GSCN on Tour - Stem Cell Day in Cologne / Bonn on 24 Nov. 2025

Date: 24 Nov 2025       All welcome / Attendance is free - Lectures, Discussions, Networking!
Time:
9:00 - 17:30h; Get-Together - 19:00h
Venue: Hörsaal der Universität Köln / Institut für Physiologie - Lecture Hall University Cologne
MTI-Hörsaalgebäude 44b
Joseph Stelzmann Str. 9
50931 Köln

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Program:
Chair: Kurt Pfannkuche

09:00 - 09:15    Opening: Kurt Pfannkuche & Oliver Brüstle
09:15 - 09:30    Daniel Besser GSCN in a nutshell
09:30 - 10:00    Catherin Niemann Mechanisms of stem and progenitor cell regulation in skin appendage formation (Cologne)
10:00 - 10:30    Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz Advanced lung organoids to model respiratory diseases (Bonn)
10:30 - 11:00    Break
11:00 - 11:30    Sarkawt Hamad Self-Organizing Cardiac Organoids with Mature like Cardiomyocytes & Endothelial Cells (Cologne)
11:30 - 12:00    Elena Reckzeh (Bonn) – tba
12:00 - 12:30    Maria Notara In sickness and in health: Corneal epithelial stem cell biology, pathology and therapy
12:30 - 14:00    Lunch Break
Session 2
Chair: Oliver Brüstle

14:00 - 14:30    Volker Busskamp Printing functional human stem-cell derived neuronal networks (Bonn)
14:30 - 15:00    Frederic Merkel, Satorius - GSCN industry partner - tba
15:00 - 15:30    Daniel Navin Olschewski A Human Brain Organoid Model of Concussion (Cologne)
15:30 - 16:00    Break
16:00 - 16:30    Nelli Blank Modeling the Impact of Plastic Pollution on Human Neurodevelopment and Neuroinflammation (Bonn)
16:30 - 17:00    Yara Nabawi & Will Zhang The role of exocytosis in stress-granule mediated ALS pathology (Cologne)
17:00 - 17:30    Jasmin Aichner, Tamara Krutenko Human pluripotent stem cell-based models for the study of neuropsychiatric disorders (Bonn)
17:30 - 19:00    Get-Together

GSCN on Tour: Stem Cell Day in Aachen on 26 Nov 2025

Date: 26 Nov 2025        All are welcome / Attendance free
Time: 13 - 1
Venue: 
Großer Seminarraum des Helmholtz Institutes für Biomedizinische Technologien
2. Stock; Pauwelsstrasse 20, 52074 Aachen

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Session I Chair: Hannes Klump
13:00 – 13:10   Daniel Besser GSCN in a nutshell
13:15 – 13:45    Ian On Shum PluripotencyScreen: epigenetic quality control of pluripotent stem cell
13:45 – 14:15    Jacopo Di Russo Mimicking and Understanding Outer Retina Mechanical Homeostasis Using iPSC-Derived Systems
14:15 – 14:45    Anika Neureiter Bio²Cell: Patient-specific iPSCs as a Gateway to Individualized Neuropathic Pain Modelling and Treatment
14:45 – 15:15    Rebekka Schneider Kramann Reprogramming of the Splenic Microenvironment: From Immune Organ to Stem Cell Niche in Myelofibrosis
15:15 – 15:45        Break
2. Session Chair: Wolfgang Wagner
15:45 – 16:15    Sebastian Knöbel (Miltenyi), tba
16:15 – 16:45    Hind Meydouf Exploring and exploiting the tumor microenvironment to enhance cancer control
16:45 – 17:15    Bastian Nießing (Fraunhofer IPT), tba
17:15 – 17:45    Marcelo Szymanski de Toledo Dissecting the role of the neoplastic vascular niche in bone marrow inflammation and fibrosis
17:45 – 19:00        Get-Together  

Past GSCN on tour days

GSCN on Tour: Stem Cell Day in Hannover

Date: 2 April 2025
Venue: MHH, Lecture Hall G, Builiding I1      

Program:
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome & Coffee
1. Session

Daniel Besser, GSCN
Ruth Olmer „In vitro modelling of inherited lung diseases using iPSC-derived cells”
Tobias Cantz “Individualized iPSC models of liver diseases: ethical and biomedical implications”
Carola Voss – “Lung organoids for delineating perturbation patterns in respiratory health”
2. Session
Ulrich Martin – “hiPSC-based Heart Repair in a Non-Human Primate Model of Myocardial Infarction”
Robert Zweigerdt – „Making and repairing hearts with human pluripotent stem cells”
Eppendorf, tbc
Axel Schambach – “Translation of gene therapies using hematopoietic stem cells”
3. Session
Florian Perner “Menin-MLL inhibition: Targeting chromatin to disrupt aberrant self-renewal in leukemia”
Constanza Figueiredo “Blood Pharming: Engineering Megakaryocytes for transfusion, diagnostic and regenerative medicine”
Nico Lachmann  “Advanced Generation of Human Immune Cells from iPSC: In Process Cryopreservation meet Continous Production of Immune Cells”

GSCN on Tour - Stem Cell Day in Leipzig

Date: 31 March 2025
Venue: Liebigstrasse 21, Leipzig

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Speaker:
Ulrike Köhl
(Fraunhofer IZI / Medical Faculty)
Saxocell: Precision therapy cluster for Saxony
Claudia Claus
(Institute for Virology)
Using pluripotent stem cells to model virus infection during development
Paula Schweizer / Maxi Harzer / Clara Kiesewetter
(Veterinary Medicine)
Intestinal organoids in veterinary medicine
Zoltan Ivics
(Fraunhofer IZI / Medical Faculty)
Gene therapy challenges and solutions
Volker Arps
(Bio-Techne)
Bio-Techne solutions for stem cell-based applications
Michael Cross
(Dept. of Hematology)
Hematopoietic stem cell metabolism
Matthias Meier
(Biochemical Cell Technology)
Stem cell derived vessels on a chip

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Dresden 2024

Date: 24 April 2024
Venue: MPI-CBG Dresden,
Pfotenhauerstraße 108, 01307 Dresden
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Speaker:
Barbara Ludwig
, University Hospital Dresden & Anthony Gavalas, PLID
Macroencapsulation of human PS cell derived islet-like clusters
Mareike Albert (CRTD)
Gene regulatory mechanisms in neural stem cells
Claudia Ball (NCT/UCC and DKFZ))
Patient-derived cancer models for precision oncology and beyond
Break
Ingmar Glauche (TUD)
Clonality in hematopoesis: a computational perspective
Jacqueline Tabler (MPI-CBG)
Collagen structures maintains mesenchymal stem cell fate and complex nuclear shape in the skull
Ryan Conder, Stem Cell Technologies
Organoids as tools for drug development

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Lübeck & Kiel 2023

Date: 1 March 2023
Seminarraum (CBBM S1/S2 (Loewi))

Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)
Universität zu Lübeck, Geb. 66
23562 Lübeck
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Anja Trillhaase, Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck:
"2D and 3D stem cell models for cardiovascular research“
Franz-Josef Müller, Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie ZIP gGmbH, Campus Kiel:
Modelling chronic inflammatory disorders with hiPSC: The curious case of the Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome”
Matthias Brandenburger, Fraunhofer IMTE:
“Technological challenges for (stem) cell technology. – A perspective from Fraunhofer IMTE”
Philip Seibler, Stem Cell Platform, Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Luebeck and
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein:
“Stem Cells: Platform and Neuronal Disease Modeling”
David Holthaus, AG Meyer/Laboratory of Infection Oncology, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel:
"Organoid models for infection research"

 

GSCN Stem Cell Day - Hamburg 2023

Date: 27 February 2023
Time: 14:00 - 17:30 h lectures; 17:30 - 19 h: social event with drinks and snacks
Venue:

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf
Campus Lehre (N55), Raum 210/211
Martinistraße 52
20246 Hamburg
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Speaker:
Ole Pless, Annika Wittich
, Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort:
„Human pluripotent stem cell based efficacy and safety models for preclinical drug discovery“
Baris Tursun, Universität Hamburg:
„Identifying reprogramming barriers in genetic model organisms and translation to human cells“
Kristoffer Riecken, Lea-Isabell Schwarze, Boris Fehse, UKE, Interdisziplinäre Klinik und Poliklinik für Stammzelltransplantation:
„Permanent genetic modifications for basic research and clinical translation“
Arne Hansen / Kinga Wrona, UKE, Institut für Experimentelle Pharmakologie und Toxikologie:
„Generation of engineered heart tissue from human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes“
„Human iPSC-derived multi-cell-type engineered heart tissues as an advanced model for pathological cardiac hypertrophy”

Sandra Lubitz, Evotec SE:
„Precision drug discovery with iPSC models as a gamechanger for future medicines“

Contact

If you are interested to participate or have any further question, please contact:
Stefanie Mahler

What is "GSCN on tour"?
The idea behind "GSCN on tour": Connect the local stem cell communities, exchange insights, data and contacts, get to know each other better - and get to know the German Stem Cell Network GSCN with it's many activities.
The GSCN wants to promote stem cell science in Germany by its different organs: The annual GSCN Conference, the workshops, the lectures, the network, the website and the various outreach activities. We are actively seeking new members, both individual, institutional and companies. If you are interested joining, please take a closer look here.

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