The recently established NIHR Imperial BRC Organoid Facility is organising a workshop on the current and future projects involving brain organoids. The aim of this half-day event is to connect people having existing resources and expertise within the College with those who are interested to complement these efforts.
Therefore, the workshop is relevant for anyone already working with brain organoids and interested in expanding the source samples, the complexity of their experimental setup, and the readout of their data. Likewise, those who are not yet working with brain organoids but have a biomedical or an engineering interest to start working with brain organoids or with those who already work with them are very much welcome to join.
The first half of the workshop will contain selected talks from those who register and express interest. While in the second half of the event there will be short, focused networking group discussions to identify connections, missing resources, and ways of how the BRC Organoid Facility can support brain organoid research work at Imperial College. Coffees and lunch will be provided.
Agenda
10:00 Opening: Tamas Korcsmaros (Imperial BRC Organoid Facility)
10:05 Keynote talk: Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu (Department of Infectious Disease): Modelling viral encephalitis using cerebral organoids
10:30-11:30 Short talks
10:30-10:45 Yuchen Xiang (Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction): Developing Mass Spectrometry Imaging methods for the metabolic profiling of cells and organoids
10:45-11:00 Robert Dickinson (Surgery & Cancer): Neuroprotection studies using in vitro brain slice models
11:00-11:15 Adrien Rapeaux (Electrical and Electronic Engineering): Organoids for therapeutic entrainment using network-wide stimulation paradigms
11:15-11:30 Nelofer Syed (Brain Sciences): Metabolic therapies for adult glioblastoma
11:30-11-50: Coffee Break (Ex Libris Café)
11:50-13:00 Group discussions on future brain organoid research at Imperial
13:00-14:00 Networking lunch (Ex Libris Café)
Registration and expressing interest in presenting (deadline: 13th November)