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SUMMARY:NeuroNA Human Cellular Neuroscience Seminar // Thomas Durcan: Adva
 ncing our understanding of brain disorders with stem cells
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Thomas M. Durcan\, Montreal Neurological Institute (The Neuro)
  and McGill University\, Canada\nThis new seminar series\, supported by th
 e NeuroNA Foundation\, informs the NeuroLéman community about progress on
  studies on brain development\, stem cells and organoids\, and mechanisms 
 of brain and psychiatric disorders. The seminars take place alternately in
  Geneva at Campus Biotech (EPFL/UNIGE) and in Lausanne (CHUV/UNIL) and are
  also available online.\n\nThe first seminar is presented by Dr. Thomas M.
  Durcan\, Associate Professor within the Montreal Neurological Institute (
 The Neuro) and McGill University and Director of the Neuro’s Early Drug 
 Discovery Unit (EDDU). His work is focused on the use of human induced plu
 ripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for fundamental and translational discovery pr
 oject through partnerships with academia and industry. Founded under a dec
 ade ago\, the group has established a cohort of 150+ iPSCs that have been 
 advanced into different projects within the group and used to generate a w
 ide range of neuronal and glial subtypes\, in addition to more advanced 3D
  brain organoid models. For the talk\, Dr. Durcan will focus on a number o
 f case studies from the group\, describing how the group develops stem cel
 l models within a dish to model a disease on a dish. Examples will include
  Parkinson’s disease\, Leukodystrophies and Fragile X as case studies. T
 his work is funded through research grants from the Michael J Fox Foundati
 on\, Brain Canada\, CQDM\, the Canadian Institute for Health Research\, th
 e US Department of Defense (DOD) and the McGill Healthy Brains\, Healthy L
 ives (HBHL) initiative.
LOCATION:Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience\, 1008 Prilly and online
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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