FATE CHOICES IN DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION

Friday, June 13, 2025

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time

Location: Theater 1, L1

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Concurrent Speaker(s)

Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Department of Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD

Modelling Neurodevelopment and Disease
Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, India

Xingguo Liu

Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers)

Department of Histoembryology, Genetics and Developmental Biology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Tianming Wu, PhD

School of Biomedical Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Ying Zhang, PhD

The Francis Crick Institute, United States

SYNTHETIC EX UTERO EMBRYOGENESIS: FROM NAIVE PLURIPOTENT CELLS TO BONA FIDE EMBRYO MODELS
Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science
A NOVEL PROTEIN CYTB-187AA ENCODED BY THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENE CYTB MODULATES MAMMALIAN EARLY DEVELOPMENT
Presenting Author: Xingguo Liu – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
CO-DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN SOMITES, NEURAL TUBE, AND NOTOCHORD ESTABLISHES DORSOVENTRAL PATTERNING IN HUMAN TRUNK-LIKE ORGANOIDS
Presenting Author: Tianming Wu, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
NEUROGENESIS IS SPARED DURING FETAL GROWTH RESTRICTION VIA INDUCTION OF ATF4-DDR2 SIGNALING IN RADIAL GLIA
Presenting Author: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
A STEPWISE MODE OF TGFΒ-SMAD SIGNALING AND DNA METHYLATION REGULATES NAÏVE-TO PRIMED PLURIPOTENCY AND DIFFERENTIATION
Presenting Author: Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
UNRAVELING LSD1’S ROLE IN REGULATING HUMAN BRAIN-ENRICHED ECM/CELL ADHESION GENES AND PROGENITOR DYNAMICS
Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine