About event
Welcome to the Mercia Stem Cell Alliance - 12th Annual Scientific Meeting! Join us for a day of cutting-edge research and collaboration at Conference Aston. The Mercia Stem Allicance is composed of stem cell researchers from more than 15 universities and prides iteslf on supporting the development and progression of ECR and postgraduate stem cell researchers.
This meeting will be held at Conference Aston (https://www.conferenceaston.co.uk), based on the Aston University campus in the heart of Birmingham (number 5 on the campus map which can be accessed here: https://www.aston.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-10/campus-map-2023.pdf.
The Aston campus is easily accessible, located next to Birmingham city centre, and the conference centre is a 15 minute walk from New Street Station. There is also on site parking available which is just off the A38 and near the famous A38/M6 junction 'Spaghetti Junction'. Parking is available in Car Park 5 which is accessed from Holt Street.
Full details of travelling to Conference Aston can be found here: https://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/find-us
We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham.
Birmingham Organisational Team
Speakers
We are delighted to announce that the key note talk "Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids and gene editing" will be delivered by Prof Emma Rawlins from the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.
Invited Talks
Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Lecturer, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
Dr Katherine Bridge
Kay Kendall Fellow, Department of Biology, University of York
Dr Caitlain McQueen
Lecturer, Chester Medical School, University of Chester
Dr Mattea Finelli
Biodiscovery Institute, University of Nottingham
Registration
Please register for this event using the following link:
Registration for the 12th Annual Mercia Stem Cell Meeting here
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Meeting Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for supporting this meeting:
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Schedule - 0 Days
9.00 - 9.45 |
Registration and Coffee |
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9.45 - 10.00 |
Welcome to the meeting |
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10.00 -11.10 |
Session 1 |
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| 10.00 - 10.20 | Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, University of Sheffield - 'In vitro generation of regionally-defined human neural crest cells'. | |
| 10.20 - 10.35 | Ryan Harrison, University of Warwick - 'Cell organisation and 3D shape formation in a posterior neuruloid system'. | |
| 10.35 - 10.50 | Rachel Bayley, University of Birmingham - 'Enhanced killing of breast cancer stem cells expressing high levels of MYBL2 via targeting of DNA repair and replication stress pathways'. | |
| 10.50 - 11.05 | Fatma Betul Ayanoglu Ozturk, University of Nottingham - 'Elucidating the Functions of Purinergic Receptors in NAFLD via hiPSC-Derived Immunocompetent Liver Organoids ' | |
| 11.05 - 11.10 | Sponsor Talk; Thermo Fisher Scientific - 'Gibco - your partner for innovation in the modern PSC workflow‘ | |
| 11.10 - 11.30 | Coffee Break | |
11.30 - 12.40 |
Session 2 |
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| 11.30 - 11.50 | Dr Katherin Bridge, University of York - 'Hypoxia inducible factor (HIF-1) activation and activity in normal and malignant haematopoietic stem cells' | |
| 11.50 - 12.35 | Key Note - Prof Emma Rawlins, University of Cambridge - 'Building the human lungs; lessons from organoids and gene editing' | |
| 12.35 - 12.40 | Sponsor Talk; QKine | |
12.40 - 13.50 |
Lunch |
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13.50 - 15.15 |
Session 3 |
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| 13.50 - 14.10 | Dr Caitlain McQueen, University of Chester - tbc | |
| 14.10 - 14.25 | Anzy Miller, University of Manchester - NGN3 oscillatory expression controls the timing of human pancreatic endocrine stem cell differentiation? | |
| 14.25 - 14.40 | Steven Woods, University of Manchester - Modelling Human Growth Plate Cartilage Using Pluripotent Stem Cells | |
| 14.40 - 14.55 | Christine Stephens, University of Birmingham - BetaCell Birmingham: stem cell to beta cell generation facility | |
| 14.55 - 15.15 | Future of MERCIA Alliance discussion | |
| 15.15 - 15.30 | Coffee Break | |
15.30 - 16.30 |
Session 4 |
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| 15.30 - 15.45 | Dr Matta Finelli, University of Nottingham - 'Using stem cell-derived models to study the role of astorcytes in Alzheimer's Disease. | |
| 15.45 - 16.00 | Adam Lynch, University of Manchester - The level of HAND1 controls the specification of multipotent cardiac and extraembryonic progenitors | |
| 16.00 - 16.15 | Jaspreet Bansal, Aston University - GDF11- The fountain of youth for human mesenchymal stromal cells-but only for some? | |
| 16.15 - 16.30 | Lydia Jestice, University of Sheffield - Investigating axonal transport in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Type 2A using a pluripotent stem cell-based model | |
16.30 - 16.45 |
Final comments and Prizes |
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16.45 - 18.00 |
Drinks Reception |
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Abstracts
We invite all researchers to submit abstracts to the meeting by the 1st November for poster presentations. Selected abstracts will be invited to give short talks during the meeting.
Abstracts can be submitted using the Abstract Submission button at the top of the page.