16th Dutch Stem Cell Meeting

October 17th 2025, UMCU, 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

The award winners

of the best presentation of 16th annual DSSCR symposium 2024 are:

Veronika Ramovs en Laura van Dijk