| | The ISS Piran has become a traditional event at the end of the summer. We are happly anouncing the ISS2010.
The International Summer School, Piran, Slovenia, August 20 – 28, 2010 is a PhD-level course for graduate students in life sciences focusing on methods in stem cell biology. This year´s title is Advanced Methods in Cell Biology.
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 Bojana Obradovic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Vice Dean
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
University of Belgrade
Serbia
Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia and the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia have initiated a series of international summer schools on different topics in biomedical engineering in the year 2008 as an effort to promote education and research in this field in the Balkan region. The schools are aimed to be international and interdisciplinary and intended for doctoral students of life as well as engineering sciences. Lecturers are renown experts in the field coming from the international scientific community, academia as well as from clinics and industry. The summer schools include lectures and laboratory demonstrations while learning outcomes are evaluated by homework assignments and a final exam. Students are required to work in teams in order to promote multidisciplinary teamwork and to establish a basis for future collaborations and development of international scientific networks. In addition, the students are also encouraged to present their studies and research in poster sessions and discussions. The summer schools are certified as PhD level courses of 4 to 5 ECTS.
 Miomir Knezevic, Ph.D.
Head of Unit for the Collection and Processing
of Haematopoietic Stem Cels
Blood Transfusion Centre of Sovenia
SloveniaThe Summer School is the best possibility for high profile scientists and students to meet. This low budget/high profile event has become traditional – the first one was organized in Belgrade, while the others were held in the Marine biology station, Piran (Slovenia) on the Adriatic coast. Intensive education programme, hands-on activities and project work are well balanced with social activities and personal contact between scientists and students at the beginning of their careers. Topics are focused more on certain aspects of health related biotechnology each year. The focus of the first events was centred on regenerative medicine of musculo-sceletal disorders including bioreactors, biomaterials and in-vitro applications. Later the Summer School’s topics focused more on stem cells as a potential for regenerative medicine.
Methods in cell biology are crucial, so we have to pay attention to this field as well. Ethics of research and the relationship of science and art bring together some key players of this approach. Students can obtain a lot of new knowledge regarding different views on this increasingly important part of our lives. Several excellent scientists and some of the attendees are now attending the School each year. This fact proves that the concept of the school is correct and can even be improved. I am positive this will happen.
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