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TT2020 Program

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Monday, October 26

Time Session/Lecture info
15:00-15:15
Opening Address TT2020-Virtual
 
15:15-16:30
Session 1:Panel Discussion - Animal Models: From Bench to Bedside. Sponsored by GEMM - Genetic Engineered Mouse Models; National Israel facility
Moderators, Karen Avraham, Jan Parker-Thornburg 
15:15-15:30
Paula Rio , CIEMAT, Spain
Gene Therapy for Fanconi anemia: From the lab to the clinic
15:30-15:45
Eithan Galun, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Better Bedside-to-bench than Bench-to-bedside, why?
15:45-16:00
Aris Economides , Regeneron, USA
Inhibition of Activin A by a monoclonal antibody as a disease-modifying therapy for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)
16:00-16:15
Tom Wishart, Roslin Institute, UK
How should we model neurodegenerative conditions? Using livestock to bridge the translational gap.
16:15-16:30
Panel Discussion
16:30-16:45
Break
 
16:45-18:20
Session 2: Epigenetics
Chair: Janet Rossant 
16:45-17:20
Keynote: HOWARD CEDAR, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Remote control of gene expression by DNA methylation
17:20-17:35
Wei Li , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Balancing embryonic development through ?imbalance?
17:35-17:50
Eran Meshorer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
NFIX, which is differentially methylated between modern and archaic humans, regulates vocalization in mice
17:50-18:05
Yonatan Stelzer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Modeling mouse gastrulation at single embryo and single-cell resolution
18:05-18:20
Nissim Benvenisty, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Defining Human Pluripotency and Gastrulation Utilizing Genome Wide Screening in Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells
18:20-18:35
Break
 
18:35-19:20
ISTT Prize Presentation and Lecture- sponsored by Genoway
 
18:35-18:45
Wojtek Auerbach
ISTT Prize Presentation
18:45-19:20
ALEXANDRA JOYNER (ISTT Prize Recipient), Sloan Kettering, USA
Genetic exploration of neural stem cell self-renewal and plasticity
19:20-20:20
Social hour, chat with ISTT Prize winner, breakout social rooms
 

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Deadline for Abstract Submission Extended

Deadline for Registration
12 October 2020

Deadline for Abstract Submission
30 September 2020

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Inbal Azoulay
inbal.azoulay@weizmann.ac.il