"What is new in Europe in the field of regenerative medicine"
Final Program 2010 (download)
Poster presentation instructions (download)
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 local representative
Scientific Programme:
9:30-12:35
Embryonic and other stem cells
Chair Daniel Aberdam, Nice, France
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
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Human embryonic stem cells promote locomotor recovery after spinal cord transection
Miodrag Sojkovic and Slaven Erceg, Leskovac, Serbia and Sevilla Spain
11:30-12:00
Mechanisms of chromatin protein dynamics in embryonic stem cells
Eran Meshorer, Jerusaleum, Israel
12:00-12:30
TBA
12:30 -13:30 Lunch break
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:
Chair: TBA
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 and cancer stem cells:
Karim Nayernia, Aachen, Germany
15:15-15:30
Speakers selected from abstracts
15:30 -16.00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30
Stem cells, biomaterials and nanotechnologies in CNS injury
Eva Syková, Praque, Czech Republic
16:30-17:00
TBA
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 City tour and pubs
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
9:00-12:40
Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Chair Umberto Galderisi, Napolie, Italy
9:00-9:45
Keynote Speech:
GVHD and mesenchymal cells
Katarina Le Blanc*, Stockholm, Sweden
9:45-10:10
Human mesenchymal stromal cells as potential source of endothelial progenitor cells (+ poster presentation)
Karolina Janeczek Portalska* Hugo Fernandes, Nathalie Groen Clemens van Blitterswijk and Jan de Boer, Univ of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
10:10-10.40
Chromatin remodelling and senescence of mesenchymal stel cells
Umberto Galderisi, Napolie, Italy
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:40
Analysis of murine BM-MSC properties in relation to gender and donor age; effect of their systemic administration on the ageing phenotype (+ poster presentation)
Olga Katsara*, Sonia A. Perez and Michael Papmichail, Athen, Greece
11:40-12:10
Condrocyte stem cells for articular cartilage repair
Clemente Cillo, Napoli, Italy
12:10-12:30
TBA
12:30 -13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:30
Reprogramming-transdifferentiation:
Chair: TBA
13:30-14:00
Cell therapy for diabetes: Stem cells, nuclear reprogramming, or islet expansion?
Shimon Efrat, Tel Aviv, Israel
14:00-14:30
Dynamic epigenetic alterations reveal distinct pluripotent states within human embryonic stem cell cultures
Veronique Azuara, London, UK
14:30-15:15
TBA
15:30 -16.00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00
Workshop on “Toward therapeutic products and cells”
Chair: TBA
16:00-16:20
Stem Cell therapies for treatment of eye disease?
Majlinda Lako, Carla Mellough, Owen Hughes, Evelyne Sernagore, David Steel
Sai Kolli, Sajjad Ahmad, Francisco Figueiredo, Newcastle, UK
16:20-16:40
The effect of SUMO modification on hepatic differentiation from human embryonic stem cells
(+ poster presentation)
Zara Heannoun, Edinburgh, UK
16:40-17:00
From fat to bone, different approaches
Arnaud Scherberich, Basel, Switzerland
17:00- 18:00
Establishing a national platform for clinical grade hESC derivation
National Clinical hESC Forum
Glyn Stacey, Herts, UK
And more
18:00 - 18:30 Concluding remarks and the future direction of stem cells in regenerative medicine 2011
Chairpersons