Program

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

11:00 - 11:30 Plenary Hall	Opening GSCN Conference 2026
11:00 - 11:15	Welcome TU Berlin
11:15 - 11:30	Opening of GSCN Conference 2026 Heiko Lickert, President GSCN
11:30 - 12:15 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture I K1 - tba Chair: tba
12:15 - 13:00 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture II K2 - tba Jason Spence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Chair: Sina Bartfeld
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch break / Industry exhibition
14:30 - 16:00	Concurrent scientific working group session I
14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Hall	Pluripotency, differentiation & PSC-derived models Chairs: Micha Drukker & Ralf Jauch
14:30 - 16:00 Lecture Hall 1	Basic, translational & applied hematopoiesis Chairs: Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid & Mick Milsom
14:30 - 16:00 Lecture Hall 2	Computational stem cell biology & systems biology Chairs: Ingmar Glauche & Carsten Marr
16:00 - 16:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
16:30 - 17:30 Lecture Hall 1	General Member Meeting Executive Board & Managing Director Heiko Lickert, Claudia Waskow, Sina Bartfeld, Michael Cross, Andreas Trumpp, Daniel Besser
17:30 - 19:30 Foyer	Poster session I - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) 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 Chair: Bettina Schöne-Seifert
20:30 - 22:00 Roofgarden	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 Plenary Hall	Stem cells in regenerative therapies Chairs: Ulrich Martin & Wolfgang Wagner
09:00 - 10:30	Stem cells in aging & disease Chairs: Michael Rieger & Andreas Trumpp
09:00 - 10:30	Open Chairs: tba
09:00 - 10:30	ELSA symposium Panel: tba, Moderation: Tobias Cantz & Bettina Schöne-Seifert
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:45	Industry session: "Technologies from GSCN industry partners"
11:00 - 12:35 Plenart Hall	Main Supporter Chairs: Michael Cross
11:05 - 11:35	C01 - tba, Stem Cell Technologies
11:35 - 12:05	C02 - tba
12:05 -12:35	C03 - tba
11:00 - 12:45 Lecture Hall 1	Supporter II Chairs: Hartmut Geiger
11:05 - 11:25	C04 - tba, Biomerieux
11:25 - 11:45	C05 - tba, Corning
11:45 - 12:05	C06 - tba, Eppendorf
12:05 - 12:25	C07 - tba, Miltenyi
14:00 - 16:15 Plenary Hall	Presidential Symposium Chair: Heiko Lickert & Claudia Waskow
14:00 - 14:45	Presidential Invite PS1 - tba Janet Rossant,The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
14:45 - 15:15	GSCN 2026 Young Investigator Award PS2 - tba
15:15 - 15:45	GSCN 2026 Hilde Mangold Award PS3 - tba
15:45 - 16:15	GSCN Publication of the Year 2025 - 2026 Award PS4 - tba
16:15 - 16:30	Break time / Industry exhibition
16:30 - 18:30 Foyer	Poster session II - Poster number Pxxx - Pxxx (with beverages) 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: ➚ Café am Neuen See, Berlin

Friday, 17 October 2025

09:00 - 10:30	Concurrent scientific working group session III
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Hall	Stem cells in disease modeling & drug development Chairs: Oliver Brüstle & Harald Stachelscheid
09:00 - 10:30 Lecture Hall 1	Tissue derived stem cells & orgamoids Chair: Thomas Braun & Ana Martin-Villalba
09:00 - 10:30 Lecture Hall 2	Open Chairs: tba
10:30 - 11:00	Break time / Industry exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Concurrent strategic working group session
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Hall	Clinical trials & regulatory affairs Chairs: Andreas Kurtz & Torsten Tonn
11:00 - 12:30 Lecture Hall 1	Career development Chairs: Pascal Röderer & Insa Schröder
11:00 - 12:30 Lecture Hall 2	Technologies in stem cell research Chairs: Sebastian Knöbel & Ole Pleß
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break time / Industry exhibition
14:00 - 14:45 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture IV K4 - tba Takanori Takebe, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA Chair: Mina Gouti
14:45 - 15:35 Plenary Hall	Keynote lecture V K5 - Chair: Sebastian Diecke
15:35 - 15:50 Plenary Hall	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 2026
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