CorEuStem • COST Action CA20140

The European Network for Stem Cell Core Facilities

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The CorEuStem COST Action

The COST Action CorEuStem – The European Network for Stem Cell Core Facilities is comprised by experts in stem cell biology, differentiation, organoids and gene editing technologies with the aim of developing an efficient and effective consortium for harmonizing procedures and protocols across Europe and beyond. CorEuStem consortium seeks to become a Pan European reference point for stakeholders in stem cell biology and associated technologies.

ABOUT

Introduction to the Action

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Objectives

The main objective of the CorEuStem is to develop an efficient and effective consortium for harmonizing procedures,  protocols and tools to provide efficient benchmarking, quality control and intensive training.

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Challenge

One of the major challenges for core facilities is to keep track, evaluate and implement cutting-edge technologies. Core facilities strive to standardize, evaluate, adopt and implement new technologies in the field of hPSCs, organoid biology and gene editing

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Background

In the past 12 years, experimental approaches used in biomedical research have been reshaped by the discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the development of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology and the possibility of generating in vitro organ-like structures called organoids.

Structure

Meet our Working Groups

WG1 will define the set of protocols to be evaluated and to be put in common from the reprogramming, iPSC maintenance and culture, 2D differentiation and 3D organoids.
WG2 will define the set of protocols, reagents, and procedures to be put in common for the network regarding gene editing and CRISPR/CAS technologies.
WG3 will evaluate, and benchmark the protocols, reagents and procedures used across facilities. WG3 will be the framework that enables this comparison, identifying and establishing standardized best practice with respect to general and quality control procedures, thereby facilitating harmonization through dissemination and adoption.
WG4 will plan, design, develop and organise the training events, workshops on human development activities required for the network.
The objective of WG5 will be to build, grow and strengthen the ties between members of the CorEuStem Action as well as attracting new members.
WG6 will manage and work transversally to integrate and evolve the different technologies and actions in the network, the interactions.

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The COST Action CorEuStem welcomes research-active scientists working in the field. There are many ways to get involved.

News

Latest Updates

The Standardising Stem Cell Core Facilities in Europe – a CorEuStem Symposium took place at Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27th to 28th April 2023. The meeting gathered experts from the different core facilities in Europe and covered the latest advances in human stem cells and gene editing technologies. More than 80 participants members attended from CorEuStem COST Action. The two-day...

We are thrilled to announce upcoming CorEuStem hands-on training/workshop on induced pluripotent stem cell derivation & culturing. During this training, you will learn the mostly used techniques and protocols for generating induced pluripotent stem cells. Upon completion of this training, participants will: Target audience: PhD Students, Postdocs, Early Career Researchers, Principal Investigators, Investigators, Technicians (CorEuStem members...

Next CorEuStem webinar will be held May 5th, 2023, 14.00 – 15:00 (CET) via zoom about Cell painting technologies. Please register to attend at: https://forms.gle/e7V3STURqREv9XcPA Speaker: Dr. Jens Peter von KriesHead of the Technology Platform for Drug Discovery and Genome-wide RNA Interference Leibniz-Forschungs Institute for Molecular Pharmacology Berlin, Germany. The Screening Unit (co-financed by FMP...

CorEuStem COST Action and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) will held an advanced hands-on course on Brain Organoids that will take place at CRG, Barcelona, Spain, from 1-6th of July 2023. The course has no registration fees and has spots for 16 students. Accepted students to participate in the course will have to pay their own...

Please join us for the next webinar on “Assigning function to genes by unbiased CRISPR screens”. Date: 22nd March, 2023, 14.00 CET Institute of Biochemistry II , University Hospital Frankfurt Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Manuel Kaulich is a functional and computational geneticist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He was born in Berlin...

The second CorEuStem newsletter just came out highlighting pasts and upcoming meeting from the network, training activities organised by our WGs and updates on the STSM among other things. Download the full newsletter here: