2-day International Scientific Symposium features technological advances in stem cell research

As the finale of the ESTOOLS project, the consortium partners are holding a major 2-day International Scientific Symposium, and the final Ethics Workshop.

The programme includes poster session and gala dinner with 6 scientific sessions:
* Cancer stem cells
* Fate switching and induced pluripotency
* Neural stem cells
* Neurodegenerative disease modelling & prospects for neural repair
* Technological advances in manipulating pluripotent stem cells
* Control of stem cell state and pluripotency

6 additional speakers, one per scientific session, will be invited from submitted poster abstracts.

Keynote speakers: Shinya Yamanaka, Christine Mummery, Ron McKay

Abstract deadline: 22 March 2010
Registration deadline: 05 April 2010
Register now at www.estools.eu/Lisbon

Followed by... Ethics Workshop: Do we still need human embryonic stem cells?
Friday 28 May
Europe embryonic pluripotent stem cells / Intellectual property / Patents / Commercialisation / Ethics regulation / Policy / Science society
short film: "Stem cells, the future: an introduction to iPS cells"

Speakers: Margarida Menezes-Ferreira,Giuseppe Testa, Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito, Aliki Nichogiannopoulou, Christof Friedrich

Source: ESTOOLS