Thanks for registering to Embryonic/Extraembryonic Interfaces: Engineering Development. Looking forward to seeing you! PROGRAMME: Virtual Embryonic-Extraembryonic Interface: Engineering Development: 22nd July 2021 Session 1 (Chair: Miguel Manzanares + Shankar Srinivas) –– Extraembryonic lineages in development 9:55 Welcome + introduce speakers 10:00 Keynote 1: Isabel Migeotte (University of Brussels, Belgium): “Establishment of the maternal-fetal interface relies on intermediate filaments dynamics”. 10:30 Harunobu Kawaga (Nicolas Rivron´s lab, IMBA, Austria): “Four features of human blastoids that model human blastocysts”. 10:55 Diane Pelzer (Jean Leon Maitre´s lab, (Institute Curie, France): “Myo1c mutants reveal ectopic contractions as the cause of cellular fragmentation in preimplantation embryos” 11:20 Selected talk 1 (Institute): Title 11:40 Coffee Break Session 2 (Chair: Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes+ Isabel Migeotte) – Preimplantation development 12:00 Welcome + introduce speakers 12.05 Keynote 2: Kathy Niakan (The Francis Crick Institute UK): Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos 12:35 Katarzyna Filimonow (Anna Piliszek´s lab, Polish Academy, Poland) “Stage-sensitive potential of isolated rabbit ICM to differentiate into extraembryonic lineages”. 13:00 Thomas Oliver (Sam Behjati´s lab, Sanger Institute, UK) “Using somatic mutations to study human placental development”. 13:25 Selected talk 2 (Institute): Title 13:45 lunch break Session 3 (Chair: Silvia Munoz Descalzo + Kathy Niakan) - Cellular communication 14:40 Welcome + introduce speakers 14:45 Vicente Perez Garcia (Margherita Turco´s lab, University of Cambridge, UK: “The role of BAP1 in human and mouse trophoblast stem cells” 14:10 Simon Schardt (Sabine Fischer´s lab, CCTB, Germany) “How cell differentiation patterns are influenced by the range of cell-cell communication” 14:35 Selected talk 3 15:55 Keynote 3: Kat Hadjantonakis (Sloan Kettering, USA): “Challenging dogma: the gut endoderm as an embryonic and extra-embryonic mosaic”. Session 4 (Chair: Berenika Plusa + Kat Hadjantonakis) 16:25 Closing remarks + discussion/round table 17:00 End