The VII School-Conference in Molecular and Cell Biology, organized by the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held on October 12-15 at the St. Petersburg Academic University and the Institute of Cytology of the RAS. The conference aimed to provide a forum for young scientists to discuss their results, determine further research directions, and develop collaboration between different research teams. Employees of our laboratory I.R. Ishmukhametov, A.O. Rozhin and S.F. Shaikhulova presented their reports on the poster session in the section "Stem Cell Biology". Moreover, C.K. Nurieva made an oral presentation about the theme "Cultivation of three-dimensional cellular models of the liver". The materials of the conference were published in the journal "Genes and Cells".