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Workshop „Stroke and spinal cord injury repair” in Trondheim
The seminar on the Stroke and spinal cord injury repair was held in the frame of the Czech-Norwegian Research Programme publicity at the Faculty of Medicine (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in November 2016. The Czech-Norwegian Research Programme was presented there, in particular the intermediate results of the Project SC_Neuro.
The scientific community as well as members of the research team took part in the workshop.
Friday 4th November, Room BS41, 4th floor Bevegelssenteret (North)
09:30-09:50 Stem-cell based approaches for spinal cord repair
Assoc. Prof Pavla Jendelova, IEM, AS CR, Prague
09:50-10:10 Injectable extracellular matrix hydrogels
Dr Sarka Kubinova, IEM, AS CR, Prague
10:10-10:30 Tailored alginates for cell encapsulation and tissue scaffolding
Professor Berit L Strand, IBT, NTNU
10:30-10:50 Tailored alginates as biomaterials
Dr Øystein Arlov, SINTEF
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 Multimodal imaging in ischemia and stroke assessment
Professsor Asta Håberg, INM, NTNU
11:30-11:50 Nanoparticles as tissue regenerators in stroke and spinal cord injury
Dr Birgitte Hjelmeland McDonagh, NTNU Nanolab
11:50-12:10 Stroke repair: what can we learn from animal models?
PhD candidate Ingrid Lovise Augestad, INM, NTNU
12:10-12:30 Therapeutic interventions for stroke and spinal cord injury: clinical perspective
Dr Ioanna Sandvig, NTNU
31. 08. 2016
Doctoral students are processing data obtained during their internship at NTNU Trondheim and they are introducing method called optical clearing protocol in our laboratory. This method is based on clearing of nervous tissue in several solutions which are composed of sorbitol and urea. Optical properties of the tissue is changed. Intact entire structures can be visualized by microscopy without need of cutting the sample. This method will be used for evaluation of damage and regeneration of tissue after spinal cord injury. We work with transgene mouse strain GFAP-EGFP for optimization. There are green astrocytes in brain and spinal cord of this strain.
Neuroscience Conference in Solden
Within the 18th International Neuroscience Winter Conference, held in Solden, Austria, in April 2016, the Czech – Norwegian symposium on Cell- and biomaterial-based approaches for stroke and spinal cord injury repair was organised.
Chair: prof. Eva Syková
Lectures:
Srecko Gajovic (Croatia):
„In vivo imaging of mouse brain repair and stem cell applications after ischemic injury“,
Ioanna Sandvig (Norway): „In situ tissue engineering strategies for stroke repair“,
Axel Sandvig (Norway): „Multimodal neuroimaging and bioengineering applications for visualisation of blood brain barrier crossing and therapeutics in the CNS“,
Pavla Jendelová (Czech Republic): „Stem cells and anti-inflammatory treatment in SCI“,
Šárka Kubinová (Czech Republic): „Natural versus synthetic hydrogels as scaffolds for spinal cord injury repair“.
Postgraduate intership at NTNU Trondheim
09. 03. 2016
On 29th February 2016, two doctoral students from IEM AS CR have started a two-month internship at NTNU Trondheim in order to introduce a model of spinal cord injury. An alginate hydrogel combined with stem cells will then be implanted into the lesions as experimental treatment. On the other hand, our students learn the evaluation methodology of tissue regeneration using optical clearing protocol. The results will be published together.
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Kick off meeting: 17.9. 2014