ICSA 2019 Athens

Last week (from 9th to 12th of September) we attended the 6th International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) Conference in Athens, Greece: The bright and the dark side of senescence As always it was a great chance to catch up with this exciting field, meet old friends, make new ones and to present our work. Sabela …

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Andy Koff, from MSKCC, visited us

Andy Koff, who was my supervisor ages ago when I was a postdoc in NYC, visited us last June. He stayed with us in Santiago de Compostela for 3 days in which we really enjoyed chatting with him, discussing science and planning future collaborations. Andy gave a talk at CIMUS (USC) in which he presented …

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Joint Lab retreat with Palmero´s Lab

Last May we had the chance to meet with Ignacio Palmero´s lab from IIB-Alberto Sols (CSIC-UAM) on a joint lab retreat. We met in Melide, Coruña, and we had a really great time. We mixed fun and work in a relaxed environment. We shared a house in the countryside. Weather was fantastic and we had …

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Farewell to our summer students: Anja, Laura and Paula

During July we had in the lab some students who came from different Universities to spend a month with us to learn some molecular biology, cell culture, etc, and basic notions of lab work. Anja Heric is a medical student who came all the way from Slovenia through an exchange program promoted by MEIGA association …

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New stemCHUS website

After several years hosted by Dinahosting, we had to move our website. So, this is our new place on the web: stemchus.wordpress.com We will try to keep updated this place with info related with our activities, our research, and the people working to advance science on the fields of Stem Cells in cancer and Aging.

UK Cell Senescence Symposium 2019 in Edinburgh

On Friday May 10th we attended the 2019 Cell Senescence UK Symposium at Edinburgh organized by Juan Carlos Acosta and Tamir Chandra, both from MRC-IGMM, University of Edinburgh. Sabela Da Silva-Álavarez from the lab presented her work on senescence during development and tissue regeneration in zebrafish, and I presented our work identifying and characterizing a …

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