| Saturday |
| 2:00 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 Session: Paradigms of Regeneration and Repair |
| Discussion Leader: Harshani Peiris (Buck Institute of Aging, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Peter Reddien (Whitehead Institute, USA)
"The Cellular and Molecular Basis for Planarian Regeneration" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Trends in Tissue Repair and Regeneration: Basic Models and Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Sumbul Khan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Jeffrey Nelson (Morgridge Institute for Research, USA)
"Investigating Axolotl Limb Regeneration via Single Cell Transcriptomics" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Jami Erickson (University of Minnesota, USA)
"The Role of Sal-Like 4 in Scar-Free Wound Healing" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Rachel Lander (Northwestern University, USA)
"A Positional Gene Regulatory Program Controls Anteroposterior Patterning During Whole-Body Regeneration in Planarians" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Keaton Schuster (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Taranis Protects Regenerating Tissue from Fate Changes Induced by the Wound Response in Drosophila" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Kate Wicks (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
"Diabetes Inhibits Myeloid Cell Maturation Through Repression of Cebp-a" |
| 9:25 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 Leader: Dikshya Bastakoty (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Irene de Lazaro del Rey (University College London, United Kingdom)
"In Vivo Reprogramming to Pluripotency Enhances Regeneration and Functional Rehabilitation of Injured Skeletal Muscle" |
| 9:15 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | Dongsheng Jiang (University of Ulm, Germany)
"Suppression of Neutrophil-Mediated Tissue Damage – A Novel Skill of Mesenchymal Stem Cells" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:05 am | Christophe Pichavant (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
"Combined Cell and Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Feini Qu (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Interstitial Cell Migration in Dense Connective Tissues Is Modulated by Matrix Microstructure and Micromechanics" |
| 10:30 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
| 10:35 am - 10:50 am | Menno Oudhoff (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Non-Histone Methylation
Links Hippo and Wnt Pathways in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 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 | A Career in Regenerative Biology/Medicine: Challenges, Career Opportunities and Future Outlook |
| Discussion Leader: Harshani Peiris (Buck Institute of Aging, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Managing Science (Writing, Fundraising, Prioritizing, Motivating, Team Leading), Successful Transitioning from Graduate Student to Postdoc and Independent Researcher, The Art of Networking, Keeping Your Science at the Leading Edge, and How to Achieve a Good Work-Life Balance (Science and Family)" |
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- Enrique Amaya (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
- Kerstin Bartscherer (Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
- Boris Hinz (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Peter Reddien (Whitehead Institute, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
