iPSZürich Lectures Schedule
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all lectures are to be held virtually until further notice.
Join the Meeting via Zoom:
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Meeting ID: 643 1908 3821; Passcode: 743565
funded by a GRC Grant, UZH
Organisation Committee: Melanie Eschment, Matthew Denley & Melanie Generali
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| 25th January 2022 4PM (virtual) |
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Maria Rostovskaya, PhD Brabraham Institute, Cambridge, UK |
Amniogenesis Occurs In Two Independent Waves In Primate Embryos
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29th March 2022 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany |
Recapitulating Complex Human Tissue Using Organ-On-Chip And Organoid Technologies
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5th April 2022 4PM (virtual) |
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Rob Atkinson and Maria Georgious Newcastle University, UK |
Why does faulty splicing affect the retina?
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20th April 2022 University of Zurich |
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iPSZurich Symposium University of Zurich |
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3rd May 2022 4PM (virtual) |
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Pau Sancho El Instituto Clínic de Enfermedades Digestivas y Metabólicas (ICMDM) |
Understanding Liver Fibrosis With iPSCs-Derived Hepatic Stellate Cells
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16th June 2022 4PM IREM Zurich / hybrid |
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Prof. Sara S. Nunes de Vasconcelos Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
Engineered multicellular living systems as fundamental tools in discovery and translation
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| 1st February 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Veronica Krenn, PhD Laboratory of Jürgen Knoblich, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria |
Stem Cell-Derived Brain Organoids:
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1st March 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Adrian Ranga, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, |
Bioengineering Organoid Fate And Morphogenesis
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20th April 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Pierre Vanderhaeghen, PhD VIB-KU Leuven Center for |
Human-Specific Temporal Mechanism Of Brain Development
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11th May 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Stephen A. Duncan, D. Phil. Smartstate Chair in regenerative Medicine |
Use Of An iPSC-Derived Hepatocyte Platform To Identify Treatments For Hypercholesterolemia
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1st June 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Dr Olivier Goureau, PhD Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology of the Retina |
Retinal Organoids From Pluripotent Stem Cells: From Development To Disease
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7th September 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Federica Michielin, PhD Research Follow |
Driving Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Fate In Microfluids
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25th October 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), |
Using stem cells and organoid to study human development and disease
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8th November 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Silvia Cappello, PhD Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, |
Extracellular Signaling in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Lecture Flyer TBD |
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7th December 2021 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Dr. James Adjaye Chair and Director of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine |
IMSC: Derivation, Characterization And Application In Regenerative Medicine
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17th February 2020 3PM Irchel Campus |
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Laura Pellegrini, PhD Medical Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Human brain development in cerebral organoids
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9th September 2020 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Thomas Eschenhagen, MD University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany |
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Tissue Engineered Cardiac Repair
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28th September 2020 10AM (virtual) |
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Prof. Akitsu Hotta, PhD Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto, Japan |
How to overcome immune rejection of iPS cells by genome editing
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22nd October 2020 4PM (virtual) |
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Prof. Valeria Orlova, PhD Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands |
3D Vessel-On-Chip to Model Vascular Disease and Beyond
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11th November 2020 4PM (virtual) |
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Deepak P. Srivastava, PhD King`s College London, London, United Kingdom |
iPSC modelling of Neurodevelopment and Neural Circuitry. Clinical Focus: Autism and Schizophrenia
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7th December 2020 4PM (virtual) |
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Florian Wanke, PhD Inflammation and Immunology Discovery, |
Using iPSC-derived "tissue-resident" macrophages for drug discovery
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