Modeling Human Blastocysts by Reprogramming Fibroblasts into iBlastoids

Session 68: Modeling Human Blastocysts by Reprogramming Fibroblasts into iBlastoids Tuesday 15th June, 2021. 3PM EST/ 8PM GMT / 9PM CET   PROFESSOR JOSE POLO Professor Jose Maria Polo graduated from Buenos Aires University as a Biochemist and obtained his PhD in 2008 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York under the supervision of Dr. Ari Melnick working on the transcriptional mechanism of BCL6. He then moved to Boston to the laboratory of Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to work on the reprogramming of adult cells into iPS cells. In June 2011, Jose established his independent research group at Monash University, where he holds appointments to the departments of Anatomy and Developmental Biology and to the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. His research group focuses on the molecular mechanism governing the reprogramming process and the epigenetic mechanism underpinning cell fate in general