Program

Early embryogenesis and epigenetics Embryo 2023 Program

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Monday, February 13

Time Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00
Registration& Coffee
 
09:00-09:15
Opening and remarks
 
09:15-10:45
Session 1
 
09:15-09:40
Alex Schier , The University of Basel
Reconstructing cell differentiation
09:40-10:05
Bertie Göttgens, University of Cambridge
Formation of the 1st Embryonic Blood Cells
10:05-10:20
Johanna Gassler, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Orphan nuclear receptors are required for major zygotic genome activation in murine embryos
10:20-10:45
Nicolas Plachta, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
 
11:15-12:45
Session 2
 
11:15-11:40
Nissim Benvenisty, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Essentialome of Human Development and Disease
11:40-12:05
Samantha Morris, Washington University in St. Louis
Multi-omic lineage tracing: insights into reprogramming cell identity
12:05-12:20
Eyal Karzbrun, Weizmann Institute of Science
Self-organized morphogenesis of a stem cell-derived human neural tube
12:20-12:45
Yechiel Elkabetz, Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics
Directing Fates of Human Brain Stem Cells in 2D and Organoid Cultures: A Close Know-How of Your Lead Actors
12:45-14:00
Lunch
 
14:00-15:30
Session 3
 
14:00-14:25
Déborah Bourchis, Institut Curie
DNA methylation in genome control
14:25-14:50
Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge
Mammalian epigenetic inheritance - models and mechanisms
14:50-15:05
Katrin Friederike Leesch, IMP (Institute of Molecular pathology)
Signaling pathways controlling ribosome dormancy and activation during development
15:05-15:30
Yehudit Bergman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Asynchronous replication; an epigenetic mark that programs allelic choice throughout development
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
 
16:00-17:30
Session 4
 
16:00-16:25
Bruno Reversade, A*STAR, Singapore
Lecture
16:25-16:50
Joshua Brickman, University of Copenhagen
Enhancer occupancy securing fate and maintaining potency
16:50-17:05
Graziano Martello, University of Padua
Esrrb conveys naive pluripotent cells through the formative transcriptional program
17:05-17:30
Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Lecture
17:30-19:00
Poster Session
 
19:00-20:00
Dinner
 

Organizing committee

  • Amos Tanay 
    Weizmann Institute of science
  • Jacob Hanna 
    Weizmann Institute of science
  • Yonatan Stelzer 
    Weizmann Institute of science

Sponsors

The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange

The Helen and Martin Kimmel Institute for Stem Cell Research

The Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Center

 

 

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Inbal Azoulay
inbal.azoulay@weizmann.ac.il