Program

10 March 2011


10.00-11.00 Registration
10.50 Opening


11.00-11.30 Induced pluripotent stem cells for in vitro disease modeling and tissue repair

Tomo Saric

Institute for Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Germany


11.30-12.00 Stem cells in myocardial regeneration and repair

Zoltán Papp

Division of Clinical Physiology Medical & Health Science Centre,

University of Debrecen, Hungary


12.00-12.30 Transposon Technologies to manipulate the stem cell genome

Zoltán Ivics

Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany


12.30-12.45 Induction of pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by Sleeping Beauty (SB)

Transposon mediated gene transfer

András Dinnyés

BioTalentum Ltd, Gödöllő, Hungary,

Molecular Animal Biotechnology Laboratory, Szent Istvan University, Gödöllő, Hungary


12.45-13.30 Buffet lunch(sandwiches)


13.30-14.00 Mesenchymal stem cells: plasticity and application

Oscar Kuang-Sheng Lee

Institute of Clinical Medicine, Stem Cell Research Center,

National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan


14.00-14.30 Molecular analysis of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation

Jan E. Brinchmann

Cell Therapy Centre, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway


14.30-15.00 Poly(ADP-ribose): a signalling molecule in mesenchymal stem cells?

László Virág

Department of Medical Chemistry, Medical & Health Science Centre,

University of Debrecen, Hungary


15.00-15.30 Coffee break


15.30-16.00 Adipose tissue as a source of cells with angiogenic potential

Krisztina Szőke

Cell Therapy Centre, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway


16.00-16.30 Propagation and differentiation of neural stem cells at different O2 levels: comparative studies in vitro and in vivo.

Emilia Madarász

Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology

Institutes of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary


16.30-16.45 Resident vascular progenitor cells

Zoltán Veréb

Department of Immunology, Medical & Health Science Centre,

University of Debrecen, Hungary


16.45-17.00 Nitric oxide protects mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes against simulated ischemia/reoxygenation injury

János Pálóczi

Cardiovascular Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary


17.00-17.15 Bone regeneration by human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells

Áron Szepesi

Creative Cell Ltd.,Budapest, Hungary


20.00- Reception


11 March 2011


8.30-9.00 Vascular stem cell therapy for ischaemic retinopathies

Alan W. Stitt

Centre for Vision & Vascular Science, School of Medicine, 

Dentistry & BioMedical Science,Queen"s University Belfast,

Royal Victoria Hospital, Northern Ireland


9.00-9.30 Iris and ciliary body isolated human stem cells for future ophthalmic therapy

Goran Petrovski

Departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Hungary


9.30-9.45 Comparison of NOD-like receptors in limbal stem cell-derived corneal epithelial cells and in immortalized corneal epithelial cell line.

Aliz Varga

Department of Immunology, Medical and Health Science Centre, University of Debrecen, Hungary


9.45-10.00 Arginine methylation in stem cell derived neurons

Zoltán Simándi

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen


10.00-10.30 Coffee break


10.30-11.00 Effects of autologous transplantation of bone marrow

mononuclear cells in patients with peripheral artery disease – 10 years experience 

Tsutomu Imaizumi

Department of Cardio-Vascular Medicine,

Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan


11.00-11.30 Cell or cigarette for Buerger’s disease

-Both’ is not an option

Ruchan Akar

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center,

University School of Medicine, Dikimevi, Ankara, Turkey


11.30-12.00 Autologous bone marrow-derived stem cell therapy in

Buerger"s disease

Zoltán Boda

Institute of Medicine, Medical & Health Science Centre,

University of Debrecen, Hungary


12.00-12.30 Characterisation of human embryonic stem cell-derived endothelial cells
Gábor Földes

National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London,UK


12.30-13.00 Cross-talk of immune cells in vessel regeneration and repair

Éva Rajnavölgyi

Department of Immunology, Medical & Health Science Centre,

University of Debrecen, Hungary