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Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Training Workshop
Stem Cells Ltd and Cell Reprogramming Australia (CRA) are pleased to announce the dates for their
upcoming Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Workshop:
Wednesday 30th October – Friday 1st November 2013
The StemCore and CRA iPS Cell workshop is aimed at giving participants both practical experience with
generation, identification and analysis of iPS cells (practical component); and to provide theoretical
background of the fast developing field of iPS cell research (lecture component). These comprehensive
training workshops provide hands-on, laboratory-based training, and includes a lecture component from
Associate Ernst Wolvetang, one of Australia’s leading stem cell scientists. The workshops deal with derivation
of induced pluripotent stem cell lines (iPSC) and their subsequent passaging, manipulation, daily maintenance
and characterisation.
Laboratory-based training modules available include:
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Reprogramming of adult fibroblasts to generate iPS cells
Identification of putative iPS cells
Selection and expansion of putative iPS cells
Passaging of iPS cells
Cryopreservation iPS cells
Characterisation of iPS cells
Supplementary seminar modules:
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The underlying biology of reprogramming
Properties of iPS cells
iPS cells as disease models
Epigenetics and reprogramming
These intensive training workshops are conducted under
the guidance of expert stem cell researcher, Associate
Professor Ernst Wolvetang, AIBN Group Leader and
President of Cell Reprogramming Australia, in our stateof-the-art laboratories at the StemCore Facility.
Supported by:
Location: Australian Institute of Bioengineering and
Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Fee: $2,500 excluding GST (covers all course materials,
practical and lecture sessions, morning tea, lunch and
afternoon tea on course days). Accommodation is not
included in this fee.
Registration and payment details click onto Events on the CRA website: http://cellreprogrammingaust.com /
For more information contact Diana Wilkinson or Victoria Turner at cra@uq.edu.au or v.turner@uq.edu.au
or visit our websites:
www.stemcore.com.au http://cellreprogrammingaust.com
Profile:
Assoc Professor Wolvetang received his PhD in 1992 from the Department of Biochemistry,
University of Amsterdam. He undertook postdoctoral studies at the Department of
Biochemistry, Institute for Reproduction and Development and Centre for Early Human
Development of Monash University, investigating apoptosis, Down syndrome and ETS
transcription factors, respectively. He then joined Prof Martin Pera at the Australian Stem Cell
Centre in 2003 to pioneer human embryonic stem cell research in Australia.
He became Group leader of the Basic human stem cell biology laboratory at the ASCC
research laboratory and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Cell biology in
2006, until he accepted his current position as an independent group leader at the AIBN and
Associate Professor in stem cell biology at the University of Queensland in 2008.
He has been instrumental in enabling induced pluripotent stem cell research across Australia,
was leader of the “Reprogramming and Induction of Pluripotency” Collaborative Stream of
the Australian Stem Cell Centre until the end of that initiative in 2011. He subsequently
initiated and became the inaugural president of Cell Reprogramming Australia, a
collaborative framework aiming to facilitate and accelerate iPS cell research in Australia and
the Asia pacific region.
Associate Professor Ernst Wolvetang
Group leader (Stem Cell Engineering Group)
President (Cell Reprogramming Australia)
He has further established a core facility within the AIBN for the generation of induced
pluripotent stem cells and organizes highly successful workshops for training of national and
international iPS cell researchers.
About StemCore – The Stem Cell Core Facilities of Stem Cells Ltd
Stem Cells Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation established for the purposes of facilitating and accelerating research in the stem cell field via
the provision of stem cell products, services and training through it’s core facilities, StemCore. StemCore allows research laboratories to
increase their efficiencies and outputs through outsourcing of commonplace or specialised activities. Utilising our extensive expertise and
from state-of-the-art facilities, StemCore offers:
• Custom development and supply of induced pluripotent stem
cell lines from cellular material provided by the client
• Cell culture products and related services
− Ready-for-experiment cultures of hESC, iPSC and
feeder cell lines
− Expansion and banking of customer-supplied cell
lines
−Reagent batch testing
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• Cell line characterisation services
− Karyotyping
− DNA Profiling
− Teratoma Assay
− In vitro pluripotency and differentiation assays
− Mycoplasma testing
• Hands-on training in the culture and characterisation of
human pluripotent stem cells
Contract Research Projects or “Virtual RA’s”
For more information, please contact Victoria Turner on 07 3346 3472 or email v.turner@uq.edu.au
www.stemcore.com.au
About Cell Reprogramming Australia
CRA is a new collaborative network of over 25 prominent Australian scientists whose research interests include reprogramming and iPS
cells. It is a not-for-profit organization.
It has been recognized that, while there are a number of organizations with a strong stem cell emphasis in Australia, no umbrella
organization directly provides a voice for this new and exciting field. This idea was born following the successful collaboration of eight
laboratories within the ASCC framework before it closed on 30 June 2011. At its last meeting, the importance of continuing collaboration
was identified, particularly in light of the large collaborative iPS/reprogramming programs that have already been set up overseas. These
have created active collaboration of laboratories that share a common vision in this area, and have subsequently driven innovative
science, fostered joint funding applications and provided a framework for enabling clinical and commercial translation of iPS cells.
CRA therefore believes it is important that all scientists with an interest in iPS/reprogramming i.e. stem cell scientists, clinicians, engineers
etc. be part of this network.
For more information, please contact Diana Wilkinson by email cra@uq.edu.au
www.cellreprogrammingaust.com