Stem Cell Day 2023 on November 17

The 2nd Stem Cell Day organized at the Institut Pasteur will take place on Friday, November 17, with a rich program involving two invited speakers and several teams from campus.

The Stem Cell initiative aims to bring together all IP scientists interested in stem cell research, from the molecular regulation of pluripotency to lineage progression, tissue and organ formation, the processes leading to physiological tissue homeostasis and its alterations as well as tissue aging, remodeling, and regeneration.

The next edition of Stem Cell Day will focus on recent highlights of these topics from Institut Pasteur teams, and will include two plenary speakers:

•    Stéphane Nédélec, who heads a research team at the Institut du Fer à Moulin (Paris), is using human induced pluripotent stem cells, mouse embryonic stem cells and embryology approaches to decipher the complex crosstalk between developmental cues that control the specification of neuronal subtypes in the spinal cord, hindbrain and cortex and assess the differential vulnerability of specific neuronal subtypes in diseases such as spinal muscular atrophies.

•    Malin Parmar, who heads the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group at Lund University (Sweden), is focusing on bringing new cell-based therapies for Parkinson’s disease to the clinic by learning how to direct and efficiently drive controlled differentiation of human stem cells into subtype-specific neurons.

The program will also feature a selection of talks from different departments of the campus, as well as a poster session to showcase the diversity of projects related to stem cell biology.

If you are interested in participating in the poster session, you can send your abstract before October 27 to guillaume.frasca@pasteur.fr.

Don’t forget to register before Friday, November 10 (registration is free of charge but mandatory)

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Photo : Colonies de cellules souches embryonnaires, avec des rares cellules isolées en différenciation spontanée.