Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture

Overview

Symposium Overview

The ability to grow human tissues from stem cells in 3D culture has the potential to revolutionise the drug discovery process and regenerative medicine. Building on a long tradition of cell and developmental biology knowledge, organoids resembling a variety of human tissues have been generated. This symposium will bring together the leading researchers in this field to establish a new research community and reveal parallels between various tissue models.

The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers from different fields to enhance our understanding of how organoids can be formed and maintained, how they can be used to study disease and how we might eventually use them to regenerate and replace human organ tissue.

Session Topics

• Stem Cells and Development 
• Organoids from tissue stem cells
• Recreating organs from pluripotent stem cells
• Organoids and disease modeling
• Cells and materials in regenerative medicine 

Speakers

Clare Blackburn

MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine

UK

Rob Coppes

University of Groningen

the Netherlands

Sabine Costagliola

Université Libre de Bruxellex

Belgium

Albert Edge

Harvard Medicel School

USA

Rusty Gage

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

USA

Mathew Garnett

Welcome Trust Sanger Institute

UK

Anne Grapin-Botton

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

Meritxell Huch

The Gurdon Institute

UK

Wieland Huttner

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Germany

Peihua Jiang

Monell Chemical Sense Center

USA

Bon-Kyoung Koo

University of Cambridge

UK

Madeline Lancaster

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

UK

Matthias Lutolf

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,

Switzerland

Celeste Nelson

Princeton University

USA

Sophie Roerink

Welcome Trust Sanger Institute

UK

Michael Sehen

Columbia University Medical Center

USA

Jason Spence

University of Michigan

USA

David Tuverson

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

USA

Flora Vaccarino

Yale School of Medicine

USA

James Wells

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

USA

Scientific Organisers

Hans Clevers

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,

Germany

Jürgen Knoblich

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology,

Austria

Melissa Little

The University of Queensland

Australia

Esther Schnapp

EMBO Reports,

Germany

Conference Organisers

Lea Hohmann

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme