Program     Registration 

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 - tba
Ana Martin-Villalba, DKFZ Heidelberg
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 on iPSC-based Heart Repair
BMBF-funded Projekt „Tailored Application for individualized Cell Therapy with iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes (TACTiC)
Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Robert Zweigerdt
 
09:00 - 09:30 T21 - Deep immune-phenotyping of HLA-homozygous iPS-cardiomyocytes
Dirk Strunk, PMU Salzburg, Austria
09:30 - 10:00 T22 - Biological-engineering and application of a myocardial patch
Joost Sluijter, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
10:00 - 10:15 T23 - TBA
Kevin Ullmann, MH Hanover
10:15 - 10:30 T24 - Autmated cardiac cell injection
Raphael Mönkemöller, LU Hanover
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
Main Supporter
(Chairs: Magdalena Götz & Hartmut Geiger
11:05 - 11:25 C01 - Tackling leachables in stem cell bioprocessing: Ensuring safety and scalability in single-use systems for clinical studies
Philipp Nold, Eppendorf
11:25 - 11:55 C02 - tba
tbd, Stem Cell Technologies
11:55 -12:15 C03 - tba
tbd, PeptiGrowth
12:15 -12:30 C04 - tba
tbd, Thermo Fisher Scientific
11:00 - 12:30
Seminar Room 1050
Supporter II
(Chairs: Hannes Klump & Ana Martin-Villalba)
11:05 - 11:20 C05 - The world's fastest PCR-based mycoplasma detection assay
Sabine Hahnau-Jurth, Biomerieux
11:20 - 11:35 C06 - Enabling reliable PSC culture for advanced research applications
Hannah Johannsen, Miltenyi Biotech
11:35 - 11:50 C07 - tba
tbd, BioLamina
11:50 - 12:05 C08 - Live-cell 3D cell imaging innovations
Max-Peter Schüring, Sartorius
12:05 -12:20 C09 - tba
tbd, iotaSciences
11:00 - 12:30
Seminar Room HPC
Supporter III
(Chairs:  Thomas Schwarz-Rommond & Claudia Waskow)
11:05 - 11:20 C10 - Alt-R™ CRISPR capabilities to accelerate your next breakthrough
Katarzyna. Julia Duda, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
11:20 - 11:35 C11 - tba
tbd, evotec
11:35 - 11:50 C12 - What we've discovered: Opening Pandora's box of genomic mutations using NGS technology
Reda Zenagui, Stemgenomics
11:50 - 12:05 C13 - tba
tbd, Qkine
12:05 - 12:20 C14 - A global vision for cell and gene therapies
Karin Abitorabi, Minaris Advanced Therapies
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 - tba
Michael Rieger, Goethe University Frankfurt
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/Breath Symposium: Stem Cells in Lung Research
Chairs: Ulrich Martin & tba
 
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 Hanover
09:45 - 10:00 T38 - The lung microvasculature promotes alveolar type 2 cell differentiation via secreted SPARCL1
Paolo Panza, UKGM, Gießen
10:00 - 10:15 T39 - tba
Janna Nawroth, TU Munich
10:15 - 10:30 T40 - Role of aberrant basaloid cells in interstitial lung disease
Jonas Schupp, MH Hanover
09:00 - 10:30
Seminar room HPC
Computational stem cell biology                 
Chairs: Ingmar Glauche & Carsten Marr
09:00 - 09:30 T40 - tba
Eva Hörmanseder, Helmholtz Munich 
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 - Reproducible brain organoids for disease phenotyping and screening
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 - Bioreactor-based innate immunocompetent hiPSC-derived neurospheroids as preclinical models for advanced therapy development
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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Keynote Speakers 2025


Hongkui Deng  (Beijing, China)


Jacob Hanna  (Rehovot, Israel)


Timm Schroeder (Basel, Switzerland)


Viviane Tabar​ (New York City, USA)


Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Munich, Germany)


Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann (Göttingen, Germany)

Speakers & Session Chairs

Sina Bartfeld (Berlin)
Daniel Besser (Berlin)
Thomas Braun (Bad Nauheim)
Oliver Brüstle (Bonn)
Nina Cabezas Wallscheid (Freiburg)
Germán Camargo-Ortega (Basel)
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)
Ira Herrmann (Bonn)
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)
Carsten Marr (Munich)
Ulrich Martin (Hannover)
Mick Milsom (Heidelberg)
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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Stem Cell Technologies

Silver Supporters

Eppendorf
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Qkine
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Helmholtz Munich
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