Organoids and disease modeling

L'Università di Milano Bicocca sta organizzando, all'interno del dottorato DIMET, un corso su "Organoids and disease modeling", dal 17 al 19 novembre!

Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Brain
14:15 - 15:15 (Central European Time) Juergen Knoblich (Institute of Molecular
Biotechnology, Wien, Austria)
“Human brain development and disease in cerebral organoids”
15:15 – 16:15 Jessica Mariani (Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, CT, USA)
“Modeling FOXG1 Syndrome using human pluripotent stem cells and telencephalic
organoids”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 - 17:45 In-Hyun Park (Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, CT, USA)
“Development of integrated brain organoids to investigate human brain development
and diseases”
17:45 - 18:45 Veronica Krenn (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Wien, Austria)
“Modeling brain infections using human cerebral organoids”

Thursday, November 18, 2021
Leukemia, brain cancer and Down syndrome
14:15 - 15:15 Dominique Bonnet (Crick Institute, London, UK)
“Humanised Bone marrow niche to study human normal and malignant haematopoiesis”
15:15 – 16:15 Luca Tiberi (University of Trento, Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of

Brain Disorders and Cancer)
“Modeling brain cancer with human organoids”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 – 17.45 Peng Jiang (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)

Friday, November 19, 2021
Other organs
14:15 - 15:15 Catherine Verfaillie (University of Leuven, Belgium)
“Engineering liver models from iPSC”
15:15 - 16:15 Magdalena Renner (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology,
Basel, Switzerland)
“Retinal organoids to model development and disease”
16:15 - 16.45 BREAK
16:45 - 17:45 Reiner Wimmer (Roche, Basel, Switzerland)
Engineering organoids and organ-on-chip models of the vasculature for disease
modeling and drug discovery" 

 Links:
-Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Link for participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-
it/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecd39749d8acbb6d5255304533fc0ce67 
Password: day17 (32917 from cellphones) 
 
-Thursday, November 18, 2021
Link for participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-
it/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb77f9b97812a354d9ae4c19a62900f48 
Password evento: day18 (32918 from cellphones)
 
-Friday, November 19, 2021
Link for participants: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib-
it/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb50c0c7e74995f2da606b33373b1da01 
Password evento: day19 (32919 from cellphones)