Invited speakers since 2010

• 8. June, 2010 
  Austin Smith
  Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge UK
  “Design Principles of Pluripotency”
   
• 19. July, 2011
  Mitinori Saitou
  Kyoto University, Japan
  “Launching the germ cell lineage in mice in vivo and in vitro:signaling, transcriptional regulation, and epigenetic reprogramming"
   
• 5. September, 2011
  Irving Weissman
  Stanford University School of Medicine, Ca, USA
  “Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells”
  
  
• 12. December, 2011
  Kevin Eggan
  Harvard University, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA
  “Stem cell and reprogramming approaches to the study of neurodegeneration”
  
  
• 10. May, 2012
  Michael Brand
  Center for Regenerative TherapyTechnische Universität Dresden, Germany
  "Regeneration of the adult Zebrafish brain from radial-glia type stem cells"
  
  
• 5. June, 2013
  Hongjun Song
  Institute for Cell EngineeringJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore USA
  “Mechanisms regulating adult hippocampal neural stem cells”
  
  
• 29. October, 2013
  David J. Mooney
  Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston USA
  “Polymeric biomaterials to control stem cell populations”
  
  
• 28. January, 2015
  Paolo Bianco
  University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  “Stem cells in the bone marrow stroma, their function(s), and the market mythology”
  
  
• 15. May, 2015
  Trista North
  Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  "Nutritional influences on hematopoietic stem cell formation and function"
  
  
• 14. December, 2015
  Henry Kronenberg
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  "Early cells of the osteoblast lineage”
  
  
• 23. June, 2016 
  Haruhiko Koseki
  RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
  "The PCGF6-PRC1 complex functions to suppress premature activation of meiosis and germ cell related genes in ES cells” 
  
  
• 1. March 2017
  Magdalena Götz
  Helmholz Center, Institute for Stem Cell ResearchAnd Ludwig-Maximilians University, Dept. of Physiological Genomics Münich, Germany
  “Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis”
  
  
• 3. May, 2017
  David Kent
  Cambridge Stem Cell InstituteWellcome Trust - MRC, University of Cambridge, UK
  "Single cell approaches reveal novel cellular and molecular features of malignant blood stem cells”
  
  
• 30. April 2018
  Tsvee Lapidot
  Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  "Metabolic regulation of blood and bone forming stem cells: The role of ROS, mitochondria transfer and nitric oxide”
  
  
• 6. July 2018
  Arnold Kriegstein 
  UCSF, USA
  “Molecular and cellular insights to the development and evolution of the human cerebral cortex” 
  
  
• 14.9.2018
  Knut Woltjen
  Kyoto University, Japan
  “Genome editing in stem cells to study the mechanisms of reprogramming and human disease"
  
  
• 18.9.2018
  Janet Rossant
  The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) University of Toronto, Canada
  “Making the mouse blastocyst”
  
  
• 16.10. 2019
  Sarah Bray
  Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK
  “Decoding the Notch response”
  
  
• 13.3.2019
  James Palis
  University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA
  “Ontogeny of hematopoiesis: making blood before a blood stem cell”