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EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Programme
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Time | Speaker | |
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12:00 - 13:30 | Arrival and Registration with light refreshments |
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13:30 - 13:45 | Opening Remarks | |
13:45 - 18:40 | Session 1 - Artificial cell/Tissue Chair: Stefano De Renzis |
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13:45 - 14:20 |
Programming the formation of synthetic tissues |
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14:20 - 14:55 |
Engineering tissue architecture through microfabrication and polymer engineering |
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14:55 - 15:10 |
Building the human embryo in vitro: one step at a time |
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15:10 - 15:40 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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15:40 - 16:15 |
Synthetic cellularity |
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16:15 - 16:30 |
Blue light switchable cell-cell interactions provide reversible and spatiotemporal control towards bottom-up tissue engineering |
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16:30 - 17:05 |
Making. Tissues. Function. How simple is complex enough? |
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17:05 - 17:35 |
Coffee Break |
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17:35 - 17:50 |
Theoretical tool bridging cell polarities with development of robust morphologies |
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17:50 - 18:05 |
Changes in gene expression shift and switch genetic interactions |
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18:05 - 18:40 |
Morphogenesis in evolved systems |
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18:40 - 20:10 |
Dinner in EMBL Canteen |
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20:10 - 21:30 | Welcome Reception with Live Music by Blue Note Jazz Duo in ATC Rooftop Lounge with beer and wine |
Time | Speaker | |
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09:35 - 12:05 | Session 2 - Patterning and self-organisation Chair: Wendell Lim |
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09:35 - 10:10 |
Coordination of progenitor specification and growth in the developing spinal cord |
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10:10 - 10:25 |
Pattern formation by multi-species bacterial colonies with programmed population-to-population interactions |
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10:25 - 10:55 |
Coffee Break |
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10:55 - 11:30 |
From circuits to organs: towards a dynamic computer simulation of limb development |
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11:30 - 12:05 |
Mechanisms underlying robust tissue behavior in changing environments |
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12:05 - 14:10 |
Lunch and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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14:10 - 17:05 |
Session 3 - Gene expression dynamics/Gene circuits |
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14:10 - 14:45 |
Visualizing morphogen shuttling in the early Drosophila embryo |
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14:45 - 15:00 |
An ab-initio derivation of the Drosophila gap gene system from an optimization principle |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Editors in ATC Foyer with: |
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15:30 - 16:05 |
Decoding development: from gene regulatory structure to function |
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16:05 - 16:40 |
Coupling gene circuits through tissue polarity to achieve adaptive tissue responses |
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16:40 - 17:05 |
Flash Talks Session I |
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17:05 - 19:05 | Poster Session I (odd numbers) with beer and snacks |
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19:05 - 20:35 |
Dinner in the EMBL Canteen |
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20:35 - 22:00 | After Dinner Drinks in ATC Rooftop Lounge |
Time | Speaker | |
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09:00 - 12:00 | Session 4 - Organoids Chair: Anna Kicheva |
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09:00 - 09:35 | Hepatic organoids for the understanding of liver regeneration and disease Meritxell Huch - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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09:35 - 10:10 |
The genetic blueprint of the mammalian embryo: a synthetic approach |
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10:10 - 10:25 |
Blastoids: blastocyst-like structures generated solely from stem cells |
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10:25 - 10:55 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Editors in ATC Foyer with: |
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10:55 - 11:10 |
Dissecting human-specific brain development by studying single cell expression dynamics of great ape cerebral organoids |
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11:10 - 11:25 |
Human time vs. mouse time with in vitro segmentation clock |
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11:25 - 12:00 | Scrutinizing organoid formation to understand the principles of organogenesis: the pancreas example Anne Grapin-Botton - DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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13:30 - 16:40 |
Session 5 - Mechanics |
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13:30 - 14:05 |
Energy dissipation by molecular motors |
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14:05 - 14:20 |
Topological transitions of epithelial surfaces |
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14:20 - 14:55 |
Sequential bottom-up assembly of synthetic cells |
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14:55 - 15:25 |
Coffee Break |
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15:25 - 15:40 |
Assembly of lung progenitors into developmentally-relevant tube structures drives differentiation patterning via cellular tension |
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15:40 - 16:15 |
Endogenous bioelectric circuits: morphological computation in real and synthetic organisms |
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16:15 - 16:40 |
Flash Talks Session II |
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16:40 - 18:40 |
Poster Session II (even numbers) |
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18:40 - 20:40 | Conference Dinner in EMBL Canteen | |
20:40 - 00:00 | Conference Party with Live Music by DJ Jenz in ATC Rooftop Lounge |
Time | Speaker |
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09:00 - 12:20 | Session 6 - Controlling tissues Chair: James Sharpe |
09:00 - 09:35 |
Optogenetic-guided tissue morphogenesis |
09:35 - 10:10 |
Circuits and devices for real-time control of cellular systems |
10:10 - 10:25 |
Thermal activation of gene expression in 3D printed tissues |
10:25 - 10:55 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
10:55 - 11:10 |
ESC differentiation on micro-patterned substrate to study Antero-Posterior axis formation in mouse and human |
11:10 - 11:45 |
Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves |
11:45 - 12:20 | Mammalian synthetic biology: foundations and applications to programmable organoids Ron Weiss - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America |
12:20 - 12:35 | Closing Remarks and Poster Prize |
12:35 |
Packed Lunch and Departure |