Scientific Colloquium

We would like to thank the following speakers for sharing their time and expertise with the RTG members and guests in our seminar series:

• Prof. Dr. David Hay from the University of Edinburgh - In our first seminar, Prof. Hay presented on 'iPSC - derived hepatocytes' and potential clinical approaches'.

• Dr. Julia Hesse from the Universitäty Düsseldorf - Dr. Hesse gave the GRK members an exciting insight on 'Cardiac progenitor cells in heart development and repair'.

• Prof. Dr. Alessandro Prigione from Universitäty Düsseldorf - Prof. Prigione gave an introduction to the students and PIs on 'Human iPSCs in mitochondrial diseases: from brain organoids to drug discovery'.

• Prof. Dr. Markus Christmann from the University of Mainz - Prof. Christmann presented his findings on 'Cellular senescence' in his talk and subsequent discussion'.

• Prof. Dr. Konstanze Winklhofer from Ruhr-University Bochum) - In her lecture Prof. Winklhofer talked about 'The Role of Ubiquitin in the regulation of cellular processes'.

• Dr. Daniele Zink (Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) in Singapore gave an exciting talk on 'Predicting human organ toxicity with animal free methods'.

• Prof. Dr. Ola Hermanson gave a lecture on 'Saving Private Brains: Molecular and bioengineering approaches to steer neural stem cell state and fate'. This seminar was planned together with iBRAIN and attended by GRK and iBRAIN members.

• Prof. Dr. Petra Beli presented her data on 'Transcription-associated genomic instability'.

• Prof. Dr. Lisa Wiesmüller from Ulm University Hospital spoke on 'The Tip of an Iceberg: Replication-Associated Functions of the Tumor Suppressor p53'.

• Prof. Dr. Lucy Godley from the Department of Medicine in Chicago was a guest with her contribution on 'Inherited myeloid neoplasm'.

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Schlacher from the Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Houston, Texas was our guest with a talk on 'Genome instability gene functions in mitochondria'!