TOTIPOTENCY AND GERM CELL DEVELOPMENT

Concurrent Speaker(s)

• ME

  Miguel Esteban, PhD

  Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, China
• 

  Katsuhiko Hayashi, PhD (he/him/his)

  Graduate School of Medicine
  Osaka University, Japan

Presenting Author(s)

• 

  Moyra Lawrence, PhD

  CiRA and ASHBi
  Kyoto University, Japan
• CM

  Caitlin MacCarthy, PhD

  Cell and Developmental Biology
  Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
• 

  Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc

  Molecular Genetics
  Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto, Canada
• 

  Maria Rostovskaya, PhD

  Epigenetics Department
  Babraham Institute

Capturing stem cells in a particular state that reflects a lineage and stage is a major endeavor at the base of stem cell biology. In this session, speakers will focus on recent advances in the derivation of totipotent stem cells and recapitulation of germ cell development in the dish.

Presentations:

• INDUCTION, REGULATION, AND APPLICATION OF HUMAN TOTIPOTENT-LIKE CELLS
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Miguel Esteban, PhD – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
• LINE1 RNA PREVENTS DEVELOPMENTAL REVERSION OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS TO THE 8-CELL STATE
  

  Presenting Author: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto
• PROTEIN NETWORKS UNDERLYING THE MOUSE TOTIPOTENT-LIKE STATE
  

  Presenting Author: Moyra Lawrence, PhD – Kyoto University
• MOLECULAR TIMETABLE OF LINEAGE SPECIFICATION IN HUMAN PLURIPOTENT EPIBLAST
  

  Presenting Author: Maria Rostovskaya, PhD – Babraham Institute
• HIGHLY COOPERATIVE CHIMERIC SUPER-SOX INDUCES NAÏVE PLURIPOTENCY ACROSS SPECIES
  

  Presenting Author: Caitlin MacCarthy, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
• RECONSTITUTION OF GERM CELL AND GONAD DEVELOPMENT USING PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Katsuhiko Hayashi, PhD (he/him/his) – Osaka University