GSCN on Tour - Stem Cell Day in Leipzig 31 March 2025

Date: 31 March 2025        All welcome / Attendance is free
Time: 13:30 - 18:15h & reception
Venue: Liebigstrasse 21,
Central Lecture Theatre
Zoom-Link for hybrid participation                                

Flyer
Speaker:
14 - 15:45h Session I:
Ulrike Köhl
(Fraunhofer IZI / Medical Faculty)
Saxocell: Precision therapy cluster for Saxony
Claudia Claus
(Institute for Virology)
Using pluripotent stem cells to model virus infection during development
Paula Schweizer / Maxi Harzer / Clara Kiesewetter
(Veterinary Medicine)
Intestinal organoids in veterinary medicine
15:45 - 16:15 Break: Coffee & Cookies

16:15 - 18:15h Session II:
Zoltan Ivics
(Fraunhofer IZI / Medical Faculty)
Gene therapy challenges and solutions
Volker Arps
(Bio-Techne)
Bio-Techne solutions for stem cell-based applications
Michael Cross
(Dept. of Hematology)
Hematopoietic stem cell metabolism
Matthias Meier
(Biochemical Cell Technology)
Stem cell derived vessels on a chip

18:15  - 19:00h Reception: Informal get together with Drinks and Finger Food

GSCN on Tour: Stem Cell Day in Hannover 2 April 2025

Date: 2 April 2025        All are welcome / Attendance free
Venue: MHH, Lecture Hall G, Builiding I1 

ZOOM LInk for HYBRID PARTICIPATION     
Program:
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome & Coffee
1. Session
10:30 - 10:45  Daniel Besser, GSCN
10:45 – 11:15 Ruth Olmer „In vitro modelling of inherited lung diseases using iPSC-derived cells”
11:15 – 11:45 Tobias Cantz “Individualized iPSC models of liver diseases: ethical and biomedical implications”
11:45 – 12:15 Carola Voss – “Lung organoids for delineating perturbation patterns in respiratory health”

12:15 – 13:00 Light Lunch
2. Session
13:00 – 13:30 Ulrich Martin – “hiPSC-based Heart Repair in a Non-Human Primate Model of Myocardial Infarction”
13:30 – 14:00 Robert Zweigerdt – „Making and repairing hearts with human pluripotent stem cells”
14:00 – 14:30 Eppendorf, tbc
14:30 – 15:00 Axel Schambach – “Translation of gene therapies using hematopoietic stem cells”

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee & Cookies
3. Session
15:30 – 16:00 Florian Perner “Menin-MLL inhibition: Targeting chromatin to disrupt aberrant self-renewal in leukemia”
16:00 – 16:30 Constanza Figueiredo “Blood Pharming: Engineering Megakaryocytes for transfusion, diagnostic and regenerative medicine”
16:30 – 17:00 Nico Lachmann  “Advanced Generation of Human Immune Cells from iPSC: In Process Cryopreservation meet Continous
                                                           Production of Immune Cells”

17:00 – 19:00 GET TOGETHER with Finger Food and Drinks

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Dresden 2024

Date: 24 April 2024
Venue: MPI-CBG Dresden, Pfotenhauerstraße 108, 01307 Dresden
Flyer
Speaker:
Barbara Ludwig, University Hospital Dresden & Anthony Gavalas, PLID
Macroencapsulation of human PS cell derived islet-like clusters
Mareike Albert (CRTD)
Gene regulatory mechanisms in neural stem cells
Claudia Ball (NCT/UCC and DKFZ))
Patient-derived cancer models for precision oncology and beyond
Break
Ingmar Glauche (TUD)
Clonality in hematopoesis: a computational perspective
Jacqueline Tabler (MPI-CBG)
Collagen structures maintains mesenchymal stem cell fate and complex nuclear shape in the skull
Ryan Conder, Stem Cell Technologies
Organoids as tools for drug development

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Lübeck & Kiel 2023

Date: 1 March 2023
Seminarraum (CBBM S1/S2 (Loewi))
Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)
Universität zu Lübeck, Geb. 66
23562 Lübeck
Flyer
Anja Trillhaase, Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck:
"2D and 3D stem cell models for cardiovascular research“
Franz-Josef Müller, Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie ZIP gGmbH, Campus Kiel:
“Modelling chronic inflammatory disorders with hiPSC: The curious case of the Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome”
Matthias Brandenburger, Fraunhofer IMTE:
“Technological challenges for (stem) cell technology. – A perspective from Fraunhofer IMTE”
Philip Seibler, Stem Cell Platform, Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Luebeck and
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein:
“Stem Cells: Platform and Neuronal Disease Modeling”
David Holthaus, AG Meyer/Laboratory of Infection Oncology, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel:
"Organoid models for infection research"

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Hamburg 2023

Date: 27 February 2023
Time: 14:00 - 17:30 h lectures; 17:30 - 19 h: social event with drinks and snacks
Venue:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf
Campus Lehre (N55), Raum 210/211
Martinistraße 52
20246 Hamburg
Flyer
Speaker:
Ole Pless, Annika Wittich, Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort:
„Human pluripotent stem cell based efficacy and safety models for preclinical drug discovery“
Baris Tursun, Universität Hamburg:
„Identifying reprogramming barriers in genetic model organisms and translation to human cells“
Kristoffer Riecken, Lea-Isabell Schwarze, Boris Fehse, UKE, Interdisziplinäre Klinik und Poliklinik für Stammzelltransplantation:
„Permanent genetic modifications for basic research and clinical translation“
Arne Hansen / Kinga Wrona, UKE, Institut für Experimentelle Pharmakologie und Toxikologie:
„Generation of engineered heart tissue from human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes“
„Human iPSC-derived multi-cell-type engineered heart tissues as an advanced model for pathological cardiac hypertrophy”
Sandra Lubitz, Evotec SE:
„Precision drug discovery with iPSC models as a gamechanger for future medicines“