PLENARY III: EXPLORING THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT USING STEM CELLS

Plenary Speaker(s)

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  Alfonso Martinez Arias, PhD

  MELIS
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain
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  Jennifer Nichols, PhD

  MRC Human Genetics Unit
  University of Edinburgh, UK
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  Mansi Srivastava, PhD

  Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  Harvard University, USA
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  Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, PhD

  Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

The principles of embryogenesis provide the foundation for expanding our knowledge of health and disease. Invited researchers that model embryogenesis using stem cells to explore such basic principles will present in this session.

Presentations:

• INVESTIGATING THE MYSTERY OF HUMAN TROPHECTODERM EXPANSION FOR IMPLANTATION
  

  Plenary Speaker: Jennifer Nichols, PhD – University of Edinburgh
• EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS OF CELLULAR PLASTICITY AND REPROGRAMMING TO TOTIPOTENCY
  

  Plenary Speaker: Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, PhD – Helmholtz Zentrum München
• EXPLORING THE PLURIPOTENCY OF STEM CELLS USING DEVELOPMENT
  

  Plenary Speaker: Mansi Srivastava, PhD – Harvard University
• THE ANNE MCLAREN MEMORIAL LECTURE:PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL MODELS OF GASTRULATION: DRAWING LINES
  

  Plenary Speaker: Alfonso Martinez Arias, PhD – Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona