Mahmoud gives a seminar at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute (UBC)

Mahmoud presents as a Visiting Speaker at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

The title of his seminar is: "Human stem cell modelling of neurodevelopmental disorders: mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities” 

Date: Tuesday April 24, 2018
Location: Room 2108, BCCHR
Time: 10-11am

Mahmoud presents at the Stem Cells & Organoid Models mini-symposium

Mahmoud will present at the Stem Cells & Organoid Models of Human Diseases mini-symposium organised by the Life Sciences Institute's Neurobiology/Ageing Programme (NUS).

His talk will be on using hPSC-based cerebral organoids to gain insights into neurological disorders.

Date:  November 30, 2017
Time:  10:00am
Venue: Centre for Life Science Auditorium, NUS

Kagistia chosen to present at the Indonesian Society of Human Genetics

Kagistia has been selected for an oral presentation at the Indonesian Society of Human Genetics (InaSHG) in October 2017. 

She will present on developing a human pluripotent stem cell model of Fragile X Syndrome.

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The 2017 ANNUAL MEETING  OF INDONESIAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS (InaSHG)

“Precision Medicine – Sharing Discoveries, Shaping Our Future”  Yogyakarta, 29 October 2017 Eastparc Hotel

Xiaohong to present at the CSH Mitochondria conference in October

Xiaohong's submission has been selected for an oral presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Mitochondria in Suzhou  (https://www.csh-asia.org/2017meetings/MITOCH.html).

She will present on using genome editing to investigate the role of post-translational modifications in Huntington disease iPSC-derived human neural cells.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017 at 9:00AM

Kagistia and Xiaohong to present at the SCSS Young Investigator Symposium

Kagistia and Xiaohong are scheduled to present at the Stem Cell Society of Singapore's Young Investigator Symposium on October 3, 2017 (Go Gisti and Xiaohong!)

The Symposium will be held at Matrix Level 4, Biopolis. 

Mahmoud presents at Osaka University

Mahmoud will be giving a talk on July 19th at Osaka University.

The talk is titled: What is the role of oligodendroglia in neurodegenerative disorders?

Bryan wins Best Poster award

Congrats to Bryan Ng on winning the Best Poster award at the A*STAR Research Attachment Research Scholars Day for his presentation on evaluating the functional impact of phosphorylation at serine-421 in human neural cells. Well done!

Xiaohong's HD stem cell gene correction paper published in Stem Cell Reports

Our paper on gene correction of HD hiPSCs and HD disease modelling using isogenic stem cells will appear in the March 2017 issue of Stem Cell Reports. The paper can be accessed here (open access).

Graphical summary of the study

Great team effort led by the talented Xiaohong Xu.

Mahmoud presents at Children's Neurological Disorders & Regen Med Conference

Mahmoud will give a talk on Nov 26th at First Annual National Symposium on Children's Neural Disorders and Regenerative Medicine (CNDRM 2016, Nov 25-27) in Shenzhen, China.

His talk will be on modeling Fragile X Syndrome using human pluripotent stem cells.

Mahmoud presents at the 2016 SCSS Symposium

Mahmoud will present at the 8th Stem Cell Society Singapore's (SCSS) Symposium titled "Modelling Cell Fate & Development".

His talk is on modeling neurodevelopmental aspects of neurodegenerative disorders using isogenic human pluripotent stem cells.