Annual Oxford Stem Cell Institute Symposium, 3-4 November 2025
Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy
Oxford Martin School 34 Broad Street, Oxford
CANCER STEM CELLS • REPROGRAMMING • TISSUE ENGINEERING • ORGANOIDS • REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
OSCI Symposium is an international event, unifying scientists and clinicians working in stem cells research in various fields of translational medicine.
Agenda
monday 3rd november, Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD
| Speaker | Title | Chair | |
| 9.30 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 10.15 | Welcome Colin Goding | ||
| 10.20 | Richard White | Modelling melanocyte heterogeneity using human pluripotent stem cells | Colin Goding |
| 10.50 | Jamie Hackett EMBL, Rome | What does the Epigenome do? Tools to decipher the precise role of chromatin in cell fate decisions | Colin Goding |
| 11.20 | BREAK | ||
| 11.50 | Phil Jones Sanger | Pro- and anti- oncogenic mutant stem cells in normal epithelia | Carlo Rinaldi |
| 12.20 | Xin Lu Oxford | SPOTting for Epigenetic Regulators | Carlo Rinaldi |
| 12.50 | Jonathan Whitchurch iotaSciences | Automation solutions and services to accelerate your stem cell research | Carlo Rinaldi |
| 13.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.30 | Manuel Serrano Altos Labs | KEYNOTE: Recent insights into reprogramming-based cell rejuvenation | Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol |
| 15.15 | Abdenour Soufi Edinburgh | Guided Search: How Transcription Factors Navigate the Chromatin Landscape to Change Cell Identity | Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol |
| 15.45 | Sarah De Val Oxford | Understanding cell fate decisions in the vasculature | Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol |
| 16.15 | BREAK | ||
| 16.45 | Eugenia Piddini Bristol | Mechanisms of P53-mediated cell competition in human stem cells | Francis Szele |
| 17.15 | Molly Stevens Oxford | New bioengineering strategies for advanced therapeutics and regenerative medicine | Francis Szele |
| 17.45 | END | ||
| 19.00 | SPEAKERS’ DINNER |
tuesday 4th november, Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD
| Speaker | Title | Chair | |
| 9.30 | ARRIVALS | ||
| 10.15 | Welcome: Francesco Boccellato | ||
| 10.20 | Carlo Rinaldi Oxford | Bench to Bedside: Leveraging Human-Derived Stem Cells for Scalable Therapies in Rare Neurological Diseases | Francesco Boccellato |
| 10.50 | Peter Rugg Gunn Babraham | Establishing the Epigenome in Human Development and Pluripotency | Francesco Boccellato |
| 11.20 | BREAK | ||
| 11.50 | Paul Riley Oxford | Regeneration of the cardiac conduction system | Sarah De Val |
| 12.20 | Ian Chambers Edinburgh | Transcription factor function in pluripotent and germline cells | Sarah De Val |
| 12.50 | Qkine | Sponsor’s talk | Sarah De Val |
| 13.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.30 | Rowan Taylor Nikon | Sponsor’s talk | Paul Riley |
| 14.40 | Oliver Stone | Developmental origins of vascular networks | Paul Riley |
| 15.10 | Alberto Elosegui-Artola Crick, London | ECM viscoelasticity controls tissue spatiotemporal dynamics | Paul Riley |
| 15.40 | Silvia Santos London | Madeline Lancaster LMB, Cambridge | Paul Riley |
| 16.10 | BREAK | ||
| 16.40 | Francis Szele Oxford | Long non-coding RNA regulation of postnatal neurogenesis | Richard White |
| 17.10 | Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol Oxford | To be or not to be: Survival of melanocyte stem cells and invasive melanoma | Richard White |
| 17.40 | Closing Remarks | END OF SYMPOSIUM |
Speakers
To date the following speakers have been confirmed for the event:
Jamie Hackett, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy
Madeline Lancaster, University of Cambridge
Phil Jones, University of Cambridge
Manuel Serrano, Altos Labs, Cambridge
Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Abdenour Soufi, University of Edinburgh
Ian Chambers, University of Edinburgh
Alberto Elosegui-Artola, The Francis Crick Institute, London
Eugenia Piddini, University of Bristol
Paul Riley, IDRM, University of Oxford
Xin Lu, LICR, University of Oxford
Richard White, LICR, University of Oxford
Francis Szele, DPAG, University of Oxford
Molly Stevens, DPAG, University of Oxford
Sarah DeVal, DPAG, University of Oxford
Oliver Stone, DPAG, University of Oxford
Carlos Rinaldi, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford
Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol, LICR, University of Oxford
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