WCMM Research Day 2024

"Tissue & Bioengineering in Molecular Medicine"

Program

08:30 - 08:50 | Coffee & mingle

08:50 - 09:00 | Welcoming words | Prof. Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Director

09:00 - 09:50 | Keynote Speaker | Prof. Maria Tenje, Uppsala University

10:00 - 10:40 | LU Infrastructures

10:40 - 12:00 | WCMM Trainees Short talks

10:40 - 11:00 | Atul Kumar | Clinical Memory Research | Title: “Cell-specific polygenic risk scores are associated with Aβ and tau biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease”
11:00 - 11:20 | Inês Caiado | Cell Reprogramming in Hematopoiesis and Immunity | Title: “Direct reprogramming Informs on Transcription Network Initiating Natural Killer Cell Program”
11:20 - 11:40 | Chimezie Harrison Umeano | Regenerative Immunology | Title: “TBD”
11:40 - 12:00 | Kelley M. Swanberg | Glia-Immune Interactions | Title: “Cerebrospinal fluid efflux through nasal pathways responds to injection rate challenge and olfactory neural damage in living mice”

12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH

13:00 - 13:50 | Keynote Speaker | Prof. Jan de Boers, Eindhoven University of Technology

14:00 - 15:00 | Time to reconsider the ethics of publishing? | Darcy Wagner & Nick Leigh, WCMM Fellows

15:00 - 15:15 | Photo Session & Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 | Poster session

16:20 - 17:00 | WCMM Trainees Short talks

16:20 - 16:40 | Luís Oliveira | Reprogramming in Haematopoiesis and Immunity | Title: “Transcription factor blueprints underlying dendritic cell diversity”
16:40 - 17:00 | Marios Kritsilis | Glia-Immune Interactions | Title: “Loss of glymphatic homeostasis in heart failure”

17:00 - 17:15 | Awards & Closing Words | Kristian Pietras, WCMM Co-director

18:30 - 22:30 | Dinner | Skissernas museum