Tapahtumakalenteri
Stem Cell Seminar
Arafath Najumudeen, Seyedehshima Naddafi
Spatially resolving the heterogeneity of intestinal epithelium in homeostasis and disease
Rubén Torregrosa Muñumer, Mitochondrial metabolism as a regulator of human stem cell identity
Credits for students, ILS-008
Please spread the word to your group members and others that might be interested.
Webinar by Pedro Andrade: Models of seizures and epilepsy: Translational challenge
Webinar
organized by ILAE Young Epilepsy Section Finland
A warm welcome to a webinar on Thursday 24th of April 2025 at 17:00 in Teams.
Topic: Models of seizures and epilepsy: Translational challenge
Speaker: Pedro Andrade, University of Eastern Finland
Pedro Andrade works as a basic scientist in University of Eastern Finland specializing in acquisition and analysis (sleep, seizures etc) of rodent EEG. Additionally, he is a clinical neurophysiologist thus having expertise both in clinical and research EEG settings.
https://uefconnect.uef.fi/pedro.andrade-de-abreu/
The seminar is organized by the ILAE Young Epilepsy Section Finland.
The event is open to everyone interested. No preregistration is needed.
HiLIFE/Biomedicum Helsinki seminar by Professor Sergiu Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca, M.D.
Don’t miss the chance to hear one of the most innovative neuroscientists of our time sharing how his lab is pushing the boundaries of biology and medicine!
- Discover how assembloids are revolutionising human brain modelling – bridging developmental biology and clinical medicine to unlock new insights into the human mind.
- Be inspired by Professor Pasca’s journey – from his unwavering pursuit to understand incurable brain disorders to developing next-generation therapeutics as leader of the transformative lab at Stanford University.
- Experience cutting-edge innovation – explore how assembloids technology is being used to build functional neural circuits and complex tissue systems, pushing the boundaries of biomedical science.
Remember to invite all your lab members, colleagues and students too, this is THE LECTURE to be at this spring 😍
✨Students: Join for the lecture lunch with Prof Pasca afterwards, info here: https://forms.gle/oL26JP2LEiYdDvm57
See you all there!
Teemu Aitta-aho, PI (teemu.aitta-aho@helsinki.fi)
Suvi Laitinen, student host (suvi.laitinen@helsinki.fi)
Cannot
wait to be there? Read more of his work: Lab
webpage https://www.pascalab.org/ For the last decade, Prof. Paşca and his team have made
highly interesting findings and created state-of-art assembloid method that has
wide relevance in the fields of neuroscience, medicine and developmental
biology. Most recently their determined effort for understanding
neuropsychiatric diseases yielded a next-generation therapeutic approach to
treat Timothy syndrome (type of genetic severe autism) (publ 1)💫 A few years back, Prof. Paşca and his team
very elegantly succeeded in creating a functional cortex-spinal cord-muscle
assembloid (publ 2) and in vivo implantation of those cortical assembloids
(publ 3). They also showed that cortical organoids maturation process matches
post-natal stages of human brain (publ 4)🤩 Paşca obtained his medical degree in 2007 from Hatieganu
School of Medicine, Romania and completed his post-doctoral studies in Stanford
University where he studies brain disorder genetics by developing hiPS neuron
models from patient skin samples. Currently, he is Kenneth T. Norris, Jr.
Professor of Psychiatry and Uytengsu Family Director of the Stanford Brain
Organogenesis Program at Stanford University. Selected
publications: Publ
1. Antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic approach for Timothy syndrome Xiaoyu
Chen, Fikri Birey, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Rebecca Levy, Mayuri Vijay Thete,
Noah Reis, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Massimo Onesto, Noriaki Sakai, Zuzana
Hudacova, Jin Hao, Xiangling Meng, Seiji Nishino, John Huguenard, Sergiu P.
Pașca. Nature. 2024 Apr; 628(8009):818-825. doi:
10.1038/s41586-024-07310-6 Publ
2. Generation of Functional Human 3D Cortico-Motor Assembloids. Andersen
J, Revah O, Miura Y, Thom N, Amin ND, Kelley KW, Singh M, Chen X, Thete MV,
Walczak EM, Vogel H, Fan HC, Paşca SP. Cell. 2020 Dec
23;183(7):1913-1929.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.017. Publ
3. Maturation and circuit
integration of transplanted human cortical organoids. Omer Revah,
Felicity Gore, Kevin W. Kelley, Jimena Andersen, Noriaki Sakai, Xiaoyu Chen,
Min-Yin Li, Fikri Birey, Xiao Yang, Nay L. Saw, Samuel W. Baker, Neal D. Amin,
Shravanti Kulkarni, Rachana Mudipalli, Bianxiao Cui, Seiji Nishino, Gerald A.
Grant, Juliet K. Knowles, Mehrdad Shamloo, John R. Huguenard, Karl Deisseroth
& Sergiu P. Pașca. Nature. 2022 Oct 13; 610:319–326. doi:
10.1038/s41586-022-05277-w Publ 4. Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids
matches key early postnatal transitions. Gordon A, Yoon SJ, Tran SS,
Makinson CD, Park JY, Andersen J, Valencia AM, Horvath S, Xiao X, Huguenard JR,
Pașca SP, Geschwind DH. Nature Neuroscience. 2021
Mar;24(3):331-342. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00802-y.
Dissertation: Anne Arola
Opponent: Professor Martine van Zandvoort, Utrecht University
Kliinisen mikrobiologian perjantaisarja
Arja Laitinen, LT, silmätautien erikoislääkäri,silmätautien klinikka, HUS