speaker: Ex Vivo and In Vivo Stem Cell Commitment Towards Regenerative Therapies— Shyni Varghese, Duke University |
| 4:15-5:30PM | Poster Session Reception |
Friday, December 7th, Day 3 |
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| 8:00AM-12:00PM | Registration |
| 8:00-9:00AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00-9:15AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-10:00AM | Keynote Speaker: Strategies for Bioprinting Complex Cardiac Tissue Mimics— Brenda Ogle, University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 10:00-11:45 AM | Session 7: Towards Regenerative Therapies Part 1 |
| Session Chair: Stephanie Willerth, University of Victoria | |
| 10:00 - 10:15AM | Scalable and Physiologically Relevant Microenvironments for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Differentiation— Yuguo Leo Lei, University of Nebraska Lincoln |
| 10:15 - 10:45AM | |
| 10:45-11:00AM | Engineering Functional Human Pancreatic Beta Cells within Cellular Aggregates— Jeffrey R. Millman, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 11:00-11:15AM | Label-Free Mouse Neural Stem Cell Sorting with a Hydrodynamic Oblique Angle Parallel Electrode Sorter (HOAPES)— Tayloria Adams, University of California Irvine |
| 11:15-11:30AM | Exploiting Surface Acoustic Waves to Study Development of Stem Cell-Derived Motor Neurons— Adele Doyle, University of California Santa Barbara |
| 11:30 - 11:45AM | Rejuvenating Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells with Pluripotent Stem Cell Secretome— Vaishaali Natarajan, Gladstone Institutes |
| 11:45 - 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 12:00PM -1:15PM | Lunch/Lunch to go |
