"What is new in Europe in the field of regenerative medicine"
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3rd Meeting
RESCUES 2010 Conference
“What is new in Europe in the field of regenerative medicine? “
Date: 8-9 November 2010
Venue: North East Stem Cell Institute, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4EP, United Kingdom
Organizer: National contacts of Research Experience of Stem Cells in EUrope Society (R.E.S.C.U.E.S.),
a society dedicated to European stem cell science & education, www.RESCUE-Society.org
Contact & Conference Management, Tel&Fax: +49-641-490-244
rescue.society@gmx.de, Grünbergerstr. 124, ISPI e.V.-AG Chen, D-35394 Giessen, Germany
Local Organizers: Karim Nayernia, Lucy Glasper and colleagues
Abstract: Deadline for poster presentation will be 15 October, 2010
Application forms: Registration, CME, society membership, industrial exhibition, will be available at
www.rescue-society.org, rescue.society@gmx.de
Speakers: nominated-invited by national contacts of the society, include
Katarina Le Blanc, Stockholm, SE, Pete Coffey, London, UK, Irving Weissmann, CA, USA
Scientific program committee: Daniel Aberdam (Nice, FR), Michael Papmichail (Athen, GR), Ruurd Torensma (Nijmegen, NL), Miodrag Sojkovic, (Leskovac, SEB), Arnaud Scherberich (Basel, CH), Clemente Cillo (Napoli, IT), Shimon Efrat (Tel Aviv, IL), Eva Syková (Praque, CZ)
Abstract committee: Daniel Aberdam (Nice, FR), Daniella Crosara-Alberto (Campinas, BR), Raja Natarajan (Gent, BE), Ruurd Torensma (Nijmegen, NL), Miodrag Sojkovic, (Leskovac, SEB), Arnaud Scherberich (Basel, CH), Umberto Galderisi (Napolie, IT), Clemente Cillo (Napolie, IT), Shimon Efrat (Tel Aviv, IL)
Financial-Fund raising committee:
Industrial - private source: Arnaud Scherberich (Basel, CH), Eva Syková (Praque, CZ), and more
Public funding source: Arnaud Scherberich (Basel, CH), Clemente Cillo (Napolie, IT), Umberto Galderisi (Napolie, IT)
Business committee: Don Gerson (Basel-Toronto, CH-Canada), Arnaud Scherberich (Basel, CH), Eva Syková (Praque, CZ), Clemente Cillo (Napolie, IT), Umberto Galderisi (Napolie, IT), Raju Pareek (Glasgow, UK), Mariana Resnicoff (London, UK)
Social Program committee: Ulrich Hain (Giessen, DE), Raja Natarajan (Gent, BE), and more
Preliminary Programme:
Monday, 8 November 2010
9:00-9:30
Opening ceremony: Una Chen, President of RESCUES
Music: Local musicians
Welcome and Introduction to the Institution: A representative of NESCI
Scientific Programme:
9:30-12:35
Embryonic stem cells and other stem cells
9.30-10:10
Keynote speech
Stemming vision loss with stem cells - Seeing is believing
Pete Coffey, London, UK
10:10-10:40
ES cells as a cellular model of epithelial physiopathology
Daniel Aberdam, Nice, France
10:40-10:55 Coffee break
10:55-11:25
Human embryonic stem cells promote locomotor recovery after spinal cord transection
Miodrag Sojkovic, Leskovac, Serbia
11:25-11:55
ES cells for human cardiac cell therapy and cardiogenesis physiopathology
Michel Puceat, Evry, France
11:55-12:35
Speaker selected from abstracts
12:35 -13:30 Lunch break, Poster view, Tour GMP facility in Newcastle
GMP facility in Newcastle campus: Stem Cell Banking: Clinical grade hES cells
Mary Herbert* and colleagues, Newcastle, UK
13:30 -14:15 Society member assembly and other issues :
Una Chen, Giessen, Germany
14:15 -17:30
Adult Stem Cells-Tissue Specific Stem Cells:
14:15-14:45
Potential application of a tet-off mouse keratinocytic precursor cell line
Una Chen, Giessen, Germany
14:45-15:15
Sperm stem cells:
Karim Nayernia, Newcastle, UK
15:15-15:45
Epigenetics and chromatin remodeling of embryonic and tumoral stem cells
Eran Meshorer, Jerusaleum, Israel
15:45-16:15
Epigenetics and chromatin remodeling of embryonic and tumoral stem cells
Veronique Azuara, London, UK
16:15 -16.30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00
Speakers selected from abstracts
17:00 – 18:30
Public Education Program: Chair Mariana Resnicoff (London, UK) and co-chair
Open to the public, free of charge, will be announced locally
Public education with layman- understandable talks:
-speakers and participants of the scientific programme
18:30 – 23:00 Conference Buffet-Dinner with poster, exhibition
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
9:00-12:40
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (with panel discussion): Chair: Umberto Galderisi, Napolie, Italy
9:00-9:45
Keynote Speech:
GVHD and mesenchymal cells
Katarina Le Blanc*, Stockholm, Sweden
9:45-10:15
Isolation, growth and differentiation of MSC – new perspectives
Deborah Sullivan*, New Orleans-LO, USA:
10:15 -10:35 Coffee break
10:35-11:00
Aging and mesenchymal stem cells
Michael Papmichail, Athen, Greece
11:00-11:25
Hypoxia and MSC
Jan Nolta* Sacremanto-CA, USA
11:25-11:50
Mesenchymal stem cells in wound healing
Ruurd Torensma, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
11:50-12:15
The biology of CD133+ cells from cord blood in culture
Daniella Crosara-Alberto, Campinas, Brazil
12:15.12:40
Condrocyte stem cells for articular cartilage repair
Clemente Cillo; Napoli, Italy
12:40 -13:30 Lunch break, Poster award announcement
13:30-16:15
Reprogramming-transdifferentiation:
13:30-14:15
Cell therapy for diabetes: Stem cells, nuclear reprogramming, or islet expansion?
Shimon Efrat, Tel Aviv, Israel
14:15-14:45
From fat to bone, different approaches
Arnaud Scherberich, Basel, Switzerland
14:45-15:15
Stem cells, biomaterials and nanotechnologies in CNS injury
Eva Syková, Praque, Czech Republic
15:15-15:45
General: Regulatory networks define phenotypic classes of human stem cell lines
Franz-Josef Müller*, Kiel, Germany
15:45-16-15
Speakers selected from abstracts
16:15 -16.30 Coffee break
16;30-16:45 Last-minute break through and other topics
Speakers selected from abstracts
16:45-17:30 Keynote speech
Tumor Stem Cells
Irving Weissman*, Stanford, CA, USA
17:30 - 18:30 Concluding remarks and the future direction of stem cells in regenerative medicine 2011
Coordinator of the 2011 conference
Providing:
Membership form: attached or available from society webpage
Registration form:attached or available from society webpage
Abstract form: attached or available from society webpage.
Exhibition form:attached or available from society webpage
CME credit form: attached or available from society webpage
Sponsor Opportunities: available from society webpage
Travel Award: attached or available from society webpage
Social events:Before, during and after conference events (TBP)
18.03.2009, 26.04.2010, 07.05.2010, 26.05.2010
*Speakers and chairpersons: are nominated-volunteered by national contacts (ABC country order)
Daniella Crosara-Alberto (BR), Arnaud Scherberich,Don Gerson (CH), Eva Syková (CZ), Una Chen, Franz-Josef Müller (DE), Daniel Aberdam, Michel Puceat (FR), Michael Papmichail (GE), Shimon Efrat, Eran Meshorer (IL), Clemente Cillo, Umberto Galderisi (IT), Ruurd Torensma (NL), Miodrag Sojkovic (SP), Katarina Le Blanc, Olle Lindvall (Swden), Veronique Azuara, Karim Nayernia, Mary Herbert*, Chris Hutchison*, Raju Pareek, Marian Resnicoff (UK), Jan Nolta, Deborah Sullivan, Irving Weissman (USA) and more
Speakers and chairpersons of 2008 Stockholm conference (ABC country order)
CatherineVerfaillie (Belgium), Zhuqing Qu-Petersen (Denmark), Maija Castren, Kristiina Rajala -Heli Skottman (Finland), Una Chen, Ulrich Martin, Dorothea Spauke-Margit Stadler (Germany), Bernard Mahon (Ireland), Clemente Cillo, Umberto Galderisi, Cinzia Calzarossa (Italy), Ruurd Torensma (Netherlands), Katarina Le Blanc, Anders Björklun, Outi Hovatta, Pontus Blomberg, Lorenz Poellinger, Henrik Semb, Fanie Barnabé-Heider, Ian Cotgreave, Marianne Levin - Åsa Hellstadius (Sweden), Steffen Zeisberger, (Switzerlands), Ian Wilmut, Karim Nayernia, Veronique Azuara, Dave Hay, Nillendran Prathalingam.-Mary Herbert (United Kingdom), Ben Bowen, Philip Vanek (USA)
Speakers & chairpersons of 2007 Workshop (ABC country order)
Catherine Verfaillie (Belgium), Zhuginh Petersen (Denmark), Maija Castrén (Finland), Una Chen, Klaus Cichutek, Jürgen Hescheler, Antohny Ho, Hans-Werner Mueller, Robert Oostendorp (Germany), Mariana Resnicoff (France), Shimon Efrat (Israel), Umberto Galderisi (Italy), Robert Passier, Ruurd Torensm, Lieke C.J. van den Berk, Ans van Pelt (Netherlands), Mercy Varghese (Norway), Almudena Ramon-Cueto (Spain), Andrea Banfi, Clemente Cillo, Alois Gratwohl, Ivan Martin, Nicolas Mermod, Antonius Rolink (Switzerland), Stefan Bajada, Chris Denning, Charles Hunt, Craig Taylor, Ian Wilmut (United Kingdom).