16th Dutch Stem Cell Meeting
October 17th
2025 at 10:00 am
October 17th
2025 at 5:30 pm
UMCU, Utrecht
On the 17th of October 2025, the Dutch Society for Stem Cell Research (DSSCR) organizes the 16th Annual DSSCR symposium.
The aim of this meeting is to unite researchers from the Dutch stem cell community, thereby promoting exchange of ideas, data and future plans. This DSSCR meeting will provide a unique opportunity for master-students, PhD-students and early stage post-docs working on stem cells to present and discuss their work with the Dutch Stem Cell community in oral presentations that will be selected based on submitted abstracts.
Final year master-students, PhD-students and post-docs about to embark on their next career step in science are especially encouraged to submit an abstract and present their final results. The best oral presentation will be awarded a grant of €500.
Group leaders with a vacancy for a PhD or Post-doc position are also invited to send in their job advertisement to info@dsscr.nl for posting on the DSSCR website
Information & registration
- Conference information
The 16th Dutch Stem Cell Meeting will take place at FRIDAY 17th October 2025.
This symposium will be held again in the Pink lecture hall, UMCU, Utrecht. It starts at 10AM and finishes around 5PM.
For this symposium, we are delighted to announce the confirmation of three renowned keynote speakers in the stem cell field, Cedric Blanpain, Laura Pellegrini and Ruben van Boxtel. Cedric Blanpain, from the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer at VUB in Brussel, Belgium, is renowned for his studies on stem cells during development and homostasis in various tissues. Laura Pellegrini, from Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (CDN) at King’s College London, London UK, is renowned about her study on brain development using human stem cells derived cerebral and choroid plexus organoids. Ruben van Boxtel from the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology in Utrecht is renowed for his work on tracking the orgin of cancer.
- Registration Annual DSSCR meeting 2025
Register for the Annual DSSCR meeting 2025 17th October is closed.
- Program 2025
17th October 2025
Program 16th Annual Meeting of the Dutch Society for Stem Cell Research
October 17th 2025, Pink Lecture hall, Heidelberglaan 100, AZU/UMC Utrecht
9:00 Registration opens
9.30-09:50 Coffee/tea
09:50-10:00 Welcome: Koen Braat
Session 1 Chair: Hendrik Marks
10.00-10.15 Viviana Meraviglia (Post doc)
Characterization of cardiac models from an isogenic allelic series of LMNA-mutated hiPSC lines generated using the novel and highly-efficient targeting platform, STRAIGHT-IN
10.15-10.30 Anna Bertocci (PhD)
iPSC Population Dynamics In The “Village-In-a-Dish” Model
10.30-10.45 Casper de Visser (PhD)
Dissecting the sources of variation in neuronally differentiated iPSC lines through multi-omics analysis
10.45-11.15 Keynote lecture – Laura Pellegrini
Center for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College, UK
Building and breaking the blood-CSF barrier: Human choroid organoids reveal injury-repair dynamics
11.15-11.45 Coffee/tea
Session 2 Chair: Luc van der Laan
11.45-12.00 Veronika Ramovs (Post Doc)
KLHL24 Mutation Drives Intermediate Filament Degradation, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Fibrosis in heart failure patients
12.00-12.15 Charlotte Brice (PhD)
Ultrafast Volumetric Bioprinting Enables Precise Morphological Control of Perfusable Stem Cell-Derived Microphysiological Endocrine Pancreatic Units
12.15-12.30 Laura van Dijk (PhD)
Modeling Respiratory Virus Infections in Nasal Organoids
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Session 3 Chair: Ina Sonnen
14.00-14.15 Suzan Stelloo (Post Doc)
From stem cells to somites: revealing genetic and environmental factors of human embryogenesis
14.15-14.30 Mathangi Lakshmipathi (PhD)
Time to change: how the foetal and prepubertal testicular somatic niche prepares for sperm formation
14.30-14.45 Ridvan Cetin (PhD)
Distinct Roles of Atf3, Zfp711, and Bcl6b in Early Embryonic Hematopoietic and Endothelial Lineage Specification
14.45-15.15 Keynote lecture – Cedric Blanpain
Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Stem cell plasticity during tumor initiation
15.15-15.45 Coffee/tea
Session 4 Chair: Emile van den Akker
15.45-16.00 Virgínia Andrade (Post Doc)
Spatiotemporal proteomics reveals dynamic antagonistic gradients shaping signalling waves
16.00-16.15 Hiromune Eto (post Doc)
Frequency encoding regulates cell type composition in the small intestine
16.15-16.30 Nick Bovee (PhD)
A PRC2 roadmap: Proximity proteomics of PRC2 uncovers its regulatory interactome from naïve human pluripotency to early differentiation
16.30-17.00 Keynote lecture – Ruben van Boxtel
Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology, Utrecht
Tracing stem cell fates with single-cell genomics
17.00-17.05 Award ceremony: Ans van Pelt
17.05-18.00 Closing and Drinks: Koen Braat
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