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Monday Tuesday  Wednesday

Monday, 12 September

10:00 – 11:00  Registration
Lecture hall F
Opening 
11:00 - 11:10 Welcome to Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Christopher Baum, President, Hannover Medical School
11:10 - 11:20 Welcome to Hannover and Lower Saxony
MPräs. Stephan Weil (Minister-President of Lower Saxony)
11:20 - 11:30 Ulrich Martin, Acting President, GSCN
11:30 – 12:15 
Keynote lecture I
K1 - Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in stem cells and development
Alexander Meissner, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A. (Chair: Ulrich Martin)
12:15 – 13:00 Keynote lecture II
K2 - Identification of niches for hematopoietic stem cells and osteogenesis
Sean Morrison
, UT Southwestern, Dallas, U.S.A. (Chair: Claudia Waskow)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break / Industry exhibition
Concurrent scientific working group session I
Lecture hall H
Stem cells in regenerative therapies I  (Chairs: Wolfgang Wagner/Ulrich Martin)
14:00 - 14:15
Overview
Wolfgang Wagner, RWTH Aachen
14:15 - 14:30
T01 - HLA-silenced platelets derived from induced pluripotent stem cells are protected against refractoriness in a platelet transfusion mouse model
Dorothee Eicke, Hannover Medical School
14:30 - 14:45
T02 - Immunogenicity of embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in recipients mismatched for minor and major histocompatibility antigens
Birte Baudis, University of Cologne
14:45 - 15:00
T03 - BSA-free differentiation of hPSCs into cardiomyocytes
Hanna MöllerHannover Medical School
15:00 - 15:15
T04 - A registry of pluripotent stem cells for clinical application
Andreas Kurtz, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité, Berlin
15:15 - 15:30
Working group discussion
Lecture hall G Pluripotency and reprograming  (Chairs: Micha Drukker/Mathias Treier)
14:00 - 14:25
T05 - Pluripotency keynote - Trophoblast stem cells from murine fibroblasts – can the mouse serve as blueprint for the human situation?
Hubert Schorle, University of Bonn
14:25 - 14:40
T06 - Nanotopography guides morphology and spatial patterning of induced pluripotent stem cell colonies
Giulio Abagnale, RWTH Aachen
14:40 - 14:55
T07 - Propagation of the early murine inner cell mass state in cell culture
Xiushan Yin, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
14:55 - 15:10
T08 - Contribution of cynomolgus monkey induced pluripotent stem cells to porcine embryos
Monika Nowak-Imialek, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Mariensee
15:10 - 15:25
T09 - Characterization and potential immunomodulatory properties of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived trophoblast cells
Svitlana Malysheva, Hannover Medical School
15:25 - 15:30
Working group discussion
Lecture hall M Hematopoietic stem cells (Chairs: Timm Schröder/Claudia Waskow)
14:00 - 14:25
T10 - HSC keynote - Hematopoietic stem cell fate realized in vivo
Hans-Reimer Rodewald, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
14:25 - 14:40
T11 - The bulk of the hematopoietic stem cell population is dispensable for murine steady-state and stress hematopoiesis
Kristina Schödel, TU Dresden
14:40 - 14:55
T12 - Heterogeneity and in vivo regulation of dormant hematopoietic stem cells
Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
14:55 - 15:10
T13 - Essential role for Setd1a-mediated histone methylation in adult hematopoietic stem cell function
Kathrin Arndt, TU Dresden
15:10 - 15:25
T14 - Biomimetic bone marrow analogs as artifical hematopoietic stem cell niches
Cornelia Lee-Thedieck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
15:25 - 15:30
Working group discussion
Lecture hall N
Tissue engineering and organoids (Chairs: Robert Zweigerdt/Benedikt Berninger)
14:00 - 14:30
Overview
Robert ZweigerdtHannover Medical School
Benedikt Berninger, University Medical Center, Mainz
14:30 - 14:45
T15 - Stirred suspension culture for the scalable generation of billions of human induced pluripotent stem cells
Chee Keong Kwok, University of Würzburg
14:45 - 15:00
T16 - Biofabrication of a perfusable 3D liver tissue construct using organoids
Kerstin Schneeberger, Utrecht University, Netherlands
15:00 - 15:15
T17 - Human pluripotent stem cell-derived acinar/ductal organoids generate human pancreas upon orthotopic transplantation and allow disease modeling
Alexander Kleger, University Medical Center, Ulm
15:15 - 15:30
T18 - Differentiation of pericytes from hiPSCs for the vascularization of bioartificial cardiac tissues
Mónika SzepesHannover Medical School
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break / Industry exhibition
Lecture hall H
 
16:00 - 17:00
GSCN General membership meeting
17:00 – 19:00 Poster session I: P001 - P077
P001 - P017: Pluripotency and reprograming
P018 – P039: Somatic stem cells and development
P040 – P053: Hematopoietic stem cells
P054 – P060: Stems cells and ageing, genome stability and epigenetics
P061 – P066: Stem cells in diseases: cancer stem cells
P067 – P077: Computational stem cell biology and systems biology

Even numbers: please present your poster from 17:00 - 18:00
Odd numbers: 18:00 - 19:00
Lecture hall F  
19:00 - 19:45
Keynote lecture III
K3 - Generation of human organs in pigs
Hiroshi Nagashima, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan (Chair: Tobias Cantz, in collaboration with ELSI project "induced totipotency")
19:45 – 21:00 Informal GSCN Get together for all participants
with dinner buffet at the foyer of the MHH

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Tuesday, 13 September

Concurrent scientific working group session II

Lecture hall H
Stem cells in disease modeling and drug development  (Chairs: Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz/Oliver Brüstle)  
09:00 - 09:15 Overview
Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, TU München
09:15 - 09:30 T19 - Stiff matrix induces switch to pure beta-cardiac myosin heavy chain expression in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Natalia Weber, Hannover Medical School
09:30 - 09:45 T20 - A new model to study neurotoxicity of drug metabolites based on chemical conversion to neurons-on-a-chip in tandem with liver-on-a-chip
Xinlai Cheng, Heidelberg University
09:45 - 10:00 T21 - Employing rapid phenotypic assays in SPG4 patient neurons for drug discovery and rescue
Kristina Rehbach, University of Bonn
10:00 - 10:15 T22 - Patient-specific iPS cell-based modeling of Transthyretin-Related Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy
Jeannine Hoepfner, Hannover Medical School
10:15 - 10:30 Working group discussion
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break/industry exhibition

Lecture hall G Stem cells and aging, genome stability and epigenetics (Chairs: Hartmut Geiger/Karl Lenhard Rudolph)
09:00 - 09:15 Overview
Hartmut Geiger, Ulm University
09:15 - 09:30 T23 - Dnmt3b-dependent intragenic DNA methylation prevents RNA Polymerase II spurious entry on gene bodies and cryptic transcription initiations
Francesco Neri, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena
09:30 - 09:45 T24 - Aging shifts the mode and outcome of the hematopoietic stem cell division
M. Carolina Florian, University of Ulm
09:45 - 10:00 T25 - Bone marrow niche and hematopoietic stem cell differentiation are regulated by the microbiota
Aline Bozec, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
10:00 - 10:15 T26 - Restricted regeneration of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo following chronic inflammatory stress
Ruzhica Bogeska, German Cancer Reserach Center, Heidelberg
10:15 - 10:30 T27 - Hoxa9 induced developmental signals impair stem cells and regeneration of aging muscle
Simon Schwörer, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break/industry exhibition

Lecture hall M  Computational stem cell biology and systems biology (Chairs: Georg Fuellen/Ingo Roeder)
 
09:00 - 09:15 Overview
Carsten Marr, Helmholtz Center Munich
09:15 - 09:30 T28 - Scoring cell identity from transcription profiles
Nancy Mah, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charite, Berlin
09:30 - 09:45 T29 - Understanding and predicting regulatory mechanisms in early differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
Erika Gaspari, University of Bologna, Italy
09:45 - 10:00 T30 - FGF/MAPK signaling sets the switching threshold of a bistable circuit controling fate decisions in embryonic stem cells
Christian Schröter, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
10:00 - 10:15 T31 - Reconstructing lineage branching from single cell RNA-seq in adult haematopoiesis via diffusion pseudo time
Maren Büttner, Helmholtz Center Munich
10:15 - 10:30 Working group discussion
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break/industry exhibition

Lecture hall N Genome engineering and gene therapy (Chairs: Axel Schambach/ Hans Schöler) (in collaboration with ELSI project "induced totipotency")
 
09:00 - 09:15 Overview - Germ Cell Differentiation
Hans Schöler, MPI f. Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
09:15 - 09:30 Overview - Gene Therapy & Genome Engineering
Axel Schambach, Hannover Medical School
09:30 - 09:45 T32 - Designer-nuclease mediated knockout of HIV co-receptor CCR5 – a promising gene-therapy approach to protect T cells from HIV infection
Boris Fehse, UKE Hamburg
09:45 - 10:00 T33 - Efficient introduction of homo- and heterozygous mutations with CRISPR/Cas9 and applications to disease modeling in stem cells
Dominik Paquet, The Rockefeller University, New York, U.S.A.
10:00 - 10:15 T34 - Efficient and accurate precision genome engineering of transcriptionally silent disease-related loci by CRISPR/Cas9 nickase
Reto Eggenschwiler, Hannover Medical School
10:15 - 10:30 T35 - Generation of HLA depleted human pluripotent stem cell lines for modulation of the immunogenicity of iPSC derivatives
Lena Engels, Hannover Medical School
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break/industry exhibition

Industry session: "Technologies from GSCN industry partners"
Lecture hall H
Main supporter (Chair: Michael Cross)
11:00 - 11:05 Introduction  
11:05 - 11:35 C1 - Simplified dopaminergic neuron and cardiac differentiation of single episome reprogrammed fibroblasts
Rick I. Cohen, Rutgers University, Piscataway, U.S.A., representing PeproTech GmbH
 
11:35 - 12:05 C2 - Expansion of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in BioBLU® 0.3c Single-Use Bioreactors
Aurélie Tacheny, Eppendorf Application Technologies S.A., Namur, Belgium
 
12:05 - 12:35 C3 - A novel system to generate HPS cell-derived hepatocytes with potential application to drug discovery and metabolism, and hepatotoxicity studies
Barbara Küppers-Munther, Takara Bio Europe, Gothenburg, Sweden
 
Lecture hall G Supporter (Chair: Dirk Strunk)  
11:00 - 11:05 Introduction  
11:05 - 11:35 C4 - Generation of dopaminergic precursor cells and terminally differentiated neurons from human pluripotent cells for drug discovery and cell therapy
Mohan C Vemuri, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Frederick, U.S.A.
 
11:35 - 12:05 C5 - Enabling GMP-compliant iPSC expansion and differentiation on the CliniMACS® Prodigy platform
Sebastian Knöbel, Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach

12:05 - 12:35 C6 - Using Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Age of Genome Editing
Theresa Dsouza, R&T Lonza Bioscience, Cologne
 
Lecture hall M Supporters (Chair: Michael Rieger)  
11:00 - 11:05 Introduction  
11:05 - 11:35 C7 - Translation of cell-based gene therapy into clinical application
Elena Meurer, apceth GmbH & Co. KG, Munich
 
11:35 - 12:05 C8 - Simultaneous single-molecule quantification of DNA, RNAs & Proteins
Maik Pruess, Nanostring Technologies, Hamburg
 
12:05 - 12:35 C9 - STEMdiff™ Kits for Robust and Efficient Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Katharina Debowski, Stem Cell Technologies SARL, Cologne
 
 Lecture hall N
Satellitensymposium "Totipotente Nicht-Embryonen und nicht-totipotente Embryonen"
 
 11:00 - 18:15
open to GSCN participants
Program (in german)
 
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch buffet/industry exhibition/poster viewing  
12:45 - 13:45 Meet-the-expert tables (Bistro/ground floor): Ingo Roeder (Bioinformatic analysis of biological data), Hans Schöler and Ana Martin-Villalba
(limited to 10 registered participants each)

Lecture hall F
Presidential Symposium (Chair: Ulrich Martin)  
14:00 – 14:30
PS1 – Engineered human heart muscles for disease modelling and cardiac repair
Thomas Eschenhagen, UKE, Hamburg

14:30 – 15:00  Young Investigator Award 2016
PS2 - Developmental programming by lncRNA-TF pairs during the induction of the embryonic heart
Leo Kurian, University of Cologne

15:00 – 15:30
Female Scientist Award 2016
PS3 - Generation and regeneration of human and murine hematopoietic stem cells
Claudia Waskow, TU Dresden

15:30 – 16:00  Publication of the Year 2016 Award (June 2015 - 2016)
PS4 - Direct reprogramming of hepatic myofibroblasts into hepatocytes in vivo attenuates liver fibrosis
Guanqgi Song, Hannover Medical School

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break/industry exhibition

16:30 – 18:30 Poster session II: P078 - P147
P078 – P091: Tissue engineering and organoids
P092 – P097: Genome engineering and gene therapy
P098 – P119: Stem cells in regenerative therapies
P120 – P124: Stem cells in regenerative therapies: mesenchymal stem/stroma cells
P125 – P147: Stem cells in disease modeling and drug development

Even numbers: please present your poster from 16:30 - 17:30

Odd numbers: 17:30 - 18:30


18:30 - 19:00 Bus transfer  
19:00 – 01:00
GSCN Networking evening for all participants
with dinner buffet and DJ at the Yukon Bay, Hannover Zoo



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Wednesday, 14 September

Concurrent scientific working group session III 
Lecture hall H
Somatic stem cells and development (Chairs: Ana Martin Villalba/Thomas Braun)  
09:00 - 09:15 Overview
Jan Lohmann, Centre of Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
09:15 - 09:30 T36 - Fate-restriction precedes stemness during massive post-embryonic growth in the fish branchia
Lazaro Centanin, Centre of Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
09:30 - 09:45 T37 - Visualization of stem cell induction and differentiation in real time
Rasmus Freter, University of Oxford
09:45 - 10:00 T38 - Embryo-derived macrophages regulate the dendritic cell pool size in the adult spleen
Gulce Percin, TU Dresden
10:00 - 10:15 T39 - A role for YAP and TAZ signaling in human neural crest development
Alexandra Larisa Condurat, Freiburg University
10:15 - 10:30 Working group discussion
Lecture hall G Stem cells in reg. therapies II (Chairs: Richard Schäfer/Dirk Strunk)
09:00 - 09:15 Overview
Karen Bieback, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University
09:15 - 09:30 T40 - Stepwise maturation of human iPS cells into immunosuppressive mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells
Cornelia Scharler, Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg, Austria
09:30 - 09:45 T41 - Cryopreserved or fresh mesenchymal stromal cells: only a matter of taste or key to unleash the full clinical potential of MSC therapy?
Guido Moll, Charite Berlin
09:45 - 10:00 T42 - Synthetic niche to modulate regenerative potential of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and enhance skeletal muscle regeneration
Sven Geißler, Charite Berlin
10:00 - 10:15 T43 - Extracellular vesicles – From bench to bedside
Verena Börger, University Hospital Essen
10:15 - 10:30 Working group discussion
Lecture hall N
Stem cells in diseases: cancer stem cells(Chairs: Thomas Brabletz/Andreas Trumpp)
 
09:00 - 09:20 Overview
Andreas Trumpp, German Center Reserach Center, Heidelberg
09:20 - 09:40 T44 - ZEB1 turns into a transcriptional activator by interacting with YAP1 in aggressive cancer types
Julia Kleemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
09:40 - 10:00 T45 - Heterotrimeric G-proteins are indispensable for FLT3-ITD autophosphorylation and oncogenic function
Michael Rieger, Goethe University Hospital and LOEWE Center Frankfurt
10:00 - 10:15 T46 - A mathematical model approach to study the immunological effects in CML patients during and after TKI treatment
Ingmar Glauche, TU Dresden
10:15 - 10:30 Working group discussion
10:30 - 11:00 
Coffee break/industry exhibition
Concurrent strategic working group session
Lecture hall H
Technologies in stem cell research (Chairs: Frank Emmrich/Andreas Bosio)  
11:00 - 11:25 S1 - Intestinal epithelial organoids – an accessible model for mammalian stem cell niche biology
Henner Farin, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt
11:25 - 11:50 S2 - 3D bioartificial cardiac tissue from pluripotent stem cells
Ina Gruh, REBIRTH, Hannover Medical School
11:50 - 12:15 S3 - Using cerebral organoids for studying human disease modeling and lineage reprogramming
Marissa Karow, LMU Munich
12:15 - 12:30 Panel discussion
Lecture hall G Career development and funding opportunities (Chairs: Insa Schröder/Hartmut Geiger)
11:05 - 11:40 S4 - Career paths for scientists – suitable application strategies
Anke Raloff, ZEIT Verlagsgruppe/ACADEMICS
11:40 - 12:15 S5 - tba
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12:15 - 12:30 Panel discussion
Lecture hall N
Clinical trials and regulatory affairs (Chairs: Torsten Tonn/Andreas Kurtz)
11:00 - 11:25 S6 - Investigator initiated trials (IIT) of advanced therapy medicinal products
Felipe Prosper, University Clinic Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
11:25 - 11:50 S7 - EU research perspective on advanced therapies
Arnd Hoeveler, European Commission, Brussels
11:50 - 12:15 S8 - Mapping the European landscape for patenting stem cell related inventions
Aliki Nichogiannopoulou, European Patent Office, Munich
12:15 - 12:30 Panel discussion
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch buffet/industry exhibition/poster viewing
12:45 - 13:45 Meet-the-expert tables (Bistro/ground floor): Marisa Karow (Cerebral organoids), Henner Farin (Intestinal epithelial organoids) and Ina Gruh (3D bioartificial cardiac tissue) register at the registration desk (limited to 10 registered participants each)
Lecture Hall F Joined session with Rebirth/Hannover Medical School (MHH)
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote lecture IV
K4 - Patterning mesoderm and blood development from human pluripotent stem cells
Peter Zandstra, University of Toronto, Canada (Chair: Karl Lenhard Rudolph)
14:45 - 15:30
Keynote lecture V
K5 - Stemming vision loss using stem cells - seeing is believing
Pete Coffey, University College London, U.K. (Chair: Thomas Braun )
15:30 - 15:45 GSCN Outlook 2017
Incoming president: Karl Lenhard Rudolph
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break/industry exhibition
Lecture hall F Rebirth Session (Chairs: Ulrich Martin/Tobias Cantz)
16:15 - 16:35 RB1 - From cell to product: governance issues along the translational pathway
Nils Hoppe, CELLS – Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover
16:35 - 16:55 RB2 - Emerging protein- and small molecule-based therapies for cardiac repair
Kai Wollert, Hans Borst Center for Heart and Stem Cell Research, Hannover Medical School
16:55 - 17:15 RB3 - Therapeutic noncoding RNA based approaches of heart failure
Thomas Thum, Institute of Molecular and Translational Therapeutic Strategies (IMTTS), Hannover Medical School
17:15 - 17:35 RB4 - Manufacturing human pluripotent stem cells and their progenies
Robert Zweigerdt, Hannover Medical School
Lecture hall F Closing ceremony
17:35 - 17:50 Poster award ceremony and announcement of industry quiz winners
(Daniel Besser; GSCN)
supported by PeproTech GmbH 
End of GSCN conference 2016
 
Announcement:
19:00 – 21:00  GSCN Public outreach event with panelists (in German)
Moderne Zelltherapien - Stammzellen bei Herz- und Lebererkrankungen
Podiumsdiskussion und Kurzfilme

Podiumsgäste:
Prof Dr. Axel Haverich, Klinik für Herz-, Thorax-, Transplantations- und Gefäßchirurgie, MHH
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Martin, Leibniz Forschungs- laboratorien für Biotechnologie und künstliche Organe , MHH
Prof. Dr. Michael Manns, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, MHH
Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe, Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences Hannover, LUH

Moderation: Dr. Stefanie Seltmann, DKFZ Heidelberg



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