Assembloids & Complex Cell-Cell Interactions across Tissues & Organs
December 8 -11, 2025
Abstract Deadline: October 13, 2025
Organizers:
Christine Mummery, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University
Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute
We are pleased to announce a new Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting, Assembloids and Complex Cell-Cell Interactions across Tissues and Organs, which will begin on the evening of Monday, December 8, 2025, and end after lunch on Thursday, December 11. Abstracts should contain new and unpublished material. The selection of material for oral and poster presentations will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs.
Topics:
Tissue homeostasis and complex cell-cell interactions across organs
Physiology | Technological advances | Pathology | Evolutionary innovations
Nervous system
Circuit formation in assembloids | Neuropsychiatric disease models | Neuro-immune interactions | Transplantation models | Neuro-cancer interactions | Neuro-glial interactions
Cardiovascular and immune systems
Cardiac, muscle and vascular organoids and assembloids | Vascularization of in vitro systems | Contractility and maturation | Immune and hematological models
Gastrointestinal
Stem cell and primary tissue-derived gut and liver assembloids | Epithelial–mesenchymal interactions | Cancer and metastasis models
Embryo models
Early differentiation | Blastocyst models | Embryo models
Respiratory system
Lung organoids | Models of viral infection
Renal, urinary and reproductive systems
Kidney assembloids | Bladder assembloids and cancer models | Endometrial assembloids and implantation
Multi-organ assembloids
Combinations of one or more organotypic assembloids
Keynote Speakers:
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Yale University
Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University
Discussion Leaders:
Gay M Crooks, University of California, Los Angeles
Harsha D Devalla, Amsterdam University
Martin Hetzer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Karl Koehler, Harvard Medical School
Prisca Liberali, FMI & ETH
Emma S Lucas, University of Sheffield, UK
Guo-Li Ming, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Nowakowski, University of California, San Francisco
Emma Rawlins, University of Cambridge, England
Milica Radisic, University of Toronto
Anne Rios, Princess Máxima Center, Netherlands
Nicolas Rivron, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna
Kunyoo Shin, Seoul National University
James Wells, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Stanislaw Zakharenko, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, California Institute of Technology
Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested in participating in the meeting.
All abstracts must be submitted by the abstract deadline. Late registrations may be accepted after the abstract deadline if the meeting is not oversubscribed. In the event of over-subscription, every effort will be made to ensure that all groups who wish to participate will be represented. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from the government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Please apply in writing via email to Jess Palma and state your financial needs; preference will be given to those who submit abstracts.
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Pricing:
In-Person Fees
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1505
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1415
Academic Shared Room Package: $1300
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $990
Student Package/Double Occupancy: $1195
Student Package/No Housing Package: $885
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1935
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1420
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please inquire about availability and fees to upgrade to a private room.
NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus
Room package reservations close 2 weeks before the meeting start date