Thursday, April 8, 2021
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Zoom
Join Seattle’s vibrant stem cell community for a series of talks on current issues pertaining to stem cells in development, tissue regeneration and cancer research.
Program
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Matthias Lutolf, PhD
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Bogdan Budnik, PhD
1:00 – 1:20 p.m. Lightning Talks
1:20 – 1:50 p.m. Yi Zhang, PhD
1:50 – 2:20 p.m. Ondine Cleaver, PhD
2:20 – 2:40 p.m. Lightning Talks
2:40 – 3:00 p.m. Breakout Rooms with Posters
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Josef Penninger, MD
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD
Presentations
Bogdan Budnik, PhD
Principal Scientist, Harvard Center for Mass Spectrometry
Digital omics challenges and perspectives
Ondine Cleaver, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern
Building and maintaining biological tubes
Matthias Lutolf, PhD
Full Professor
Institute of Bioengineering
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Engineering stem cell self-organization to build better organoids
Josef Penninger, MD
Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
Professor of Genetics, University of Vienna
Guest Professor, Medical University of Vienna
Adjunct Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto
From haploid stem cells to blood vessel engineering
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD
Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech
Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology, University of Cambridge
Building embryos from stem cells
Yi Zhang, PhD
Fred Rosen Chair Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Hughes Medical Institute
Reprogramming between pluripotent and totipotent states
Session Talks
All talks take place on the Zoom platform. For detailed information about who will be speaking and their topics, please see the schedule of talks.
Poster Session
The Poster Session is scheduled from 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. Eleven abstracts have been selected for 3-minute lightning talks during the symposium. For poster titles and authors presenting, please see the listing of posters.