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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    NICHE REGULATION IN STEM CELLS AND TISSUE REGENERATION
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Co-Chair: Haifan Lin, PhD – Yale University School of Medicine
    Co-Chair: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Honglin Wang, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD – Columbia University Dept of Genetics and Development
    Presenting Author: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development
    Presenting Author: Min Yang, PhD In Progress – National Institute of Biological Sciences
    Presenting Author: Sangbum Park, PhD (he/him/his) – Michigan State University
    Concurrent Speaker: Bing Zhang, PhD – Westlake University
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AMELIORATE INFLAMMATORY PHENOTYPE OF IMQ INDUCED RECHALLENGED MOUSE MODEL THROUGH PP6
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Honglin Wang, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC STRESS AND NICHE INFLAMMAGING IN YOUNG-ONSET COLORECTAL CANCER DEVELOPMENT
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD – Columbia University Dept of Genetics and Development
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    INTRAVITAL AND EX VIVO LIVE IMAGING PIPELINES UNCOUPLE STEM CELL MIGRATION AND FATE PHENOTYPES WITHIN THE MYOPATHIC NICHE
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
    ESTROGEN PROMOTES BONE FORMATION THROUGH UPREGULATION OF OSTEOLECTIN EXPRESSION IN LEPR+ CELLS
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Min Yang, PhD In Progress – National Institute of Biological Sciences
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    DUAL LINEAGES OF LANGERHANS CELLS COOPERATE FOR IMMUNE BARRIER RECOVERY AFTER SKIN INJURY.
    Location: Hall A, L1
    Presenting Author: Sangbum Park, PhD (he/him/his) – Michigan State University
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    METABOLISM, STEM CELLS, AND CANCER
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Co-Chair: King Hang Tommy Mau – The Francis Crick Institute
    Co-Chair: Wei Du, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Tianchi Xin, PhD – Yale School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Jonathan Jung (he/him/his) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    Presenting Author: Leonard I. Zon, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
    Concurrent Speaker: Ton Rabelink, MD – Leiden University Medical Center
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA TO DRIVE CANCER STEMNESS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    ONCOGENIC KRAS INITIATES SKIN TUMOR IN A NICHE DEPENDENT MANNER
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Tianchi Xin, PhD – Yale School of Medicine
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    IDENTIFICATION OF LINEAGE-SPECIFIC CANCER-RELATED MUTATIONS IN HUMAN PLURIPOTENT AND ADULT STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Jonathan Jung (he/him/his) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    METABOLIC REWIRING DRIVES TOLERANCE TO ONCOGENIC MUTATIONS IN THE SKIN STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    METABOLISM IN THE TISSUE MICROENVIRONMENT REGULATES KIDNEY (RE)GENERATION
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Ton Rabelink, MD – Leiden University Medical Center
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    AI AND CANCER EVOLUTION
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Co-Chair: Nienke de Graeff, MA MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University
    Co-Chair: Jian Shu, PhD – Harvard Medical School
    Presenting Author: Lap Hang Tse, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge
    Presenting Author: Yang Fu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    Presenting Author: Huaigeng Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
    Concurrent Speaker: Nathan Palpant, PhD – The University of Queensland
    Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
    MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS AND TARGETED THERAPY IN SPINAL CORD DIFFUSE GLIOMAS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
    ENGINEERED UNIVERSAL IPSC-DERIVED DENDRITIC CELLS DRESSED WITH TUMOR-MHC-PEPTIDE COMPLEXES AS A CANCER VACCINE
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Huaigeng Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
    GLOBAL IN VIVO DETECTION OF DNA REPAIR OUTCOMES INDUCED BY CRISPR–CAS9 IN ENDOGENOUS MUSCLE STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Yang Fu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
    ARE WE MAKING THE RIGHT KIND OF HEART MUSCLE? USING A HUMAN FETAL HEART ATLAS TO ASSESS MATURITY, PURITY, AND SUBTYPES IN STEM-CELL DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTE MODELS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
    CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS OF TELOMERASE IN CANCER AND STEM CELLS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Lap Hang Tse, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
    UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES TO DECODE THE FUNCTIONAL IMPACT OF GENETIC VARIATION
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Nathan Palpant, PhD – The University of Queensland
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    STEM CELLS AND CELL METASTASIS
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Co-Chair: Carlos Filipe Pereira, PhD – Lund University
    Co-Chair: Nissim Benvenisty, MD,PhD – The Hebrew University
    Concurrent Speaker: Eduard Batlle, PhD – Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) & ICREA
    Presenting Author: Maria Azkanaz, MSc. (PhD student) – Netherlands Cancer Institute
    Presenting Author: Wangqing Dun, PhD – Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
    Presenting Author: Jennifer Pak Yan Ho, MS – Columbia University Medical Center
    Presenting Author: Youssef Ellaithy – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    Concurrent Speaker: Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
    PLASTICITY, THERAPY RESISTANCE AND IMMUNE EVASION IN METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Eduard Batlle, PhD – Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) & ICREA
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
    RHO-MEDIATED CELLULAR EXTRUSION DRIVES DIFFERENTIAL OUTCOMES OF KRAS AND HRAS MUTANT CELLS IN THE INTESTINE
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Maria Azkanaz, MSc. (PhD student) – Netherlands Cancer Institute
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
    SRSF2-P95H AND NF1 LOSS CO-OPERATE TO PROMOTE MYELOID-BIASED CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS VIA JAK-STAT PATHWAY ACTIVATION IN MICE
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Wangqing Dun, PhD – Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
    METABOLIC INFLAMMATION DRIVES ABERRANT STEM CELL FATE TO PROMOTE WOUND-HEALING TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT IN COLORECTAL CANCER DEVELOPMENT
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Jennifer Pak Yan Ho, MS – Columbia University Medical Center
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
    CHEMOTHERAPY-TREATED BREAST CANCER CELLS ACTIVATE THE WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY TO ENTER A DIAPAUSE-LIKE PERSISTER STATE
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Presenting Author: Youssef Ellaithy – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
    SAMRA TURAJLIC TITLE COMING SOON
    Location: Hall B, L1
    Concurrent Speaker: Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer