The Stem Cell Podcast

Guest: Dr. Emma Hammarlund is an Associate Professor at the Division of Translational Cancer Research at Lund University. Her lab investigates how the rise of animals on Earth relates to the evolution of stemness control. They use both geobiology and tumor biology to explore the evolutionary roots of animal health and disease. Featured Products and Resources: Keep Current With the Latest in ESC an...

Guest: Dr. Themasap Khan is the Vice President at Civilization Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in genomics, diagnostics, digital health, AI, and personalized and regenerative medicine.  He leads the firm’s scientific due diligence and academic outreach programs. Dr. Khan earned his in PhD in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine in Dr. Sergiu Pasca’s lab at Stanford, where his...

Guest: Dr. Johan Jakobsson is a Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics at the Lund Stem Cell Center. His research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms of the brain, including the role of microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, and endogenous retroelements in neural stem cells and neurons. Featured Products and Resources: Win Your Conference Registration Fee for ISSCR 2021 Access Resources for Your Neuroscience...

Guest: Dr. Marinna Madrid is Co-Founder of Cellino, an early-stage biotechnology company seeking to make personalized, autologous cell therapies viable at large scale for the first time. Cellino’s platform combines label-free imaging and high-speed laser editing with machine learning to automate cell reprogramming, expansion, and differentiation in a closed cassette format, enabling thousands of p...

Guests: Dr. Brenda Raud is a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on T cell-based immunotherapies and immuno-oncology. Dr. Jason Goldsmith recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now the Director of Donor Medical Sciences at Seres Therapeutics, a biotechnology company working to revolutionize treatment of...

Guest: Dr. Krishanu Saha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His lab utilizes quantitative and bioengineering methods including genome editing, biomanufacturing, and disease modeling to advance the next generation of cell and gene therapies. Featured Products and Resources: Subscribe to ESC & iPSC News Survey Report: Hur...

Guest: Dr. Kelly Shepard is the Associate Director of Discovery and Translation at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM was created by the voters of California in 2004. The agency funds stem cell research at institutions and companies throughout California with the goal of accelerating treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. Featured Products and Resources: Cont...

Guest: Dr. Willy Lensch is Strategic Advisor to the Dean at Harvard Medical School. Previously Executive Director of the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, his experience in research, education, administration, science policy, intellectual property, science consulting, and outreach have combined to support and advance stem cell science and discovery at Harvard. Featured Prod...

Guest: Dr. Sean Wu is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. The Wu lab seeks to identify mechanisms responsible for human congenital heart disease, and uses mouse models and stem cells to study cardiovascular developmental biology, and to engineer cardiac tissue. Featured Products and Resources: Webinar: Modeling Arrhythmias Using hPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes and Tr...

Guest: Dr. Jürgen Knoblich is Scientific Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Knoblich lab is known for the development of an organoid model of early brain development, and is currently using iPSCs and cerebral organoids to investigate inter-brain region interactions, neurodevelopmental disorders, and neuronal connections and functions. Feat...

Guest: Dr. Vivian Li is Group Leader of the Stem Cell and Cancer Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. The Li lab investigates how Wnt signaling controls stem cells in the healthy gut and during colorectal cancer development. The lab also aims to engineer functional intestinal constructs using patient-derived intestinal organoids. Featured Products and Resources: Protocol: CRISPR-Cas9...

Guest: Dr. Samira Musah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor in Medicine at Duke University. The Musah lab applies stem cell biology to engineer functional models of the human kidney and brain, with the goal of developing novel therapeutic models for human kidney diseases and understanding the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in patients with...

Guest: Dr. Christopher Thomas Scott is the Dalton Tomlin Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, and a member of the Daniel L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Scott is also emeritus faculty of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. His research centers on the ethical, legal, and social implications  of emerging biotechnologies. Featured Produ...

Guest: Dr. Matthias Lutolf is a Professor and Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Lutolf lab uses cutting-edge bioengineering strategies for guiding stem cell-based development for the assembly of next-generation organoids with improved reproducibility and physiological relevance. Featured Products and Resources:...

Guest: In this special episode of the Stem Cell Podcast, we speak with three PhD students from different parts of the world about their research in and outside of the lab. Naveed Tavakol (pictured, right) is a biomedical engineering PhD student in the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University under the advisement of Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. As a National Science...

Guest: Dr. Miki Ebisuya is a Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Barcelona. Her lab focuses on synthetic developmental biology, where they reconstitute developmental mechanisms by making artificial gene circuits, and study interspecies differences by comparing organoids of different animals. Featured Products and Resources: ESC & iPSC News mTeSR™ Plus The Stem Cell Sci...

Guest: Dr. Tom Cheung is an S H Ho Associate Professor of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His lab investigates the molecular pathways that control muscle stem cell quiescence and stem cell-mediated tissue regeneration. Featured Products and Resources: Muscle Cell News STEMCELL Technologies Human MyoCult™ Workflow The Stem Cell Science Round Up Organoid Model of...

Guest: Dr. Ludovic Vallier is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Director of the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Centre hiPSC core facility. His lab studies the basic mechanisms controlling the differentiation of pluripotent cells into endoderm progenitors from which the pancreas, lung, gut and liver originate. Featured Products and Resources: Technical Resourc...

Guest: Dr. Valerie Horsley is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Yale University. Her lab studies how adult stem cells within epithelial tissues maintain tissue homeostasis, wound healing and can contribute to cancer formation. Featured Products and Resources: Webinar: Building Brain Organoids and Assembloids to Study...

Guest: Dr. Henner Farin is a Young Investigator in the German Cancer Consortium, and a Junior Research Group Leader at the Georg-Speyer-Haus Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy. His group uses organoids to study cell signaling in intestinal stem cells and colorectal cancer. Featured Products and Resources: CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Human Intestinal Organoids Try STEMCELL Techn...

Guest: Dr. Sergiu Pașca is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and the Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program. His team has developed methods for generating human brain organoids, and uses them to study the programs underlying brain development, assembly and dysfunction. To learn more about his research, regi...

Intro: In June 2020, we attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) virtual annual meeting! Here is the second of three special episodes from the meeting featuring Dr. Martin Pera, Principal Investigator at the Jackson Laboratories, who presented on the unique properties of a subset of human pluripotent stem cells with a high capacity for self-renewal. Guest: Dr. Martin Pera...

Guest: Dr. Dominique Bonnet is the Group Leader of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. Her lab is interested in the extrinsic mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cells, and how they can intervene in order to eradicate the leukemic stem cell. Featured Products and Resources: Science News by STEMCELL Technologies MesenCult™-ACF-Plus medium The...

Intro: In June 2020, we attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) virtual annual meeting! Here is the second of three special episodes from the meeting featuring Dr. Kristy Red-Horse, Associate Professor of Biology at Stanford University, who presented on using developmental biology to inform cardiac tissue regeneration. Guest: Dr. Kristy Red-Horse is an Associate Professor...

Guest: Dr. Valentina Greco is the Carolyn Slayman Professor of Genetics at Yale University. Her lab has developed novel live imaging approaches to track and manipulate stem cells in live animals, allowing them to study the complex orchestration of tissue regeneration using the skin as a model system. She is also a fierce advocate for inclusivity in the scientific community. Featured Products and R...