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The first European Stem Cells Core facilities symposium took place in Lisbon

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:

The follow up session for “Basic training on maintenance of Pluripotent Stem Cells” will take place on 30 November 2022 at 11:00 CET. During this session, you get the possibility to ask your questions or troubleshot culture methods and protocols. Register here to attend this training. Please take a moment to fill our survey and...

The next CorEuStem Symposium will take place at Champalimoud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. The Core Group meeting will occur on 26th, followed by the annual meeting from 27th-28th April 2023. More information will follow here.

First year CorEuStem short term scientific mission allowed hands-on training on hPSC culture, primary cells transduction towards pluripotency and small molecule screening using hPSCs. Karina Goluba, research assistant from University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) was introduced to the Professor Jolanda van Hengel laboratory, in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University (Belgium), where she...

To mark Stem Cell Awareness Day on October 12 2022, COST highlighted CorEuStem network of researchers as a hub, working to foster greater understanding about stem cell research and potential applications for millions of people suffering from incurable diseases and injury. Stem cells have changed the way we know the human body, its development, and...

NEW DATE – The second webinar of CorEuStem Working Group 2 will take place online next September 30th at 11 am CET. Base Editing & Prime Editing in hiPSCs – an alternative to HDR? Registration link: https://forms.gle/N2LJjdTU1Uv1VKsG8

The first CorEuStem Annual meeting already took place a month ago, on 29th-30th June 2022, in the sunny Castelldefels, Spain. Management Committee (MC) members from 28 countries of the 36 belonging to CorEuStem COST Action met in the same room to discuss common strategies to foster Stem Cell & Gene Editing research, aiming to standardise methodologies...