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An overview of GEMSTONE STSMs

An overview of GEMSTONE STSMs

During all grant periods of GEMSTONE, 18 short-scientific missions, 6 virtual mobility grants, 1 dissemination conference grant, and 1 ITC conference grant took place. The grantees had the opportunity to conduct a research project at a collaborator’s institution. Below there is a table that includes all the grantees’ names, the type of grant they received, the title of their project, their home and host institution, and the start and end dates of the project in chronological order.

ParticipantTitle of ProjectHome institutionHost Institution
Bodhisattwa BanerjeeScreening of GWAS-discovered lncRNA in the musculoskeletal systemBar-Ilan University, IsraelMedizinische Universität Graz, Austria
Jasna LojkTechniques for human bone RNA isolationUniversity of Ljubljana, SloveniaOslo University Hospital, Norway 
Irina NaskinovaMachine Learning Models in Osteoporosis and ScoliosisSouth-West University “Neofit Rilski”, BulgariaUniversity College Dublin, Ireland
Barbara VorabergerInvestigating the effect of a novel ASCC1 deletion mutation on human bone fragilityKepler University Hospital, AustriaErasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
Sara MouraExploring Non-Coding RNA as Promising Candidates for Regulating Osteoclasts Activity University of Porto, i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde and ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Porto, PortugalUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Lucija VrscajAssessment of epigenetic effects of teriparatideUniversity of Ljubljana, SloveniaErasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Martina DzubanovaStudying of bone phenotype of NADPH oxidase 4 knock out animal modelInstitute of Physiology CAS, CzechiaUniversité catholique de Louvain, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, Belgium
Elisavet IoannidouFunctional validation of differentially expressed transcripts during osteoblastogenesis and osteoclastogenesisBiomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, GreeceUniversity of Porto, i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde and ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Juan David Patiño SalazarIn vitro assessment of human osteoclast behaviourUniversitat de Barcelona, SpainSouthern Denmark Odense University, Denmark
Jose Miguel Perez-TejeiroGenome analysis of extreme bone mass disorders in search of gene variants for bone pathology University of Malaga, SpainUniversity of Malta,  Malta
Iryna KhrystoforovaValidation of GWASderived candidate genes associated with low bone mineral density using zebrafish model The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, IsraelUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Yentl HuybrechtsSkeletal phenotyping of a novel zebrafish model for Paget’s disease of bone Center of Medical Genetics Antwerp, BelgiumUniversity of Bristol,  United Kingdom
Inês AlvesFacilitators and constrains of phenotype and biomechanic traits of adults with achondroplasia – a literature search ANDO Portugal, Portugal Erasmus Medical Center,  Netherlands
Maria Donatella SemeraroRole of osteoclasts in chronic liver disease-associated osteoporosisClinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics Graz, AustriaUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sam GhatanThe genetic overlap between GWAS hits, eQTLs and CRISPRi perturbations Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands New York Genome Center, United States
Evi GkikopoulouEstablishment of bone metastasis models in TgRANKL miceInstitute for Bioinnovation Athens, GreeceUniversitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus,  Germany
Artemis GkitakouMapping expertise and data availability in GEMSTONEErasmus University Medical Center, NetherlandsFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Maria ChristouFunctional validation techniques in SGMS2-related osteoporosis using in vitro fibroblast cell lines and an in vivo zebrafish model. University of Ioannina, GreeceFolkhalsan Research Center, University of Helsinki,  Finland
STSMs
ParticipantTitle of the projectHome institutionHost Institution
Yushi YangImplementing AI to automate swimming behaviour analysis of zebrafish for musculoskeletal researchUniversity of Bristol, United KingdomUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Maria Inês AlmeidaStandardizing RNA-seq based transcriptome analysis for the identification of bone-related lncRNAsUniversity of Porto, i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde and ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Porto, PortugalBiomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming,  Greece
Fjorda KoromaniVirtual Networking Support in GEMSTONE during GP2Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands Not applicable
Nicholas McCarthySarcophenia Phenotyping from HR-pQCT data using Machine Learning and Computer VisionUniversity College Dublin, IrelandUniversity of Ghent, Belgium
Katie NoonanAccelerating Genetic Screening of Skeletal Conditions Using Zebrafish and AI University College Dublin, IrelandUniversity College Dublin, Ireland
Virtual Mobility
ParticipantTitle of the projectHome institutionHost Institution
Inês AlvesGEnomics of MusculoSkeletal traits TranslatiOnal NEtwork (GEMSTONE): Research focused on Real-World needs ANDO Portugal, PortugalICCBH – International Conference on Children’s Bone Health, Ireland
Melissa FormosaVariants in STAT4 and TMEM151B identified as potential causal factors in Early-Onset Familial Osteoporosis University of Malta, MaltaEuropean Calcified Tissue Society Congress 2022
Dissemination on Conferences

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