Conferences and symposiums Blueprints of Life: Cell fate choices and lineages

22-05-2025 9:00 am to
23-05-2025 5:00 pm Add to iCal
Campus Solna Biomedicum, Eva & Georg Klein lecture hall, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
Poster for the conference.

Dive into the fascinating world of cell fate decisions that underlie the variety of cell types in our bodies. Join top researchers in the field to uncover the blueprints of life!

Join us for an engaging two-day conference exploring groundbreaking topics, including the regulation and dynamics of cell fate decisions in development, the impact of stem cell heterogeneity on cancer, and innovative approaches to reconstructing and analyzing cell lineages.  

Showcase your research: There will be a poster session, and we have available spots for short talks. Submit your abstract for consideration by April 22nd, 2025! Register to attend by May 8th, 2025. No registration fees apply, but there are limited places. 

Speakers

The keynote speaker

Samantha Morris, Washington University School of Medicine; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

Confirmed speakers

Igor Adameyko, Karolinska Institutet

Emma R. Andersson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Niklas Björkström, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Junhong Choi, Sloan Kettering Institute (USA)

Peter Karchenko, Harvard Medical School, USA

Sten Linnarsson, Karolinska Institutet

Joakim Lundeberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Benjamin MacArthur, The Allan Turing Institute, University of Southhampton, UK

Ulrika Marklund, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Jeff Mold, Karolinska Institutet

Elke Ober, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Gemany

Michael Ratz, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona, Spain

Schedule

May 22-23, 2025

Venue: Eva & Georg Klein lecture hall, Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet

To be published soon!

Organizers and chairs

Emma R. Andersson, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Coordinators: Lenka Belicova (Emma R. Andersson’s lab, CMB KI) and Ziwei Liu (Ulrika Marklund’s lab, MBB, KI)

Funding

Karolinska Institutets Konferensbidrag

StratRegen Networking grant 2024

Contact

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Emma Andersson

Principal Researcher