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The CorEuStem Training School 2024 – Advances in reprogramming & CRISPR/Cas9 took place at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, on 16th April 2024. The meeting gathered experts from the different core facilities in Europe, covering the latest advances in human stem cells and gene editing technologies. Invited speakers included: Dr Ana Belén Álvarez-Palomo (Banc de Sang i Teixits, Barcelona,...

CorEuStem is proud to announce the official launch of the European Core Facilities Database on our webpage! Please take a look at it here. CorEuStem COST Action led the initiative to compile all Stem Cell and Gene Editing Core Facilities running in Europe, as well as the main services provided by each one of them...

European University Initiative (EUTOPIA) week took place from 4 to 6 December 2023 at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Dresden, Germany. Among the different aspects covered, during the EUTOPIA Research Infrastructures Cooperation Symposium, Interinstitutional/European Research Infrastrutures Networks were presented and discussed, including an hybrid talk given by CorEuStem members, Dr. Inês Figueira (NOVA University Lisbon) and...

Next CorEuStem webinar will be held November 9th, 2023, 11.00 – 12:00 (CET). Please register here to attend. Speaker: Dr. Leszek LisowskiChildren’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI)The University of Sydney, Australia Dr. Leszek Lisowski is a world vectorology expert with over 15 years of experience in developing and manufacturing viral vectors for human gene therapy. Currently,...

Please join us for the next webinar on “Preclinical testing of CRISPR therapeutics for inherited diseases”. Date: October 6th , 14.00h -15.00h (Berlin time) Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Cyganek University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany Please register to attend at:  https://forms.gle/zTPgawWQb9ryAdWC8 Participation by Zoom: To ensure that the meeting is accessible for all CorEuStem members. If you would...

Last weekend, on 9-10 September, it took place the first edition of CorEuStem hands-on iPSC training school at Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The course covered two days of talks and laboratory practice using human iPSC. Students from seven different countries learned how to thaw, split and cryopreserve iPSC, as well as manually...

We invite all CorEuStem members to participate in a two-day online seminar on the Fundamentals of human iPSC culture, September 9-10, 2023. Please register here to receive a Zoom link:  https://forms.gle/JDVGf2AqC96S3k8J8 The seminar program can be fond here.

23 – 24 August 2023 Gene-editors from the CorEuStem network gathered for two days, discussing post-edit quality controls and molecular karyotyping cut-off strategies. The meeting took place at the Lund Stem Cell Centre, thanks to the organising skills of the CAGT team and WG2.

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...