Conferences and symposiums Developing Brains 2024
How can a single cell give rise to complex formations such as the central and peripheral nervous systems? This is the over-arching question in neural developmental biology. Knowledge of how such intricate systems are assembled gives a crucial understanding of their structure and function and important insight into the etiology of some of our most devastating diseases.
The 11th edition of the KI Conference “Developing Brains", which will take place at the Eva & Georg Klein lecture hall at Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Thursday, 3 October 2024, will gather some of the leading scientists working on critical questions ranging from transcriptional heterogeneity of neural cell types, gene regulatory networks, circadian rhythm, and mechanical forces involved in their development, their interplay with the vasculature, and how CRISPR screens can identify key players in their development and physiology.
Organizers and chairs
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Ulrika Marklund, Francois Lallemend
Schedule
3 October
Venue: Eva & Georg Klein lecture hall, Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet
09.00 - 09.10 Welcoming address
Chair: Francois Lallemend
09.10 - 10.00 The chemo-mechanical regulation of neuronal development
Kristian Franze, Max Planck Zentrum für Physik und Medizin Erlangen, Germany
10.00 – 10.30 Break
Chair: Ulrika Marklund
10.30 - 11.20 Single-cell multi-omic, spatial profiling and systematic perturbations decode complete circuitry underlying neural crest fate decisions
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford, UK and Stowers Institute, Missouri, US
11.20 – 12.10 Molecular and cellular mechanisms that control cell fate decisions in the sensory nervous system
Andrea Streit, King’s College London, UK
12.10-13.10 Lunch
Chair: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
13.10 – 14.00 Endothelial-Astrocyte-Neuron Communication: A Triad Shaping Neurodevelopment
Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar, University of Bonn, Germany
14.00 – 14.50 A Role for the Circadian Clock in Oligodendroglial Dynamics
Erin Gibson, Stanford University, USA
14.50 – 15.20 Break
Chair: Jens Hjerling-Leffler
15.20 – 16.10 Co-ordinate emergent function in the mammalian cerebral cortex during the early postnatal period
Simon Butt, University of Oxford, UK
16.10 – 17.00 Wiring of developing circuits in health and neuropsychiatric disorders
Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
17.00 – 17.50 Elucidating mechanisms of disease-associated genes by CRISPR-based functional genomics
Martin Kampmann, University of California, San Francisco, US
17.50 – 18.00 Concluding remarks
Speakers
Simon Butt, University of Oxford , UK
Kristian Franze, FAU, Erlangen, DE
Erin Gibson, Stanford University, US
Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, University of Hamburg, DE
Martin Kampmann, UCSF, US
Carmen Ruiz de Almodovar, University of Bonn, DE
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford, UK
Andrea Streit, Kings College, UK