Stem Cell Center Distinguished Webinar Series
This seminar series offers presentations from internationally renowned scientists in order to spark intellectual debate on the advancement of stem cell research. Topics revolve around innovation, sustainability, research culture and diversity. The seminar series is open to the wider community, but registration is required (see below for details).
Upcoming distinguished webinars:
Theme: Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation
Title: Ethics in Stem Cell Research
Date: Wednesday 20th October at 15:00 – 17:00 CET
Invited speakers: (each talk will be 30 mins, followed by 15 mins discussion)
Professor Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin, USA
Title: “Policy Choices in Genome Editing Governance”
&
Professor Adrian Krainer, CSHL Cancer Center, USA
Title: “From Bench to Bedside: Antisense Modulation of RNA Splicing”
30 minute discussion: Professor Olle Lindvall, Lund Stem Cell Center
Organisers: Christine Karlsson & Karolina Pircs
Chair: Principle Investigator Henrik Ahlenius, Lund Stem Cell Center
Contact person: Claire [dot] McKay [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Claire[dot]McKay[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)
Registration required, zoom registration link:
https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Yuc-uuqzorH9H_nXoAXFpJZzM8LbNiAa9G
Webinars yet to be announced:
Theme: Big data
Date: TBA (autumn 2021)
Invited speakers: TBA
Organisers & chairs: Shamit Soneji & Nicholas Leigh
Organising committee 2021: Nicholas Leigh, Shamit Soneji, Christine Karlsson, Karolina Pircs, Dimitra Zacharaki & Claire McKay
Past SCC distinguished webinars
May 2021:
Sustainability
Invited speakers:
Mark Post, Mosa Meat & Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Jeanne Loring, Scripps Institute, USA
Panel discussion:
Niels-Bjarne Woods, SCC
Organising committee 2020:
Cristian Bellodi, Malin Parmar, Darcy Wagner, Karolina Pircs, Fabio Rosa, Nika Gvazava & Claire McKay
March 2021:
Leadership, collaboration and team building
Invited speakers:
Professor Paola Arlotta, Harvard University, USA
Professor Masayo Takahashi, Kobe Eye Center, Japan
January 2021:
Industry and Innovation
Invited speakers:
Bobby Soni, CBO of BII, Denmark
Andreas Bosio, Miltenyi Biotec, Germany
Panel discussion:
Kerstin Jakobsson, CEO, Medicon Village
Agnete Kirkeby, Filipe Pereira & Johan Richter, WCMM & SCC
October 2020:
Frontiers in new gene therapy delivery
Invited speakers:
Professor Luigi Naldini, San Raffaele Telethon, Italy
Professor Viviana Gradinaru, Chen Institute, USA
September 2020:
Frontiers and implications of new species models
Invited speakers:
Professor Vera Gorbunova, University of Rochester, USA
Assistant Professor Amy Ryan Firth, University of Southern California, USA