Program

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

11:00 - 11:30	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	Keynote lecture I K1 - tba Viviane Tabar, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Chair: Magdalena Götz
12:15 - 13:00	Keynote lecture II K2 - tba 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	Stem cells in regenerative therapies (Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Wolfgang Wagner)
14:30 - 15:00	T01 -
15:00 - 15:15	T02 -
15:15 - 15:30	T03 -
15:30 - 15:45	T04 -
15:45 - 16:00	T05 -
14:30 - 16:00	Pluripotency, differentiation & PSC-derived models (Chairs: Ralf Jauch & Mina Gouti)
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	Basic, translational and applied hematopoiesis (Chairs: Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid & Mick Milsom)
14:30 - 15:00	T11 -
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	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	Keynote lecture III (on ELSA topics) K3 - tba Jacob Hanna, Weismann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Chair: Tobias Cantz
20:30 - 22:00 Foyer	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	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	TACTiC Symposium Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Robert Zweigerdt
09:00 - 09:30	T21 -
09:30 - 09:45	T22 -
09:45 - 10:00	T23 -
10:00 - 10:15	T24 -
10:15 - 10:30	T25 -
09:00 - 10:30	ELSA symposium: Chair: Tobias Cantz Panelists:
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Industry session: "Technologies from GSCN industry partners"
11:00 - 12:30	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	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	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: ➚ tba

Friday, 17 October 2025

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session III
09:00 - 10:30	Tissue-derived stem cells & organoids Chairs: Sina Bartfeld & Thomas Braun
09:00 - 09:30	T26 -
09:30 - 09:45	T27 -
09:45 - 10:00	T28 -
10:00 - 10:15	T29 -
10:15 - 10:30	T30 -
09:00 - 10:30	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	Computational stem cell biology Chairs: Ingmar Glauche & Carsten Marr
09:00 - 09:30	T36 -
09:30 - 09:45	T37 -
09:45 - 10:00	T38 -
10:00 - 10:15	T39 -
10:15 - 10:30	T40 -
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	Career development Chairs: German Carmargo Ortega & Marieke Essers
	S4 -
11:00 - 12:30	Technologies in stem cell research Chairs: Sebastian Diecke & Sebastian Knöbel
11:00 - 11:30	S5 -
11:30 - 12:00	S6 -
12:00 - 12:30	S7 -
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:00 - 14:45	Keynote lecture IV K4 - tba Hongkui Deng, Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China Chair: Matthias Hebrok
14:45 - 15:30	Keynote lecture V K5 - tba Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Chair: Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz
15:30 - 15:50	Poster award ceremony Daniel Besser Poster awards Travel awards
15:50 - 16:00	Closing remarks by the GSCN president Heiko Lickert
	End of GSCN Conference 2025
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