Full Schedule

Chair: Amander T. Clark, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

Plenary Speaker: Magdalena Goetz, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

Plenary Speaker: Tina Mukherjee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)

Plenary Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD – University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine

Plenary Speaker: Sarah Teichmann, FRS, FMedSci (she/her/hers) – Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine

Presenter: David Pedrosa – Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg, Standort Marburg, Baldingerstraße

Presenter: Viviane Tabar, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Magdalena Kasendra, PhD – Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at Cincinnati Children's

Showcase Presenter: Katie Kilgour, PhD – Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Jessica Hartman – Cell Microsystems

Showcase Presenter: Michael Roberts, PhD

Showcase Presenter: Meghan Everett, PhD

Showcase Presenter: Catriona Jamieson, PhD

Showcase Presenter: Valentina Fossati, PhD

Showcase Presenter: Jeanne Loring, PhD – Scripps Research Institute

Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute

Showcase Presenter: Felix Spira – Molecular Devices

Showcase Presenter: Brian Hawkins – Pluristyx, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Adam Hirst – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Co-Chair: Filipe Pereira, PhD (he/him/his) – Lund University

Co-Chair: Barbara Treutlein, PhD (she/her/hers) – ETH Zürich

Plenary Speaker: Jonathan Weissman, PhD – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, HHMI, MIT

Plenary Speaker: Fabian Theis, PhD (he/him/his) – Helmholtz Zentrum München

Plenary Speaker: Susanne Rafelski, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science

Plenary Speaker: Matthias P. Lutolf, PhD – Institute of Human Biology (IHB) F. Hoffmann-La Roche

Award Winner: Jun Wu, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Science Spotlight Moderator: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center

Science Spotlight Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics

Science Spotlight Speaker: Melanio Unas Mauricio, III, MSc (he/him/his) – Leiden University Medical Center

Science Spotlight Speaker: Lisa Ott de Bruin, MD, PhD – Leiden University Medical Centre

Science Spotlight Speaker: Chantal van Litsenburg, MSc, MBA (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center

Science Spotlight Speaker: Leanne Rees, B.App.Sc.(Physiotherapy), MPH, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, reNEW PREPARE

Science Spotlight Speaker: Josefine Rågård Christiansen, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen

Science Spotlight Moderator: Malkiel A. Cohen, PhD (he/him/his) – Wanda Fish

Science Spotlight Moderator: Neta Lavon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Aleph Farms

Science Spotlight Speaker: Paul Burridge, PhD – Northwestern University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Annisa Chand, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nature Food

Science Spotlight Speaker: Niraimathi Govindasamy, PhD (she/her/hers) – Bluu Seafood

Science Spotlight Speaker: Michelle Hauser – TAU / The Good Food Institute

Science Spotlight Speaker: Shulamit Levenberg, PhD – Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Science Spotlight Speaker: Shigeki Sugii, PhD – SIFBI, A*STAR / ImpacFat

Science Spotlight Speaker: Christine Ling Li Trautmann – ETH Zürich

Science Spotlight Speaker: Maria Fernandes, PhD – Meatable

Science Spotlight Moderator: Gregory Block, PhD (he/him/his) – Histone Therapeutics

Science Spotlight Moderator: Isaac R. Gabriel, Student – University College London

Science Spotlight Speaker: Debattama R. Sen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University / Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research

Science Spotlight Speaker: Sara Che, PhD – Tune Therapeutics

Science Spotlight Speaker: Hannele Ruohola-Baker, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Science Spotlight Speaker: Lise Munsie, PhD – CCRM

Science Spotlight Speaker: Rowan Flynn, PhD – RoslinCT

Science Spotlight Speaker: Sarah J. Dickerson (she/her/hers) – FUJIFILM

Science Spotlight Moderator: Dana Brinson, BSc (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

Science Spotlight Moderator: Golnaz Karoubi – University Health Network

Science Spotlight Speaker: Sara Wickström, MD, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Science Spotlight Speaker: Claudia Loebel, MD, PhD – University of Michigan

Science Spotlight Speaker: Dylan Mostert, PhD – Eindhoven University of Technology

Science Spotlight Moderator: Georg Csukovich, PhD – University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

Science Spotlight Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin

Science Spotlight Speaker: Lena Schorr, MSc (she/her/hers) – German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg

Science Spotlight Speaker: Merve Ceylan, MSc – Uppsala University

Focus Session Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute

Focus Session Speaker: Laurent David, PhD – Universite de Nantes

Focus Session Speaker: Camille Tempier Lemey, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies

Focus Session Speaker: Dmitry A. Ovchinnikov, PhD – The Florey / University of Melbourne

Focus Session Speaker: Grazia Iannello, PhD – Columbia University

Focus Session Speaker: Sebastian Diecke, PhD – Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine

Focus Session Speaker: Sarah Perez Munoz, PhD – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Chair: Brian Aguado, PhD – University of California San Diego

Speaker: Ralda Nehme, PhD – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Harvard University

Speaker: Raeka Aiyar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Community Science, LLC

Speaker: Magdalena Kasendra, PhD – Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at Cincinnati Children's

Moderator: Thomas Hutschalik, MSc (he/him/his) – Ncardia Services B.V.

Panelist: Chris Bond – Notch Therapeutics

Panelist: Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD – Carpenter Consulting Corporation

Panelist: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency

Panelist: Tina Mukherjee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)

Theater Speaker: Bilada Bilican, PhD – AstraZaneca

Theater Speaker: Reda Zenagui – Stem Genomics

Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak – Union Biometrica, Inc

Theater Speaker: Philipp Nold – Eppendorf SE

Theater Speaker: Irene Wei

Theater Speaker: Pinar Mesci, PhD