Guests:
Dr. Valentina Greco is the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and Professor of Genetics and Co-Chair of the Status of Women in Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Kathryn Cheah is an ISSCR Program Committee Co-Chair and Emeritus Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at Hong Kong University. Dr. Eugenia Piddini is also an ISSCR Program Committee Co-Chair and Professorial Research Fellow in Cell Biology and School Research Director at the University of Bristol.
They talk about the upcoming ISSCR 2025 meeting in Hong Kong from June 11-14, 2025. They discuss the meeting’s global focus, program highlights, opportunities for early-career researchers, and what they’re looking forward to in Hong Kong. (37:44)
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- Submit your abstract for ISSCR 2025!
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The Stem Cell Science Round Up
Intestinal Organoids with Enteric Neurons – Researchers transplanted human intestinal organoids into mice, where the organoids matured and demonstrated enteric nervous system function. (2:10)
Liver Regeneration and Repair – Hepatic stellate cells regulate hepatocyte functions via R-spondin 3. (11:00)
Epithelial Regeneration – The mesenchymal Aspn-producing niche modulates tissue repair by regulating epithelial fetal-like reprogramming. (19:45)
Whole-Transcriptome Sequencing – Spotiphy is a computational toolkit that transforms sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomics data into whole-transcriptome images with single-cell resolution. (28:55)
Images courtesy of the ISSCR