SCRM Platform

Lunch Seminar 2024

When: Every 2nd Tuesday of each month at 12:15 - 13:00
Where: DBMR, Murtenstrasse 35, Room H810 (top floor)
Presenters: PhD, Postdocs and group leaders of SCRM Platform and partner groups
Attendees: Open for all SCRM Platform members and interested guests
Format:

  • 35 - 40 min. presentation (overview of the field and results, methods)
  • 10 - 20 min. of discussion on roadblocks, issues, help-requests

ECTS-Credits: 1 point per presentation at 80% participation (no midterm and defense)
Supported by: Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR)

PROGRAM 2024
Date Presenter Title of presentation
February 13, 2024 Dr. Vera Tscherrig
Laboratory of Prenatal Medicine, DBMR
Discovering the potential of microRNAs in small extracellular vesicles from Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stromal cells to treat and prevent premature brain injury
March 12, 2024 Isabel Schultz-Pernice, PhD student
Institute of Virology and Immunology, DIP
Human neural organoids beading it: neurons in 3D culture display signs of injury following mpox virus infection
April 9, 2024 Matteo Zoia, PhD student
Cardiovascular Diseases, DBMR
Multiome profiling identifies cardiac cell type enhancers during mammalian heart development
May 14, 2024 Ainhoa Asensio, PhD student
Visceral Surgery and Medicine, DBMR
Mechanisms of maintaining genomic stability in regenerating livers
June 11, 2024 Paola Bermudez-Lekerika, PhD candidate
Tissue Engineering for Orthopaedics & Mechanobiology (TOM)
IL-4 and IL-10 Role in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
July 9, 2024 PD Dr. Thomas Marti
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital
TBA
August 13, 2024 Katherine Crump, PhD student
Tissue Engineering for Orthopeadics & Mechanobiology (TOM), DBMR
TBA
September 10, 2024 Vincent Rapp, PhD student
Cardiovascular Diseases, DBMR
Identification of a TBX5 non-coding regulatory region implicated in mammalian heart development and disease
October 8, 2024 Jelena Murar, PhD student
Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital
Human retinal organoid system for comparative pathology modelling and functional evaluation
November 12, 2024 MD Siavash Rahimi, PhD student
Molecular Dermatology & Stem Cell Research, DBMR
TBA
December 10, 2024 Marel Steinfort, PhD mid-term
Laboratory of Prenatal Medicine, DBMR
TBA

Legal notice: The Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine Platform organizes monthly lunch seminars, as well as yearly member meetings and PhD students' retreats. For the benefit of all participants, we kindly ask all participants to fully respect our general policy and to keep all data presented at the SCRM seminar confidential. This helps to assure those who wish to present unpublished data, including data that might be used for future patents.

Responsible: PD Dr. med. Amiq Gazdhar and Carissa Abbas