Thor’s seminar at UC San Diego last month was published online as part of the Southern California Stem Cell Seminar Series. You can access it on YouTube using the link below:
Thor’s seminar featured on University of California Television
Chen Dong defends PhD thesis
Chen Dong successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Investigating the specification and regulation of the human trophoblast lineage using cell culture models” on Friday, April 29th, 2022. Chen pioneered our efforts to derive human trophoblast stem cells (hTSCs) from naive pluripotent stem cells and performed a genome-wide CRISPR screen that identified essential and growth-restricting genes in hTSCs. He’s also the first PhD student to graduate from the Theunissen Lab. Congratulations Dr. Dong!
Rowan Karvas wins Poster Award at SSR Annual Meeting
Dr. Rowan Karvas won first place in the poster competition for postdoctoral trainees at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in St. Louis, MO, for her poster entitled “3D organoids generated from human trophoblast stem cells model early placental development and susceptibility to emerging viral infections“. Well done Rowan!
Greenwald Symposium on Reproduction and Perinatal Research
Thor will be presenting our work on modeling placental development with pluripotent stem cells at the Virtual Greenwald Symposium on Reproduction and Perinatal Research on Friday, October 15th. Thanks to the organizing at KU Medical Center for putting together this virtual event!
Rowan Karvas to speak at Embryonic-Extraembryonic Interfaces meeting
Rowan will present her work on stem cell-derived trophoblast organoids at the 4th workshop on Embryonic/Extraembryonic Interfaces: Engineering Development on July 22nd, 2021.
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