National Eye Institute - Office of Regenerative Medicine: Vision Innovation Seminars
Virginia Cora & Giovanni Pasquini will hold the Vision Innovation Seminar June 15th
The field of regenerative medicine holds the promise of engineering damaged or diseased tissues previously thought to be irreparable. Some approaches involve the use of stem cells, progenitor cells, and novel materials.
The NEI Office of Regenerative Medicine (ORM) has launched a new
webinar series, called the Vision Innovation Seminars, to promote and
disseminate cutting-edge research that is relevant to the vision
community. Authors of recently published articles will present their
work to the research community through this monthly webinar series. This
seminar series is recorded and can be made available upon request.
June 15, 2021 1:00-2:00 pm ET
Mr. Giovanni Pasquini & Ms. Virginia Cora : Talk title TBD
Recent Publication: Using Transcriptomic Analysis to Assess Double-Strand Break Repair Activity: Towards Precise in Vivo Genome Editing
Mr. Giovanni Pasquini is a PhD student in the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB). His thesis work is focused on inferring and modulating Double Strand Break pathways activity by the study of transcriptomic data to guide in vivo Genome Editing approaches. His doctoral research is conducted at the Center for Regenerative Therapies of Dresden under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Volker Busskamp.
Ms. Virginia Cora is a doctoral student in the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Since 2018, she is part of the team of the Institute for Neuroanatomy and Developmental Biology (INDB) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebau.
Ms. Cora's work is focused on unravelling the effects of a mutation located in the gene Crumbs Homolog 1 (CRB1) that is associated with the insurgence of Retinitis Pigmentosa. For her investigations she is utilizing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-derived retinal organoids as a model system.
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