Speaker articles

Take a look at what some of our Engineering development and disease in organoids speakers and organizers have published recently and chat with them about their work in San Diego, CA, USA.

Keynote speakers

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, CalTech, USA & Cambridge University, UK

Pluripotent stem cell-derived model of the post-implantation human embryo

Mouse embryo model derived exclusively from embryonic stem cells undergoes neurulation and heart development

James Wells, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Development of functional resident macrophages in human pluripotent stem cell-derived colonic organoids and human fetal colon

Invited speakers

Thorsten Boroviak, University of Cambridge, UK
Spatial profiling of early primate gastrulation in utero

Shuibing Chen, Cornell University, USA
A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids

Anne Grapin-Botton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Integrating single-cell imaging and RNA sequencing datasets links differentiation and morphogenetic dynamics of human pancreatic endocrine progenitors

Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
Spatially controlled construction of assembloids using bioprinting

Dan Huh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Geometric engineering of organoid culture for enhanced organogenesis in a dish

Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University, USA
Immune-infiltrated kidney organoid-on-chip model for assessing T cell bispecific antibodies 

Suet-Yi Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Organoid cultures for cancer modelling

Matthias Lutolf, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Multimodal characterization of murine gastruloid development

Andrew P McMahon, University of Southern California, USA
Direct androgen receptor control of sexually dimorphic gene expression in the mammalian kidney

Sasha Mendjan, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
Cardioids reveal self-organizing principles of human cardiogenesis

Guo-li Ming, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Generation of hypothalamic arcuate organoids from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Thorold Theunissen, Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis, USA
3D-cultured blastoids model human embryogenesis from pre-implantation to early gastrulation stages

Hongmei Wang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Neurulation of the cynomolgus monkey embryo achieved from 3D blastocyst culture

Jun Wu, UT Southwestern, USA
Large-scale production of human blastoids amenable to modeling blastocyst development and maternal-fetal cross talk

Organizer

Rusty Gage, Salk Institute, USA
An in vivo neuroimmune organoid model to study human microglia phenotypes

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