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Tornero's Lab
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Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage, headed by Daniel Tornero PhD. We use Neural Stem Cells to repare and model the Human Brain.
Our new paper in iScience is out! 🧠✨
“Variability vs Phenotype: multimodal analysis of Dravet Syndrome Brain Organoids powered by Deep Learning.”
#Neuroscience #Organoids #AI #DravetSyndrome
Open access 👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Variability vs Phenotype: multimodal analysis of Dravet Syndrome Brain Organoids powered by Deep Learning
Dravet Syndrome (DS) is a developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) driven by pathogenic variants in SCN1A gene. Brain organoids (BO) have emerged as reliable models for neurodevelopmental genetic ...
www.cell.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You cannot miss the next talk from the "Cicle Continuat de Conferències". Dr. Danial Roshandel will show us the status of Stem Cell Transplantation for Ocular Regeneration! #stencells #regenerativemedicine #celltherapy
Nova sessió del cicle organitzat per la facultat, promogut per @ubneuro.bsky.social i adreçat al PDI del centre.
El Dr. Danial Roshandel, científic de The University of Western Australia i de Lions Eye Institute, n'és el ponent convidat.
🖱️ bit.ly/3Locemg

#Oftalmologia @nscbraindamage.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎉Our last paper, BDNF Overexpression Enhances Neuronal Activity and Axonal Growth in Human iPSC-Derived Neural Cultures, has been featured on the @ub.edu website!
The article highlights our recent work on stem cell-based therapies for brain damage. @ubneuro.bsky.social 🔬🧠🧫
web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
New advances to boost regeneration and plasticity of brain neurons
web.ub.edu
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
You cannot miss this talk! Sergio Gascón PhD in Barcelona! @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social
Torna el cicle de conferències de la Facultat promogut per @ubneuro.bsky.social.
Sergio Gascón, doctor en l’ @institutocajal.bsky.social del #CSIC, farà el 1/10 una ponència sobre reprogramació neuronal, adreçada al PDI de la Facultat, que és de lliure accés.

🖱️ bit.ly/46De8HV
September 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Book the date in your calendars for the next Talk! @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social You cannot miss it!! #reprogramming #neurons
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🎉 We’re thrilled to share our lab’s latest publication with the scientific community!
This fantastic work was part of the iGEM competition, with the help of @ubneuro.bsky.social, @ub.edu, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED.
Read the article here 👉 www.mdpi.com/3422314
July 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Next talk at the Faculty of Medicine @ub.edu. Sponsorized by the @ubneuro.bsky.social. Don't miss it!
Nova sessió del cicle de conferències de la facultat promogut per @ubneuro.bsky.social de la @ub.edu.
Clara Selles Japas, Postdoctoral Fellow en el NYU Grossman School of Medicine, farà la ponència el 25/6 sobre la #oxitocina “You know I need you for the oxytocin”.

🖱️ bit.ly/4l09B70
June 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
First round of fMRI in stroke-damaged mice with stem cell transplantation. Very exciting day for our project! With Marie Karam, José T. Garrido, Guadalupe Soria Rodríguez,
@ubneuro.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social. #Stroke #StemCells #RegenerativeMedicine #Brain 🧠 🔬
April 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Interesting results from the group of Claire Parish!
Exercise promotes the functional integration of human stem cell-derived neural grafts in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease: Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
Exercise promotes the functional integration of human stem cell-derived neural grafts in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease
Moriarty and colleagues demonstrate the benefit of exercise in promoting plasticity of human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural grafts in Parkinsonian rat model. These effects, observed for ectopic ...
www.cell.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
First results from clinical trials published in Nature! Human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons transplanted in the brain of patients with Parkinson's Dieseas. More results from Sweden and US will come soon! #RegenerativeMedicine #Parkinson #StemCells

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson’s disease - Nature
After transplantation into the brain of patients with Parkinson’s disease, allogeneic dopaminergic progenitors derived from induced pluripotent stem cells survived, produced dopamine and did not form ...
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Very happy with this wonderful recognition from my hometown. As scientists, we are not used to this kind of awards. Thanks to the Cultural Association of Albacete in Madrid, the government of the Province of Albacete, @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social.
April 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Read our last paper Published today! With Marie KARAM and Alba Ortega Gascó, two talented postdocs in the Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage. @ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED.
www.mdpi.com/3251774
April 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Tornero's Lab
Nova sessió del cicle continuat de conferències de la Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut: Philippe Séguéla, científic de McGill University, ve a l’Aula Magna del #CampusCLÍNIC el 2 d’abril
@ubneuro.bsky.social @nscbraindamage.bsky.social #FMiCS

🖱️ bit.ly/41ZkSOl
March 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This week, Alba Ortega Gascó, postdoc in the lab, was presenting our last results at the Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration Meeting, in Edinburgh, UK. @ubneuro.bsky.social , @idibaps.bsky.social #Assembloids #AlzheimerDisease 🧫 🧠 🔬
March 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Another talk comming soon in our Cicle of Conferences! Don't miss this opportunity! “Ion channels and pain circuits: from ASICs to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex” #pain #brain #research @ub.edu www.ub.edu/portal/web/m...
Cicle-Continuat-de-Conferencies-de-la-FMiCS-Ion-channels-and-pain-circuits-from-ASICs-to-the-Anterior-Cingulate-Cortex - Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut - Universitat de Barcelona
www.ub.edu
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy to have the whole group together.: Marie Karam (postdoc, Lebanon/FRA), José Garrido (phd st, PRT), Federica Passeri (master student, ITA), Alba Ortega (postdoc,CAT), Clàudia Puigsasllosas (phd st, CAT), and Anna-Christina Haeb (phd st, GER)!🔬🧠
@ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social @idibaps.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Nueva distinción para el proyecto contra el ictus Reneurish, impulsado por estudiantes de la UB - Actualidad - Universidad de Barcelona @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social web.ub.edu/es/web/actua...
Nueva distinción para el proyecto contra el ictus Reneurish, impulsado por estudiantes de la UB
web.ub.edu
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Great visit to the Cortical Labs stand at the #MWC25. Thanks @sandraacosta.bsky.social, Ángeles Rabadán, ZeNEUROID and of course Brett Kagan for a fantastic collaboration! #corticalneurons #brain #artificialintelligence
March 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Fantastic last day at the MWC Barcelona 2025, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event #MWC25. Thanks to @startub.bsky.social and the rest of the network from @ub.edu!
March 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Today, the Steering Committee of the @ubneuro.bsky.social (@ub.edu) has visited the facilities of the new Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. A space with a lot of potential that we hope will be filled with exciting projects. #cognitiveneuroscience #brain More information 👇
www.event-lab.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you are looking for a PhD in Biomedicine, this can be a nice opportunity: #phd #biomedicine #job #opportunity 🧬🔬💊
interact-msca.ku.dk
INTERACT - Interdisciplinary Marie S. Curie Action for Health – Københavns Universitet
interact-msca.ku.dk
February 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Next Wednesday (19th of February) @idibaps.bsky.social will host Prof. Hal Dietz, who is giving a talk entitled: "Leveraging nature’s success: lessons from modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and related vascular disorders". With the support of @ub.edu www.clinicbarcelona.org/actividades/...
IDIBAPS SEMINAR: Leveraging nature’s success: lessons from modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and rel
Prof. Dr. Hal Dietz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Presentado por Gustavo Egea.
www.clinicbarcelona.org
February 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM