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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC UNDERPINNINGS OF STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Co-Chair: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
    Co-Chair: David Elliott, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Qiurong Ding, PhD – Shanghai Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Presenting Author: Shyh-Chang Ng, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Presenting Author: Qianhui Yu, PhD – Institute of Human Biology
    Presenting Author: Wei Jiang, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Wuhan University
    Presenting Author: Xudong Fu, PhD (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlen Knobloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC REGULATION OF LIVER REGENERATION
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Qiurong Ding, PhD – Shanghai Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC PROGRAMMING OF EMBRYONIC, TROPHOBLASTIC, AND MATERNAL CELLS DURING PREGNANCY
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Shyh-Chang Ng, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    RECENT EVOLUTION OF THE DEVELOPING HUMAN SMALL INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Qianhui Yu, PhD – Institute of Human Biology
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
    TGFBETA-REGULATED PYRUVATE ENTRY INTO THE TCA CYCLE CONTRIBUTES TO HUMAN ENDODERM DIFFERENTIATION
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Wei Jiang, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Wuhan University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    LYSOSOMAL CATABOLIC ACTIVITY PROMOTES THE EXIT OF TOTIPOTENT STATE BY SILENCING EARLY-EMBRYONIC RETROTRANSPOSONS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Xudong Fu, PhD (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC REGULATION OF ADULT NEURAL STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlen Knobloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
    Location: Hall C, L1Hall C, L1
    Co-Chair: Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Co-Chair: Kathy Niakan, PhD – University of Cambridge
    Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Presenting Author: Rui Fan, PHD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
    Presenting Author: Anita Adami, MSc – Lund University
    Presenting Author: Assa Sherman, PhD Candidate – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Presenting Author: Lauren Goins, PhD – Stanford University
    Concurrent Speaker: Florian Raible, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Vienna
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    KIN RECOGNITION AND CHIMERIC STEM CELL COMPETITION ENHANCE SURVIVAL IN A COLONIAL CHORDATE
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    DIAPAUSING CAPACITY OF MOUSE AND HUMAN PLURIPOTENT CELLS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Rui Fan, PHD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    LINE-1 RETROTRANSPOSONS REGULATE THE EXIT OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENCY AND EARLY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Anita Adami, MSc – Lund University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    GENOME-WIDE SCREENING IN HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS REVEALING DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF LONG NON-CODING RNA GENES AND NOVEL REGULATORS OF THE PLURIPOTENT NETWORK
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Assa Sherman, PhD Candidate – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
    WNT/BETA-CATENIN SIGNALING AS A TEMPORAL REGULATOR OF PROGENITOR CELL FATE DECISIONS DURING HEMATOPOIESIS
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Presenting Author: Lauren Goins, PhD – Stanford University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    RE-EMERGENCE OF STEM CELLS IN A MODEL FOR REGENERATIVE PLASTICITY
    Location: Hall C, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Florian Raible, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Vienna
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    FATE CHOICES IN DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Co-Chair: Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center
    Co-Chair: Gabriele Gelezauskaite – University of Sheffield
    Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science
    Presenting Author: Xingguo Liu – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Presenting Author: Tianming Wu, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    Presenting Author: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Presenting Author: Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    SYNTHETIC EX UTERO EMBRYOGENESIS: FROM NAIVE PLURIPOTENT CELLS TO BONA FIDE EMBRYO MODELS
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    A NOVEL PROTEIN CYTB-187AA ENCODED BY THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENE CYTB MODULATES MAMMALIAN EARLY DEVELOPMENT
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Xingguo Liu – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    CO-DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN SOMITES, NEURAL TUBE, AND NOTOCHORD ESTABLISHES DORSOVENTRAL PATTERNING IN HUMAN TRUNK-LIKE ORGANOIDS
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Tianming Wu, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
    NEUROGENESIS IS SPARED DURING FETAL GROWTH RESTRICTION VIA INDUCTION OF ATF4-DDR2 SIGNALING IN RADIAL GLIA
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    A STEPWISE MODE OF TGFΒ-SMAD SIGNALING AND DNA METHYLATION REGULATES NAÏVE-TO PRIMED PLURIPOTENCY AND DIFFERENTIATION
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
    UNRAVELING LSD1’S ROLE IN REGULATING HUMAN BRAIN-ENRICHED ECM/CELL ADHESION GENES AND PROGENITOR DYNAMICS
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    TECHNOLOGIES TO STUDY DEVELOPMENT AND PHYSIOLOGY
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Co-Chair: Anjie Ni – McGill University
    Co-Chair: Nika Shakiba – University of British Columbia
    Concurrent Speaker: Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng. (he/him/his) – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science
    Presenting Author: Antonio Giraldez – Yale School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Maria Giovanna Garone, BSc, MSc, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
    Presenting Author: Jia Ping Tan, PhD – Westlake University
    Presenting Author: Jacqueline Larouche – Retro Biosciences
    Concurrent Speaker: Alex Gould, PhD (he/him/his) – The Francis Crick Institute
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    BLASTOIDS: ELUCIDATING THE MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF TIMING OF HUMAN BLASTOCYST IMPLANTATION
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng. (he/him/his) – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    CHROMGEM REVEALS ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN CHROMATIN DURING DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFERENTIATION AFTER FERTILIZATION
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Antonio Giraldez – Yale School of Medicine
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    CAPTURING LONG-TERM HIPPOCAMPAL DEVELOPMENT IN VITRO USING A NOVEL STEM CELL-DERIVED 3D BRAIN ORGANOID MODEL SYSTEM
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Maria Giovanna Garone, BSc, MSc, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    A 3D SPATIAL TRANSCRIPTOME OF PRIMATE EARLY ORGANOGENESIS
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Jia Ping Tan, PhD – Westlake University
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
    RE-ENGINEERING THE YAMANAKA FACTORS WITH A PROTEIN LANGUAGE MODEL TO ENHANCE CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING EFFICIENCY AND KINETICS
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Presenting Author: Jacqueline Larouche – Retro Biosciences
    Pluripotency and Development
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    CELL-TYPE SPECIFIC TAGGING AND TRACING OF METABOLITES IN VIVO
    Location: Theater 1, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Alex Gould, PhD (he/him/his) – The Francis Crick Institute
    Pluripotency and Development