“Reprogramming in vivo and its impact on tissue homeostasis and regeneration”. Manuel Serrano

Friday, November 7, 2014

Despite the high interest in the reprogramming field due to the potential therapeutical applications, the possibility to change the cellular identity in vivo within the tissues will represent…

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“Direct lineage reprogramming towards the neural lineage”. Marius Wernig

Friday, November 7, 2014

Marius Wernig is the scientist who first directly converted fibroblast into Induced Neurons (iN) with the ectopic expression of only three factors. In this talk, he argumented that…

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“Pluripotent stem cells: capture of the ground state”. Austin Smith

Friday, November 7, 2014

Austin Smith is probably the investigator that is constantly giving more indications on how to capture the ground state of pluripotent stem cells. His work is based on…

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“Lox2 oxidizes methylated TAF10 and controls neural progenitos specification”. Sandra Peiró

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Despite the post-translational modification of proteins are mainly considered uncontrolled phenomenon, active enzymes regulate phosphorylation, methylation and oxidation of proteins. Important oxidation processes seem to be crucial for…

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