Programme
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Monday 14th June |
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11:00-12:30 |
Registration and Lunch |
12:30-13:00 |
Welcome and opening remarks Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson |
Matthias Löhr |
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13:00-17:00 |
Session I: Disease Genetics and Mechanisms Chair – Mathias Treier / Maureen Gannon |
Sarah Flanagan (Exeter, UK) Monogenetic forms of Diabetes |
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John Todd (Cambridge, UK) Type 1 diabetes genetics |
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Marc McCarthy (Oxford, UK) Type 2 diabetes genetics |
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Pål Njolstad (Oslo, Norway) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
Ron Kahn (Boston, USA) |
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Mathias Treier (Heidelberg, Germany) Cilia signaling and beta cell function |
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Carmen Guerra (Madrid, Spain) |
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17:00-17:30 |
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture Chair – Matthias Löhr / Rainer Heuchel |
Duncan Odom (Cambridge, UK) |
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| 17:30 - 18:00 | Chair – Ralf Jesenofsky / Cecilia Götherström |
Oral Posters (selected speakers) |
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18:00-19:00 |
Poster Session |
19:00 -late |
Welcome party and buffet dinner |
Tuesday, 15th June |
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08:00-13:00 |
Session II: Pancreatic Development Chair – Helene Edlund / Harry Heimberg |
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Ewa Wandzioch (Philadelphia, USA) Specification of pancreatic and hepatic progenitors |
Klaus H. Kaestner (Philadelphia, USA) |
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Ray MacDonald (Dallas, USA) From beginning to end: Ptf1a control of pancreatic organogenesis |
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Henrik Semb (Lund, Sweden) |
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10:00-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Gerald Gradwohl (Illkirch,France) Ngn3 and endocrine cell specification |
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Lori Sussel (New York, USA) Nkx2.2, neuro D, and endocrine cell differentiation |
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Helena Edlund (Umeå, Sweden) Retinoic acid and beta cell differentiation |
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Maureen Gannon (Nashville, TN, USA) Beta cell proliferation during embryogenesis |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-15:30 |
Session III: Stem Cells Matthias Hebrok / Eva Wandzioch |
Outi Hovatta (Stockholm, Sweden) hES cells |
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Katarina LeBlanc (Stockholm, Sweden) Differentiating mesenchymal stem cells |
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Anna Wobus (Gatersleben, Germany) ES to insulin-producing cells |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
16:00-18:30 |
Session IV: Pancreatic cell regeneration and reprogramming |
Jake Kushner (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Adult beta cell turnover |
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Harry Heimberg (Brussels, Belgium) Islet neogenesis |
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Patrick Collombat (Nice, France) |
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Ralf Jesenofsky (Heidelberg, Germany) |
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| Evening | Evening Free |
20:00 -late |
Faculty Dinner(The Royal Dramatic Theatre; invitation
only!) |
Wednesday, 16th June |
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08:30-12:30 |
Session V: Stem Cell and Pancreatic Cancer |
Anne Grapin Botton (Lausanne, Switzerland) |
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Matthias Hebrok (San Francisco, USA) |
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Christopher Heeschen (Madrid, Spain) |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
Rune Toftgård (Stockholm, Sweden) |
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Chair – Christopher Heeschen / Per-Olof Berggren |
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| Oral Posters (selected speakers) | |
11:30-12:45 |
Lunch |
13:30-15:30 |
Session VI: Clinical Applications of Stem Cells Chair -Jörgen Larsson / Roland M. Schmid |
Olle Korsgren (Uppsala, Sweden) In vivo imaging in clinical islet transplantation |
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Per-Olof Berggren (Stockholm, Sweden) In vivo imaging of transplanted islets |
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Frederik L. Giesel (Heidelberg, Germany) |
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Olle Ringdén (Stockholm, Sweden) Use of stem cells in pancreatic cancer treatment |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
16:00-16:30 |
Summary Helena Edlund (Umeå, Sweden), Mathias Treier (Heidelberg, Germany) |
16:30-18:00 |
Science & Society-Plenary Discussion |
Chairs -Johan Permert / Matthias Löhr |
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18:30-late |
Farewell party and Reception at the Golden Hall, City Hall |
