Organoid@KUL symposium: 3D Organ Modeling in Health and Disease
The symposium “3D Organ Modeling in Health and Disease” will take place on 14–15 September at O&N (Onderwijs & Navorsing) near the Gasthuisberg hospital in Leuven, on a 10 min bus drive from the city center.
DAY 1 – 14 September
08:30–09:00 - Registration
09:00–09:15 - Welcome by organizers and Rector S. Vermeire
09:15–10:00 - Nuria Montserrat (Barcelona, Spain, Minister for Research and Universities of the Catalan Government) - Engineering human pluripotent stem cells to understand kidney development and disease
10:00–10:45 - Anne M. van der Does (Leiden, The Netherlands) - Epithelial communication with the microvasculature as a driver of lung emphysema
10:45–11:15 - Coffee break + poster session
11:45–12:30 - Pablo Cespedes (Oxford, UK) - Decoding how immune receptors and extracellular vesicles build lymphocyte networks with synthetic cells and lymphoid organoids
12:30–12:50 - Poster pitches - Each 2 min
12:50–13:00 - Knut Woltjen (Kyoto, Japan) - Shaping the Future of N-of-1 Therapies with i2PARADIGM: New Global Network for Personal Genome Medicine
13:00–14:30 - Lunch break + poster session
14:30–14:40 - Tim Raemaekers (Policy Officer DG Research & Innovation) - EU initiatives on NAMs
14:40–15:25 - Ioannis Papantoniou (KU Leuven, Belgium) - From organoids to organoid-based tissue systems through automated biofabrication process flows
15:25–16:10 - Maurilio Sampaolesi (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Patient-Derived 3D bioprinted cardiac organoids enable modeling of Duchenne cardiomyopathy
16:10–16:40 - Coffee break + poster session
16:40–17:25 - Matthias Zilbauer (Cambridge, UK) - Epigenetic stem cell states in inflammatory bowel disease
17:25–18:10 - Oral presentation selected abstracts - 3 presentations
18:10 - Welcome and networking reception
20:00 - Dinner with invited speakers
DAY 2 – 15 September
09:00–09:45 - Leo Van Grunsven (VUB, Brussels) - From primary spheroids to iPSC-derived organoids: advanced 3D liver models for DILI, fibrosis, and cancer modeling
09:45–10:30 - Christophe Deben (UAntwerp) - From patient-derived tumor Organoids to AI-designed therapies: a closed-loop phenotypic discovery platform
10:30–11:00 Coffee break + poster session
11:00–11:45 - Teddy Fauquier (Marseille, France) - Hypothalamic-pituitary organoids (HPOs), a model for studying pituitary development and congenital deficiencies
11:45–12:15 - Mijo Simunovic (New York, USA) - Modeling human endometrial development and regeneration 12:15 13:30 Lunch break + poster session
13:30–14:00 - Company presentations
14:00 14:30 - Peter Staller (Nuvisan, Berlin) - High throughput compound screening in 3D cell models
14:30–14:45 - Frauke Christ, Hugo Vankelecom (KU Leuven) - organ3D: innovative 3D organ modeling @KU Leuven
14:45–15:15 - Sumin Bian (Hangzhou, China) - Biosensor-Integrated Organoids-on-Chip for Gut and Brain Disease Modeling and Personalized Therapeutics
15:15–16:00 - Stefan Krauss (Oslo, Norway) - Stemcell-based embryo models: creating lineage diversity through aggregation strategies 16:00–16:30 - Poster prizes with short presentation - 2 presentations
16:30–16:40 - Wrap-up by the organizers
16:40 - End - Say goodbye coffee and snacks