Reverse engineering the human heart with pluripotent stem cells

Presented By: Aitor Aguirre, PhD
Speaker Biography: Dr. Aguirre is a stem cell biologist, developmental biologist and bioengineer working at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. in stem cell applications for cardiovascular tissue engineering in 2010, and followed up as a postdoc in 2011 at the Salk Institute and the University of California San Diego to acquire training in cardiac development, regeneration, stem cell reprogramming, functional genomics and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics using both human induced pluripotent stem cells and animal models.
Webinar: Reverse engineering the human heart with pluripotent stem cells
Webinar Abstract: Recent advances in stem cell technologies, synthetic development and organoid biology are enabling us to create more accurate in vitro models of human organs. Here we will discuss methods to generate developmentally relevant human heart organoids by self-organization strategies using human pluripotent stem cells. Our procedure is fully defined, efficient, reproducible, and compatible with high-content approaches. These organoids develop sophisticated internal chambers with well-organized multi-lineage cardiac cell types, recapitulate heart field formation, atrioventricular specification, develop a complex vasculature, anterio-posterior heart patterning, and exhibit robust functional activity. We also show that our organoid platform can recreate complex metabolic disorders associated with congenital heart defects.
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