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Full Program
Monday, August 11
13:00 – 19:30 Registration
Memorial Union 2nd floor
16:00 – 16:30 President’s Welcome and Vision
Shannon Hall Elly Tanaka, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria
Session 1: Neural regeneration #1
Shannon Hall
Chair: Shawn Burgess, National Human Genome Research Institute, USA
16:30 – 16:43 Talk 1 – Shawn Burgess, National Human Genome Research Institute, USA
Tnfrsf10 Signaling is Required to Maintain the Stem Cell Niche in the Zebrafish Lateral Line
16:45 – 16:58 Talk 2 – Anneliese Ceisel, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Regenerative capacity of human retinal ganglion cells transplanted into zebrafish larvae
17:00 – 17:13 Talk 3 – Jared Tangeman, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Retina regeneration in the axolotl following whole eye removal and reimplantation
17:15 – 17:28 Talk 4 – Romain Madelaine, MDI Bio Lab, USA
Neural crest-like cell transdifferentiation underlies a new mode of neuronal regeneration in the zebrafish retina
17:30 – 17:43 Talk 5 – Levi Todd, SUNY Upstate, USA
Reprogramming retinal glia to regenerate neurons across the mouse lifespan
17:45 – 17:58 Talk 6 – Daniela Münch, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Context-dependent interactions between immune cells and sensory hair cell regeneration programs
18:00 – 18:15 A tribute talk for Peter Coffey: Dennis Clegg, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
18:30 – 20:30 Welcome Reception & Exhibitors
Great Hall
Tuesday, August 12
8:00 – 17:00 Registration
Memorial Union 2nd floor
Session 2: Cardiovascular regeneration
Shannon Hall
Chair: Miao Cui, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
9:00 – 9:30 Didier Stainier, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Cardiac regeneration in zebrafish
9:30 – 9:43 Talk 7 – Juan Manuel Gonzalez-Rosa, Boston College, USA
Too much of a good thing: unraveling the interplay between inflammation, fibrosis, and the kinase Tnni3k during cardiac regeneration in zebrafish
9:45 – 9:58 Talk 8 – Fei Sun, Morgridge Institute for Research, USA
Hb-EGF-mobilized epicardial cells direct cardiomyocyte proliferation dynamics during heart morphogenesis and regeneration
10:00 – 10:13 Talk 9 – Bjoern Perder, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Hypoxia-activated scleraxis guides perivascular differentiation of epicardial progenitors in heart development and regeneration
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee
Sunset Room
Session 2: Cardiovascular regeneration
Shannon Hall
Chair: Jingli Cao, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
10:45 – 11:15 Kristy Red-Horse, Stanford University, USA
Using stem cells to recapitulate human development for lymphatic regeneration
11:15 – 11:28 Talk 10 – Miao Cui, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Origin and identity of mammalian regenerative cardiomyocytes
11:30 – 11:43 Talk 11 – Andy Shing-Fung Chan, Institute of Systems Immunology, University of Wúrzburg, Germany
High Resolution Spatio-Temporal Mapping Reveals Dedifferentiation Niches in Mammalian Cardiac Repair
11:45 – 11:58 Talk 12 – Maria Sol Jacome Burbano, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases (CECAD), Cologne, Germany
Cardiomyocyte proliferation and functional recovery after myocardial infarction in the adult naked mole-rat heart
12:00 – 12:15 Group photo
TBD
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck
Session 3: Musculoskeletal and appendage regeneration #1
Shannon Hall
Chair: Jeff Dilworth, UW-Madison, USA
13:15 – 13:45 Maximina Yun, CIMR-Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China
Exploring the link between regeneration and ageing in salamanders
13:45 – 13:58 Talk 13 – Wouter Masselink, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
Mechanical instability drives vertebrae patterning during axolotl tail regeneration
14:00 – 14:13 Talk 14 – Jackson Griffiths, Northeastern University, USA
A Thorough Characterization of Axolotl Digit Regeneration: Conserved Mechanisms, Divergent Patterning, and a Critical Role for Hedgehog Signaling
14:15 – 14:28 Talk 15 – Connor Dolan, Arizona State University, USA
The Role of Piezo1 During the Catabolic Phase of Digit Tip Regeneration
14:30 – 14:43 Talk 16 – Lauren Connolly, Stem Cell Institute, UK
Investigating the functional role of lymphatics in regulating regeneration and fibrosis in the mouse digit tip
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee
Sunset Room
15:15 – 15:28 Talk 17 – Jessica Lehoczky, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Mouse digit AAV gene delivery into fibroblasts regulates regenerative outcome
15:30 – 15:43 Talk 18 – Sarah Wolff, Texas A&M University, USA
FGF8 induced joint regeneration at an amputation wound is genetically and morphologically distinct from embryonic joint development in mice
15:45 – 16:15 Chunyi Li, Changchun Sci-Tech University, China
Dependency of “interactive partner” in mammalian epimorphic regeneration revealed by studying annual renewal of deer antlers
16:15 – 16:45 Lifetime Achievement Award presentation and talk
Brigitte Galliot, University of Geneva, Switzerland
16:45 – 17:15 Rising Star Award presentation and talk
Can Aztekin, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany
17:30 – 19:00 Dinner
Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck
19:00 – 21:00 Poster Session I & Exhibitors
Great Hall, Main Lounge
Wednesday, August 13
8:00 – 17:00 Registration
Memorial Union 2nd floor
Session 4: Digestive tissue and organ regeneration
Shannon Hall
Chair: Stacey Huppert, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
9:00 – 9:30 Hao Zhu, UT Southwestern, USA
Somatic mosaicism in regeneration, disease resilience, and cancer
9:30 – 9:43 Talk 19 – Paulo Belato, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Tuning of JAK/STAT signaling regulates cell cycle speed during polyploid regeneration in the Drosophila pylorus
9:45 – 9:58 Talk 20 – Anish Bose, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
The Pioneer Transcription Factor Zelda Orchestrates the Regeneration-to-Normal Development Transition in Drosophila Wing Imaginal Discs
10:00 – 10:13 Talk 21 – Gayatri Puri, UW Madison, USA
Volunteer Exercise Reverses Hematopoietic Aging through Epigenetic Regulation
10:15 – 10:28 Talk 22 – Albert E. Almada, University of Southern California y, USA
Pre-existing Stem Cells Regenerate Skeletal Muscle De Novo in the Super-Healing Lizard Tail
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Sunset Room
11:00 – 11:45 Workshop: Innovative techniques for regenerative biology
11:45 – 13:15 Lunch & Learn – Career development table
Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck
Session 5: Stem cells, skin, and wound healing
Shannon Hall
Chair: Anna Huttenlocher, UW-Madison, USA
13:15 – 13:45 Ya-Chieh Hsu, Harvard University, USA
Organ-level regeneration in mammals: Lessons from skin wounds
13:45 – 13:58 Talk 23 – Ajoy Aloysius, University of Kentucky, USA
Decoding regeneration: a phase-specific role for macrophages in scarless healing
14:00 – 14:13 Talk 24 – Hanseul Yang, KAIST, South Korea
A novel fracture lattice in spiny mouse skin facilitates tissue autotomy and regeneration
14:15 – 14:28 Talk 25 – Josh Currie, Wake Forest University, USA
Live imaging reveals key dynamics of wound resolution in the regenerative axolotl limb
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
Sunset Room
15:00 – 15:30 Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University, USA
The evolution of stem cells and regeneration: a developmental perspective
15:30 – 15:43 Talk 26 – Salome Stierli, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Peripheral glia constitute a regenerative niche triggering skin wound healing
15:45 – 15:58 Talk 27 – Melanie Worley, University of Virginia, USA
Mechanisms regulating regenerative growth and repatterning in appendage precursors
16:00 – 16:13 Talk 28 – Siyang Cao, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Tuft-like spike cells are robustly regenerated from the epidermal stem cells during zebrafish fin regeneration
16:30 – 18:30 Poster session II & Exhibitors
Great Hall, Main Lounge
18:30 – 22:00 Dinner on own and free time (Gift card will be provided)
Thursday, August 14
Session 6: Musculoskeletal and appendage regeneration #2
Shannon Hall
Chair: Romeo Blanc, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
9:00 – 9:30 Bradley B. Olwin, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Single nuclear genomic lineage tracing and transcriptomics during muscle repair
9:30 – 9:43 Talk 29 – Haley Dean, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
Hb-EGF directs systemic muscle repair
9:45 – 9:58 Talk 30 – Stephanie Tsai, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Elucidating injury-site specific regenerative programs to rebuild the tendon
10:00 – 10:13 Talk 31 – Sakurako Hayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Insights into the Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Bone Repair through Multiomic Analysis in Young and Aged Mice
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee
Sunset Room
10:45 – 11:15 Chen-Hui Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
How to regenerate the just-right amount of complex tissue: insights from the zebrafish tailfin model
11:15 – 11:28 Talk 32 – Christopher Antos, Shanghai Tech University, China
Retinoic Acid Regulates Progenitor Cell Electrophysiology Via Rcan2-Calcineurin to Scale the Size of Regenerating Vertebrate Appendages by Controlling Ca2+-CaMKK Regulated Shh Transcription
11:30 – 11:43 Talk 33 – Katharine Hubert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Loss of Hox11 function in skeletal stem cells disrupts Hh signaling during fracture repair
11:45 – 12:30 ISRB Business meeting
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Boxed lunch)
Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck
Session 7: Neural regeneration
Shannon Hall
Chair: Mayssa Mokalled, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
13:30 – 13:43 Talk 34 – Jaffna Mathiaparanam, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Huntington promotes spinal cord regeneration
13:45 – 13:58 Talk 35 – Pierre Gillotay, Morgridge Institute for Research, USA
Dysregulated immune and fibroblast signaling in spontaneous failure of spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish
14:00 – 14:13 Talk 36 – Jan Kaslin, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Australia
Hydrodynamic forces promote neural stem cell activity in the regenerating zebrafish spinal cord
14:15 – 14:28 Talk 37 – Vishnu Muraleedharan Saraswathy, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
Cross-species comparison reveals mechanisms of neuronal plasticity during spinal cord regeneration
14:30 – 14:43 Talk 38 – Ashley Cole, University of Birmingham, UK
The Toll adaptor Wek drives regenerative neurogenesis following CNS injury
14:45 – 15:00 Talk 39 – Karen Echeverri, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA
Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
Sunset Room
Session 8: Stem cells/Whole animal regeneration
Shannon Hall
Chair: Duygu Özpolat, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
15:30 – 15:43 Talk 40 – Sidney Vermeulen, Stanford University, USA
Integrating old and new: Watching live cells rebuild muscle networks during flatworm regeneration
15:45 – 15:58 Talk 41 – Rannyele Passos Ribeiro, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
The Highlander Effect: A Biological Phenomenon of Regeneration-Induced Lifespan Extension
16:00 – 16:13 Talk 42 – Qingxu Guan, Northwestern University, USA
The extent of injury-induced gene activation quantitatively distinguishes wound healing from tissue regeneration programs in planarians
16:15 – 16:28 Talk 43 – Charisios Tsiairis, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Progressive cell fate specification in morphallactic regeneration
16:30 – 16:43 Talk 44 – Ben Cox, UC Davis, USA
ECM remodeling shapes head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris
16:45 – 17:15 Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Stowers Institute, USA
Dissecting the biological complexity of animal regeneration
17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks
17:30 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 20:00 Banquet Dinner and prize award ceremony
Great Hall
20:00 – 22:30 DJ & Dancing
Tripp Commons
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