Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium scientific sessions and speakers.

Cell Fates and Traits‍

Explore how cells acquire, refine, and diversify their identities, integrating developmental, stem-cell, and engineering approaches to reveal the mechanisms that guide lineage decisions and tissue formation.

Ariel Waisman

Bianka Seres

Crystal Rogers

Nika Shakiba

‍Data Analysis Across Scales

Analyze how cutting-edge computational, imaging, and engineering tools integrate information across molecular, cellular, and organismal scales to reveal the principles driving development and regeneration.

Bruno Vellutini

Christina Theodoris

Leslie Sepaniac

Sadao Ota

Model Systems and the Organism

Investigate how diverse embryos, organoids, and regenerative models uncover fundamental principles of early development, tissue formation, and the origins of developmental disorders that are relevant to human biology.

Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

Akane Kawaguchi

Marta Shahbazi

Yangfei Xiang

Spatial Awareness

Examine how cells generate, sense, and respond to spatial cues during development and regeneration, using comparative regeneration models, stem-cell–derived embryoids, and quantitative imaging to reveal the rules that guide tissue patterning and morphogenesis.

Can Aztekin

Claudia Vasquez

Gianluca Amadei

Lynn Yap