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Non-PI Meeting

Date: 14 October 2025
Venue:
  Helmholtz Pioneer Campus Building 36.30 Room 302, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg              
Registration: Participation is free of charge. Please, indicate your interest in the non-PI meeting during the registration process. The selection of the participants will be based also on the submitted abstracts.
Number of participants: max 25

The non-PI meeting offers the unique opportunity to discuss not only your most recent and exciting data, but to also cast some light on seemingly tough problems and hurdles that you are struggling with in advancing your project. Get together with PhD students and Postdocs from various stem cell labs within the GSCN to share ideas, experiences, potential troubles and unanswered questions in an informal setting.

We will dig deeper into your research results, especially roadblocks and problems, to discuss them from various perspectives. The idea behind the non-PI meeting is not to prepare a ‘perfect’ story, but talk about a pressing issue (your science, technical issues, your research plan, your work environment, your career considerations, …) to get valuable input from your peers in an informal setting.

The GSCN covers the meeting, one overnight stay in München/Neuherberg (max 80 €) and a dinner on 14 October 2025.

ELSA Symposium

Date: 15 and 16 October 2025
Venue:
 Helmholtz München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), Gebäude 3522 Konferenzzentrum,
Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg 
Registration: Participation is free of charge for conference participants. ELSA-Symposium participants who only join for the symposium pay 50 € (full) and 25 € (junior PhD student).

Embryo models meet genome engineering: A dialogue on ethics and innovation

Recent advances in three-dimensional tissue culture and matrix interactions have led to the development of increasingly authentic models of human physiology, enabling researchers to study inherited and acquired diseases. This trend is evident in various somatic organoids, including neuro-organoids, and has also been applied to embryo models, which are now reaching advanced developmental stages.

Genome editing tools have been widely used in organoid research to interfere with disease-associated pathways or repair inborn genetic mutations, raising only few ethical concerns. However, when applied to human embryo models, these techniques spark more intense ethical discussions.

At this year's conference, we aim to initiate a dialogue on these critical issues and are honored to welcome Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, as our keynote speaker for Wednesday evening.

During the ELSA Symposium on Thursday morning, Dr. Hanna will join us to explore the latest advancements in the rapidly growing field of embryo models. We will also examine the emerging concept of human-on-a-chip models, which serve as in vitro avatars for patient-specific studies. This raises fundamental questions about the characteristics that render in vitro models entities with some form of human moral status.

While this symposium will not provide comprehensive answers to these complex questions, we expect it to be a thought-provoking starting point for a broader debate on the ethics and implications of embryo modeling and genome engineering.

GSCN Workshop "Computational single-cell genomics for stem cell biologists" 2025

Find all additional information here on the GSCN website . 

Register here .

Date: 13 and 14 October 2025

Venue: Helmholtz München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC),
Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg 

Audience: Stem cell biologists (PhD students, Postdocs, Research associates) working with single-cell genomics data. 
Beginners (Group B): first steps into single-cell data, little to no coding experience
Advanced (Group A): have already had hands-on data and some coding experience, ideally in Python. 

Registration:
Fee
(just for the course, no hotel, no dinner, no travel reimbursement included): 
regular non-member  - 320 €
regular member          - 260 €
student non-member - 260 €
student member         - 210 €

The workshop will provide preliminary materials including online consulting sessions to assist beginners set up their programming environment and resources to enable them to begin programming in Python.

Public Event / Öffentlichkeitsveranstaltung (DE)

Podiumsdiskussion mit Ärzt*innen und Forschern
Stammzellforschung bei Diabetes, Alterung und seltenen Erkrankungen.
Chancen, Risiken und Perspektiven

Wann: Freitag, 17. September 2025, 18:30 bis 20:00 Uhr
Wo: Presseclub München, Marienplatz 22, 80331 München
Programm:
18:30 – 20:00 Uhr: Podiumsdiskussion & Kurzfilme
20:00 – 20:30 Uhr: Ausklang mit Gesprächen & Getränken
Auf dem Podium:
Prof. Dr. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler
, Helmholtz Munich und TUM, Expertin für Typ-1-Diabetes
Prof. Dr. Heiko Lickert, Helmholtz Munich, Experte für Diabetes & Stammzellen
Dr. Ole Pless, Fraunhofer ITMP Hamburg, Experte für Wirkstofftestung und seltene Erkrankungen
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Geiger, Universität Ulm, Experte für Alterung
Moderation: Dr. Stefanie Seltmann, Wissenschaftsjournalistin, Heidelberg

More information here

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