| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| Discussion leader: Dunja Knapp (Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Keynote Speaker: Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Japan)
"The iPS cells-based CNS regeneration and investigation of neurological disorders" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Trends in tissue repair and regeneration: basic models and mechanisms |
| Discussion Leaders: Alex Gould (National Institute for Medical Research, UK) and Mathieu Levesque (John Hopkins University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | George Eisenhoffer (University of Utah, USA)
"A cell and molecular toolbox to study epithelia regeneration in zebrafish" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:54 pm | Discussion |
| 7:54 pm - 8:09 pm | Sirisha Burra (MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)
"An ex vivo Vegf-dependent hemocyte spreading assay reveals Yorkie as a novel epidermal wound closure gene" |
| 8:09 pm - 8:18 pm | Discussion |
| 8:18 pm - 8:33 pm | Paul Hiebert (University Of British Columbia, Canada)
"Granzyme B degrades extracellular matrix and contributes to delayed tissue repair In Apolipoprotein E knockout mice" |
| 8:33 pm - 8:42 pm | Discussion |
| 8:42 pm - 8:57 pm | Martis Cowles (San Diego State University, USA)
"Planarians as a model to investigate factors regulating adult neurogenesis" |
| 8:57 pm - 9:06 pm | Discussion |
| 9:06 pm - 9:21 pm | Gurpreet Baht (Hospital For Sick Children, Canada)
"Rejuvenating bone through modulation of β-catenin" |
| 9:21 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Engineering tissue repair and regeneration: clinical and therapeutic perspectives |
| Discussion Leaders: Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Tokyo) and Febriyani Damanik (University of Twente, Netherlands) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Alexander Golberg (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Irreversible electroporation and scarless regeneration of rat skin"
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| 9:15 am - 9:24 am | Discussion |
| 9:24 am - 9:39 am | Trupti Vardam (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
"Generation of functionally competent blood vessels from healthy and diseased patients' induced pluripotent stem cells"
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| 9:39 am - 9:48 am | Discussion |
| 9:48 am - 10:03 am | Anwar Azad Palakkan (Tissue Culture Lab, SCMIST, India)
"In vitro differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells to hepatic lineage for treating liver failure"
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| 10:03 am - 10:12 am | Discussion |
| 10:12 am - 10:27 am | Ema Ciucurel (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Using Del-1 to tip the angiogenic balance in endothelial cells and to increase vascular density in tissue engineered implants containing endothelial cells and adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells" |
| 10:27 am - 10:36 am | Discussion |
| 10:36 am - 10:51 am | Nilesh Talele (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Extracellular matrix stiffness reversibly governs the stemness and fibrotic fate of mesenchymal stromal cells in a pro-fibrotic microenvironment"
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| 10:51 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel discussion on career development |
| Discussion Leader: Tanuja Harshani Peiris (University of California, Merced, USA) |
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- Enrique Amaya (University of Manchester, UK)
- Louisa DiPietro (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
- Sabine Eming (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Alex Gould (National Institute for Medical Research, UK)
- Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Japan)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
