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.
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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.
Document
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