Organized by students in the Developmental Biology Program, the symposium FOCUSED on recent advances in organoid tissue culture systems to model human disease.
Registration IS CLOSED
LOCATION: FORD ALUMNI CENTER
Schedule:
09:00AM – 09:30AM Breakfast
09:30AM – 10:30AM First Speaker Session/Thematic Short Talk
10:30AM – 11:00AM Coffee/Snack Break
11:00AM – 12:00PM Second Speaker Session/Thematic Short Talk
12:00PM – 02:00PM Lunch/Poster Session
02:00PM – 03:00PM Third Speaker Session/Thematic Short Talk
03:00PM – 03:30PM Coffee/Snack Break
03:30PM – 04:30PM Knoblich Keynote
05:00PM – 08:00PM Speaker dinner off campus group!
Speaker List:
Jurgen Knoblich (IMP, Vienna): Modeling human brain development and disease in stem cell derived 3D organoid culture
Calvin Kuo (Stanford): Using organoids to model cancer
Brigitte Gomperts (UCLA): Taking a first breath – lung organoids for disease modeling and drug discovery
Kevin Cheung (Fred Hutch): Breast tumor organoids: principles and applications for cancer discovery
June 25th (6PM), Public Talk – Jurgen Knoblich
June 26th (9AM-5PM), Symposium – four speakers & Poster session
