09:00

Delegate Registration

10:00

10:35

Single cell analyses of fate decisions in yeast

Regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells

Roger Brent (TBC)

Margaret Buckingham

11:10

COFFEE

11:40

12:15

12:50

Haematopoietic stem cells

Transcriptional regulation in stem and progenitor cells

Short talk:  
The Transcriptional Programme Controlled by the Stem Cell Leukaemia Gene Scl/Tal1 during Early Embryonic Blood Stem Cell Development

Connie Eaves

Tariq Enver

Bertie Gottgens

13:10

LUNCH

14:15

14:50

Molecular dissection of the germ cell niche in Drosophila

Mathematical modelling of signalling pathways

Margaret Fuller 

Edda Klipp

15:25

TEA

15:55

16:30

17:05

Notch signaling in self-renewing tissues and disease

Lineage switching in the haematopoietic system

Short talk:
Mechanisms of feedback regulation in the “pluripotency network”          - Insights from a mathematical model analysis

Freddy Radtke

Thomas Graf

Ingo Roeder

17.30

Set up posters for session I

18:30

DINNER

20:00

Poster session I

09:00

09:35

10:10

Gene Networks and master regulators in hematopoietic stem cells

Genome-wide interrogation of mammalian stem cells

Short talk:
Stochastic heterogeneity in populations of neural stem cells defined
by neurochemical pathways

Gerald de Haan

Guy Sauvageau

Peter Dirks

10:30

COFFEE

11:00

11:35

12:10

Single bead, single molecule and single cell chemical biology

Stochastic patterning in the development of pluripotency

Short talk:
A genome-scale RNAi screen for Oct4 modulators identifies novel genes required for ES cell identity

Manfred Auer

Takashi Hiiragi

Frank Buchholz

12:30

LUNCH

13:30

14:05

14:40

Reprogramming somatic cells to ground state of pluripotency

Resetting the epigenetic state in the germ line

Short talk:
Continuous single cell data as the basis for stem cell systems biology

José Silva

Azim Surani

Timm Schroeder

15:00

TEA

15:30

16:05

16:40

Genetic programming of epithelial stem cell plasticity

Systems biology of cellular reprogramming

Short talk:
Telomere equilibration in telomerase hemizygotes mitigates stem
cell dysfunction

Yann Barrandon

Hiroaki Kitano

Lea Harrington

17.00

Set up posters for session II

18:00

DINNER

19:30

Poster session II

09.00

Detuning-dependent dominance of oscillation death in globally
coupled synthetic genetic oscillators

Jürgen Kurths

09.35

Modelling stem cell tissue

Markus Loeffler

10:10

Short talk:
Mechanisms of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

Benjamin Simons

10:30

COFFEE

11:00

11:35

A potential strategy for cellular decision-making

Stem cell circuitry

Peter Swain

Ihor Lemischka

12.10

Short talk:
Mapping Dynamic Histone Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression
in Nanog-depleted Murine Embryonic Stem Cells

Florian Markowetz

12:30

LUNCH

13:30

Constructing haematopoietic stem cells

Shinichi Nishikawa

14:05

Dynamics and heterogeneity in cell fate decisions

Amy Brock

14:40

TEA

15:10

15:45

Synthetic signalling and decision networks

Induction of pluripotency by defined factors

Jörg Stelling

Shinya Yamanaka

17:00

Excursion for remaining speakers

18:00

DINNER for delegates staying overnight