ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENTAL AND STEM CELL BIOLOGY

Concurrent Speaker(s)

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  Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Physics of Life TU Dresden, Germany
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  Ron Weiss, PhD

  Biological Engineering
  MIT, USA

Presenting Author(s)

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  Sveva Bottini, MSci

  Molecular Biotechnology and Health Science
  University of Torino, Italy
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  Connor Fausto

  Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
  University of Southern California, USA
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  Jianping Fu, PhD

  Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Cell & Developmental Biology
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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  Suzan Stelloo, PhD

  Molecular Biology
  RIMLS, Radboud University, Netherlands

Stem cells sense their environment, process information, and continuously react to stimuli to self-renew or differentiate. In this session, speakers will cover the construction of synthetic gene networks as well as new models of human developmental mechanisms to improve our understanding of stem cell regulatory networks.

Presentations:

• STEM CELL ZOO– A PLATFORM TO STUDY SPECIES-SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Physics of Life TU Dresden
• A FULLY PATTERNED HUMAN NEURAL TUBE MODEL USING MICROFLUIDIC GRADIENTS
  

  Presenting Author: Jianping Fu, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• CORRECTING KIDNEY ORGANOID PATTERNING WITH SYNTHETIC DEVELOPMENTAL ORGANIZERS
  

  Presenting Author: Connor C. Fausto – University of Southern California
• A GENETIC SWITCH FOR GROWTH FACTOR-FREE STEM CELL EXPANSION AND SUBSEQUENT DIFFERENTIATION INTO SKELETAL MUSCLE
  

  Presenting Author: Sveva Bottini, MSci – University of Torino
• DECIPHERING LINEAGE SPECIFICATION DURING EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS USING MULTILAYERED PROTEOMICS
  

  Presenting Author: Suzan Stelloo, PhD – RIMLS, Radboud University
• MAMMALIAN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND PROGRAMMABLE ORGANOIDS
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Ron Weiss, PhD – MIT