Friday, August 20
17:00 – 19.00 Registration
19:00 - Welcome party
Saturday, August 21
15.00 – 15.30 | Opening ceremony | 15.30 – 16.00 | Jurij Krpan: Contemporary Investigative Arts: Crossing Borders
The lecture with the title: Contemporary Investigative Arts: Crossing Borders is a short rather descriptive introduction into art practices which are dealing with contemporary phenomena such as telecommunications, cybernetics, artificial life, medicine, biology...In the lecture, presenter will lead you through brief historical overview of artistic avantgards, particular technics of contemporary art productions and international public venues where the scientist, technologists, and other highly specialized practitioners are crossing their knowledge with artist. The lecture aims to do an insight into the processes of culturalisation of highly technologized and mediated contemporary society.
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Polona Tratnik: Ars-Bio-Techne: Intersection of Art and Biotechnology
In her lecture the author will present the field of biotech art as a branch of contemporary art, specifically interested in the intersection of art and biotechnology. In these hybrid compositions such transart projects stimulate linking biotechnology with other fields as art and humanities.
Polona Tratnik, PhD, MA
Research Associate
University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre of Koper
Garibaldijeva 1, 6000 Koper
e-mail:
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URL: www.zrs.upr.si, www-ars-tratnik.si
| 17.15 | Wine cellar tour |
Sunday, August 22
8.15 – 9.45 | Darja Marolt (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia) Stem cells in biomedical engineering | 9.45 – 10.00 | Short Break | 10.00 – 11.30 | Tanja Dominko (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Cellular reprogramming: Current technology/perspectives and generation of induced pluripotent cells | 11.30 – 13.00 | Peter Dovc (Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
In vitro differentiation of murine ESC and chimera formation | 13.00 – 15.00 | Lunch break | 15.00 – 16.30 | Marco Traub (University of Berne, Switzerland; GeneMaLK SA, Lugano, Switzerland)
Low efficacy with poor target validation. Can stem cell technology hurdle cessation in drug design caused by vintage concepts in recent industrial pharmacology? | 16:30 –18:30 | Lab demonstrations
Spela Krasko Gerbec (Bia d.o.o.) and Marko Jarc (Bia Separations d.o.o.)
Chromatography |
Monday, August 23
8.15 – 9.45 | Damijan Miklavcic (Laboratory of Biocybernetics, Department for Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Cell electroporation | 9:45 – 10.00 | Short Break | 10. 00 – 11.30 | Gregor Sersa (Department of Experimental Oncology, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Electroporation as a tool for in vitro drug and gene delivery | 11. 30 – 13. 00
| Miomir Knezevic (Biohramba popkovnicne krvi d.o.o, SI)
Clinical trials design and implementation | 13. 00 – 15. 00 | Lunch break | 15.00 – 16.30
| Bojana Obradovic (Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Bioreactors for cell culture | 16.30 - 18.30 | Lab demonstrations - Urban Svajger (Labormed and Blood Transfusion Centre)
Magnetic isolation of cells | 20.00 | Traditional pancakes party!
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Tuesday, August 24
6:00 am RUN FOR FUN (organized by Darja Marolt)
"Run for Fun" is meant to socialize, exercise and wake up to a beautifull morning full of energy. We would like to encourage the participants of Summer School to join us in a short run that starts at 6:15 am (meeting 6:00 am in front of the lecture hall, Marine Biology Station) for a 30-45 min run along the coast. We will head towards Tartini Square in Piran, hike up to the church and return.
8.15 - 9.45
| Zoran Ivanovic (Etablissement Francais du Sang, France)
Oxygen stem cell paradigm: self renewal from evolutionary viewpoint.
Ex viwo expansion of hematopoietic cells: biological basis and pre-clinical development | 9.45 - 10.00 | Short Break | 10.00 – 11.30 | Noel Milpied (Haut Leveque University Hospital Pessac, France; Bordeaux University, France)
Clinical use of ex-vivo expanded haematopoietic stem cells: from autologous peripheral blood to unrelated cord blood. Protocols and results in Bordeaux. | 11.30 – 13.00 | Tanja Dominko (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Asking and answering scientific questions | 13. 00 – 15. 00 | Lunch break | 15.00 – 16.30 | Lab demonstrations
Denis Kole (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Transgenesis and its use in cell biology |
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Wednesday, August 25
8:15 - 9:45 | Primoz Rozman (Blood transfusion centre of Slovenia)
Cell biology in transfusion medicine | 9:45 – 10. 00 | Short Break | 10. 00 – 11.30 | Matjaz Jeras (Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia)
Cell biology methods in immunology | 11.30 – 12.15
12.15 - 13. 00 | Urban Svajger (Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia)
Cell biology methods in immunology
Matjaž Ravnikar (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana)Transfection | 13. 00 – 15. 00 | Lunch break | 15.00 – 16.00 | Kristina Gruden (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)
qPCR and microarrays | 16:00 – 18:00 | Lab demonstrations
Spela Baebler (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)
qPCR reaction setup and data analysis for gene expression studies |
18.00 - 19.00 POSTER SESSION
20. 00 Mussels and night out in Porotoroz after that
Thursday, August 26
8:15 - 9:45 | Raymond Page (CellThera, Inc., Southbridge and Bioengineering Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Effect of culture conditions on cell phenotype | 9:45 – 10. 00 | Short Break | 10. 00 – 11.30 | Helena Motaln (Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)
Methods to study MSC - tumor cell interactions | 11.30 – 13.00 | Irma Virant-Klun (Reproductive Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Clinical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Cell biology in assisted reproduction for infertility treatment | 13. 00 – 15. 00 | Lunch break | 15.00 – 15.45
15.45 - 16.00 | Jiri Sinkora (BD Biosciences)
Introduction to flow cytometry and cell sorting
Matthias Engele (BD Biosciences)
A singular resource for stem cell research - commercial lecture | 16:30-18:30 | Lab demonstrations
Chris Malcuit (CellThera, Inc., USA)
Imaging in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions |
Friday, August 27
8:15 - 9:45 | Marko Kreft (Institute of Pathophysiology, University of Ljubljana; Celica Biomedical Center, Slovenia)
Confocal microscopy in cell biology | 9:45 – 10. 00 | Short Break | 10.00 – 11.30 | Lidija Berke (Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
The riddle of transcription factor binding sites: Bioinformatics as a tool in cell biology | 11.30 – 13.00 | Sarah Chan (School of Law, The University of Manchester) Ethical issues in science and technology | 13. 00 | Lunch break |
Free afternoon.
Saturday, August 28
9:00 Exam
14:00 Closing ceremony
Social events (possible):
- wine cellar tour and wine tasting
- pancakes party
- mussels
- salt fields
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Call for Posters:
Deadline: 20 July 2010
You can also present your research on a poster while attending the event. Your participation with a panel discussion, sharing your experiences and results would be very valuable to us. Submit an abstract for consideration to Urska Tajnsek (
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