Programme

09:00

Arrival, coffee, tea

09:30

Opening
Corné Pieterse (chair Science for Life Programme Board) and Isabel Arends (chair Life Science Deans UU)

09:40

João Mano  University of Aveiro, Portugal,
Bioengineering cell-based constructs for tissue engineering applications

10:20

Jan van Hest  TU Eindhoven, NL, Spinoza laureate 2020,
Artificial cells: smart compartments with biomedical potential

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Julie Law  Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA,
A CLASSY way to control the epigenome

12:10

Lunch & Poster Sessions

13:40

Parallel Sessions 4x5 early-career presentations

14:55

Coffee Break

15:25

Takashi Hiiragi Hubrecht Institute, NL,
Multicellular coordination in context

16:05

Charles Rice The Rockefeller University, USA, Nobel laureate 2020
Viral hepatitis: HCV and beyond

16:45

Saskia van Mil, Programme Board Life Sciences:
Utrecht Life Sciences in perspective
Poster prize & Closure

17:00

Drinks & Bites