8:30-9:10 Registration
9:10-9:15 Welcome address
9:15-9:45 Dr Germano Cecere (Institut Pasteur)
“From germline to embryo: small RNAs in epigenetic inheritance“
9:45-10:45 Selected speakers session I:
metabolism, morphogenesis and modelling
Laura Caetano, University of Southampton, UK
“Mouse blastocysts sense maternal nutrition quality via isoleucine availability to regulate trophectoderm endocytosis level, a survival mechanism”
Hugo Silva, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), Braga, Portugal
“A glycolytic lactate-based metabolism underlies chicken lung branching morphogenesis“
Marta Shahbazi, University of Cambridge, UK
“Defining pluripotency in 3D: from embryonic stem cell identity to morphogenesis“
Adam Shellard, University College London, UK
“The forgotten rear of collective cell migration: a new role for supracellular contractility”
10:45-11:30 Refreshment break and poster session (I)
11:30-12:00 Dr Susan Cox (King’s College London)
“Bringing super-resolution into live cells“
12:00-12:45 Selected speakers session II:
cell fate decisions
Elisa Galliano, King’s College London, UK & Harvard University, USA
“Embryonic and postnatal neurogenesis produce functionally distinct subclasses of dopaminergic neuron”
Tom Watson, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
“The Gene Regulatory Network Underlying the Neural-to-Glial Fate Transition in the Developing Spinal Cord”
Barbara Vacca, University College London, UK
“The tight junction protein MarvelD3 regulates eye development and neural crest induction in Xenopus laevis“
12:45-14:00 Lunch break and poster session (II)
14:00-15:00 Selected speakers session III:
gene editing in human in vitro models
Laura Mara Mueller, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
“Study of novel molecular defects in human pancreas dysfunction”
Rebecca Lea, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
“Identifying novel regulators of human pluripotency and embryogenesis“
Ralitsa Madsen, University of Cambridge, UK
“Dosage-dependent effects of class IA phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) activation in human pluripotent stem cells”
15:00-16:00 Professor Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute)
“Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing“
The Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture
16:00-16:30 Refreshment break and poster session (III)
16:30-17:30 Q&A session: PUBLISHING, EDITING and JOURNALS
Jennifer McLennan (eLife),
Robert Kiley (Wellcome),
Katherine Brown (Development)
17:30-17:45 Talk and poster prizes
17:45 – 19.30 Drinks reception