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Lund Stem Cell Center's Annual Meeting

Warm welcome to our 2025 Annual Meeting in Båstad!

A group photo of all SCC members in attendance of the SCC Annual Meeting 2024.
Group photo taken at the SCC Annual Meeting in 2024.

About Lund Stem Cell Center's Annual Meeting

Each year, more than 150 members of the Lund Stem Cell Center come together for our Annual Meeting—a two-day event focused on sharing research, sparking new collaborations, and shaping the future of our community.

As the Center’s main gathering of the year, the meeting offers a unique opportunity to connect across labs, explore the latest advances in stem cell research, and engage in meaningful scientific dialogue.

What to Expect

The program features research presentations from across the Center, offering insight into new findings and ongoing projects in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Interactive workshops provide space for deeper discussion and interdisciplinary learning. This year, the annual meeting will also include:

  • Posters Sessions:
    Poster presentations are open to all, with priority given to our young researchers. Poster size: A0, portrait (display boards are 88 cm wide). There will be a best poster prize. Submit your poster abstract via the abstract submission form.
  • Young Researcher Talks:
    We encourage our PhD students and postdocs to submit abstracts in order to be considered for short oral presentations. Further information can be found in the registration form.
  • An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Session:
    This new session format highlights collaborative, unpublished projects presented jointly by two researchers from different groups and scientific disciplines. Each pair will share an ongoing project that bridges fields and engages the audience in open discussion. The focus is on feedback, troubleshooting, and identifying new directions. To be considered, please use the abstract submission form.

Between sessions, coffee breaks, shared meals, and a relaxed evening dinner create space for informal conversations and connections that strengthen our collaborative culture. Whether you're a PhD student, researcher, or staff member, the Annual Meeting is a chance to stay informed, inspired, and involved.

Welcome to the 2025 Annual Meeting

Event Details: 

Lund Stem Cell Center's Annual Meeting will take place Monday, September 15, 2025 - Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at Hotel Skansen in Båstad, Sweden.

The event is open to Principal Investigators, Researchers, Postdocs, PhD students and Technical & Administrative staff at the Lund Stem Cell Center. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate students at this time.

Registration and abstract submission closed on Tuesday, 19 August 2025.

Preliminary Program:

From Lund to Båstad

10:30 | Board the Bus - the bus departs 10:45 sharp from BMC, Sölvegatan 19 

12:00 | Arrival, registration, and store luggage at Gallerian, Hotel Skansen, Båstad

12:30 | Lunch at Restaurant Sand (mingle with PIs & TA staff); display posters in room Gallerian

Kongressalen:

Session Chair: Claire McKay, Lund Stem Cell Center Research Coordinator

13:30 | Welcome Address by Lund Stem Cell Center Director, Malin Parmar

13:40 | Updates from the Research School in Stem Cell Biology by Executive Coordinator,  Mattias Magnusson

13:50 | Updates from the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee by Co-chairs, Nick Leigh & Sofie Mohlin

14:05 | Updates from the Sustainability Committee by Helena Fritz, FACS Core Facility Engineer & Daniel Twohig, Postdoctoral Researcher (Neural Stem Cells Research Group)

Session Chairs: Ilia Kurochkin & Virginia Turati

14:10 | 'STEM-PD, no longer lost in translation due to a massive team effort' | Malin Parmar, Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology Research Group

14:30 | Leg Stretch - Poster presenters display their posters in Gallerian

14:40 | 'Histone mutations and chromatin remodelling in human disease' | Giulia Saredi, Laboratory of Molecular Neurogenetics

15:00 | Young Researcher Talks (selected from abstracts)

  1. 'A fetal-specific chromatin accessibility profile shapes lineage promiscuity in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells' | Sara Palo, PhD student, Developmental Lymphopoeisis and Leukemia Research Group
  2. 'Comprehensive Mapping of PUS7 Regulatory Networks in Developing Lymphocytes' | Alexander Germanos, Postdoc, RNA and Stem Cell Biology Research Group
  3. 'Human Brain Cell-type-specific Aging Clocks based on Single-nuclei Transcriptomics' | Chandramouli Muralidharan, PhD student, Laboratory of Molecular Neurogenetics

15:45 | Check-in to rooms, coffee

Galleriet:

16:00 | Poster session, drinks and mingle

17:30 | Free time, optional activities

Restaurant Sand:

18:45 | Dinner

07:30 | Breakfast and check-out

Kongressalen:

09:00 | Strategic Work at Lund Stem Cell Center with Director, Malin Parmar & Deputy Director, Göran Karlsson

09:30 | Article of the Year Award 2025 presentations

  • Petter Storm, Bioinformatician, Parmar Group | "Lineage tracing of stem cell–derived dopamine grafts in a Parkinson’s model reveals shared origin of all graft-derived cells"
  • Alessandro Fiorenzano, Postdoc, Parmar Group | "TARGET-seq: Linking single-cell transcriptomics of human dopaminergic neurons with their target specificity"
  • Ervin Ascic, PhD Student, Pereira Group | "In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy"

10:20 | Article of the Year Award Ceremony

10:30 | Fika & Take Group Photo

Session Chairs: Alicja Krawczun-Rygmaczewska & Franziska Olm

10:50 | StemTherapy Talks

  • 'Immune-modulatory extracellular vesicles for prevention of heart failure after a myocardial infarction' | Karl Henrik Grinnemo, StemTherapy PI partner at Uppsala University
  • 'Immune evasion of allogeneic rejection and autoimmunity for cellular transplants' | Per-Ola Carlsson, StemTherapy PI partner at Uppsala University

11:30 | Lunch at Restaurant Sand (mingle with PIs & TA staff) and final poster viewing in Gallerian (Take down posters!)

Konferensalen:

Session Chair: Christopher Douse

12:30 | 'Decoding the Human Immune–Reproductive Crosstalk at the Systems Level' | Camila Consiglio, Systems Immunology Research Group

12:50 | Young Researcher Talks (selected from abstracts)

13:35 | Leg Stretch

Session Chairs: Virginia Turati & Christopher Douse

13:45 | Interdisciplinary Collaboration Project Session

14:15 l Panel discussion on best practices for fostering collaboration:

  • Marie Jönsson, Grant Manager, Lund Stem Cell Center
  • Jenny Hansson, Principal Investigator, Lund Stem Cell Center
  • Karl Henrik Grinnemo, StemTherapy PI partner at Uppsala University
  • Sandeep Gopal, Principal Investigator, Lund Stem Cell Center

Session Chair: Göran Karlsson, Deputy Director, Lund Stem Cell Center

14:30 | Prize giving (Best Poster Award)

Closing Remarks

From Båstad to Lund

Collect luggage and coffee to go at Gallerian and prepare to leave

15:00 | Bus departure & Annual Meeting evaluation survey

16:30 | Back in Lund

Hotel Skansen spa view.
Location of the 2025 Annual Meeting: Hotel Skånsen, Båstad, Sweden

Questions? Contact:

Claire McKay
PhD, Research Coordinator
Lund Stem Cell Center
BMC, Lund University

claire [dot] mckay [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Claire[dot]McKay[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)

Organising Committee:

  • Alicja Krawczun Rygmaczewska
  • Claire McKay
  • Christopher Douse
  • Franziska Olm
  • Ilia Kurochkin
  • Indra Putra Wendi
  • Niels Bjarne Woods
  • Virginia Turati
  • Vivien Horvath

Article of the Year Award

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