Meet the ISSCR 2020 Team
Attending conferences is a key opportunity for networking with your peers and potential collaborators. For many of us at STEMCELL, going to ISSCR is the highlight of our year, whether we’re giving a talk, listening to your poster presentation, or introducing you to our newest products at our booth. Since we won’t get to see you face to face this year, we wanted to properly introduce you to our ISSCR 2020 team.
We asked each team member to share a bit about their scientific background and what makes them excited about ISSCR 2020.
Booth Representatives
What’s your background?
PhD in biotechnology engineering. I focused on tissue engineering with mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for my PhD and PSC endothelial cell differentiation and evaluation during my postdoc.
What’s your background?
BSc in molecular and cellular biology and physiology. During my time at UC, Irvine, I worked with Alzheimer’s disease patient hPSC-derived cerebral organoids and microglia co-cultures for neuroinflammatory-based disease modeling.
What’s your background?
I have a PhD in neuroscience.
What’s your background?
PhD in biomedical sciences. I developed a cell-penetrating peptide that interrupted pro-inflammatory cytokine signaling pathways that cause septic shock.
What’s your background?
PhD in stem cell biology and cell signaling. The Melbourne-based lab in which I completed my PhD was one of the early adopters of mTeSR1 medium when STEMCELL first opened its Australian branch.
What’s your background?
I have a PhD in stem cell biology, with a focus on diabetes.
What’s your background?
PhD in biological chemistry. I have extensive experience in reprogramming, differentiation, and genome editing of human pluripotent stem cells.
What’s your background?
My PhD was on "Disease modeling using human induced pluripotent stem cells." I have worked extensively with iPSCs: reprogramming, maintaining, and differentiating human iPSCs into neural crest, neural stem cells, and also 3D neural systems such as brain organoids.
What’s your background?
PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology focused on neurodegenerative diseases (mainly ALS). I differentiated iPSCs into motor neurons to understand DNA damage mechanisms and drug screens using HCI. I also differentiated iPSCs into cerebral organoids for AAV transduction as a proof of concept for gene editing and tau expression (modeling Alzheimer’s).
What’s your background?
I obtained my PhD in stem cell biology at the University of Sheffield. More specifically, I was looking at TFs in the early differentiation decisions of human pluripotent stem cells. From there I moved to a postdoc where I carried on my interest in TFs but from a slightly different angle, whereby I was trying to understand which TFs can rapidly generate and mature GABAergic interneurons in vitro.
What’s your background?
MSc in biochemistry with an emphasis on differentiating iPSCs to skeletal muscle cells.
What’s your background?
PhD in biology. My research involved understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in liver dysfunction and disease.
What’s your background?
PhD in cell biology from Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT) Dublin, followed by postdoctoral experience in drug development for various indications including cancer, fibrosis, and neuropathic pain. Experienced in iPSC reprogramming, maintenance, and differentiation.
What’s your background?
PhD in immunology from the University of Toronto, studying how immune responses can be induced to be protective in autoimmune and infectious diseases.
What’s your background?
Master in Business Administration and BSc in life sciences. I specialize in strategic marketing and believe scientific communications is a powerful tool for connecting the wider community and advancing science!
What’s your background?
PhD in experimental oncology from the University of Alberta studying RNA biology in pre-implantation mouse development. I followed this with postdoctoral work at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, where I switched model systems to human iPS cells to study neurodevelopmental and cardiac disease models.
What’s your background?
PhD in interdisciplinary oncology from the University of British Columbia, studying clonal analysis of human mammary cell transformation and X-ray sensitivity.
Scientific Presenters
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Applications of Organoid and Organotypic Cultures in Infectious Diseases, Nephrotoxicity, and Highly Relevant Cell-Based Assay Development.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At a COREdinates Focus Session on ‘Recent Insights and Trends in Pluripotent Stem Cell Research.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Applications of Organoid and Organotypic Cultures in Infectious Diseases, Nephrotoxicity, and Highly Relevant Cell-Based Assay Development’ and at my poster presentation on ‘High-Throughput-Compatible Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines into Kidney Organoids for Nephrotoxic Drug Screening.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Differentiating Immune Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in Feeder- and Serum-Free Cultures.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Advanced Brain Organoid Co-Culture Systems.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Applications of Organoid and Organotypic Cultures in Infectious Diseases, Nephrotoxicity, and Highly Relevant Cell-Based Assay Development’ and at my poster presentation on ‘Methods for Media for the Differentiation of Human Intestinal Organoids and Organoid-Derived Monolayers.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At my poster presentation on ‘Cloning, Gene Editing and Expansion of High-Quality Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Improve Through Medium Optimization.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At an Innovation Showcase on ‘Optimized, Serum-Free, In Vitro Culture Conditions for CRISPR-Mediated Genome Editing of CD34+ Cells.
Where can we catch you at ISSCR?
At my poster presentation on ‘Optimized Animal Component-Free Medium and Workflow for the Expansion of Human Stem Cells as Aggregates in Suspension Cultures.
ISSCR 2020 Virtual
Visit our virtual booth at this year’s global stem cell event. Browse new and upcoming products, try our game, or chat live with a representative.