Join AMONG! The interactive webinar for and by scientist in the field of human-derived cellular models of neurodegeneration!

Date & Time:  April 16, 2021 at 15.00 - 17.30 CET
Costs:              Free registration

Programme:
15:00 - 15:05:  Doors to the Zoom environment will open
15.05 - 15.10:  Word of welcome by Vivi Heine and Wiep Scheper (Amsterdam Neuroscience)
15.10 - 15.25:  Short Lecture by Kevin Batenburg (VU Amsterdam) on a novel human co-culture model of tau pathology
15.25-16.30:    Panel Discussion on prospects and challenges of human-derived models in research; applications in academia and industry with:
                         Dr. Doo Yeon Kim (Harvard Medical School)
                         Dr. Femke Feringa (Amsterdam UMC)
                         Dr. Alfredo Cabrera Soccoro (Janssen Pharmaceutica)
                         Phd Student Georgie Lines (UCL)


16.45 - 17.30:  Swammerdam Lecture by Dr. Shane Liddelow (NYU Langone) on astrocyte reactivity in cell cultures

Contact information: j.f.m.van.vierbergen@student.vu.nl OR s.berkers@student.vu.nl