DIMET COURSE
“Organoids and disease modeling”
Organized by:
Silvia Kirsten Nicolis and Marta Serafini
PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Brain
14:15 - 15:15 (Central European Time) Juergen Knoblich (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Wien, Austria)
“Human brain development and disease in cerebral organoids”
15:15 – 16:15 Jessica Mariani (Yale School of Medicine,Yale University, CT, USA)
“Modeling FOXG1 Syndrome using human pluripotent stem cells and telencephalic organoids”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 - 17:45 In-Hyun Park (Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, CT, USA)
“Development of integrated brain organoids to investigate human brain development and diseases”
17:45 - 18:45 Veronica Krenn (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Wien, Austria)
“Modeling brain infections using human cerebral organoids”
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Leukemia, brain cancer and Down syndrome
14:15 - 15:15 Dominique Bonnet (Crick Institute, London, UK)
“Humanised Bone marrow niche to study human normal and malignant haematopoiesis”
15:15 – 16:15 Luca Tiberi (University of Trento, Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Brain Disorders and Cancer)
“Modeling brain cancer with human organoids”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 – 17.45 Peng Jiang (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
“Modeling Down Syndrome Using human iPSC-based Cerebral Organoids”
Friday, November 19, 2021
Other organs
14:15 - 15:15 Catherine Verfaillie (University of Leuven, Belgium)
“Engineering liver models from iPSC”
15:15 - 16:15 Magdalena Renner (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology,
Basel, Switzerland)
“Retinal organoids to model development and disease”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 - 17:45 Reiner Wimmer (Roche, Basel, Switzerland)
"Engineering organoids and organ-on-chip models of the vasculature for disease modeling and drug discovery"
Links to participate:
-Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Address event for the participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-it/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecd39749d8acbb6d5255304533fc0ce67
Password event: day17 (32917 for mobiles)
-Thursday, November 18, 2021
Address event for the participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-it/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb77f9b97812a354d9ae4c19a62900f48
Password event: day18 (32918 for mobiles)
-Friday, November 19, 2021
Address event for the participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-it/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb50c0c7e74995f2da606b33373b1da01
Password event: day19 (32919 for mobiles)
