Full Program

13:00 – 19:30              Registration

Memorial Union 2^nd floor

16:00 – 16:30              President’s Welcome and Vision

Shannon Hall              Elly Tanaka, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria

Session 1: Neural regeneration #1

Shannon Hall

Chair: Shawn Burgess, National Human Genome Research Institute, USA

16:30 – 16:43              Talk 1 – Shawn Burgess, National Human Genome Research Institute, USA

Tnfrsf10 Signaling is Required to Maintain the Stem Cell Niche in the Zebrafish Lateral Line

16:45 – 16:58              Talk 2 – Anneliese Ceisel, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Regenerative capacity of human retinal ganglion cells transplanted into zebrafish larvae

17:00 – 17:13              Talk 3 – Jared Tangeman, Johns Hopkins University, USA

                                    Retina regeneration in the axolotl following whole eye removal and reimplantation

17:15 – 17:28              Talk 4 – Romain Madelaine, MDI Bio Lab, USA

Neural crest-like cell transdifferentiation underlies a new mode of neuronal regeneration in the zebrafish retina

17:30 – 17:43              Talk 5 – Levi Todd, SUNY Upstate, USA

                                    Reprogramming retinal glia to regenerate neurons across the mouse lifespan

17:45 – 17:58              Talk 6 – Daniela Münch, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA

Context-dependent interactions between immune cells and sensory hair cell regeneration programs

18:00 – 18:15              A tribute talk for Peter Coffey: Dennis Clegg, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

18:30 – 20:30              Welcome Reception & Exhibitors

Great Hall

8:00 – 17:00                Registration

Memorial Union 2^nd floor

Session 2: Cardiovascular regeneration

Shannon Hall

Chair: Miao Cui, Boston Children's Hospital, USA

9:00 – 9:30                  Didier Stainier, Max Planck Institute, Germany

                                    Cardiac regeneration in zebrafish

9:30 – 9:43                  Talk 7 – Juan Manuel Gonzalez-Rosa, Boston College, USA

Too much of a good thing: unraveling the interplay between inflammation, fibrosis, and the kinase Tnni3k during cardiac regeneration in zebrafish 

9:45 – 9:58                  Talk 8 – Fei Sun, Morgridge Institute for Research, USA

Hb-EGF-mobilized epicardial cells direct cardiomyocyte proliferation dynamics during heart morphogenesis and regeneration

10:00 – 10:13              Talk 9 – Bjoern Perder, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

Hypoxia-activated scleraxis guides perivascular differentiation of epicardial progenitors in heart development and regeneration

10:15 – 10:45              Coffee

Sunset Room

Session 2: Cardiovascular regeneration

Shannon Hall

Chair: Jingli Cao, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

10:45 – 11:15              Kristy Red-Horse, Stanford University, USA

                                    Using stem cells to recapitulate human development for lymphatic regeneration

11:15 – 11:28              Talk 10 – Miao Cui, Boston Children's Hospital, USA

                                    Origin and identity of mammalian regenerative cardiomyocytes

11:30 – 11:43              Talk 11 – Andy Shing-Fung Chan, Institute of Systems Immunology, University of Wúrzburg, Germany

High Resolution Spatio-Temporal Mapping Reveals Dedifferentiation Niches in Mammalian Cardiac Repair

11:45 – 11:58              Talk 12 – Maria Sol Jacome Burbano, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases (CECAD), Cologne, Germany 

Cardiomyocyte proliferation and functional recovery after myocardial infarction in the adult naked mole-rat heart

12:00 – 12:15              Group photo

TBD

12:15 – 13:15              Lunch

Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck

Session 3: Musculoskeletal and appendage regeneration #1

Shannon Hall

Chair: Jeff Dilworth, UW-Madison, USA

13:15 – 13:45              Maximina Yun, CIMR-Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China

                                    Exploring the link between regeneration and ageing in salamanders

13:45 – 13:58              Talk 13 – Wouter Masselink, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Austria

                                    Mechanical instability drives vertebrae patterning during axolotl tail regeneration

14:00 – 14:13              Talk 14 – Jackson Griffiths, Northeastern University, USA

A Thorough Characterization of Axolotl Digit Regeneration: Conserved Mechanisms, Divergent Patterning, and a Critical Role for Hedgehog Signaling

14:15 – 14:28              Talk 15 – Connor Dolan, Arizona State University, USA

The Role of Piezo1 During the Catabolic Phase of Digit Tip Regeneration

14:30 – 14:43              Talk 16 – Lauren Connolly, Stem Cell Institute, UK

Investigating the functional role of lymphatics in regulating regeneration and fibrosis in the mouse digit tip

14:45 – 15:15              Coffee

Sunset Room

15:15 – 15:28              Talk 17 – Jessica Lehoczky, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA

Mouse digit AAV gene delivery into fibroblasts regulates regenerative outcome

15:30 – 15:43              Talk 18 – Sarah Wolff, Texas A&M University, USA

FGF8 induced joint regeneration at an amputation wound is genetically and morphologically distinct from embryonic joint development in mice

15:45 – 16:15              Chunyi Li, Changchun Sci-Tech University, China

Dependency of “interactive partner” in mammalian epimorphic regeneration revealed by studying annual renewal of deer antlers

16:15 – 16:45              Lifetime Achievement Award presentation and talk

Brigitte Galliot, University of Geneva, Switzerland

16:45 – 17:15              Rising Star Award presentation and talk

Can Aztekin, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany 

17:30 – 19:00              Dinner

Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck

19:00 – 21:00              Poster Session I & Exhibitors

Great Hall, Main Lounge

8:00 – 17:00                Registration

Memorial Union 2^nd floor

Session 4: Digestive tissue and organ regeneration

Shannon Hall

Chair: Stacey Huppert, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA

9:00 – 9:30                  Hao Zhu, UT Southwestern, USA

Somatic mosaicism in regeneration, disease resilience, and cancer

9:30 – 9:43                  Talk 19 – Paulo Belato, Duke University School of Medicine, USA

Tuning of JAK/STAT signaling regulates cell cycle speed during polyploid regeneration in the Drosophila pylorus

9:45 – 9:58                  Talk 20 – Anish Bose, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

The Pioneer Transcription Factor Zelda Orchestrates the Regeneration-to-Normal Development Transition in Drosophila Wing Imaginal Discs

10:00 – 10:13              Talk 21 – Gayatri Puri, UW Madison, USA

Volunteer Exercise Reverses Hematopoietic Aging through Epigenetic Regulation

10:15 – 10:28              Talk 22 – Albert E. Almada, University of Southern California y, USA

Pre-existing Stem Cells Regenerate Skeletal Muscle De Novo in the Super-Healing Lizard Tail

10:30 – 11:00              Coffee

Sunset Room

11:00 – 11:45              Workshop: Innovative techniques for regenerative biology

11:45 – 13:15              Lunch & Learn – Career development table

Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck

Session 5:                  Stem cells, skin, and wound healing

Shannon Hall

Chair: Anna Huttenlocher, UW-Madison, USA

13:15 – 13:45              Ya-Chieh Hsu, Harvard University, USA

Organ-level regeneration in mammals: Lessons from skin wounds

13:45 – 13:58              Talk 23 – Ajoy Aloysius, University of Kentucky, USA

Decoding regeneration: a phase-specific role for macrophages in scarless healing

14:00 – 14:13              Talk 24 – Hanseul Yang, KAIST, South Korea

A novel fracture lattice in spiny mouse skin facilitates tissue autotomy and regeneration

14:15 – 14:28              Talk 25 – Josh Currie, Wake Forest University, USA

Live imaging reveals key dynamics of wound resolution in the regenerative axolotl limb

14:30 – 15:00              Coffee

Sunset Room

15:00 – 15:30              Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University, USA

The evolution of stem cells and regeneration: a developmental perspective

15:30 – 15:43              Talk 26 – Salome Stierli, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Peripheral glia constitute a regenerative niche triggering skin wound healing

15:45 – 15:58              Talk 27 – Melanie Worley, University of Virginia, USA

Mechanisms regulating regenerative growth and repatterning in appendage precursors

16:00 – 16:13              Talk 28 – Siyang Cao, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Tuft-like spike cells are robustly regenerated from the epidermal stem cells during zebrafish fin regeneration

16:30 – 18:30              Poster session II & Exhibitors

Great Hall, Main Lounge

18:30 – 22:00              Dinner on own and free time (Gift card will be provided)

Session 6: Musculoskeletal and appendage regeneration #2

Shannon Hall

Chair: Romeo Blanc, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

9:00 – 9:30                  Bradley B. Olwin, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Single nuclear genomic lineage tracing and transcriptomics during muscle repair

9:30 – 9:43                  Talk 29 – Haley Dean, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA

Hb-EGF directs systemic muscle repair

9:45 – 9:58                  Talk 30 – Stephanie Tsai, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Elucidating injury-site specific regenerative programs to rebuild the tendon

10:00 – 10:13              Talk 31 – Sakurako Hayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Insights into the Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Bone Repair through Multiomic Analysis in Young and Aged Mice

10:15 – 10:45              Coffee

Sunset Room

10:45 – 11:15              Chen-Hui Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

How to regenerate the just-right amount of complex tissue: insights from the zebrafish tailfin model

11:15 – 11:28              Talk 32 – Christopher Antos, Shanghai Tech University, China

Retinoic Acid Regulates Progenitor Cell Electrophysiology Via Rcan2-Calcineurin to Scale the Size of Regenerating Vertebrate Appendages by Controlling Ca2+-CaMKK Regulated Shh Transcription

11:30 – 11:43              Talk 33 – Katharine Hubert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Loss of Hox11 function in skeletal stem cells disrupts Hh signaling during fracture repair

11:45 – 12:30              ISRB Business meeting

12:30 – 13:30              Lunch (Boxed lunch)

Tripp Commons, Tripp Deck

Session 7: Neural regeneration

Shannon Hall

Chair: Mayssa Mokalled, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA

13:30 – 13:43              Talk 34 – Jaffna Mathiaparanam, University of Pennsylvania, USA

                                    Huntington promotes spinal cord regeneration

13:45 – 13:58              Talk 35 – Pierre Gillotay, Morgridge Institute for Research, USA

Dysregulated immune and fibroblast signaling in spontaneous failure of spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish

14:00 – 14:13              Talk 36 – Jan Kaslin, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Australia

Hydrodynamic forces promote neural stem cell activity in the regenerating zebrafish spinal cord

14:15 – 14:28              Talk 37 – Vishnu Muraleedharan Saraswathy, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA

Cross-species comparison reveals mechanisms of neuronal plasticity during spinal cord regeneration

14:30 – 14:43              Talk 38 – Ashley Cole, University of Birmingham, UK

The Toll adaptor Wek drives regenerative neurogenesis following CNS injury

14:45 – 15:00              Talk 39 – Karen Echeverri, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA

Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration

15:00 – 15:30              Coffee break

Sunset Room

Session 8: Stem cells/Whole animal regeneration

Shannon Hall

Chair: Duygu Özpolat, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

15:30 – 15:43              Talk 40 – Sidney Vermeulen, Stanford University, USA

Integrating old and new: Watching live cells rebuild muscle networks during flatworm regeneration

15:45 – 15:58              Talk 41 – Rannyele Passos Ribeiro, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

The Highlander Effect: A Biological Phenomenon of Regeneration-Induced Lifespan Extension

16:00 – 16:13              Talk 42 – Qingxu Guan, Northwestern University, USA

The extent of injury-induced gene activation quantitatively distinguishes wound healing from tissue regeneration programs in planarians

16:15 – 16:28              Talk 43 – Charisios Tsiairis, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland

Progressive cell fate specification in morphallactic regeneration

16:30 – 16:43              Talk 44 – Ben Cox, UC Davis, USA

ECM remodeling shapes head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris

16:45 – 17:15              Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Stowers Institute, USA

Dissecting the biological complexity of animal regeneration

17:15 – 17:30              Closing remarks

17:30 – 18:00              Break

18:00 – 20:00              Banquet Dinner and prize award ceremony

Great Hall

20:00 – 22:30              DJ & Dancing 

Tripp Commons