RegenBell 2025 symposium on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), C/ del Carme, 47 08001 Barcelona
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
9:00
Registration
9:30
Welcome: Gabriel Capellá
General Director, IDIBELL
9:40
SESSION I: Going back to the embryo
Chair: Anna Veiga, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]
9:45
Sophie Petropoulos
Karolinska Institutet/ Université de Montréal
Single Cell Genomics and Human Embryo Modeling
10:15
Nicolas Rivron
Austrian Academy of Sciences IMBA, Vienna
Blastoids: Modeling human early pregnancy with stem cells
10:45
Selected short talks:
André Dias
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan
Carlos Pérez-González
IDIBELL / P-CMR[C]
Self-organization of phenotypic heterogeneity and plasticity in colorectal cancer
11:05
Coffee break
11:45
SESSION II: Healing from within: Vertebrate organ regeneration
Chair: Angel Raya, ICREA, IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]/UB
11:50
Tatiana Sandoval-Guzman
Technische Universität Dresden
Differential growth regulation along the proximo-distal axis of the axolotl limb
12:20
12:50
Selected short talks:
Olalla Iglesias-García
CIMA/ Universidad de Navarra
Biologically-inspired melt electrowriting for the generation of highly biomimetic functional myocardium
Anna Guixeras
Universitat de Barcelona
Smed-cdk-17 controls eye size during planarian regeneration and homeostasis
13:15
Lunch & Poster Session
15:15
SESSION III: Stem cell aging and neurodegeneration
Chair: Carolina Florian, ICREA/IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]
15:20
Ana Martin-Villalba
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Perils and Promise of Unlocking Stemness in the Adult and Aging Brain
15:50
Isabel Fariñas
Universitat de València / CIBERNED
A physical niche for adult neural stem cell quiescence
16:20
Selected short talks:
Eleni Nikolopoulou
IDIBELL / P-CMR[C]
The role of vascular endothelial stem cells in the regeneration of the bone marrow vascular niche
Sandra M. Fernández Moya
Universidad de Málaga
STAU2 Coordinates Metabolism and RNA Regulation in Early Human Neurogenesis
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
Marc Lecuit
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Elucidating bacteria-intestine interactions with organoid models
17:55
Michael Sigal
Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
Responses of gastrointestinal stem cells and their niche to environmental perturbations
18:15
Poster session
20:00
END OF DAY ONE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28
9:00
SESSION V: Stem cell dynamics during regeneration
Chair: Alessandra Giorgetti, UB/IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]
9:05
David Fernandez-Antoran
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge / IIS-Aragon, Zaragoza
Capturing long-term stem cell behaviour in vitro using human Epithelioids
9:35
Filipe Pereira
Lund University Cancer Center
In Vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming for Immunotherapy
10:05
Selected short talks:
Maria Magallon-Mosella
IDIBELL / P-CMR[C] Studying the Role of Bone Marrow Niche in GATA2 Deficiency
Chiara Perrod
Insitut d’Investigació contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras, Barcelona
Human HSC self-renewal is maintained by fine-tuning RNA polymerase II activity
10:25
Coffee break
11:05
SESSION VI: Keynote address
Chair: Angel Raya, ICREA/ IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]
11:10
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christine Mummery
Leiden University Medical Centre
Stem cell models of cardiovascular disease: where are we now?
12:10
Poster/short talk award and concluding remarks
Angel Raya, ICREA/ IDIBELL/ P-CMR[C]/UB
13:00
END OF SYMPOSIUM
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