Organoids and disease modeling

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)