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Welcome to the Mercia Stem Cell Alliance - 12th Annual Scientific Meeting! Join us for a day of cutting-edge research and collaboration at Conference Aston. The Mercia Stem Allicance is composed of stem cell researchers from more than 15 universities and prides iteslf on supporting the development and progression of ECR and postgraduate stem cell researchers.

This meeting will be held at Conference Aston (https://www.conferenceaston.co.uk), based on the Aston University campus in the heart of Birmingham (number 5 on the campus map which can be accessed here: https://www.aston.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-10/campus-map-2023.pdf.

The Aston campus is easily accessible, located next to Birmingham city centre, and the conference centre is a 15 minute walk from New Street Station. There is also on site parking available which is just off the A38 and near the famous A38/M6 junction 'Spaghetti Junction'. Parking is available in Car Park 5 which is accessed from Holt Street.

Full details of travelling to Conference Aston can be found here: https://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/find-us

We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham.

Birmingham Organisational Team

 

 

 

 

Speakers

We are delighted to announce that the key note talk "Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids and gene editing" will be delivered by Prof Emma Rawlins from the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. 

Invited Talks

Anestis Tsakiridis

Dr Anestis Tsakiridis

Lecturer, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield

Katherine Bridge

Dr Katherine Bridge

Kay Kendall Fellow, Department of Biology, University of York

Caitlain McQueen

Dr Caitlain McQueen

Lecturer, Chester Medical School, University of Chester

Mattea Finelli

Dr Mattea Finelli

Biodiscovery Institute, University of Nottingham

Registration

Please register for this event using the following link:

Registration for the 12th Annual Mercia Stem Cell Meeting here

or use the QR code

PIs/PostDoc
£40.00
Students
£15.00

Meeting Sponsors

We thank the following sponsors for supporting this meeting:

Schedule - 0 Days

9.00 - 9.45

Registration / Coffee

  

10.00 - 11.10

Session 1

  
  10.00 - 10.20    Invited speaker  
  10.20 - 11.00.    Short talks from the abstracts  
  11.00 - 11.10.     Talk from sponsor  

11.10 - 11.30 

Coffee Break

  

11.30 - 12.50

Session 2

  
  11.30 - 11.50.   Invited Speaker  
  11.50 - 12.30.   Key Note. Prof Emma Rawlins, University of Cambridge. "Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids and gene editing".  
  12.30 - 12.40.  Talk from sponsor  

12.50 - 14.00

Lunch and Poster Session

  

14.00 - 15.20

Session 3

  
  14.00 - 14.20.   Invited speaker  
  14.20 - 15.00.   Short Talks from the abstracts  
  15.00 - 15.10.   Talk from sponsor  

15.10 - 15.30

Coffee Break

  

15.30 - 16.30

Session 4

  
 

15.30 - 15.50.   Invited speaker

15.50 - 16.30   Short Talks from the abstracts

  

16.30 - 16.45

Prizes and final comments

  
     

Abstracts

We invite all researchers to submit abstracts to the meeting by the 1st November for poster presentations. Selected abstracts will be invited to give short talks during the meeting.

Abstracts can be submitted using the Abstract Submission button at the top of the page.