Programming and reprogramming the brain

Topics

• Modeling human brain development from pluripotent stem cells 
• Programming and maintenance of cell identity in the CNS
• Development-inspired reprogramming of the brain
• Decoding CNS complexity with single-cell resolution
  

Description

​The brain is the most complex and fascinating organ of the body. Recent advances have elucidated the rules that establish and maintain cellular diversity in the central nervous system and highlighted unprecedented plasticity in the capacity of brain cells to reprogram their identity. Key progress in stem cell biology and directed differentiation has provided new experimental models to inform mechanistic understanding of human brain development and pathology. This meeting will cover the emerging field of brain development, reprogramming and modeling with a focus on new genome wide tools to understand biological processes with single-cell resolution.

Scientific organizers

• Benedikt Berninger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)​
• Paola Arlotta (Harvard University, US)

Local organizer

• Marisa Karow (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany)
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Keynote speaker

• Magdalena Götz (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)

Confirmed speakers

• ​​​​​​Paola Arlotta (Harvard University, US)
• Benedikt Berninger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
• Gordon Fishell (NYU Langone Medical Center, US)​
• ​Francois Guillemot (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)
• Oliver Hobert (Columbia University, US)
• Sophie Jarriault (IGBMC, France)
• Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias, Spain)​
• Ana Martin-Villalba (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
• Steven McCarroll (Harvard Medical School, US)
• Malin Parmar (Lund University, Sweden)​
• Kathrin Plath (University of California - Los Angeles, US)
• Barbara Treutlein (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
• Pierre Vanderhaeghen (Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Belgium)