Monday, September 23, 2024

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15:00 - 17:00 Arrival and Registration  
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 17:30 Welcome and introduction (Auditorium) - The organizers  
17:30 - 18:30 Prisca Liberali, FMI, Basel, Switzerland - Keynote - Tissue scale coordination during crypt morphogenesis.  
18:30 - 20:30 Cocktail  

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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09:00 - 10:35 Session I : Organoids (Auditorium)  
09:00 - 09:40 Maxime Mahé, University de Nantes, Nantes, France - Engineering Large-Scale and Innervated Functional Human Gut  
09:40 - 09:55 Marion Raich - Rosette formation guides cellular rearrangement initiating lumen opening in PDAC organoids  
09:55 - 10:35 Nancy Allbritton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US - Miniaturized Colon-on-Chip to Recapitulate Normal and Diseased Physiology
 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:40 Nicolas Aznar, CRCL, Lyon, France - Exploring Cell Fate and Plasticity using organoid technology: The Role of Microenvironments in physiopathological conditions  
11:40 - 11:55 Eto Hiromune - Notch signaling: a dynamic communication code for cell fate determination in intestinal homeostasis  
11:55 - 12:10 Silvia Torchio - Redox control of intestinal organoids in homeostasis and regeneration  
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 - 15:00 Poster Session I  
15:00 - 19:00 Session II - Organ-on-Chips  
15:00 - 15:40 Gaelle Recher, Institue Optique Aquitaine, Talence, France - Epithelial cell self-organisation in closed system, evidences for a gradient of phenotypes from healthy to cancerous morphogenesis  
15:40 - 15:55 Léa Pinon - Infection-on-Chip: an in vitro human vessel to study Neisseria meningitidis colonization and vascular damages  
15:55 - 16:35 Thomas Gervais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada - Radiotherapy on-chip – delivery modalities and assay readouts in spheroids and tissue explants
 
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 17:40 Olivier Guenat, University if Berm, Bern, Switzerland - Advances in Modeling the Lung Parenchyma and Pathologies-on-Chip  
17:40 - 17:55 Anastasiia Dubrova - PDAC-on-chip model to unravel the effect of Photothermia-triggered local heating on tumor niche  
17:55 - 18:10 Nina Stinchcombe - Modelling Cancer-Microbe Interactions with Organoids and Organs-on-Chips  

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

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09:00 - 12:10 Session III : Sensing & Probing  
09:00 - 09:40 Christian Bergaud, LAAS-SNRS, Toulouse, France - Maturation of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes using conductive electromechanical scaffolds  
09:40 - 09:55 Baptiste Alric - Microvasculature on a Chip: Impact of the Microenvironment Physical Properties  
09:55 - 10:35 Virgile Viasnoff, MBI, Singapore, Singapore - Engineered colloidal bio-scaffolds: Unlocking in vivo-Like developmental pathways in gastruloids and bile duct organoids
 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:40 Nicolas Borghi, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France - Mechanotransdcution of epithelial density: from cell adhesions to the nucleus  
11:40 - 11:55 Lucie Barbier - Non-invasive characterization of oocytes deformability in micro-constrictions.  
11:55 - 12:10 Pierre Joseph - Probing the rheology of model tissues thanks to microfluidic micropipettes  
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 - 18:00 Excursion  

Thursday, September 26, 2024

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09:00 - 12:10 Session IV : Chemistry of materials and topology control (Auditorium)  
09:00 - 09:40 Laurent Malaquin, LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France - Engineering 3D models of microenvironments and tissue models  
09:40 - 09:55 Noam Demri - Magnetic bioprinting of a clip-on muscle tissue  
09:55 - 10:35 Anna Taubenberger, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany - The formation of multicellular structures from proliferating single cells is associated with cell volume reduction, cell stiffness increases and delayed cell cycle progression
 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:40 Alberto Elosegui-Artola, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK (11.00-11.40) - The ECM viscoelasticity controls tissue spatiotemporal dynamics  
11:40 - 11:55 Elise Maurat - A novel in vitro tubular model to recapitulate features of distal airways: the bronchioid  
11:55 - 12:10 Elise Ponthier - Development of 3D microphysiological systems to study intestinal stem cell fate and tumorigenesis  
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 - 15:00 Poster Session II  
15:00 - 18:00 Session V : Theory & modeling  
15:00 - 15:40 Jean-François Rupprecht, Université Aix-Marseille, France - Noninvasive rheological inference from stable shear flows in confined tissues  
15:40 - 15:55 Nicolas Ecker - Cell-resolved simulations of organoid mechanics in 3D  
15:55 - 16:35 Marino Arroyo, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain  
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 17:40 Akanksha Jain, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Unveiling the choreography of human brain development: Multiscale patterning morphodynamics in human brain organoids  
17:40 - 17:55 Anne Beghin - AI, Imaging, and Organoids: Pushing the Boundaries Towards Space Exploration  
17:55 - 18:10 Benoit Sorre - Spatially controlled basal sources of morphogens for precise patterning of hESC colonies  
19:30 - 22:30 Social Dinner and party  

Friday, September 27, 2024

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09:00 - 12:10 SessionVI : Mechano Biology  
09:00 - 09:40 Sara Wickstrom, MPI-Munster, Munster, Germany - Mechanical regulation of cell states
 
09:40 - 09:55 Olivia Courbot - The ECM mechanical properties regulate intestinal crypt size during morphogenesis.  
09:55 - 10:35 Benoit Ladoux, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France - Mechanical imprints of cell fate and cell competition
 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:40 Pere Roca-Cusachs, IBEC, Barcelona, Spain - EMBO Keynote lecture - Transducing and shielding mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus  
11:40 - 11:55 Carlos Perez Gonzalez - Self-organization of tumor hierarchy and stemness  
11:55 - 12:10 Emna Ouni - Mechanosensitive interactions of tumoroids with their environment modulate the cell cycle and metabolism  
12:10 - 12:30 Closing remarks: Organizers  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch