ESTOOLS - Advances with human embryonic stem cells -
Wednesday 26 - Friday 28 May
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
"stem cells in biology and disease"
General notes: Each of the 6 Scientific Sessions has three named speakers who will deliver a 25 minute lecture and then allow 5 minutes for questions; the fourth speaking slot is reserved for a talk that will be selected from poster abstracts submitted in advance of the symposium. The finale to the Symposium programme will be the 3rd and final ESTOOLS Ethics Workshop "do we still need human embryonic stem cells?". ESTOOLS then continues its programme in Lisbon with a set of Outreach Activities for the public and schools, being planned together with the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. [Programme updated 13 May]
Wednesday 26 May
11:00 REGISTRATION OPENS
12:00 Lunch
13:25 Welcome from Antonio Coutinho (Director, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência) and Peter W. Andrews (ESTOOLS Coordinator, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield)
13:30 Keynote Speech 1 - Christine Mummery - ESTOOLS Science Advisory Board member / Leiden University
14:30 SESSION 1: Cancer stem cells
Chair: Peter Andrews
14:30 Maarten van Lohuizen - ESTOOLS / Netherlands Cancer Institute
15:00 John Stingl - Cancer Research, Cambridge
15:30 Selected talk from abstracts: Christina Scheel - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT Dept of Biology
15:45 Tariq Enver - ESTOOLS / Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University
of Oxford
16:15 Coffee
16:45 SESSION 2: Fate switching and induced pluripotency
Chair: Austin Smith
16:45 Marius Wernig - Stanford School of Medicine
17:15 Jose Silva - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge
17:45 Selected talk from abstracts: Samer Hussein - Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
18:00 Angel Raya - Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona
18:30 Poster session
Thursday 27 May
09:00 SESSION 3: Neural stem cells
Chair: Yves Barde
09:00 Magdalena Götz - ESTOOLS Science Advisory Board member / Helmholtz-Muenchen
09:30 Domingos Henrique - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
10:00 Selected talk from abstracts: Silvia Nicolis - Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca
10:15 Oliver Brüstle - ESTOOLS / Life &
Brain Center, University of Bonn
10:45 Coffee
11:30 SESSION 4: Neurodegenerative disease modelling & prospects for neural repair
Chair: Elena Cattaneo
11:30 Yves Barde - ESTOOLS / Biozentrum, University of Basel
12:00 Tom Reh - University of Washington
12:30 Selected talk from abstracts: Philipp Koch - University of Bonn & Hertie Foundation
12:45 Marc Peschanski - INSERM Paris
13:15 Lunch
14:45 Keynote Speech 2 - Ron McKay - NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center
15:45 SESSION 5: Technological advances in manipulating pluripotent stem cells
Chair: Nissim Benvenisty
15:45 Andras Nagy - ESTOOLS Science Advisory Board member / Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto
16:15 Lorenz Studer - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
16:45 Selected talk from abstracts: Tobias Cantz - JRG Stem Cell Biology, Hannover Medical School
17:00 Andrew Smith - ESTOOLS / Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
17:30 Coffee
19:30 THEATRE - Staminalia: a Dream and a Trial created by Valeria Patera (from a book and script by Armando Massarenti)
(nil admission charge; latecomers not admitted) Click for further info and to view the trailer
20:15 Departure from front of Gulbenkian Foundation building by bus to Conference Dinner
Friday 28 May
09:00 Keynote Speech 3
- Shinya Yamanaka - Kyoto University
10:00 SESSION 6: Control of stem cell state and pluripotency
Chair: Tariq Enver
10:00 Peter Andrews - ESTOOLS / Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield
10:30 Martin Pera - ESTOOLS Science Advisory Board member / University of S California
11:00 Selected talk from abstracts: Veronique Azuara - Reproductive Biology, Imperial College London
11:15 Austin Smith - ESTOOLS / Wellcome
Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge
11:45 Poster prizes presentation / Symposium closing words
12:35 Lunch
Friday 28 May - ESTOOLS 3rd Ethics Workshop:
Do we still need human embryonic stem cells?
Programme information on this page
Saturday 29 May - Outreach activities for public / schools
Organisers: Sébastien Duprat (ESTOOLS) & Ana Godinho (Head of Science Communication & Outreach, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia)
The photo-exhibition Smile of a Stem Cell will be in Lisbon.
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