Standardising Stem Cell Core Facilities in Europe - a CorEuStem Symposium
The next CorEuStem Symposium on Standardising Stem Cell Core Facilities in Europe will take place at Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27th to 28th April 2023.
The meeting will gather experts from the different core facilities in Europe and will cover the latest advances in human stem cells and gene editing technologies. It is expected the attendance of more than 60 participants from the 32 different countries members of CorEuStem COST Action.
The two-day meeting will focus on major aspects of stem cell banking, genome editing, stem cell differentiation, and quality control.
On the first day, talks from CorEuStem members and invited speakers from different core facilities worldwide are expected, as well as poster sessions to nourish fruitful discussions among all attendees. Dr. Shinsuke Yoshida, iPSC core, CiRA Foundation, from Japan, is already one of the confirmed invited speakers.
On the second day, different CorEuStem work group presentations and parallel meetings will take place, setting the course for the upcoming years of CorEuStem COST action deliverables.
Symposium Preliminary Agenda
| Day 1 : Thursday 27 April 2023 | ||
| 09:00 | Opening of the Symposium by Laura Batlle Morera (Spain) | |
| Banking | 09:25 | Session 1: Stem cell Banking introduction by Ras Trokovic (Finland) |
| 09:30 | Key note and invited speaker: Shinsuke Yoshida, (iPSC core, CiRA, Japan) Construction and evaluation of a clinical-grade HLA haplobank of iPSCs in Japan | |
| 10:15 | Selected talk 1 | |
| 10:35 | Selected talk 2 | |
| 10:55 | Coffee break | |
| Genome Editing | 11:35 | Session 2: Genome editing introduction by Rivka Ofir (Israel) |
| 11:40 | Invited speaker: Bjorn Holst (Bioneer A/S, Denmark) Gene Editing in Disease Modelling | |
| 12:10 | Selected talk 3 | |
| 12:30 | Industry representatives 1 | |
| 12:50 | Lunch & Poster session | |
| Differentiation | 14:35 | Session 3: Differentiation introduction by Sedlacek Radislav (Czechia) |
| 14:40 | Selected talk 4: Cell type Differentiation 1 | |
| 15:00 | Selected talk 6: Cell type Differentiation 2 | |
| 15:20 | Selected talk 7: Organ on chip 1 | |
| 15:40 | Selected talk 8: Organ on chip 2 | |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| Quality control | 16:40 | Session 4: Quality control introduction by Ole Pless (Germany) |
| 16:45 | Opening speaker: TBD Title to be announced soon | |
| 17:15 | Selected talk 9 | |
| 17:35 | Industry representatives 2 | |
| 17:55 | End of Day 1 | |
| 18:00 | Champalimaud Foundation laboratory tour (optional) | |
| 18:45 | Bus to the city centre | |
| 19:30 | Welcome drink (Sponsored by Turismo de Lisboa) | |
| 20:30 | Social Dinner (Sponsored by Turismo de Lisboa) | |
| Day 2 : Friday 28 April 2023 | ||
| 10:00 | Opening of day 2 by Laura Batlle Morera (Spain) | |
| 10:10 | Update of WG1: Harald Stachelsheid, Tamer Onder | |
| 10:30 | Update of WG2: Sebastian Diecke, Pia Johansson | |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Update of WG3: Lyn Healy, Vincent Timmerman | |
| 11:50 | Update of WG4: Mehrnaz Ghazvivi, Una Riekstina | |
| 12:10 | Update of WG5: Katriina Aalto-Setälä, Adrien Roux | |
| 12:30 | Update of WG6: Ana C Certal Afonso, Inês Figueira | |
| 12:50 | Lunch & Poster session | |
| 14:35 | WG meetings (with specific agenda) | |
| 16:05 | Coffee break | |
| Instrument | 16:45 | Instruments overview in cores facilites within CorEuStem by Giovanni Faga (Human Technopole, Italy) |
| Ethics | 17:15 | Ethics in stem cell research by Andreas Kurtz (hPSCreg® , Germany) |
| 17:35 | General discussion | |
| 17:55 | Closing session by Laura Batlle Morera (Spain) | |
| 18:05 | End of Day 2 | |
| 18:30 | City tour (optional) | |
