Past Events

Speaker: Prof. Justin Lathia, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; Case Western Reserve University, Ohio

Title: ‘It takes two to tango: tumour microenvironment induction and maintenance of the stem cell state in glioblastoma’

Host: Dr Walid Khaled, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

The Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair (CCMR) and Cambridge Neuroscience are delighted to invite you to

Speaker: Jesus Sanchez Pardo Echevarria, MPhil, Sinha Lab

Title: "The effects of Marfan iPSC-SMC derived ECM on Endothelial Cell function"

Speaker: Devina Shah, PhD student, Laue Lab

Title: "Disentangling sex-specific RNA helicases in normal and malignant B cells"

Host: Sanjay Sinha, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Prof. Momo Bentires-Alj, Group Leader, University of Basel, Switzerland

Title: “Mechanism based cancer therapy: resistance to therapy, therapy for resistance”

Host: Walid Khaled, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Anna Chantzara, MPhil, Barker Lab

Title: "Characterization of MHC class I knockout midbrain dopaminergic neurons"

Speaker: Kaiyue Helian, PhD student, Hodson Lab

Title: "Disentangling sex-specific RNA helicases in normal and malignant B cells"

Host: Daniel Hodson, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Guy Lam, PhD student, Rowitch Lab

Title: "Retro-transport of mRNA in microglia & Implications on Multiple Sclerosis"

Speaker: Andrejs Makarovs, MPhil, Green Lab

Title: "A highly recurrent somatic mutation in the promoter of an RNA-binding protein causes HSC clonal expansion in healthy individuals"

Host: David Rowitch, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

We are delighted to invite you to the Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair (CCMR)’s 2^nd Annual Symposium. The event will run across 1.5 days: 12:30-18:30 on Thursday 25^th May and 09:00-18:00 on Friday 26^th May 2023.

Speaker: Sean Wu, Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medicine, California

Host: Richard Tyser, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Aly Makhlouf, PhD student, Shahbazi lab
Title: “Basement membrane signalling restricts entry into the germline"

Speaker: Vasileios Galanakis, PhD student, Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research Centre, Vallier Lab
Title: ''Chronic liver disease induces plasticity between cholangiocytes and hepatocytes in the human liver''

Host: Dr. Maria Alcolea

Speaker: Dr Naim Abdulmohdi, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Rusking Uni, Cambridge

Title: Clinical decision making (CDM) and cognitive biases

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