Seminar Series 2026

When: Every 2nd Tuesday of each month at 12:15 - 13:00
Where: DBMR, Murtenstrasse 35, Room H813 (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: 0.5 points per presentation at 80% participation (no midterm and defense)
Supported by: Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR)

PROGRAM 2026
Date Presenter Title of presentation
February 10, 2026

Mark C. Behrens
Paola Luciani Lab / Pharmaceutical Technology Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP)

Modelling fibrotic pathophysiology in endometriotic stroma and epithelium using a 3D culture format based on fibronectin (FN)-silk 
March 10, 2026

Prof. Dr. Alexander Eggel
Alexander Eggel Lab

Investigation of hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation using conditional Hoxb8 immortalization
April 14,  2026

Dr. Hannah Johannse
Miltenyi Biotec

Toward Personalized Regenerative Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease - A prototypical ten-week end-to-end process for the generation of autologous iPSC-derived mDAs 
May 12, 2026

Prof. Dr. Thomas Marti
Marti Lab, Oncology-Thoracic Malignancies (OTM), DBMR

Targeting Metabolic Subpopulations for Cancer Therapy 
June 9, 2026

Ludovic Mure
TBA

TBA
July 14, 2026

Romario Strasser, Christian Zuppinger
Institute of Anatomy, Developmental Biology and Regeneration, group Prof. Nadja Mercader

Development of a laser injury model using human cardiac spheroids
SONOCRAFT: High-throughput ultrasound-based volumetric 3D printing for tissue engineering using hiPSC-derived cardiovascular cells
August 11, 2026

Prof. Camilla Schinner
Schinner Lab, Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), DBMR

TBA
September 8, 2026

Ashish Kumar 
Gantenbein Lab, Bone &Joint Program, DBMR

Midterm evaluation
October 13, 2026

TBA
Marco Osterwalder Lab, DBMR

TBA
November 17, 2026

Emma Liedtke
Prenatal Medicine, Schoeberlein/Surbek Lab, DBMR

(Room H810)

Midterm evaluation
December 8, 2026

Zahra Dehghani
Prenatal Medicine, Schoeberlein/Surbek Lab, DBMR

(Room H810)

Midterm evaluation

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: Prof. Benjamin Gantenbein