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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    ANIMAL MODELS OF REGENERATION
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Co-Chair: Kathryn S. Jones, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland
    Co-Chair: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development
    Concurrent Speaker: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD – Washington University, School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Albert Ernesto Almada, PhD – University of Southern California (USC)
    Presenting Author: Yi Sun – ShanghaiTech University
    Presenting Author: Hui Zhang, PhD – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
    Presenting Author: Kai Lei, PhD – Westlake University
    Concurrent Speaker: Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán, PhD (she/her/hers) – Technische Universität Dresden
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    OUT OF THE TANK APPROACHES TO PROMOTE NEURAL REPAIR
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD – Washington University, School of Medicine
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    PRE-EXISTING STEM CELLS REGENERATE SKELETAL MUSCLE DE NOVO IN THE SUPER-HEALING LIZARD TAIL
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Albert Ernesto Almada, PhD – University of Southern California (USC)
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    RETINOIC ACID REGULATES K+ CHANNEL ACTIVITY VIA RCAN2 TO SCALE THE SIZE OF DEVELOPING AND REGENERATING ZEBRAFISH APPENDAGES
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Yi Sun – ShanghaiTech University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
    MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS GOVERN WHOLE-BODY REGENERATION THROUGH STEM CELL PLURIPOTENCY AND MITONUCLEAR BALANCE
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Kai Lei, PhD – Westlake University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    INHIBITION OF LYSOZYME2 IN ENDOCARDIAL CELLS PROMOTES RAPID RECOVERY OF NON-REGENERATIVE HEARTS
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Hui Zhang, PhD – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
    INSIGHTS INTO SHARED AND DISTINCT MECHANISMS IN SALAMANDER LIMB AND HUMAN FINGERTIP REGENERATION
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán, PhD (she/her/hers) – Technische Universität Dresden
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
    THOMAS RANDO TITLE COMING SOON
    Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD – University of California Los Angeles
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    IN VIVO AND IN VITRO ORGAN GENERATION
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Co-Chair: Ya-Wen Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Co-Chair: Jürgen Knoblich, PhD – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science
    Concurrent Speaker: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University, USA and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
    Presenting Author: Katja G. Weinacht, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Presenting Author: Irene Talon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    Presenting Author: Sean B. Wilson, PhD – reNEW, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine
    Presenting Author: Xiling Shen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Concurrent Speaker: Liangxue Lai, PhD – Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    HOST MACROPHAGE XENOPHAGOCYTOSIS CONSTITUTES A MAJOR BARRIER TO INTERSPECIES CHIMERISM
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University, USA and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    IPSC-DERIVED THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELLS (ITECS) PROMOTE KEY FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN THYMUS IN A HUMANIZED ATHYMIC MOUSE MODEL
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Katja G. Weinacht, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    A SELF-ORGANIZED, MULTI-ORGAN BUD MODEL DERIVED FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS RECAPITULATES HUMAN HEPATO-BILIARY ORGANOGENESIS
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Irene Talon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    GENERATION OF MULTI-LINEAGE KIDNEY ASSEMBLOIDS WITH INTEGRATION BETWEEN NEPHRONS AND A SINGLE EXITING COLLECTING DUCT
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Sean B. Wilson, PhD – reNEW, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
    ESTABLISHING INTER-SPECIES CHIMERA WITH EMBRYONIC ORGANOID ENGRAFTMENT
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Xiling Shen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    XENOGENEIC REGENERATION OF HUMANIZED MESONEPHROS/HEART IN PIGS
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Liangxue Lai, PhD – Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    AGING AND REGENERATION
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Co-Chair: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
    Co-Chair: Fanyi Zeng
    Concurrent Speaker: Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo
    Presenting Author: Andrew Olander – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Presenting Author: Paula Martos Salvo – Lund University
    Presenting Author: Lily Guo, PhD – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD – University of California Los Angeles
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    STEM CELL FATE DECISION FOR PIGMENTED HAIR REGENERATION, AGING AND CANCER DEVELOPMENT
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    DECODING THE IMPACT OF PREGNANCY ON AGING OF STEM/PROGENITOR CELLS IN THE MAMMARY GLAND
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Andrew Olander – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    UNVEILING THE ROLE OF THE HYPOXIA RESPONSE MACHINERY IN STEM CELL REGULATION AND TISSUE RENEWAL AT PHYSIOXIA
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Paula Martos Salvo – Lund University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    GDF11 SECRETING CELL TRANSPLANT EFFICIENTLY AMELIORATES AGE-RELATED PULMONARY FIBROSIS
    Location: Theater 2, L1
    Presenting Author: Lily Guo, PhD – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    ENGINEERING REGENERATION
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Co-Chair: Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD (she/her/hers) – Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Co-Chair: Lee L. Rubin – Harvard University
    Concurrent Speaker: Tae-Eun Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
    Presenting Author: Yuan-Hung Liu, MD – Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
    Presenting Author: Zhe Wang, PhD – Kyoto University
    Presenting Author: Youngdoo Chung – Dankook University
    Presenting Author: Chao Christina Liang, BDS, MDS (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Concurrent Speaker: Linna Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    GUT ORGANOID-BASED MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TO STUDY MUCOSAL REGENERATION AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Tae-Eun Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    COMPLETE CARDIAC REGENERATION BY INDUCING ENDOGENOUS CARDIOMYOGENESIS AND ANGIOGENESIS
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Yuan-Hung Liu, MD – Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    SPATIOTEMPORAL TUNABLE MICROENVIRONMENT FOR NEXT-GENERATION ORGANOIDS: RECAPITULATING PRIMITIVE STREAK FORMATION TO NOTOGENESIS
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Zhe Wang, PhD – Kyoto University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    MULTI-LAYERED CELL SPHEROID SHEETS USING FIBRINOGEN-BASED SIMPLE GEL FORMATION FOR HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Youngdoo Chung – Dankook University
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
    HARNESSING SELF-ASSEMBLING DENTAL STEM CELLS ENCAPSULATED IN RAPIDLY DEGRADABLE POLYSACCHARIDE MICROGELS FOR RAPID ORGANOGENESIS
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Chao Christina Liang, BDS, MDS (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    ENGINEERING 3D HUMAN TISSUE FOR DISEASE AND REPAIR
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Linna Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
    Organ Generation and Regeneration