Episode 1
Blastoids, Gastruloids, and Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models

Guests
Janet Rossant, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto and the Gairdner Foundation
Patrick Tam, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

Featured Paper
Opportunities and Challenges with Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models

Episode 2
The Renaissance of Developmental Biology

Guests
Lorenzo Orietti, PhD, Medical Advisor, Onco-Hematology Unit,  Amgen, Inc, (Italy)
Marta Shahbazi, PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD, Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group and The Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, UK and the California Institute of Technology, USA

Featured Paper
Embryo Size Regulates the Timing and Mechanism of Pluripotent Tissue Morphogenesis

Episode 3
Stem Cells: From Cancer Vaccines to Space Research

Guests
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute,  USA
Xiaoming Ouyang, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Wu Laboratory, Stanford University, USA

Featured Paper
Anti-Tumor Effects of iPSC-Based Cancer Vaccine in Pancreatic Cancer

Episode 4
Curbing Unproven Stem Cell-Based “Treatments”

Guests
Mohamed Abou-El-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA
Zubin Master, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Kirstin Matthews, PhD, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, USA
Sean Morrison, PhD, Children’s Research Institute, UT Southwestern, USA

Featured Paper
Unproven Stem Cell Interventions: A Global Public Health Problem Requiring Global Deliberation

Episode 5
Transcription Factor Dance Party - Building Dopaminergic Neurons
Sponsored by bit.bio

Guests
Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University

Yi Han Ng, PhD, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine and Laboratory of Metabolic Medicine, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Featured Paper
Efficient Generation of Dopaminergic Induced Neuronal Cells with Midbrain Characteristics 

Episode 7
The Intersection of Stem Cells and Engineering

Guests
Peter Loskill, PhD, W3-Professor for Organ-on-Chip Research at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute as well as Vice-Chair of the European-Organ-on-Chip-Society (EUROoCS)

Christine Mummery, PhD, Professor of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Center and heads the iPSC & organ on a chip facility at the LUMC. She is also the recent past president of the ISSCRF

Featured Papers
Special Issue: Organs-on-Chip

Episode 6
Hans’ Iliad: Troy, Adult Stems, and the Epithelia
Sponsored by Bio-Techne

Guests
Hans Clevers, MD, PhD, is group leader at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research and at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. He is also University Professor at the University Utrecht and Oncode Investigator. Both in the Netherlands. 

Kai Kretzschmar, PhD, is junior group leader at the MSNZ University Hospital Würzburg, Germany 

Featured Paper
Troy/Tnfrsf19 Marks Epidermal Cells that Govern Interfollicular Epidermal Renewal and Cornification