Program
as of December 3, 2025
Day 1 (January 23, 2026)
Opening Remarks ＆Keynote
9:00Opening Remarks
Takanori Takebe Cincinnati Children’s/ Institute of Science Tokyo/ The University of Osaka USA/Japan
9:10Keynote
Archaic Genomics
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute Germany
【S1: Development 1】Chairperson: Sergiu Pasca
9:35S1-1
Mechanism and in vitro reconstitution of human germ-cell development
Mitinori Saitou Kyoto University Japan
10:00S1-2
Using organoids to understand and target the human brain
Madeline A. Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology UK
10:25S1-3
Developmental Self-Organization Principles Enable Organoid Modeling of Periodic Cartilage Patterning
Mitsuru Morimoto RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Japan
Coffee Break (20 min.) 10:50-11:10
【S1: Development 2】Chairperson: Juan Carlos Belmonte
11:10S1-4
Towards reconstituting human and primate embryonic development in vitro
Cantas Alev Kyoto University Japan
11:35S1-5
Organoids to model maternal-fetal interactions in human pregnancy
Margherita Yayoi Turco Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland
12:00S1-6
Decoding the Logic of Self-Organization in Embryos and Their Stem Cell Models
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz California Institute of Technology USA
Speakers‘ Photo Session (10 min.) 12:25-12:35
Lunch & Poster Session: <Lunch > 12:35-13:35 (60 min.)
<Poster Session> 13:35-14:30 / Odd Number(55 min.), 14:30-15:25 / Even Number (55 min)
Break (5 min.) 15:25-15:30
【S2: Disease 1】Chairperson: James M Wells
15:30S2-1
Organoids for cystic fibrosis precision medicine
Jeffrey Beekman UMC Utrecht Netherlands
15:55S2-2
Culturing Human Epithelial Organoids in 3D and 2D
Hans Clevers Utrecht University Netherlands
16:20S2-3
Lung organoids: windows to mechanism and therapy of lung disease and cancer
Carla Kim Boston Children’s Hospital USA
Coffee Break (20 min.) 16:45-17:05
【S2: Disease 2】Chairperson: Margherita Yayoi Turco
17:05S2-4
Understanding of human disease biology using organoids
Toshiro Sato Keio University Japan
17:30S2-5
Moving from an understanding of kidney development to new therapies
Melissa Little Murdoch Children's Research Institute Australia
Welcome Reception (90 min.) 18:10-19:40
Day 2 (January 24, 2026)
【S3: Diversity 1】Chairperson: Juergen Knoblich
9:00S3-1
Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture
Paola Arlotta Harvard University USA
9:25S3-2
Engineering tissue complexity into human PSC-derived gastrointestinal organoids
James M. Wells Cincinnati Children’s USA
9:50S3-3
How breast tissue architecture and the menstrual cycle control tumor initiation and chemotherapy sensitivity
Jacco van Rheenen Netherlands Cancer Institute Netherlands
Coffee Break (20 min.) 10:15-10:35
【S3: Diversity 2】Chairperson: Paola Arlotta
10:35S3-4
Cardioids unravel human heart development and disease
Sasha Mendjan Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria
11:00S3-5
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Organoids, Disease Modeling and Drug Screening
Shuibing Chen Weill Cornell Medicine USA
11:25S3-6
Engineering Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Organogenesis from Pluripotency
Takanori Takebe Cincinnati Children’s/ Institute of Science Tokyo/ The University of Osaka USA/Japan
Lunch & Poster Session: <Lunch > 11:50-12:45 (55 min.)
<Poster Session -Free Discussion-> 12:45-13:40 (55 min.)
【S4: Discovery 1】Chairperson: Hans Clevers
13:40S4-1
Design principles of tissue organization
Prisca Liberali Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland
14:05S4-2
Engineering next-generation tumor organoids
Matthias P. Lütolf Institute of Human Biology/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland
Coffee Break (20 min.) 14:30-14:50
【S4: Discovery 2 & Closing Keynote】Chairperson:Melissa Little
14:50S4-3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of sperm production in the mouse testis
Benjamin Simons University of Cambridge UK
15:15Closing Keynote
A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases
Steve Quake Stanford University USA
Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks (20 min.) 15:40-16:00