Mini-Symposium: Liver Stem Cells

Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019
Time: 
9am-3pm
Location: 
Aldea Center, Parnassus

 

 

 


Please RSVP to attend. Seminar is free of charge with limited capacity.
Lunch will be provided by CatHead's BBQ.

PROGRAM

9:00 AM

Holger Willenbring
Liver Center, UCSF

Welcome & Introduction

9:10 AM

Lay Teng Ang
Ang Lab, Stanford University

Efficient differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into liver cells

9:35 AM

Caroline Duwaerts
Maher Lab, UCSF

iPSC-Heps from NAFLD patients exhibit a unique transcriptomic profile compared to iPSC-Heps from healthy subjects

10:00 AM

Caitlin Peaslee
Mattis Lab, UCSF

Discovery of novel genes regulating steatosis in iPSC-derived hepatocytes

10:25 AM

Coffee Break

 

10:45 AM

Yun Weng
Chang Lab, UCSF

Human iPSC-derived liver organoids: Form and function

11:10 AM

Yuan Guan
Peltz Lab, Stanford University

Human hepatic organoids: Analysis of human genetic and fibrotic liver diseases

11:35 AM

Nathan Meyers
Ott Lab, Gladstone Institutes

Hepatitis C virus infects and perturbs liver stem cells

12:00 PM

Lunch Break, CatHead's BBQ

 

1:15 PM

Joe Segal
Wang Lab, UCSF

Characterizing liver heterogeneity at single cell resolution

1:40 PM

Shengda Lin
Artandi Lab, Stanford University

Distributed hepatocytes in liver homeostasis and regeneration

2:05 PM

Teni Anbarchian
Nusse Lab, Stanford University

The transcriptional repressor Tbx3 is the gatekeeper of hepatocyte polyploidization

2:30 PM

Feng Chen
Willenbring Lab, UCSF

Resolving the contribution of adult liver stem/progenitor cells to hepatocyte regeneration