Human Neural Stem Cells: From Generation to Differentiation and Application

I. Derivation and/or generation of human neural stem cells 1. Derivation of neural stem cells from the developing and adult human brain. Maeve Caldwell caldwelm@tcd.ie
2. Generation of neural stem cells from human after-birth tissues. David Eve deve@health.usf.edu, Poul Sanberg psanberg@usf.edu, Krystyna Domanska-Janik krystyna.dj@gmail.com, Leonora Buzanska buzanska@imdik.pan.pl 3. Derivation of neural stem cells from human somatic tissues. Anna Sarnowska a_sarnowska@o2.pl, Anna Dabrowska-Figiel ania.dabrowska2703@gmail.com 4. Generation of human neural stem cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. Eva Sykova sykova@biomed.cas.cz, Pavela Jendelova jendel@biomed.cas.cz 5. Generation of human neural stem cells by direct phenotypic conversion. Kyung-Sun Kang kangpub@snu.ac.kr

II. Differentiation and underlying mechanisms 6. Epigenetic regulation of human neural stem cell differentiation. Kinichi Nakashima kin1@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp, Sayako Katada sakatada@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp, Mizuki Hondamizuki@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp 7. Integrated genome regulation in human neural stem cells. Stachowiak MK mks4@buffalo.edu
8. Human neural stem cells and glial specification. Milosz Pekny. Milos.Pekny@neuro.gu.se
9. Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into motor neurons. Ping Wu, piwu@utmb.edu
10. Microenvironmental cues in human neural stem cell fate commitment. Leonora Buzanska buzanska@imdik.pan.pl, Marzena Zychowicz marzenazychowicz@gmail.com
11. Generation of human fetal region specific NSC by CRISP/COS genome editing. Steven Pollard Steven.pollard@ed.ac.uk
12. Generation of region specific human brain organoids. Hongjung Song, shongju1@jhmi.edu

III. Therapeutic potential of Human neural stem cells 13. Functional Multipotency of hNSCs and Its Applications in Spinal Cord Injury Research and Treatment. Yang D. Teng yang_teng@hms.harvard.edu
14. Human neural stem cells for ischemic stroke treatment. Zaal Kokaia zaal.kokaia@med.lu.se
15. Modeling pediatric and neuropsychiatric diseases using human iPSC. Evan Snyder esnyder@sbpdiscovery.org
16. Neural stem cell dysfunction in human brain diseases. Jacek Jaworski jaworski@iimcb.gov.pl, Ewa Liszewska eliszewska@iimcb.gov.pl
17. Human neural stem cells for neurodegenerative diseases treatment. Angelo Vescovi vescovia@gmail.com