Stemcells@lunch Digested

Researching abroad: The Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine is a very multicultural group. In this episode we will have the opportunity to listen some of the scientists working in the Center who have come from abroad to further their research careers. They will be talking about their experience of working in research in the UK and how they see the landscape in the future. Scientist invited: Victor Negri (Brazil), Stephanie Telerman (France), Matteo Vietri (Italy), Gernot Walko (Austria), Inês Sequeira (Portugal) and Rocio Sancho (Spain).

Hugh Wright is a trainee Plastic Surgeon, currently studying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Oncology at the University of Oxford. His project- "Investigation of the molecular effects of cooling human burns"- aims to investigate how cooling of a burn reduces the burn's severity and improves outcome for the patient. At present, there is no complete explanation as to the beneficial mechanism of cooling, and understanding this process would yield huge potential benefit for many of the 250,000 people who sustain burns each year in the UK alone, and to the far greater number of burns victims in the Developing World.

In today's episode we interviewed Dr Joana Neves, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at King's College London. If you have any comments or questions email us on stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk

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On this week episode we're joined by Lucia Salz, an erasmus student here at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. As usual, if you have any questions just drop as an e-mail on stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk Talk to you next week!

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David is an architect who has led the design for many of our award-winning healthcare, research, and education projects in the United Kingdom and the United States. He’s particularly interested in design which creates a memorable sense of place while promoting a sense of clarity, optimism, and engagement. He believes the built environment can and should enrich peoples’ lives. You can find out more about their work at http://www.stantec.com/about-us/people/m/martin-david.html If you have any comments or questions just email us: stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk

Last week, as part of British Science Week 2017, ten young scientists from Judith Kerr Primary School in London visited our Centre. It was a fascinating morning for the children that had the opportunity to observe the Watt Lab scientists at work. As part of their activities, they acted as pathologists, identifying healthy and unhealthy cells under a microscope, and extracted the DNA from a strawberry. At the end of their visit, the children took part in a podcast, where they had the opportunity to ask some of the scientists about their work. It was a truly extraordinary day and a wonderful opportunity to inspire young scientists of the future. If you would like your school to be next email us to stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk

For today's episode we interviewed Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, the Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/manuelsalmeron-sanchez/#/). Don't forget to send us your comments and questions to stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk

On today's episode we have Dr. James Briscoe, a principal investigator at the Francis Crick Institute. You can find out more about the Briscoe's lab here: https://crick.ac.uk/james-briscoe and if you have any questions for us just email stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk

On today's episode we are joined by Dr Tuzer Kalkan, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute!

On this week episode of Stem Cells at Lunch digested we have with us Dr Su Lwin, who is a trained medical doctor currently doing her PhD here at King's College London!

Charles Fracchia is the founder and CEO of BioBright, a company building the smart lab to improve reproducibility in bio-medical research. He is interested in how artificial intelligence, automation and human-computer interfaces can improve the human ability to do research. He completed his bachelors in biology at Imperial College, his masters between the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School. In 2016, Charles was named one of 35 innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. He is the recipient of several awards including IBM PhD fellowships, an Extraordinary Minds fellowship, one of the first Awesome Foundation fellowships and an Amplify Partners fellowship. He is the author of several patents and is actively authoring more in the field of future laboratory tools. Charles has also been involved in obtaining numerous grants and contracts from DARPA, NSF, Google X, Knight Foundation and the Shanghai High Tech Incubator totaling several millions since 2012.

To celebrate the International Day of women and girls in science , in this week’s podcast we have Dr Sara-Jane Dunn. Sara is a scientist based within the Biological Computation group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and an affiliate researcher at the Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge. She trained as a mathematician and got a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. Currently Sara-Jane works at the interface between mathematics, computer science and biology, specifically developing a theory of biology as computation, in which the biochemistry of the cell performs information processing in the service of decision-making. To fulfil her goal she collaborates with research experimentalists at the Universities of Cambridge and Padova to investigate stem cell decision-making throughout Development. The goal of her research is ultimately to make cells programmable, which could fundamentally transform medicine, agriculture and even the ways we generat

Today at Stem Cells @Lunch Digested we have Prof Ian MacKenzie. Ian is Professor of Stem Cell Science at the Blizzard Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London. His research interests are the cellular mechanisms involved in the maintenance of skin and oral mucosa; stem cells; tissue renewal; and cancer.

Welcome to Stem Cells @Lunch digested! This new podcast series will bring you weekly the breath of research that is happening at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine! If you have your questions or if you want to send us your comments just reach out to stemcellsatlunch@kcl.ac.uk