2019 Symposium on "Advances in Reparative Medicine"
Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine hosted its first scientific symposium in Sweden, "Advances in Reparative Medicine" on 15 May 2019.
Programme
08.30-09.00 REGISTRATION
09.00-09.15 WELCOMING ADDRESS AND PRESENTATION OF MWLC
Sandra Ceccatelli, Director MWLC, KI
09.15-09.20 OPENING
Anders Gustafsson, Academic Vice President at KI
KEYNOTE LECTURE I
CHAIR: Simon Elsässer, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI
09.20-10.05 New cells in old brains
Jonas Frisén, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, KI
10.05-10.30 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION I: CELL TYPES AND CELL STATES
CHAIRS: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI and Francois Lallemend, Department of Neuroscience and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI
10.30-11.00 Lineage specification of skin stem cells during hair growth and wound repair
Maria Kasper, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, KI
11.00-11.30 Pluripotency, embryonic stem cells and regenerative medicine
Fredrik Lanner, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI
11.30-12.00 Neuronal subtype specification in the developing enteric nervous system
Ulrika Marklund, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KI
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
KEYNOTE LECTURE II
CHAIR: Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KI
13.00-13.45 Myelination and myelin repair in the CNS
Charles ffrench-Constant, University of Edinburgh, UK
SESSION II: TISSUE REPAIR AND DISEASE MODELLING
CHAIR: Lars Jakobsson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KI
13.45-14.15 Targeting regulatory RNAs in skin wounds: a new opportunity of healing?
Ning Xu Landén, Department of Medicine, Solna and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI
14.15-14.45 Combinatorial genetics technology for cell engineering
Alan Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
14.45-15.15 Using reprogramming to model diseases of the human brain
Anna Falk, Department of Neuroscience, KI
15.15-15.45 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION III: BIOENGINEERING IN REPARATIVE MEDICINE
CHAIRS: Sijie Chen, MWLC, Hong Kong node, KI and Christian Göritz, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and MWLC, Stockholm node, KI
15.45-16.15 Spatial signaling at the cell membrane
Ana Teixeira, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KI
16.15-16.45 Engineering advanced biomaterials: from microarray fabrication to mRNA delivery
Linxian Li, MWLC, Hong Kong node, KI
16.45-17.15 Clinical translation of a regeneration strategy for spinal cord injury
Mikael Svensson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, KI
17.15-17.45 Engineering human heart chambers and tissues for disease modelling and drug discovery
Ronald Li, MWLC, Hong Kong node, KI
17.45-18.00 CLOSING REMARKS
Eero Castrén, University of Helsinki, FI, Chair of MWLC Scientific Advisory Board
Venue
Torsten N Wiesel Lecture Hall, Karolinska University Hospital
Scientific organisers
The scientific organisers were Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Christian Göritz and Sandra Ceccatelli.
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