Program
List of Invited Speakers and Tentative Talk Titles
* Alphabetical order
as of the end of June, 2025
Towards reconstituting human and non-human primate embryonic development
Cantas Alev Kyoto University Japan
From Embryos to Human Brain Organoids: the Journey to Understand Human Brain Development and Disease
Paola Arlotta Harvard University USA
Organoids for cystic fibrosis precision medicine
Jeffrey Beekman UMC Utrecht Netherlands
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Organoids, Disease Modeling and Drug Screening
Shuibing Chen Weill Cornell Medicine USA
Organoids to model human diseases
Hans Clevers Hubrecht Institute Netherlands
Organoid modeling of lung disease and lung cancer
Carla Kim Boston Children’s Hospital USA
Using organoids to understand and target the human brain
Madeline A. Lancaster University of Cambridge UK
Design principles of tissue organization
Prisca Liberali Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland
Moving from an understanding of kidney development to new therapies
Melissa Little Murdoch Children's Research Institute Australia
Engineering Organoids
Matthias P. Lütolf Institute of Human Biology/Swiss Federal Institute of Thechnology Lausanne Switzerland
Cardioids unravel human heart development and disease
Sasha Mendjan Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria
Periodic tissue structure formation in the respiratory system and its reconstruction using organoid culture system
Mitsuru Morimoto RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Japan
Archaic Genomics
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute Germany
A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases
Steve Quake Chan Zuckerberg Initiative USA
The fate of cells carrying mutations in cancer driver genes
Jacco van Rheenen Netherlands Cancer Institute
Mechanism and in vitro reconstitution of human germ cell development
Mitinori Saitou Kyoto University Japan
Understanding of human disease biology using organoids
Toshiro Sato Keio University Japan
Spatiotemporal dynamics of sperm production
Benjamin Simons University of Cambridge UK
Organoid-guided Precsion Hepatology
Takanori Takebe Cincinnati Children’s/ Institute of Science Tokyo/ The University of Osaka USA/Japan
Organoids to model maternal-fetal interactions in human pregnancy
Margherita Yayoi Turco Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland
Engineering human tissue organoids from pluripotent stem cells to advance therapeutic discovery
James M. Wells Cincinnati Children’s USA
Developmental plasticity and robustness: decoding the principles of early development
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Califirnia Institute of Technology USA