Organoids: Engineering Innovative Approaches for Basic and Translational Insight (Z2)
May 11-14, 2025  | Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, BC, Canada
Quinton Smith, Matthias Lutolf and Kelly R. Stevens
Scholarship Deadline: Mar. 12, 2025 | Abstract Deadline: Apr. 18, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Mar. 26, 2025
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 8 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, May 11, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Macdonald Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Macdonald Foyer
Monday, May 12, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Woodlands Terrace
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Macdonald EF
7:30–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Macdonald EF
8:00–9:45 AM Welcome and Keynote Session (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Session Chair
 
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
 
  Matthew F Krummel, University of California, San Francisco
Tissue Archetypes Across Space and Time
 
  Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University
Organs-on-Chip Models for Studying Human Pathophysiology
 
9:45–10:15 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
10:15–10:20 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Macdonald ABCD
10:20–11:30 AM High-Throughput Approaches to Model Cells and Tissues (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Chrysothemis Brown, Sloan Kettering Institute
Session Chair
 
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
 
  Dana Pe'er, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Plasticity in the Tissue Context
 
  Peter Winter, Broad Institute
Defining, Modeling, and Targeting Cell States in Cancer
 
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Woodlands Terrace
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Macdonald EF
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions MacDonald CD
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
 
  Oscar J. Abilez, Stanford University
Perfusion Of Human Cardiac Vascularized Organoids
 
  Meghan Capeling, Genentech
Dictionary Of Human Intestinal Organoid Responses to Secreted Niche Factors at Single Cell Resolution
 
  Alexander Kleger, Institute of Molecular Oncology and Stem Cell Biology, Ulm University
3D Bioprinting Leverages Mature Pancreatic Ductal Tube Formation and Advances Early-Stage Cancer Modelling
 
  Jessica Klein, Genentech
The Differentiation State of Small Intestinal Organoid Models Influences Prediction of Drug-Induced Toxicity
 
  Alison P. McGuigan, University of Toronto
Engineered Tumours Containing Patient Derived Pancreatic Organoids and Primary Macrophages To Dissect The Relative Impact Of Multiple Tumour Microenvironmental Signals on Tumour Cell Behaviour
 
  M. Carmen Ortuño Costela, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
Generation Of Hepatocyte Organoids From Primary Hepatocytes
 
  Chris Yankaskas, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Derivation Of a Cohort Of Patient-Derived Cancer Organoids for Screening Immunotherapy Efficacy
 
  Tobias Raabe, University of Pennsylvania
Lipid Nanoparticles For Rapid Cell Type Specific Genome Editing Of A MASH Patient Liver Derived 3D Fibrosis Model
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Controlling the Organoid Microenvironment MacDonald CD
  Celeste M Nelson, Princeton University
Mechanical Drivers of Lung Development
 
  * Alex Hughes, University of Pennsylvania
Engaging the Design Cycle of Rhythmic Stem Cell Biology in Developing and Synthetic Kidney Tissues
 
  Pilnam Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
ECM Control of Organoid Fate
 
  * Matthias Lutolf, Roche Institute of Human Biology and EPFL
Modeling Tumor–Microenvironment Crosstalk in Bioengineered Organoids
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Woodlands Terrace
8:00–11:00 AM Reverse Engineering Embryogenesis MacDonald CD
  Margherita Y Turco, Friedrich Miescher Institute
Organoid Models to Investigate Maternal-Fetal Interactions in Human Pregnancy
 
  Jared Toettcher, Princeton University
Gastruloid Patterning
 
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Microfluidic Models of Vascularization
 
  * Xihe Liu, Johns Hopkins University
Short Talk: Gastrulation-Stage Cells Can Self-Organize and Pattern the Body Via Slit/Robo Signaling
 
  Elizabeth Wayne, University of Washington
Monocytes and Macrophages Incorporated Lung Airway Organoids
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Macdonald EF
11:00–3:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Macdonald EF
1:30–2:45 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) MacDonald CD
  Oscar J. Abilez, Stanford University
Senior Scientist-Stanford & Co-Founder-Bullseye Biotechnologies
 
  Giuliana Rossi, Roche Institute of Human Biology
Senior Scientist
 
  Lei Tang, Nature Methods
Senior Editor
 
3:00–4:30 PM Advances in Single Cell Biology and Organoids for Precision Medicine (Joint) Macdonald AB
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
 
  * Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Session Chair
 
  Oshiomah Oyageshio, University of California Davis
Remote Presentation: Integrating Single Cell Multiomics and Ancestry to Investigate TB susceptibility
 
  Joshua De Sousa Casal, Boston Children's Hospital
Early Life Development of The Pediatric Duodenum Across Distinct Geographical Environments
 
  Kaitriana Colling, University of Iowa
Lead Compound Identification Using Live-Cell Imaging of Patient-Derived Endometrial Cancer Organoids
 
  Hyung-Sik Kim, Pusan National University
TGFβ2-Driven Iron Dysregulation and Ferroptosis in Salivary Glands Trigger Hyposalivation Under Postmenopausal Conditions
 
  Gat Rauner, Tufts University School of Medicine
Next-Generation Breast Organoids as a Platform for Studying Human Lactation and Breast Tissue Regeneration
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Organoid Vascularization MacDonald CD
  Kelly R. Stevens, University of Washington
Deploying 3D Printing to Vascularize Organoids
 
  * Britta Trappmann, TU Dortmund University
Vascularization of Organoids in Synthetic Extracellular Matrices
 
  Clement Quintard, University of British Columbia
Short Talk: Engineering Organoids-On-Chip With Flow Dynamics To Model Organ-Specific Vascularization And Immune-Enhanced Cellular Cross-Talk In Cardiac Tissues
 
  * Mingxia Gu, UCLA
Short Talk: Reconstructing Organ-Specific Vasculature In iPSC-Derived Lung And Intestinal Organoids
 
  Giuliana Rossi, Roche Institute of Human Biology
Short Talk: Improved Human Gastruloids as Templates for Complex Organogenesis
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Woodlands Terrace
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Macdonald EF
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Woodlands Terrace
8:00–11:00 AM Programmable Organoids MacDonald CD
  Anne Grapin-Botton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Remote Presentation: High Content Screening in Human Pancreatic Organoids
 
  Martin Fussenegger, ETH Zürich
Remote Control of Cellular Behavior
 
  Karmella Haynes, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Controlling Chromatin Epigenetics in 3D Breast Cancer Spheroids
 
  Sachin N Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Engineering Optogenetic Control of Anisotropic Strain for Sculpting Epithelial Morphogenesis
 
  Louis S Prahl, University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Synthetic Control of Epithelial Morphogenesis by RET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase
 
  * Michael Blatchley, Syracuse University
Short Talk: Spatiotemporally Controlled Matrix Softening Facilitates Deterministic Crypt Formation In iPSC- Derived Intestinal Organoids
 
  * Steven Caliari, University of Virginia
Short Talk: Spatiotemporal Control of Hydrogel Stress Relaxation for Creating Viscoelastic 3D Cell Culture Microenvironments
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
9:20–9:25 AM People's Choice Poster Award Announcement MacDonald CD
11:00–3:00 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions MacDonald CD
  * Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
 
  Marianna Kruithof-de Julio, Universität Bern
- Bladder Cancer-On-Chip: A 3D Model To Study Human Urothelial Tumors Under Physiological Stretch
 
  Madelyn Arzt, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Protein-Encapsulated Doxorubicin Reduces Cardiotoxicity In Hipsc-Cardiac Spheroids While Maintaining Anticancer Efficacy
 
  Martin Stahl, STEMCELL Technologies
IntestiCult™ Plus Organoid Growth Medium Provides A Novel Means Of Establishing And Maintaining Physiologically-Relevant Intestinal Organoids
 
  Samrawit Aforki, abbvie
Development of a Complex Human Skin Model to Investigate the Impact of Therapeutic Intervention on Vicious Cycle of Atopic Dermatitis
 
  Joram Mooiweer, University Medical Center Groningen
Advanced Intestine-On-Chip And Immuno-Organoid Models To Study Intestinal Diseases And Test Novel Treatments
 
  Jyoti Rao, Institute of Human Biology
Single Lumen Neuroepithelial Cyst-Derived Neural Organoids
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–6:15 PM Physical Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis MacDonald CD
  Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
Mechanobiology of Intestinal Organoids
 
  * Austin J Graham, University of California, San Francisco
Living Materials Promote the Self-Organization of More Complex and Reproducible Organoid Models
 
  * Martina Celotti, Hubrecht institute
Short Talk: Distinct Mutational Oncogenic Combinations, introduced by CRISPR in human basal airway Organoids, Drive the Emergence of Small Cell or Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
 
6:15–6:30 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions and Survey (Organizers) MacDonald CD
6:30–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Woodlands Terrace
Thursday, May 15, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure