Emerging Science & Technologies Workshop 2025
Program
August 25
Monday
09:30-09:40 (CET)
Opening
Max Unfried, National University of Singapore
Session 1
Developmental Origins of Regeneration and Aging
09:40-10:00 (CET)
The axolotl, a new paradigm for probing the links between regeneration and ageing
Maximina Hee Yun, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China
10:00-10:20 (CET)
Reconstituting mouse embryogenesis in ex utero systems
Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, USA
10:20-10:40 (CET)
Human blastoids, implantation, and implantation failure
Jun Wu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
10:40-11:00 (CET)
Coffee break
Session 2
Synthetic Control of Life: From Cellular Systems to Lifespan Interventions
11:00-11:20 (CET)
Building sensor/actuator systems in mammalian cells with synthetic receptors
Elise Cachat, University of Edinburgh, UK
11:20-11:40 (CET)
Optogenetic engineering of cellular signaling for discovery and therapy
Max Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
11:40-12:00 (CET)
The third age of humanoid lifespan interventions - synthetic energy to challenge our current barrier
Shahaf Peleg, FBN Dummerstorf, Germany
12:00-13:00 (CET)
Lunch
Session 3
Foundation Models for Aging Biology
13:00-13:20 (CET)
Engineering Longevity Therapeutics with Foundation Models
Jonthan Gootenberg, Harvard Medical School, USA
13:20-13:40 (CET)
TBD
Sebastian Lobentanzer, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany
13:40-14:00 (CET)
TBD
TBD
14:00-14:30 (CET)
Coffee Break
Session 4
Virtual Cells: AI at the Helm of Biology
14:30-14:50 (CET)
Building a virtual cell using artificial intelligence
Yusuf Roohani, Stanford University, USA
14:50-15:10 (CET)
Virtual models of biology for programmable regenerative therapeutics
Omar Abudayyeh, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
15:10-15:30 (CET)
Designing genomes using whole-cell models and AI
Lucia Marucci, University of Bristol, UK
14:00-14:30 (CET)
Coffee Break
Session 5
16:00-16:45 (CET)
Panel Disucussion on AI in Aging Biology
16:45-17:10 (CET)
Coffee Break
Session 6
Engineering Aging: From Structure to Rejuvenation
17:10-17:30 (CET)
Aging in the tissue context
Sophia Liu, Ragon Institute of MGB, MIT, and Harvard, USA
17:30-17:50 (CET)
Probing the Wrinkles of the Nucleus in Aging Cells
Wenting Zhao, Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), Singapore
17:50-18:10 (CET)
Engineering Longevity - Computationally-guided reprogramming of single-cell aging.
Nan Hao, University of California San Diego, USA