CRYO2017 Scientific Program
The first day of CRYO2017 features a full program of cutting edge plenary sessions presented by the world's leading scientists from the USA, UK and China. The latter part of the day is devoted to Biobanking and ISBER Best Practices: Biorepositories 101.
The second and third days of the meeting feature eight symposia devoted to all areas of cryobiology, biopreservation, and biobanking.
Update June 8: Download the CRYO2017 Daily Program Summary to see the times and locations of all symposia and events.
July 21 Plenary Sessions
Plenary Lectures #1: Fundamentals, advances and innovations in cryobiology, biopreservation, and biobanking (Part 1) Chairs: Jason Acker and Brent Schacter
Speaker 1: Jason Acker (Canada) Topic: Cryobiology and its great impacts on the scientific research, modern agriculture, and precision medicine
Speaker 2: Sebastian Eriksson Giwa (USA) Topic: Scaling up cryopreservation to large tissue systems: growing international support and the promise to transform medicine
Speaker 3: Dayong Gao (USA) Topic: Freezing of living cells and tissues: a great challenge for biomedical scientists and engineers
Speaker 4: Gregory Fahy (USA) Topic: Novel technology and advances in tissues and organs cryopreservation: mechanisms, technology, and applications
Plenary Lectures #1 (Part 2): Fundamentals, advances and innovations in cryobiology, biopreservation, and biobanking Chairs: Erik Woods and Jim Vaught
Speaker 5: Kelvin Brockbank (USA) Topic: Translating ice-free vitrification to human transplant sized tissue models
Speaker 6: Xiaoxi Wei (USA) Topic: Cryoprotectants - the Blueprint of Ice Defense: Past, Present, and Future.
Speaker 7: Xun Xu (China) Topic: Gene banking and precision medicine
Speaker 8: Qiang Tian (USA) Topic: P4 Precision medicine and biobanking (P4: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory)
Plenary Lectures #2 – Best practices for biobanking and biorepositories Chairs: Zisis Kozlakidis, Hengjun Gao
Speaker 9: Hengjun Gao (China) Topic: Biobanking in China and its modern applications.
Speaker 10: Jim Vaught (USA) Topic: Biobanking in the world: the past, present, and future
Speakers 11-14 will focus on the following topic: ISBER Best Practices: Biorepositories 101.
Speaker 11: Brent Schacter (Canada) Speaker 12: Zisis Kozlakidis (UK) Speaker 13: Kathy Sexton (USA) Speaker 14: William Grizzle (USA)
July 22-23
Symposium #1 Advances in basic and applied cryobiology research Chairs: Tamotsu Hoshino and Gregory Fahy
Symposium #2 Modern technology of biopresevation and entrepreneur Chairs: Wendell Sun, Kelvin Brockbank
Symposium #3 Cryopreservation of stem cells and immune cells Chairs: Xiaoming He, Tingyu Qu, Erik Woods
Symposium #4 Cryopreservation of reproductive cells and tissues Chairs: Yunxia Cao, Yuksel Agca
Symposium #5 Animal cryobiology and conservation of endangered species Chairs: Tiantian Zhang, Weizhi Ji
Symposium #6 Plant cryobiology and cryopreservation Chairs: Haeng-hoon, Barbara M. Reed, Xiaohui Shen, Qiaochun Wang
Symposium #7 Gene cryopreservation/banking and it applications in precision medicine Chairs: Jufang Huang, Xun Xu,
Symposium #8 Cryopreservation of blood cells and blood products Chairs: Arthur Rowe and Zhong Liu
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