Last Friday, we were honored to participate in 2025 UniStem Day, celebrating 10 years at Lund University. This well recognized initiative allows students from high school level to spend a day at Stem Cell Center, participating in different activities, such as lectures on various topics imparted by several PIs or practical workshops, where they can learn how it is to work in a research laboratory.
This year, same as last year, the students enjoyed a talk about “Chicken Embryo as Research Model for Stem Cells” with Sofie Mohlin, where out future researchers were able to learn the importance of embryonic models in the study of different types of cancer.
Then, we were happy to host for second year in a row a workshop entitled “A chick embryo to study child cancer – Let’s look inside chicken eggs!” were the students listened to a brief presentation on the topic, to learn what we do in the lab and how to work with chick embryos. The workshop was hosted by our wonderful team Emma Haxen (PhD student), Anja Zethraeus (Master student) and Marina Mazariegos (lab engineer).
The students opened several eggs, incubated for different periods of time to get embryos at different stages, and they could see the embryos under the microscope. The most brave ones even dared to take them out of the egg for further inspection!
We had a great time also discussing several aspects of our work with the new generations, who were really curious and willing to know more about our work. That’s always very encouraging!
