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.

2019 Symposium on Advances in Reparative Medicine

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

BioClinicum, Solnavägen 30

 

Scientific organisers

The scientific organisers were Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Christian Göritz and Sandra Ceccatelli.

Document

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Molly Yang
29-05-2023