ESNATS CONFERENCE - Preliminary Programme
"Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Novel Toxicity Testing Approaches"
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Monday, 16.09.2013 |
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09:00-09:10 | Horst Spielmann, President of EUSAAT, Freie Universitaet Berlin, DE-Berlin Opening address |
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09:10-09:20 | Jürgen Hescheler, Coordinator of ESNATS, University of Cologne, DE-Cologne Overview of the ESNATS project |
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09:20-10:00 | Marcel Leist, University of Konstanz, DE-Konstanz The ESNATS hESC-based toxicity test battery |
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10:00-10:40 | Jan Hengstler, IFADO, DE-Dortmund The ESNATS hESC-based toxicity biomarker identification study |
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10:40-11:00 | Jan Hengstler, IFADO, DE-Dortmund Hepatocyte in vitro systems to study metabolism: stem cell derived hepatocytes as an alternative to primary hepatocytes |
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11:00-11:15 | Coffee break | |
11:15-11:30 | Joery de Kock, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, BE-Brussels hSKP-derived hepatocytes for toxicity testing |
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11:30-11:50 | Sieto Bosgra, TNO, NL-Utrecht In vitro-in vivo extrapolation of prenatal (neuro)toxicity assay data by PBPK modeling |
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11:50-12:10 | Agapios Sachinidis, University of Cologne, DE-Cologne Identification of thalidomide-specific transcriptomics and proteomics signatures during differentiation of human embryonic stem cells |
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12:10-12:30 | Karl-Heinz Krause, University of Geneva, CH-Geneva Pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered neural tissues: what’s new? |
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12:30-13:45 | Lunch and posters | |
13:45-14:30 | First panel discussion (chair: Thomas Hartung, CAAT, US Baltimore) How can the ESNATS data be used to define mechanisms of action and/or AOPs |
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14:30-15:00 | Aldert Piersma, RIVM, NL-Bilthoven Enhancing the readout of the embryonic stem cell test with molecular approaches |
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15:00-15:30 | Ellen Fritsche, Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, DE-Duesseldorf Signaling pathways in human neural assays (title to be confirmed) |
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15:30-16:00 | Robert Kavlock, US Environmental Protection Agency, US-Washington Transforming the Conduct of Toxicology in the US: the Tox21 Program |
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16:00-16:30 | Coffee break and posters | |
16:30-17:00 | Thomas Knudsen, US Environmental Protection Agency, US-Research Triangle Park Predictive models and computational embryology |
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17:00-17:30 | Beatriz Silva-Lima, EPAA stem cell group, BE-Brussels EPAA calls for a “Stem Cells in Safety Testing” forum to keep fluent communication |
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17:30-18:00 | Jos Kleinjans, University of Maastricht, NL-Maastricht Data infrastructure for chemical safety |
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18:00-18:45 | Second panel discussion (chair: Michael Schwarz, University of Tuebingen, DE-Tuebingen) How can the ESNATS assays be applicable in companies/regulatory toxicology and what are necessary future developments |
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18:45-20:00 | Continued discussion and poster session | |
20:00 | Dinner and social evening (at the congress venue) | |