Confirmed speakers

Keynote Presentation

Nada Jabado, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Canada
“Deciphering Oncohistone Pathogenesis in Human Cancers” 

Presenters

Allison Bardin, Institut Curie, Paris, France
“Drivers of Spontaneous Stem Cell Mutation”

Erika Cosset, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon
“Modeling patient-derived glioblastoma with brain organoids and engineered neural tissue”

Katrin Brisken, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
“Endocrine control of the mammary stem cell”

Frédéric Charron, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Canada
“Molecular mechanisms of brain tumor initiation and progression”

Estelle Duprez, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Marseille, France
“New insight into the heterogeneity of HSCs and their clonal evolution during aging “

Jérôme Gros, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
“Mechanics of embryonic self-organization “

Darcie Moore, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
“Mechanisms underlying adult neural stem cells quiescence exit”

Fabien Le Grand, Institut NeuroMyoGène, Lyon, France
“The H3K9 methyltransferase SETDB1 safeguards muscle stem cell identity”

Nicolas Dumont, Ste Justine Research Center, Universite de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
“Targeting muscle stem cells with bioactive lipids to enhance myogenesis in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy “

Julie Lessard, Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et Cancérologie (IRIC), Montréal, Canada
“Hematopoietic Lineage Determination by SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes”

Cristina Lo Celso, Imperial College London, London, UK
“Healthy and malignant haematopoiesis: dynamic cells in an evolving environment”

Christine Mummery, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
“Cardiovascular disease modelling using human pluripotent stem cells in organs-on-chip”

Rod Bremner, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
“A Single Coactivator Simplifies Cancer to Binary Classes that Interchange to Evade Therapy”

Catherine Picart, CEA, Grenoble, France
“BioactiveCoatings: a new way to study cell signaling and differentiation”

Eric Rottinger, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, INSERM, Nice, France
“Whole body regeneration requires a rewired embryonic gene regulatory network logic”

Valerie Wallace, Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
“Cytoplasmic material exchange between sensory neurons in vivo”