ESTOOLS - Advances with human embryonic stem cells - Second Annual Consortium Meeting in Budapest 1-5 June 2008
Second Annual Consortium Meeting in Budapest 1-5 June 2008
All 20 ESTOOLS partners came together again for their 2008 2nd Annual Consortium Meeting
Download the slideshow as a pdf file (31MB)
or click "Budapest 2008 - photos" on the left to view on-screen
(with acknowledgement to the photographic talents of Christian Unger, Sebastien Duprat, Peri Sykes, Andrew Smith)
This was the sequence of events...
1 June ESTOOLS arrivals and management meetings
2-3 June ESTOOLS workshops
4-5 June: ESTOOLS/Hungarian Open Scientific Symposium
Venue: Europa Congress Center (ECC), Budapest, Hungary - click for ECC webpage
"Advancing the frontiers of human embryonic stem cell knowledge"
4 June
10:15 Welcome by Peter W. Andrews (University of Sheffield, ESTOOLS Coordinator)
Morning Session Chair: Austin G. Smith (University of Cambridge, ESTOOLS Deputy Coordinator)
10:20 - 10:50 Peter W. Andrews (University of Sheffield, ESTOOLS Coordinator) "Population dynamics in human ES cell cultures”
10:50 - 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 11:45 Christine Mummery (Chair of Developmental Biology, Leiden University Medical Centre / ESTOOLS Science Advisory Panel) “Cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells”
11.45 - 12.15 Oliver Bruestle (University of Bonn / ESTOOLS Principal Investigator) “From HESC to NSC to neural subtypes”
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch / ESTOOLS poster session / exhibitor presentations
Afternoon Session Chair: Peter Andrews (University of Sheffield, ESTOOLS Coordinator)
13:45 - 14.10 Elena Cattaneo (University of Milan / ESTOOLS Principal Investigator) “Generation and characterization of neural stem/progenitor cells of the central and peripheral nervous system”
14:10 - 14:35 Martin Pera (Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California / ESTOOLS Science Advisory Panel) “Single cell transcriptional profiling of human ES cells”
14:35 - 15:00 Dany Kitsberg (SCT Ltd, Jerusalem / ESTOOLS Principal Investigator)
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee
15:20 - 15:45 Tim Allsopp (Stem Cell Sciences td / ESTOOLS director for SMEs)
15:45 - 16:10 Manel Esteller (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre / ESTOOLS principal investigator)
16:10 - 16:35 Mariusz Ratajczak (James Graham Brown Cancer Cente, Louisville, Kentucky) "Very small embryonic-like (VSEL) stem cells: purification from adultorgans, characterization, and biological significance"
16:35 - 17:00 Demetrio Neri (University of Messina / ESTOOLS ethics advisory panel) "J. Habermas on genetic engineering and human embryonic stem cell research"
17:00 - 18:00 SME ROUND TABLE. Moderator: Martin Pera (Keck School of Medicine, USC / ESTOOLS Science Advisory Panel). Theme: issues facing small stemcell companies /emerging key technologies - more details to be advised.
18:00 Get-together reception / ESTOOLS Poster Award
5 June
08:30 - 09:50 "Embryonic stem cell research issues: focus on banking and registry in Europe"
Chair: Peter W. Andrews
08.30 - 08:50 Glyn Stacey (UK Stem Cell Bank)
08:50 - 09:10 Joeri Borstlap (hESCreg)
09:10 - 09:50 Roundtable. Facilitator: Goran Hermeren. Participants: Christian Desaintes (EC Scientific Officer for ESTOOLS), Jozef Dulak (Jagiellonian University and Polish Bioethical Society), Josef Kure (Masaryk University and Czech Bioethical Committee), Ira Herrmann (Stem Cell Network North Rhine Westphalia), Balazs Sarkadi (National Institute of Haematology and Immunology, Budapest)
Download background paper "Stem Cell Banks, Repositories and Registries in Europe: An Overview as of May 2008"
10:00 - 17:00 Hungarian Stem Cell Groups Satellite Workshop (programme / pre-registration for those attending ONLY this workshop is at www.remedicon.hu)
10:00 - 11:35 SESSION IN ENGLISH
10:05 - 10:50 Austin Smith: Gatekeepers of pluripotency
10:50 - 11:35 Andras Nagy: The truth behind promises and threats of embryonic stem cells
11:55 - 17:00 SESSIONS IN HUNGARIAN
The main poster session was on 4 June during the Open Scientific Symposium. Download the index of posters presented (pdf).
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