Program

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

11:00 - 11:30 Plenary Hall	Opening GSCN Conference 2025
11:00 - 11:10	Welcome address - tba
11:10 - 11:20	Welcome address - tba
11:24 - 11:30	Opening of GSCN Conference 2025 Heiko Lickert, President GSCN
11:30 - 12:15 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture I K1 - tba Viviane Tabar, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Chair: Magdalena Götz
12:15 - 13:00 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture II K2 - Long-term single live cell quantification: new tools for old questions Timm Schroeder, Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSEE), ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland Chair: Claudia Waskow
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:30 - 16:00	Concurrent scientific working group session I
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Hall	Stem cells in regenerative therapies Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Wolfgang Wagner
14:30 - 15:00	T01 - Therapeutic CAR-T cell products: What can we learn for pluripotent stem cell based products? Ulrike Köhl, Fraunhofer IZI, Leipzig
15:00 - 15:15	T02 -
15:15 - 15:30	T03 -
15:30 - 15:45	T04 -
15:45 - 16:00	T05 -
14:30 - 16:00 Seminar room 1050	Tissue-derived stem cells & organoids Chairs: Sina Bartfeld & Thomas Braun
14:30 - 15:00	T06 -
15:00 - 15:15	T07 -
15:15 - 15:30	T08 -
15:30 - 15:45	T09 -
15:45 - 16:00	T10 -
14:30 - 16:00 Seminar Room (HPC) Helmholtz Pioneer Campus	Basic, translational and applied hematopoiesis Chairs: Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid & Mick Milsom
14:30 - 15:00	T11 - tba Adam Wilkinson, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK
15:00 - 15:15	T12 -
15:15 - 15:30	T13 -
15:30 - 15:45	T14 -
15:45 - 16:00	T15 -
16:00 - 16:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary Hall	General Meeting Executive Board & Managing Director Heiko Lickert, Claudia Waskow, Sina Bartfeld, Michael Cross, Andreas Trumpp, Daniel Besser
17:30 - 19:30	Poster session I - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) supported by PeptiGrowth Tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx Tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx Tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx Even numbers: 17:30 - 18:30 Odd numbers: 18:30 - 19:30
19:45 -20:30 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture III (on ELSA topics) K3 - tba Jacob Hanna, Weismann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Chair: Tobias Cantz
20:30 - 22:00 Cafeteria HPC (Helmholtz Pioneer Campus)	GSCN Get-together for all participants Dinner buffet
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Thursday, 16 October 2025

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session II
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Hall	Stem cells in disease modeling & drug development Chairs: Oliver Brüstle & Harald Stachelscheid
09:00 - 09:30	T16 -
09:30 - 09:45	T17 -
09:45 - 10:00	T18 -
10:00 - 10:15	T19 -
10:15 - 10:30	T20 -
09:00 - 10:30 Seminar Room 1050	TACTiC Symposium Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Robert Zweigerdt
09:00 - 09:30	T21 - Deep Immunophenotyping of iPS-Cardiomyocytes Dirk Strunk, PMU Salzburg, AUT
09:30 - 10:00	T22 - Biological-engineering and application of a myocardial patch Joost Sluiter, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
10:00 - 10:15	T23 - TBA Kevin Ullmann, MH Hannover
10:15 - 10:30	T24 - Autmated cardiac cell injection Raphael Mönkemöller, LU Hannover
09:00 - 10:30 Seminar Room HPC	Pluripotency, differentiation & PSC-derived models Chairs: Ralf Jauch & Mina Gouti
09:00 - 09:30	T26 - Developing a safe and immune-evasive stem cell source for off-the-shelf therapeutic products Andras Nagy, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
09:30 - 09:45	T27 -
09:45 - 10:00	T28 -
10:00 - 10:15	T29 -
10:15 - 10:30	T30 -
09:00 - 10:30 VIP Room HPC	ELSA symposium: Embryo-models derived from pluripotent stem cells Chair: Tobias Cantz Panelists: Jacob Hanna (Rehovot, Israel)
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Industry session: "Technologies from GSCN industry partners"
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Hall	Supporter I (Chairs: Magdalena Götz & Hartmut Geiger)
11:00 - 11:15	C01 -
11:15 - 11:30	C02 -
11:30 -12:00	C03 -
12:00 - 12:20	C04 -
11:00 - 12:30 Seminar Room 1050	Supporter II (Chairs: Hannes Klump & Thomas Schwarz-Rommond)
11:00 - 11:15	C05 -
11:15 - 11:35	C06 -
11:35 - 11:55	C07 -
11:55 - 12:15	C08 -
12:15 -12:30	C09 -
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:00 - 16:15 Plenary Hall	Presidential Symposium Chair: Heiko Lickert
14:00 - 14:45	Presidential Invite PS1 - tba Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Helmholtz Munich
14:45 - 15:15	GSCN 2025 Young Investigator Award PS2 -
15:15 - 15:45	GSCN 2025 Hilde Mangold Award PS3 -
15:45 - 16:15	GSCN Publication of the Year 2024 - 2025 Award PS4 -
16:15 - 16:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
16:30 - 18:30	Poster session II - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx tbd: Pxxx - Pxxx Even numbers: 16:30 - 17:30 Odd number: 17:30 - 18:30
19:00 - 01:00	GSCN networking event for all participants The entrance fee is collected on site Event location: ➚ Gasthof Neuwirt, Garching Münchener Str.10 85748 Garching

Friday, 17 October 2025

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session III
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Hall	Stem cells in ageing & disease Chairs: Hartmut Geiger & Andreas Trumpp
09:00 - 09:30	T31 -
09:30 - 09:45	T32 -
09:45 - 10:00	T33 -
10:00 - 10:15	T34 -
10:15 - 10:30	T35 -
09:00 - 10:30 Seminar Room 1050	DZL Symposium: Stem Cells in Lung Research Chairs: tbd
09:00 - 09:30	T36 - tba Killian Hurley, RCSI, Ireland
09:30 - 09:45	T37 - Sotatercept as a novel therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension: attenuation of fibrosis and contractility in iPSC-derived smooth muscle cells Aileen Schmidt, MH Hannover
09:45 - 10:00	T38 -
10:00 - 10:15	T39 -
09:00 - 10:30 Seminar room HPC	Computational stem cell biology Chairs: Ingmar Glauche & Carsten Marr
09:00 - 09:30	T40 -
09:30 - 09:45	T41 -
09:45 - 10:00	T42 -
10:00 - 10:15	T43 -
10:15 - 10:30	T44 -
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Concurrent strategic working group session
11:00 - 12:30	Clinical trials & regulatory affairs Chairs: Andreas Kurtz & Torsten Tonn
11:00 - 11:30	S1 -
11:30 - 12:00	S2 -
12:00 - 12:30	S3 -
11:00 - 12:30 Seminar room 1050	Career development Chairs: Marieke Essers & Karin Hoehne
	S4 - Stay calm and clear: Communication strategies for difficult situations Nele Haasen, konteam, Munich
11:00 - 12:30	Technologies in stem cell research Chairs: Sebastian Diecke & Sebastian Knöbel
11:00 - 11:20	S5 - tba Jakob Metzger, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
11:20 - 11:40	S6 - High-content phenotypic profiling reveals subpopulation-specific modulation of human microglia by inflammasome-targeting compounds Johannes Wilbertz, Ksilink, Strasbourg, France
11:40 - 12:00	S7 - tba Catarina Brito, iBet, Qeiras, Portugal
11:40 - 12:00	S8 - tba Peter Reinhardt, Abbvie, Ludwighafen
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:00 - 14:45 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture IV K4 - tba Hongkui Deng, Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China Chair: Matthias Hebrok
14:45 - 15:30 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture V K5 - tba Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Chair: Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz
15:30 - 15:50 Plenary Hall	Poster award ceremony Daniel Besser Poster awards Travel awards
15:50 - 16:00 Plenary Hall	Closing remarks by the GSCN president Heiko Lickert
	End of GSCN Conference 2025
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