Plenary Session
Plenary
Mitinori Saitou, MD PhD
Kyoto University, Japan
Anne Grapin-Botton, PhD
DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nissim Benvensity, MD, PhD
Hebrew University, Israel
Patrick Tam, PhD
Children's Medical Research Institute, NSW, Australia
Kyoto University, Japan
Mitinori Saitou received his M.D. and Ph.D. (under Shoichiro Tsukita) from the Kyoto University, performed his postdoctoral work at the Gurdon Institute (with Azim Surani). He was then team leader at the RIKEN CDB. Mitinori Saitou is now Professor at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Director of the JST ERATO program. His work focuses on the mechanism and reconstitution in vitro of germ cell development in mice, monkeys, and humans.
DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anne Grapin-Botton is a professor at the Danish Stem Cell Center at University of Copenhagen. She has a background in developmental biology and initially studied nervous system development in Paris with Nicole Le Douarin. Her interests expanded to endoderm and pancreas development as a post-doctoral fellow with Doug Melton at Harvard University. Her laboratory is currently focusing on pancreas development with the overall goal of understanding the dynamics of decision processes of individual progenitors and their organization in space. This has enabled her team to develop three-dimensional culture systems from progenitors derived from embryos or pluripotent stem cells in mouse and human. This work is used to better understand and treat diabetes and other pancreatic affections.
DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anne Grapin-Botton is a professor at the Danish Stem Cell Center at University of Copenhagen. She has a background in developmental biology and initially studied nervous system development in Paris with Nicole Le Douarin. Her interests expanded to endoderm and pancreas development as a post-doctoral fellow with Doug Melton at Harvard University. Her laboratory is currently focusing on pancreas development with the overall goal of understanding the dynamics of decision processes of individual progenitors and their organization in space. This has enabled her team to develop three-dimensional culture systems from progenitors derived from embryos or pluripotent stem cells in mouse and human. This work is used to better understand and treat diabetes and other pancreatic affections.
Novo Nordisk A/S, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Hebrew University, Israel
Prof. Nissim Benvenisty is the Herbert Cohn Chair in Cancer Research and the Director of The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University, and conducted postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. Prof. Benvenisty’s research projects focus on stem cell biology, tissue engineering, human genetics, and cancer research.
Presentation from the International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI)
6/20/2018
11:45 – 12:00
4 - HAPLOID HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS: DERIVATION AND APPLICATIONS
6/20/2018
16:55 – 17:20
6/23/2018
13:15 – 13:20
Children's Medical Research Institute, NSW, Australia
Anne McLaren Memorial LecturePatrick Tam is Head of Embryology Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute and Professor in Sydney Medical School. He undertakes a systems-based investigation of the functional attributes of gene regulatory network in the context of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin the organization of the basic body plan of the early embryo. The findings provide an in-depth knowledge of lineage differentiation during early embryogenesis, which laid the foundation for directing the first steps of differentiation of stem cells into clinically useful cell types. Patrick Tam is the President’s Medalist of the ANZSDB and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Royal Society of Biology and Royal Society of London.
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