Cajal lectures – Neural Organoids Modelling – From Tuesday 14 April

Venue: CARF

Lectures are open to everyone

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Tuesday 14 April – 9 am
Giuseppe Testa (Human Technopole, Italy )
TBA

Tuesday 14 April – 11 am 
Orly Reiner (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Advancing Neurodevelopmental Research: Developing Human Brain Organoid models to investigate brain malformations (Virtual talk).

Wednesday 15 April – 9 am
Pietro Michiardi (EURECOM, France)
Foundations of generative AI, with applications to trajectory inference.

Wednesday 15 April – 11 am
Giulio Franzese (EURECOM, France)
Estimation of Mutual Information using Diffusion Processes.

Saturday 18 April – 9 am
Michael Wells (University of California, USA)
Towards an atlas of human vulnerability using cell villages.

Saturday 18 April – 11 am
Alexej Abyzov (Mayo Clinic, USA)
Post-zygotic mutations: a universal tool for studying cellular ancestries and lineages in human cells.

Tuesday 21 April – 9 am
Flora Vaccarino (Yale University, USA)
Understanding variations in brain patterning during development and disease.

Thursday 23 April – 11 am
Carlo Colantuoni (Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, USA)
Transcriptomic decomposition and projection approaches to explore the fidelity of neural organoid models.

Monday 27 April – 9 am
Jason Stein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Assessing molecular and cellular gene by treatment interactions using a population of neural progenitors.

Thursday 30 April – 9 am
Sara Bizzotto (Institut Imagine, France)
Brain mosaicism: insights into development and disease.

Thursday 30 April – 11 am
Helena Kilpinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Genetic background effects in iPSCs and their implications for disease modeling.

Thursday 30 April – 2 pm
Juergen Knoblich (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria)
Modelling human brain development and disease in stem cell derived 3D culture (Virtual talk)