RegenBell 2025 symposium on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), C/ del Carme, 47 08001 Barcelona
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
9:00
Registration
9:30
Welcome
Gabriel Capellá, General Director of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL)
9:40
SESSION I: Going back to the embryo
Chair: Anna Veiga, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
9:45
Synthetic Ex Utero Embryogenesis: from Naive Pluripotent Cells to Complete Developmental Models
Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
10:15
Blastoids: Modeling human early pregnancy with stem cells
Nicolas Rivron, Austrian Academy of Sciences IMBA, Vienna
10:45
Selected short talks:
to be confirmed
11:05
Coffee break
11:45
SESSION II: Healing from whitin: Vertebrate organ regeneration
Chair: Angel Raya, ICREA, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
11:50
Differential growth regulation along the proximo-distal axis of the axolotl limbDifferential growth regulation along the proximo-distal axis of the axolotl limb
Tatiana Sandoval-Guzman, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
12:20
To be confirmed
Gilbert Weidinger, Universität Ulm, Germany
12:50
Selected short talks:
To be confirmed
13:15
Lunch & Poster Session
15:15
SESSION III: Stem cell aging and neurodegeneration
Chair: Carolina Florian, ICREA/IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
15:20
Perils and Promise of Unlocking Stemness in the Adult and Aging Brain
Ana Martin-Villalba, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
15:50
A physical niche for adult neural stem cell quiescence
Isabel Fariñas, CIBERNED, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
16:20
Selected short talks:
To be confirmed
16:40
Coffee break
17:20
SESSION IV: Stem cell-bacterial interactions
Chairs: Jordi Guiu, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C].
Esteban Hoijman, IDIBELL/CSIC
17:25
To be confirmed
Marc Lecuit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
17:55
To be confirmed
Michael Sigal, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany
18:15
Poster session
20:00
END OF DAY ONE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
9:00
SESSION V: Stem cell dynamics during regeneration
Chair: Alessandra Giorgetti, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C] /UB, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
9:05
Capturing long-term stem cell behaviour in vitro using human Epithelioids
David Fernandez-Antoran,The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, -IIS-Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain
9:35
In Vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming for Immunotherapy
Filipe Pereira, Lund University Cancer Center, Lund, Sweden
10:05
Selected short talks:
To be confirmed
10:25
Coffee break
11:05
SESSION VI: Keynote address
Chair: Angel Raya, ICREA/ IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
11:10
To be confirmed
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christine Mummery
Heads of the hiPSC&Organ-on-Chip Facility in the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC)
12:10
Poster/short talk award and concluding remarks
Angel Raya, ICREA, IDIBELL and P-CMR[C], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
13:00
END OF SYMPOSIUM
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