BERGEN STEM CELL CONSORTIUM
ANNUAL MEETING AUG 31 – SEP 1 2015,
SOLSTRAND HOTEL, OS
Dear colleagues, Bergen Stem Cell Consortium (www.bscc.no) is a research initiative that is
intended to function as a catalyst for stem cell research in Western Norway, led by and
located in the Helse Bergen health trust. The initiative is a collaboration between six local
research groups that work in the field of stem cell research and share the goal of generating
basic scientific knowledge about the use of stem cells and introducing personalised stem cellbased treatment.
We aim to increase contact between stem cell researchers nationwide and accordingly we
hope that colleagues from other parts of Norway also want to participate in our Annual
Meeting.
You are cordially invited!
Einar K. Kristoffersen
Tor Hervig
Chair
Project manager
PROGRAM
Monday Aug 31
11.30 – 12.30 LUNCH
12.30 – 12.40 Opening
12.40 – 13.40 Key note presentation by Michele Cottler-Fox, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA:
Cord Blood Banking: the Future of Regenerative Medicine?
13.40 – 14.10 Key note presentation Joel Glover, Oslo:
East meets West – Collaborative opportunities for the Bergen and Oslo stem cell
communities
14.10 - 14.40
BREAK
14.40 – 15.10 Key note presentation Susanna Miettinen, Tampere, Finland:
Use Of Autologous Adipose Stem Cells To Reconstruct Cranio-maxillofacial
Hard-tissue Defect
15.10 – 15.40 Key note presentation by Rosaria Giordano, Milan, Italy:
The experience of the Cell Factory in ATMP manufacturing and clinical use
15.40 – 16.10 Key note presentation by Pedro Herrera, Geneva, Switzerland:
Transdifferentiation of pancreatic islet cells
16.10 – 16.40 BREAK
16.40 – 17.25 The Regenerative Stem Cell group (Moderator: Kamal Mustafa)
Torbjørn Pedersen: Preclinical models for bone vascularization and
regeneration.
Salwa Suliman: Development of a novel scaffold stimulating stem cells growth,
differentiation and bone regeneration.
Cecile Gjerde: Stem cells in bone regeneration, a systematic approach and a pilot
clinical study in humans.
17.25 – 18.00 The Fat stem cell group
Jørn Sagen: Browning – an avenue to combat obesity
18.00 – 19.30 Leisure activities
19.30
PRE-DINNER RECEPTION
20.00
DINNER
Tuesday Sep 1
08.30 – 09.15 The Prostate Cancer Stem Cell group (Moderator: Karl-Henning Kalland)
Yi Qu: WNT regulation and asymmetric cell division.
Jan Roger Olsen: Transcriptional regulation of prostate cells.
Yaping Hua: Dual targeting of IL6/STAT3 and the androgen receptor in prostate
cancer.
09.15 – 10.00 The Diabetes Stem Cell group (Moderator: Helge Ræder)
Luiza Ghila: Transdifferentiation in the pancreas
Heidrun Vethe: Quantitative proteomics analysis of differentiating human induced
pluripotent stem cells.
Yngvild Bjørlykke: Using selected reaction monitoring to assess pathway activity
during differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells.
10.00 – 10.30 BREAK
10.30 – 11.10 The Neuro Group (Moderator: Laurence Bindoff)
Xiao Liang: Modelling POLG-Related Mitochondrial Disorders with Human iPSC
Gareth Sullivan: hiPSC disease modelling: hepatic differentiation - a farewell to
growth factors
11.10 – 11.55 The Hematology Stem Cell group (Moderator: Bjørn Tore Gjertsen)
Daniel Cacic: Platelet growth factors and stem cells
Vibeke Andresen: Tunnelling nanotube communication in immortalized and normal
mesenchymal stem cells from human and mice
Sigrun Hjelle: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for functional exploration of
p53 isoforms in mice
11.55 – 12.00 Closing remarks
12.00-13.00
LUNCH