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  • 15 July — 20 July, 2018

1st Day
Full day check in
2nd Day
09:15 — 09:30
Opening ceremony
09:30 — 10:30
New approaches to skeletal cecll based bone regeneration: repair, restore and recreate
10:30 — 11:00
tea break
11:00 — 12:00
Understanding muscle stem cell dynamics in growth and regeneration
12:00 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Harnessing ex vivo and in vivo models to interrogate and validate bone formation strategies
14:30 — 15:30
Zebrafish as a model for human disease
15:30 — 16:00
Tea break
16:00 — 17:00
How to generate chemically induced pluripotency stem cells
17:00 — 18:00
Defining stem cell activity in the male germline
18:00 — 19:30
Welcome Dinner and Free Evening
3rd Day
09:30 — 10:30
Small molecule-induced cell fate reprogramming
10:30 — 11:00
tea break
11:00 — 12:00
Regulation of mesenchymal stem cells in skeletal pathogenesis and regeneration
12:00 — 13:00
Lunch
13:00 — 14:00
Understanding the epigenetic mechanisms underlying anabolic and catabolic gene regulation in osteoarthritis
14:00 — 15:00
Imaging system to study stem cell dynamics in vivo
15:00 — 22:00
Sai Kung boat tour
4th Day
09:30 — 10:30
LncRNAs and RNA-binding proteins in stem cell function and transcription regulation
10:30 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:00
Molecular mechanisms regulating germline stem cell function and fate
12:00 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
How to generate extended pluripotency stem cells
14:30 — 15:30
Approaches to study protein, DNA and RNA interaction networksa.
15:30 — 16:00
tea break
16:00 — 17:00
Chemical cues to enhance differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
17:00 — 18:00
Modification of natural origin materials for scaffold materials using bioactive molecules for regenerative medicine
18:00 — 19:30
Dinner
19:30 — 21:30
Video shows of the stem cells concept, ethics and culture techniques and group discussion
5th Day
09:30 — 10:30
Recent advances of the commercialisation for tissue engineered and regenerative products
10:30 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:00
Insights of distraction histogenesis, its biology and clinical implications and beyond
12:00 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Analysis of gene expression and transcription
14:30 — 15:30
In vivo culture systems for male germline stem cells
15:30 — 16:00
Tea break
16:00 — 16:45
Recent advances of the commercialisation for tissue engineered and regenerative products
16:45 — 18:00
Physical cus to enhance differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
18:00 — 20:30
Farewell dinner
20:30 — 22:30
Students presentations
6th Day
09:30 — 12:00
Laboratory demonstration and Hand-on
12:00 — 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 — 16:00
Laboratory demonstration and Hand-on
16:00 — 21:00
Workshop adjourns and free afternoon and evening

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