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IZN Scientific Events IZN Retreat 2025

A human brain organoid — Image: Veronica Krenn

IZN Retreat Program 2025

The IZN Retreat 2025 took place in the beautiful Kloster Schöntal, Germany from Sunday, July 13^th to Monday, July 14^th. In this year, our esteemed speakers delved into the rapidly expanding opportunities available for neuroscience research using human brain organoids: from neurodevelopment to disease models to drug discovery platforms.

Invited Speakers 2025

Tabelle

Speaker	Institute	Talk Title
Alberto Catanese	University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany	Exploiting CNS organoids to link traumatic injuries and genetic predisposition in a “double-hit” model of neurodegeneration
Gray Camp	University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland	Exploring human neural models at single-cell resolution
Marisa Karow	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany	Aberrant formation of long-range projections across different neurodevelopmental disorders converges on molecular and cellular nexuses
Veronica Krenn	University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy	Brains under stress: Utilizing brain organoid models to investigate immune challenges in early development
Lena Kutcher	German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany	iPSC-derived cerebellar organoids as models for development and disease
Dominik Lindenhofer	European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany	Tissue-mediated growth control in cerebral organoids
Simon T. Schäfer	Technische Unviersität München, Munich, Germany	New approaches to decode human microglia phenotypes in health and disease