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Program

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

11:00 - 11:30
 
Opening
GSCN Conference 2025
11:00 - 11:08 Welcome to tba
 
11:08 - 11:16 Welcome by the tba
 
11:16 - 11:24 Welcome to tba
 
11:24 - 11:30 Opening of GSCN Conference 2025 
Heiko Lickert, President GSCN
11:30 - 12:15
 
Keynote lecture I
K1 - 
Speaker
Chair: 
12:15 - 13:00
 

Keynote lecture II
K2 - 
Speaker
Chair: 

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break / Industry exhibition    
14:30 - 16:00 Concurrent scientific working group session I
14:30 - 16:00
 
Stem cell organoids                                                  
Chairs:  
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
 
Stem cells in aging & diseases   
Chairs:
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
 
Computational stem cell biology
Chairs: 
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, Heiko Lickert, Michael Cross, Andreas Trumpp, Daniel Besser
17:30 - 19:30

 
Poster session I - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx
(with beverages)                                                                         supported by PeptiGrowth
Modeling & drug development: Pxxx - Pxxx
Basic, translational, applied hematopoiesis: Pxxx - Pxxx
Pluripotency & re-programing: 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 - 
Chair: 
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
 
Pluripotency, somatic stem cells & development 
Chairs: 
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
 
HEAL Symposium
Chairs: 
 
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: 
Chairs: 
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: 
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 
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 - 
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)                                               
Stem cells in diseases (cancer stem cells): Pxxx - Pxxx
Computational stem cell biology: Pxxx - Pxxx
Stem cells in regenerative therapies: Pxxx - Pxxx
Somatic stem cells & development: Pxxx - Pxxx
Late Poster: PX01 - PX03


Even numbers: 16:30 - 17:30
Odd number: 17:30  - 18:30
19:00 - 01:00 GSCN networking event for all participants
                                                         
supported by STEMCELL Technologies
The entrance fee is collected on site
Event location: 
 Neuwirt in Garching
Münchener Str. 10, 85748 Garching

Friday, 17 Ocotber 2025
 

09:00 - 10:30 Concurrent scientific working group session III
09:00 - 10:30
 
Stem cell in disease modeling & drug development
Chairs: 
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
 
Hematopoietic stem cells
Chairs: 
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
 
Stem cells in regenerative therapies                 
Chairs: 
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: 
11:00 - 11:30 S1 - 
11:30 - 12:00 S2 - 
12:00 - 12:30 S3 - 
11:00 - 12:30
 
Career development
Chairs: 
  S4 - 
11:00 - 12:30
 
Technologies in stem cell research
Chairs: 
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 - 
Chair: 
14:45 - 15:30
 
Keynote lecture V
K5 - 
Chair: 

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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Keynote Speakers 2024


Garðar Ágúst Árnason (Akureyri, Iceland)


Cantas Alev (Kyoto, Japan)


Amander Clark (Los Angeles, US)


Camilla Forsberg (Santa Cruz, US)


Hans-Reimer Rodewald (DKFZ, Heidelberg)


Thomas Zwaka (New York, US)

Speakers & Session Chairs

Sina Bartfeld (Berlin)
Daniel Besser (Berlin)
Thomas Braun (Bad Nauheim)
Oliver Brüstle (Bonn)
Nina Cabezas Wallscheid (Freiburg)
Tobias Cantz (Hannover)
Michael Cross (Leipzig)
Sebastian Diecke (Berlin)
Micha Drukker (Leiden, NL)
Marieke Essers (Heidelberg)
Hartmut Geiger (Ulm)
Ingmar Glauche (Dresden)
Mina Gouti (Berlin)
Anne Grapin-Botton (Dresden)
Florian Heidel (Hannover)
Ira Herrmann (Bonn)
Stefan Hoffmann (Düsseldorf)
Meritxell Huch (Dresden)
Zoltán Ivics (Langen)
Ralf Jauch (Hongkong) supported by Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology (CTSCB), Hong Kong
Bert Klebl (Dortmund)
Hannes Klump (Essen)
Sebastian Knöbel (Bergisch Gladbach)
Andreas Kurtz (Berlin)
Nico Lachmann (Hannover)
Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz (Munich)
Heiko Lickert (Munich)
Stefan Liebau (Tübingen)
Carsten Marr (Munich)
Ulrich Martin (Hannover)
Mick Milsom (Heidelberg)
Helen Morrison (Jena)
Michael Rieger (Frankfurt a.M.)
Insa Schröder (Darmstadt)
Hans Schöler (Münster)
Harald Stachelscheid (Berlin)
Andreas Trumpp (Heidelberg)
Wolfgang Wagner (Aachen)
Claudia Waskow (Jena)
Robert Zweigerdt (Hannover)

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Peptigrowth
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