As part of the recent NIHR award to the Imperial BRC, we are establishing the Imperial BRC Organoid Facility. This workshop is the launch event of the Organoid Facility as well as to a workshop series that aims to engage with a wide audience within the College.
The Organoid Facility will serve as a research and training hub to decrease the barrier to access stem cell and organoid related methods. The Facility will support organoid work (iPSC or adult biopsy-derived culture) by operating a main laboratory for general culture and future biobanking. To support the growing community in Imperial who would like to use organoid models as the main focus or addition to their projects, the Facility will provide know-how, related training, and options to develop complex disease models and generate multi-omics readouts. The Organoid Facility could also support grant applications and large projects including organoid works (from sample collection to publication ready data analysis).
This launch event will present the basic functions of the Facility and its 5-year strategy on modeling genetic and complex diseases, developing precision medicine approaches and novel technologies for high-throughput or in-depth analysis. The workshop will point out how you can engage with the Facility, and highlight opportunities that one could achieve together with the Facility. The functions of the main Organoid Facility Laboratory and modes to access it will also be discussed. The workshop will showcase various existing projects and applications to inspire future work. Coffee break and lunch will be provided to allow networking. Free registration is essential to attend the workshop.
This workshop will be held on Monday 20th of March 2023, 10-2pm (GMT) and will be held on the 7th Floor, MRC LMS Building in Hammersmith Campus.
This is a registration only event and the in-person number of participants is restricted to 100. Please register early to avoid disappointment.
Program:
10:00-10:30 – Introductions
- Mark Thursz, Director of the NIHR Imperial BRC
- Tamir Rashid, Facility Co-Lead: Disease modelling with organoids
- Harry Leitch, Facility Co-Lead: iPSC organoids
- Tamas Korcsmaros, Facility Co-Lead: Precision Medicine and host-microbiome interactions
10:30-11:30 – Research talks and opportunities
- Darryl Overby: Convergence aspects to bridge bioengineering and medical research
- Jia Li: Gut organoids
- Simon Schultz: Brain organoids
- Clare Lloyd: Lung on a chip models
11:30-11:45 – Coffee break
11:45-12:45 – Translational talks
- Victoria Salem: Stem cell models in diabetes research
- Vanessa Sancho Shimizu: Organoids in Infectious disease research
- Beata Wojciak-Stothard: Pre-clinical modelling of pulmonary hypertension
- Nick Powell: Organoids in IBD research
12:45-13:00 – Q&A
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
The lunch is kindly sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies Ltd.
