This year, we captured our @Stanford @BrOrganogenesis hand-on workshop on human stem cell models course in action. Every year here on campus, we share methods developed in our lab for generating and applying neural #organoids# and #assembloids#. Mornings are devoted to lectures, while afternoons are spent at the bench: going from building assembloids to imaging them and recording their electrical activity. Throughout the week, students also work together in small groups on a project. This year, by popular demand, we focused on assembloids This spring, 22 students came from around the world. They returned to their institutions and labs taking these methods with them and adapting them to their own research. For us, the course is an invigorating lab-wide effort that we prepare for months in advance. This year it was superbly organized by three outstanding scientists: Merve Avar, Sabina Kanton, and Rebecca Levy (who recently started her own lab at Stanford!). One of the best weeks of the year for us in lab. A glimpse of it in the video below.