Tuesday Aug 6^th

Registration opens 2 pm

5.00 - 9.00 pm

Gala Dinner / Plenary Talk

Welcoming Speech by Siriraj Dean

Symposium Introduction

Organoid Networks Introduction

Plenary Talk: Hans Clevers (Roche, Basal, Switzerland)

Organoids Model Human Disease

Chair: Ramanuj DasGupta

Sponsor Talks

9.00 - 10.30 pm

Mixer and Posters

Wednesday Aug 7^th

Registration opens 8.00 am

9.00 - 10.30 am

Session 1 – Wnt, Stem Cells

Chair: Owen Sansom

9.00 - 9.30 am

30 min

Nick Barker (A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore)

Deciphering Stem Cell Roles in Driving Gastrointestinal Cancers

Supported by CORNING

9.30 - 9.45 am

15 min

Short Talk #1

Holly Barker (WEHI, Parkville, VIC, Australia)

Drug Screening in Organoid Models Identifies Novel Combination Therapies

for the Treatment of Ovarian Carcinosarcoma

Supported by Biomed Diagnostics (Thailand)

9.45 - 10.30 am

45 min

Tony Burgess Orator I

Dustin Flanagan (Monash, Clayton, Australia)

Stomach Stem Cells Behaving Badly

Supported by 10x Genomics

10.30 - 11.00 am

Morning tea – 30 min/posters/trade area

11.00 - 1.00 pm

Session 2 – Disease Models I

Chair: Somponnat Sampattavanich

Supported by i+MED Laboratories & AKOYA

11.00 - 11.30 am

30 min

Bhavana Muralidharan (inStem, Bangalore, India)

Probing the Mechanism of Chromatinopathies in Brain Development Using Human in-vitro Disease Model

Supported by Greiner Bio-One

11.30 - 12.00

30 min

Punn Augsornworawat (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Exploring The Maturation of Human Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Islet Organoids

Supported by P.Intertrade Equipment and STEMCELL Technologies

12.00 - 12.15

15 min

Short Talk #2

Kasem Kulkeaw (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Leveraging Cerebral Organoid Model for Investigation of Disease Pathogenesis

and Drug Testing in Fatal Amoebic Encephalitis

12.15 - 1.00 pm

45 min

Keynote I

Jose Polo (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)

Exploring the Boundaries of Human Reporgramming

Supported by TECAN

1.00 - 2.00 pm

Lunch – 60 min/posters/trade area

2.00 - 3.30 pm

Session 3 – Screening Technology

Chair: Abdou Hachani

Supported by Molecular Devices

2.00 - 2.30 pm

30 min

Kaylene Simpson (Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics, Parkville, Australia)

High Throughput 3D Screening and the Path to Personalised Medicine

Supported by Prima+Nanostring

2.30 - 3.00 pm

30 min

Shumei Chia (Genome Institute Singapore, Singapore)

A Phenotype-Driven Precision Oncology Platform for Identifying Biomarkers of Therapy Response

Supported by N.Y.R. and Bio-Techne

3.00 - 3.30 pm

30 min

Keisuke Sekine (National Cancer Center Japan Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan)

Cancer Organoid for Modeling Cancer Ecosystem and for Drug Screening

Supported by AimingMed

3.30 – 4.00 pm

Afternoon tea – 30 min/posters/trade area

4.00 - 6.00 pm

Session 4 –Disease Models II 

Chair: Dustin Flanagan

4.00 - 4.30 pm

30 min

Owen Sansom (CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, Scotland)

Using Mouse and Organoid Models of Colorectal Cancer to Model Therapeutic Responses

Supported by Revvity

4.30 - 4.45 pm

15 min

Short Talk #3

Ngar Yun Ellen Poon (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China)

Mature HPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes to Investigate Cardiotoxicity Induced by Anti-Cancer and Anti-Viral Treatment

4.45 - 5.15 pm

30 min

Rossukon Kaewkhaw (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Organoids: Illuminating New Hope for Treating Childhood Eye Cancer

Supported by Gibthai and ThermoFisher Scientific

5.15 - 6.00 pm

45 min

Tony Burgess Orator II

Lukas Dow (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY)

Identifying Cancer Drivers and Dependencies Using Engineered Organoid Models

Supported by Yokogawa

6.00 - 7.00 pm

BBQ light refreshments/posters

Thursday Aug 8^th

Opens 8.00 am

9.00 - 10.45 am

Session 5 – Disease models III

Chair: Hoanh Tran

9.00 - 9.30 am

30 min

Carol Man Tong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Challenges and Opportunities Modelling Treatment Response in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

9.30 - 9.45 am

15 min

Short Talk #4

Weiqiang Chen (New York University, New York, United States)

Patient-Derived Pancreatic Cancer Organoids-on-a-Chip Microphysiological System for Tumour Microenvironment Modelling and Immunotherapy Study

9.45 - 10.15 am

30 min

Yun-Shen Winston Chan (Guangzhou, China)

Molecular and Functional Decoding of Cellular Heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

10.15 - 10.45 am

30 min

Steffi Long (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Disease Modelling Using Human PSC-Derived Brain Organoids

Supported by OLS - OMNI Life Science GmbH & Co. KG

10.45 - 11.15 am

Morning tea – 30 min/posters/trade area

11.15 - 12.45 pm

Session 6 – Disease models IV

Chair: Elizabeth Vincan

11.15 - 11.45 am

30 min

Alexandre Grassart (Centre for Infection and Immunity, Lille, France)

Gaining Insights into Infectious Diseases using Human Organ On Chip Models

11.45 - 12.00 pm

15 min

Short Talk #5 

Abderrahman Hachani (Peter Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia)

Development of a Staphylococcus aureus Human Nasal Colonisation Model

12.00 - 12.45 pm

45 min

Keynote II

Arial Zeng (Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China)

Harnessing Adult Stem Cells for Pancreatic Islet Regeneration

Supported by DKSH

12.45 - 12.50 pm

Announce prizes/Next meeting/Thank you

1.00 - 2.00 pm

Lunch