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Program
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In-person only meeting
EMBO Young Investigator lecture by Dr Mina GOUTI
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
Mina Gouti is a group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. She works at the interface of developmental biology and stem cell research. During her postdoc at the Francis Crick Institute, she developed the in vitro generation of neuromesodermal progenitors from pluripotent stem cells (Gouti et al, Plos Biology 2014; Gouti et al, Dev Cell, 2017). Neuromesodermal progenitors are the building blocks of the spinal cord and musculoskeletal system in vertebrates. Building on that, her lab has pioneered the generation of 3D human neuromuscular organoids (NMOs) from human pluripotent stem cell-derived neuromesodermal progenitor cells (Martins et al, Cell Stem Cell, 2020). This is the first human organoid model where all the components of a functional neuromuscular junction are generated in 3D. The generation of human neuromuscular organoids opened up new opportunities for studying and treating neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases.
Mina Gouti is an EMBO young investigator and has received several distinctions and awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ERC Proof of Concept grant.
Keynote lecture by Prof. Denis JABAUDON
Dept. of Basic Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology,
University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospital
Denis Jabaudon obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich in Switzerland, where he studied mechanisms controlling synaptic transmission. After a neurology residency at Geneva University Hospital, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, in the laboratory of Prof. J. Macklis, where he began his investigation of genetic control of cortical development. He is currently a professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, since 2009, where he has his independent research group and also practices as a clinical neurologist at Geneva University Hospital. His work on the mechanisms of neuronal circuit assembly during cortical development has recently earned him several prestigious prizes, including the Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research from the Brain and Behavior Foundation (NARSAD) and the Bing Prize from the Swiss Academy of Medical Science.
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