VII Congress of the Serbian Genetic Society was held from October 2nd to October 5th, 2024. at Zlatibor mountain of extraordinary beauty, and pleasant climate. This Congress covered many fields of genetics including molecular genetics and genomics, medical genetics and personalized medicine, population and evolutionary genetics, microbial genetics, breeding and genetic engineering, genotoxicology, new technologies, and others. This was a great opportunity to increase the visibility of the STREAMLINE Project and STREAMLINE hub among academic public. Accordingly, within the congress STREAMLINE team organized thematic workshop: “STREAMLINE hub for modelling disease and discovering molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders”. The majority of attendees was Congress participants that had an opportunity to learn about the latest iPSCs-based approaches for studying neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as to join STREAMLINE hub.
As invited speaker, dr Danijela Drakulic, presented STREAMLINE outputs through lecture “Establishment of a model system for studying neurodevelopmental disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patients with 22q11.2 Deletion” within session Medical genetics. The main focused of the lecture was on STREAMLINE Exploratory Research Project and how far we have come in designing a new iPSCs-based tool for unveiling neuropathological mechanisms of human neurodevelopmental disorders.
During poster sesions, the youngest STREAMLINE team members Jovana Kostić and Ivana Simeunović presented their PhD topics in form of posters – “Patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells with 22q11.2 microdeletion: a model system for investigating neurodevelopmental disorders” and “Characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with 22q11.2 Duplication Syndrome”, subsequently. Particularly, they briefly introduced the establishment of iPSCs from patients with 22q11.2 duplication and deletion syndrome as model systems for studying neurodevelopmental disorders.
