Bioengineering: Regeneration & Beyond - A Crosstalk of Biology, Medicine, and Computation

The Stanford Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Stem Cell Institute would like to invite you to join the webinar, “Regeneration and Beyond: A Crosstalk of Biology, Medicine, and Computation” on Tuesday, June 30th from 9:00 AM-12:10 PM PST/6:00 PM-9:10 PM CET. Please join us to hear the latest developments from faculty and collaborators and to participate in a Q&A with the researchers. The speakers and their talks include:

9:00 – 9:25am

“Microfluidics Platform for Studying Single-Cell Self-Repair”

Sindy Tang, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

9:25 – 10:05am

“Learning from a protochordate about stem cell competitions has led to successful patient therapies”

Irv Weissman, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative

10:05 – 10:25am

“Cell atlas mapping across distantly related species reveals patterns in cell type evolution”

Bo Wang, Bioengineering at Stanford University

10:25 – 11:05am

“Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology”

Detlev Arendt,  European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany

11:10 – 11:30am

“A Morphogenetic Atlas of Chordate Development: Two Distinct Pathways, One Tunicate”

Ayelet Voskoboynik, Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University 

11:30 – 12:10pm

“Topological defects in the nematic order of actin fibers as organization centers of Hydra regeneration”

Kinneret Keren, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel