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4th Joint Meeting

Program - Joint Meeting
Danish Stem Cell Research Doctoral School (DASCDOC)
and
Danish Stem Cell Research Center (DaSC)


January 22– 24, 2006
The Sandbjerg Estate Conference Centre
Sønderborg

Sunday, January 22

15.00-16.00

Arrival – check in - mounting of posters (DASCDOC board meeting)

16.00-16.15

Opening of Joint DASC-DASCDOC Meeting
Jens Zimmer, University of Southern Denmark

16.15-18.00

Guest lecture Chairman Jens Zimmer
Human embryonic stem cell research - status, challenges and th Danish situation
Moustapha Kassem, Medical Biotechnology Center, Odense University Hospital

18.00-19.45

Dinner
19.45-21.00

Guest lecture Chairman Palle Serup
Genes regulating the development of midbrain, hindbrain and dopaminergic neurons
Ahmed Mansouri, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
 

Monday, January 23

07.00-8.30

Breakfast

08.30-09.30

Neural development and neural stem cells I Chairman Jens Høiriis
Identification of novel genes regulated in the developing human ventral mesencephalon
Jesper Jørgensen, NsGene /AS
  Gene expr. profiling of cell lines derived from developing human ventral mesencephalon
Nicolaj S. Christophersen, NsGene A/S
09.30-10.00

Break and Posters

10.00-10.30 Neural development and neural stem cells II - Chairman Jens HøiriIs
Transplantation of expanded ventral mesencephalic progenitor cells
leads to functional recovery in rat model of Parkinson’s disease
Pia Jensen, University of Southern Denmark 
 

Generation of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons from a human neural
stem cell line in co-culture with striatal brain slices
Christian M. Andreasen, University of Southern Denmark

10.30-12.00

Human embryonic stem cells – Chairman Ernst-Martin Fuchtbauer

 

Biological role of Activin dependent TGF-beta signaling for human
embryonic stem cell differentiation
Ulrik Frandsen, Medical Biology Center, Odense 

 

Expression of mesoderm and osteoblastic markers during hESC
differentiation
Amer Mahmood, Medical Biology Center, Odense

 

Neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells
Lasse Kjær, University of Southern Denmark
Characterization and development of human embryonic stem cells
Helle Lysdahl, Aalborg University

12.00-13.30

Lunch, Air and Posters

13.30-14.15

Haematopoietic Stem Cells – Chairman Lene Pedersen
Haematopoietic stem cell heterogeneity predicts survival in acute
myeloid leukemia
Hans Johnsen, Aalborg University Hospital
14.10-15.00 Skeletal muscle stem cells – Chairman Thrine Bisgaard
 

A novel side population with myogenic potential?
Ditte Andersen, Odense University Hospital

 

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - stem cells as therapeutic tool,
model system and treatment target.
Louise Jøgensen, Odense University Hospital
Characterization of a cell line - strategies to enforce myogenic differentiation
Jeeva Selthurai, Odense University Hospital

15.00-15.30

Break - Posters

15.30-16.30

Epigenetics - Chairman Palle Serup
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell phenotype
Nedime Serakinci, University of Southern Denmark

16.30-17.30 ”Phd lecture” - Chairman Jens Zimmer
Towards generation of insulin-producing cells from mouse ES cells
Mattias Hansson, Hagedorn Research Institute
17.30-18.10

Datablitz presentations Chairman Morten Meyer

 

Differentiation analysis of mesoangioblasts: a blood vessel derived
mesodermal stem cell
Tine Qvistgaard, Aarhus University
Endodermal expression of Nkx6 genes depends differentailly on Pdx1
Jesper K. Pedersen, Hagedorn Research Institute
The role of metabotropic glutamate receptors (group 1) on differentiation
of human neural stem cells
Julie Erichsen, University of Southern Denmark
Effect of oxygen tension on proliferation and differentiation of
human neural stem cells
Betina Thuesen, University of Southern Denmark
Osteogenic differentiation under different oxygen Condition
Kirsten Fogd, Aalborg University                       

 

Smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis are derived from the local vessel
wall and not circulating smooth muscle progenitor cells.
Jacob Bentzon,Aarhus University Hospital-Skejby


18.45-21.00

DASC – DASCDOC dinner

Tuesday, January 24

07.00-08.30 

Breakfast (OBS: Clearance of rooms, return of keys)

08.30-09.20  

Mesechymal stem cells and cardiac repair – Chairman Thrine Bisgaard

 

Role of Dlk1/Pref-1 in the bone marrow micro environment: the
immunomodulatory effects of Dlk1 on human mesenchymal stem cells
Bassem M. Abdallah, Medical Biology Center, Odense

 

3D-culture of mesenchymal stem cells modelling osteogenesis
Pernille Lund Rasmussen, Medical Biology Center, Odense

 

Labeling of human mesenchymal stem cell with indium-111 for
SPECT imaging: Effect on cell proliferation and differentiation
Lene Bindslev, Copenhagen University Hospital

09.30-10.00 Experience with stem cell therapy within cardiology
Jens Kastrup, Copenhagen University Hospital
09.20-09.40

Muscle regeneration. The significance of variation between different lesions
Henrik Daa Schrøder, University of Southern Denmark

09.40-09.55

Focused geneexpression analysis. Presentation of a new technique
Stine Petersen, University of Southern Denmark

10.00-10.30

Coffee Break

10.25-11.30

Pancreas stem cells Chairman Thrine Bisgaard

 

Status and challenges, seen from the laboratory
Jens Høiriis Nielsen, Copenhagen University

  Identification and Characterization of new Pancreatic Ductal Markers
Rikke Dodge, Joslin Diabetes Center USA/Copenhagen University
11.30-12.00 General discussion - PhD Forum - 2006 activities - Business matters
12.00-13.00

Lunch (DASC Board Meeting)

Departure

Poster Session

1 Smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis are derived from the local vessel wall and not circulating smooth muscle progenitor cells.
 Jacob Bentzon,Aarhus University Hospital-Skejby
2 Differentiation analysis of mesoagioblasts: a blood vessel derived mesodermal stem cell.
Tine Qvistgaard, Aarhus University
3 Isolation and optimization of culture condition for human mesenchymal stem.
Tina Friis, Copenhagen University Hospital
4 Characterization of myogenic stem cells in preparation for intervention.
Stine Juhl Petersson, Odense University Hospital
5 Booster Gene Therapy of Muscular Dystrophy? - Focus on Dlk1 and ADAM12    as Potential Booster Gene Candidates
Louise H. Jørgensen, Odense University Hospital
6 Differentiation of rat and human neural precursor cells towards dopaminergic           neurons, using TH-inducing factors
Rikke K. Andersen, University of Southern Denmark
7 Effect of oxygen level on dopaminergic differentiation of human neural precursor cells overexpressing the anti-apoptotic gene Bcl-XL
Pia S. Jensen, University of Southern Denmark
8 Gene expr. profiling of cell lines derived from developing human ventral mesencephalon
Nicolaj S. Christophersen, NsGene A/S
9 Expression of growth hormone receptor gene during differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells
Mark Kalisz, Copenhagen University
10 Attempts to program differentiation embryonic stem cells with somatic cell extracts
David M. Kristensen, Copenhagen University
11 Different roles of retinoic acid signalling in early and ate pancreas development
Mette Jørgensen, Hagedorn Research Institute
12 Endodermal expression of Nkx6 genes depends differentially on Pdx1
Jesper K. Pedersen, Hagedorn Research Institute
13 Notch in pancreas development
Jacob Hald, Hagedorn Research Institute
14 Uncoupling of NeuroD expression from delamineration during pancreatic endocrine differentiation
Jonas Ahnfelt-Rønne, Hagedorn Research Institute
15 Establishment of the blastocyst injection assay
Tino Klein, Hagedorn Research Institute

 

 


Secretary Bodil Theilade University of Southern Denmark
Anatomy and Neurobiology
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DK-5000 Odense C
Denmark

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E-mail: btheilade@health.sdu.dk