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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "Tissue Engineering: From Cytoneme Contact
  to Therapeutic Impact"
DTSTART:20221205T160000
DTEND:20221205T170000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shukry J. Habib\, Department of Biomedical Sciences\, Un
 iversity of Lausanne (CH)\nWEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES\n\nAbstract:\nWnt
  signalling is an ancient pathway that accompanied the evolution of metazo
 ans and plays major roles in developmental processes including the functio
 n of stem cells and tissue patterning.\nThe Habib Lab pioneered the techno
 logy of immobilising the hydrophobic Wnt proteins to synthetic surfaces. T
 hey have shown that localised Wnts can maintain a variety of stem cell typ
 es and control oriented asymmetric cell division. His lab studies how the 
 stem cells interact with their niche to recruit localised Wnts and initiat
 e tissue formation. Specifically\, they investigate mechanisms of breaking
  cellular symmetry\, cell sorting and self-organisation. Using this knowle
 dge\, they engineer organised 3D tissues and develop technologies to deliv
 er localised Wnts for applications in regenerative medicine.\n\nBio:\nShuk
 ry James Habib is an Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical S
 ciences at the University of Lausanne. He leads a multidisciplinary resear
 ch team at the intersection of stem cell biology\, advanced imaging\, biop
 hysics and tissue engineering.\nShukry pursued his undergraduate and Maste
 r degrees in Israel at the Technion and Tel-Aviv university\, respectively
 .  He obtained his PhD from the lab of Prof. Walter Neupert at the Ludwig
  Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich\, Germany. He carried out postdocto
 ral research at Stanford University\, California\, USA in the lab of Prof.
  Roel Nusse. He was also a member of visiting programme at Janelia Farm of
  the Howard Hughes medical institute\, USA\, hosted by the Nobel prize lau
 reate Prof. Eric Betzig. In 2014\, Shukry received the Sir Henry Dale Fel
 lowship (Wellcome Trust and Royal Society) and established his lab at the 
 Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London
 . His research culminated in several key discoveries in regenerative medic
 ine\, numerous publications\, a patent\, and the findings were featured in
  over 107 news articles and in a televised coverage by CBS-news.\nShukry h
 as received numerous awards and honours including the fellowships: Minerva
  (Max-Plank Society)\, EMBO\, DFG\, Siebel scholar\, London Advanced Thera
 pies award and the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. Shukry is a member of the UK
  regenerative Medicine platform (£9 million funding) and is an associate 
 editor in the Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine. Shukry is o
 ften involved in public engagement including public talks at Pint of Scien
 ce and was member of the judging panel of the Science Book Prize 2019\, Ro
 yal Society.\nLab website: www.habiblab.org.\n\n\nZoom link (with one-time
  registration for the whole series) for attending remotely: https://go.epf
 l.ch/EPFLBioETalks\n\n\nInstructions for 1st-year Ph.D. students who are u
 nder EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule:\nIF you are not attending
  in-person in the room\, please make sure to\n\n	send D. Reinhard a note b
 efore noon on seminar day\, informing that you plan to attend the talk onl
 ine\, and\n	be signed in on Zoom with a recognizable user name (not a pseu
 donym making it difficult or impossible to be identified).\n\nStudents att
 ending the seminar in-person should collect a confirmation signature after
  the talk - please print your own signature sheet beforehand (71 kB pdf av
 ailable for download here).\n 
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