Episode 130 - Derk Ten Berge - "It does require some bravery to spend the time to look for that"

StemCells@Lunch Digested

In today’s episode, Dr Derk ten Berge, an Associate Professor in the department of Cell Biology at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, is interviewed by PhD student Daria Belokhvostova. Derk discusses his research on embryonic development and pluritpotency (the ability of a stem cell to make all the cells of the embryo) and the mechanisms of how cells become pluripotent. He talks about an intermediate stage of embryonic development called rosette stem cells. He considers about how his lab is dealing with the impact of Covid.