Lectures and seminars StratRegen Seminar Series with Michael V. Sofroniew
Welcome to a new seminar in the StratRegen Lunch Seminar Series on Wednesday the 6th of May 2026, 12.30-13.30 in seminar room Ragnar Granit, Biomedicum, Campus Solna with live interactive stream to DNA 5105, Neo, lobby floor, Flemingsberg.
Title: Roles of newly proliferated astrocytes in CNS repair and regeneration
Speaker: Professor Michael V. Sofroniew, UCLA
Publications
Regionally mapped astrocytic responses to cortical and white matter stroke show differential roles in astrocyte-induced vascular remodeling.
Gleichman AJ, Kawaguchi R, Rathbun EM, Sofroniew MV, Carmichael ST
Neuron 2025 Dec;113(24):4178-4198.e9
Single-cell and spatial atlases of spinal cord injury in the Tabulae Paralytica.
Skinnider MA, Gautier M, Teo AYY, Kathe C, Hutson TH, Laskaratos A, de Coucy A, Regazzi N, Aureli V, James ND, Schneider B, Sofroniew MV, Barraud Q, Bloch J, Anderson MA, Squair JW, Courtine G
Nature 2024 Jul;631(8019):150-163
Recovery of walking after paralysis by regenerating characterized neurons to their natural target region.
Squair JW, Milano M, de Coucy A, Gautier M, Skinnider MA, James ND, Cho N, Lasne A, Kathe C, Hutson TH, Ceto S, Baud L, Galan K, Aureli V, Laskaratos A, Barraud Q, Deming TJ, Kohman RE, Schneider BL, He Z, Bloch J, Sofroniew MV, Courtine G, Anderson MA
Science 2023 Sep;381(6664):1338-1345
Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies.
Verkhratsky A, Butt A, Li B, Illes P, Zorec R, Semyanov A, Tang Y, Sofroniew MV
Signal Transduct Target Ther 2023 Oct;8(1):396
Divergent transcriptional regulation of astrocyte reactivity across disorders.
Burda JE, O'Shea TM, Ao Y, Suresh KB, Wang S, Bernstein AM, Chandra A, Deverasetty S, Kawaguchi R, Kim JH, McCallum S, Rogers A, Wahane S, Sofroniew MV
Nature 2022 Jun;606(7914):557-564
Sandwiches and coffee will be provided.
Host
Christian Göritz
Principal ResearcherEnric Llorens Bobadilla
Assistant ProfessorElif Eroglu
Principal ResearcherStratRegen supports researchers, research programs and infrastructure at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) within the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine based on scope, quality, and the potential to strengthen and develop the field.
