Joint 6th Margaret River Region Forum and 9th ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting
Stem Cells: Fundamental Biology and Clinical Translation
The presentations and posters at the 2016 annual general meeting were excellent. Please join us in congratulating those below:
Oral Presentation Prizewinners (2)
-Elizabeth Ng for “Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to HOXA+ hemogenic vasculature that resembles the aorta-gonad-mesonephros”
-Amy Chapman for “Investigating the functional maturation of human induced neural precursor-derived neurons”
Poster Presentation Prizewinners (2)
-Grace Lidgerwood for “Lyosphosphatidic acid signalling in human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells”
-Isabel Hemming for “RP58 and p27 coordinate neural stem cell proliferation and radial migration within the embryonic mouse cerebral cortex”
Best of the Best Poster Presentations (5)
-Kiryu Yap for “Bio-engineering vascularised human liver organoids from adult stem/progenitor cells”
-Ms Yi Wang for “Self assembled peptide scaffold to support primary cortical neuron survival and growth in vitro”
-Mr Majid Alhomrani for “Human amnion epithelial cells-derived extracellular vesicles reduce fibrosis in a mouse model of liver fibrosis”
-Ms Ena Music for “Constant and pulsed parathyroid hormone(1-34) administration mitigates mesenchymal stem/stromal cell hypertrophy but at the expense of chondrogenesis”
-Ms Grace Lidgerwood for “Lysophosphatidic acid signalling in human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells”