Welcome, Course planning, & Participant Introductions

Coffee break

Lecture: Reprogramming of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) 

Dinner 

Lecture: General iPSC procedures

Workshop / Group Assignment

Lunch break 

Wet Lab Work; General iPSC procedures (Thawing, passaging, & coating)

Invited speaker

Wet Lab Work; Clone selection after reprogramming

Lunch break 

Lecture: iPSC differentiation toward CNS cells

Workshop / Group Assignment

Lecture: Organoids and iPSC derived cultures for brain disorders

Intro Lectures on Wet Lab Demo's (30 min per demo) 

Lunch break 

Wet Lab Work & Demo Sessions; Removal of Spontaneous Differentiation; iPSC Freezing; Demo's on e.g. MEA and Fiber Cultures

Workshop / Group Assignment Presentations

Specialized 'Fire' Presentations on Advanced Techniques e.g. Gene editing, Ethics, Statistics, and Imaging