Our Guests

• Prof. Hozumi Motohashi
  Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
  From 17^th November 2016 to 26^th November 2016, as a visiting professor of our Faculty, gave a series of seminars entitled: KEAP1-NRF2 system as a cysteine-based redox sensor for our defense mechanism.




• Prof. Kazuhiko Igarashi
  Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
  19^th September 2016 gave a talk: SAM and heme: Metabolites as signaling molecules of gene expression and epigenetics.


• Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch
  Whitehead Institute, Professor of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, USA
  1^st June 2016 gave a talk: iPS cell technology and the study of human development and disease


• Prof. Toru Shimizu
  Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
  From 11^th April to 13^th May 2016, as a visiting professor of our Faculty, gave a series of seminars entitled: Emergent roles of heme in signal transduction: Heme sensors and gas sensors.


• Milena Bellin, MD
  Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
  21^st January 2016 gave a talk: Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells to study long-QT syndrome


• Prof. Qingbo Xu, MBBS MD PhD
  King’s College of London, UK 17^th April 2015 gave a talk: An Update of Vascular Stem Cell Research in Arteriosclerosis


• Irving L. Weissman, MD
  Stanford University, USA
  27^th of January 2015 gave a talk: Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells


• Prof. Marek Radomski, MD, FTCD, DHC
  Chair of Pharmacology (1979), School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland
  1^st July 2014 gave a talk: Living through research or how to launch a successful career in science


• Prof. Karin Forsberg Nilsson
  Professor of Stem Cell Research, Dept of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden
  4^th June 2014 gave a talk: Modeling glioma and targeting the glioma niche


• Prof. Wacław Szybalski
  McArdle Laboratory, Madison, USA


• Dr. Michael Danilenko
  Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
3^rd September 2012 gave a talk: Phytochemicals as functional enhancers of vitamin D and retinoid receptor systems in leukemia cells


• Heinz Redl
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration
  Donaueschingenstrasse 13, A-1200 Vienna – Austria
21^st February, 2012 gave a talk: Human derived cells and biomaterials


• Stéphanie Lerondel
  Head of the Centre d'Imagerie du Petit Animal (CIPA), UPS 44 TAAM (Transgenesis and Archiving of Animal Models)
  CNRS, Orléans, France
21^st February, 2012 gave a talk: Tumor microenvironment imaging for biomedical research and drug development


• Jürgen Hescheler
  Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Germany
  President of the German Society for Stem Cell research
  25^th November 2011 gave a talk: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Basic Research and Clinical Application
  




• Marek Łoś
  Dept. Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Integrative Regenerative Med. Center (IGEN) Linköping University, Sweden
  21^st November 2011 gave a talk: Attempts to target cancer (stem) cells – apoptin & salinomycin as examples
  




• Paweł Murański
  National Cancer Institute Bethesda, Surgery Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
  27^th September 2011 gave a talk: Immunotherapy of cancer with adoptive transfer of Th17-polarized CD4+ T cells
  


• Toru Shimizu
  Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials Tohoku University 2-1-1 Katahira. Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
  1^st September 2011 gave a talk: Heme-based Oxygen Sensor Enzymes, YddV and Ec DOS, Function in the Synthesis and Degradation of Cyclic-dinucleotide GMP, an Important Second Messenger for Bacteria
  


• Toshio Suda
  Department of Cell Differentiation, The Sakaguchi Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo
  25th July 2011 gave a talk: Glycolytic metabolism of stem cells in hypoxic niche
  


• Jürgen Eckel
  Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Head, Integrative Physiology, Paul -Langerhan s-Group
  19^th May 2011 gave a talk: DDP4 is a novel adipokine potentially linking obesity to the metablic syndrome
  


• Urszula Hibner
  Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France
  20^th June 2011
  


• Maciej Wiznerowicz
  Poznań Medical Uniwersity Chair of Biotechnology, Gene Therapy Lab
  5th January 2011 gave a talk: Epigenetic mechanisms in mammal embrionic development and stem cells
  


• Joanna Węgrzyn
  Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Canada’s Smith Genome Sciences Centre and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  22^nd December 2010 gave a talk: The role of microR NAs in the pathology of 5q- syndrome
  



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• Claudine Kieda
  Centre for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS, Orleans, France
  Nov 16-27. 2009 Lectures on angiogenesis in tumors.
  Dr Kieda coordinates together with Dr Dulak Polish-French Programme in Biotechnology (one PhD student from France, two Polish PhD students, four master students)
  




• Salem Chouaib
  U753 INSERM, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
  Jun 29. 2009 gave a talk "Immunotherapy of cancer and complexity of the CTL function."
  




• Toru Shimizu
  Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials Tohoku University 2-1-1 Katahira. Aoba-ku, Sendai
  Jun 15. 2009 gave a talk "Heme-sensor and Gas-sensor Proteins"
  




• Alain Tedgui
  Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) INSERM U970, Paris, France
  Jun 4. 2009 gave a talk "Pathogenic and Regulatory Immune Mechanisms in Atherosclerosis"
  




• Antonio Cuadrado
  Departamento de Bioquímica e Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  May 27. 2009 gave a talk "The transcription factor Nrf2 is a critical regulator of neuron survival and inflammation in experimental Parkinson's disease"