Program

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

11:00 - 11:30 Plenary Hall	Opening GSCN Conference 2026
11:00 - 11:15	Welcome Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
11:15 - 11:30	Opening of GSCN Conference 2026 Heiko Lickert, President GSCN
11:30 - 12:15 Axon 1/2	Keynote lecture I K1 - tba Paresh Vyas, University of Oxford, UK Chair: Claudia Waskow
12:15 - 13:00 Axon 1/2	Keynote lecture II K2 - tba Sergiu Pasca, Stanford School of Medicine, USA Chair: Mina Gouti
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:30 - 16:00	Concurrent scientific working group session I
14:30 - 16:00 Axon 1	Pluripotency, differentiation & PSC-derived models Chairs: Micha Drukker & Ralf Jauch
14:30 - 16:00 Axon 2	Basic, translational & applied hematopoiesis Chairs: Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid & Mick Milsom
14:30 - 16:00 Dendrit	Computational stem cell biology & systems biology Chairs: Ingmar Glauche & Carsten Marr
16:00 - 16:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
16:30 - 18:30 Haus 84 MDC.C 3rd floor	Poster session I - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) Even numbers: 16:30 - 17:30 Odd numbers: 17:30 - 18:30
18:30 -19:15 Axon 1	Keynote lecture III (on ELSA topics) K3 - tba Chair: Tobias Cantz
19:15 - 21:00 tba	GSCN Get-together for all participants Dinner buffet
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Thursday, 10 September 2026

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session II
09:00 - 10:30 Axon 1	Stem cells in regenerative therapies Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Wolfgang Wagner
09:00 - 10:30 Axon 2	Stem cells in aging & disease Chairs: Michael Rieger & Andreas Trumpp
09:00 - 10:30 Dendrit	Open Chairs: tba
09:00 - 10:30 Dendrit 3	ELSA symposium Panel: tba, Moderation: Tobias Cantz
10:30 - 11:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
10:45 - 11:30 Axon 2	General Member Meeting Executive Board & Managing Director Heiko Lickert, Claudia Waskow, Sina Bartfeld, Michael Cross, Andreas Trumpp, Daniel Besser
11:30 - 13:00	Industry session: "Technologies from GSCN industry partners"
11:30 - 13:00 Axon 1	Main Supporter Chairs: Michael Cross
11:35 - 11:55	C01 - tba, Stem Cell Technologies
11:55 - 12:25	C02 - tba
12:25 -12:55	C03 - tba
11:30 - 13:00 Axon 2	Supporter II Chairs: Hartmut Geiger
11:35 - 11:55	C04 - tba, Biomerieux
11:55 - 12:15	C05 - tba, Corning
12:15 - 12:25	C06 - tba, Eppendorf
12:25 - 12:45	C07 - tba, Miltenyi
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:30 - 16:45 Axon 1/2	Presidential Symposium Chair: Heiko Lickert & Claudia Waskow
14:30 - 15:15	Presidential Invite PS1 - tba Janet Rossant,The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
15:15 - 15:45	GSCN 2026 Young Investigator Award PS2 - tba
15:45 - 16:15	GSCN 2026 Hilde Mangold Award PS3 - tba
16:15 - 16:45	GSCN Publication of the Year 2025 - 2026 Award PS4 - tba
16:45 - 17:15	Break time / Industry exhibition
17:15 - 19:15 HH84 MDC.C 3 floor	Poster session II - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) Even numbers: 17:15 - 18:15 Odd number: 18:15 - 19:15
19:30 - 01:00	GSCN networking event for all participants (with bus transfer) The entrance fee is collected onsite Event location: ➚ Café am Neuen See, Berlin

Friday, 11 September 2026

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session III
09:00 - 10:30 Axon 1	Stem cells in disease modeling & drug development Chairs: Oliver Brüstle & Bert Klebl
09:00 - 10:30 Axon 2	Tissue derived stem cells & orgamoids Chair: Thomas Braun & Ana Martin-Villalba
09:00 - 10:30 Dendrit	Open Chairs: tba
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Concurrent strategic working group session
11:00 - 12:30 Axon 1	Clinical trials & regulatory affairs Chairs: Andreas Kurtz & Torsten Tonn
11:00 - 12:30 Axon 2	Career development Chairs: Pascal Röderer & Insa Schröder
11:00 - 12:30 Dendrit	Technologies in stem cell research Chairs: Sebastian Knöbel & Ole Pleß
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break time / Industry exhibition
14:00 - 14:45 Axon 1/2	Keynote lecture IV K4 - tba Takanori Takebe, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA Chair: Mina Gouti
14:45 - 15:35 Axon 1/2	Keynote lecture V K5 - tba Jason Spence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Chair: Sina Bartfeld
15:35 - 15:50 Axon 1/2	Award ceremony Daniel Besser Poster awards Travel awards
15:50 - 16:00 Axon 1/2	Closing remarks by the GSCN president Heiko Lickert
	End of GSCN Conference 2026
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