Date:

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Time:

5:00PM—6:30PM, JST

Venue:

Zoom Online Meeting^*
[NOTE] Highspeed LAN/WiFi environment advised for stability

Language:

English

Eligibility

Researchers and students in Kyoto University

Title

"The Ethics of Embryo Models Formed Solely from Stem Cells"

Speaker

Dr Nicolas Rivron
Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA)

Abstract

Over the past few years, in vitro models of the embryo have been formed from mouse or human stem cells. These models mimic features of development including cell fate decisions, patterning, and morphogenesis. Because they can be generated in large numbers and finely modified, both genetically and physically, they might be powerful and ethical alternatives to the use of embryos for basic and biomedical sciences. Due to their novelty, guidelines for the ethical conduct of research on human embryo models is currently not well defined. What is their legal status? What can we expect them to become in the future? What can we learn from them? Here, I will discuss some key ethical aspects of this emerging research and propose some recommendations for its oversight.

Registration

Pre-registered participants only

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[IMPORTANT] Participants shall not disclose any confidential information to others since unpublished data may appear in the presentations.

Organizer

Cantas Alev, Go Okui, and Tsutomu Sawai (ASHBi, Kyoto University)