Events

Guest:  Joseph Metzger, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota

"Cardiogenesis In Vitro:  From Murine ES Cells to Human Adult iPS Cells"

Guest:  Gay Crooks, M.B., B.S, Professor, Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Lymphocytes:  The Path Less Traveled"

Jaime Modiano, SCI Faculty

Mesenchymal Stem Cells and the Immunosuppressive Tumor Barrier"

Atsushi Asakura, SCI Faculty

"Myogenic Stem Cells and Vasculatures for Muscle Regeneration and Muscular Dystrophy"

Walter Low, SCI Faculty

"Immunotherapies Targeting Brain Tumor Stem Cells"

Tim O'Brien, SCI Faculty and John Brekke, D.D.S., and President of Bioactive Regenerative Therapeutics, Inc.

"Development of a Novel 3-D Cell Culture Matrix"

John Wagner, SCI Faculty

"Stem Cell Transplantation:  The Art of Translational Research"

Meri Firpo, SCI Faculty

"Scale Up Cultures of Human iPS Derived Endoderm"

Jonathan Slack, SCI Faculty

"Valedictory Lecture - Turning One Cell Type Into Another"

Nobuaki Kikyo, SCI Faculty

"Long Non-Coding RNA in ES Cells"

Guest:  Panagiotis Tsonis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, and Director, Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton (TREND), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

"Dissecting Regeneration in Newts Through the Lens"

Guest:  Timothy Lyden, Ph.D., Professor, Biology Department and Director, Tissue and Cellular Innovation Center, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, River Falls, WI

"Biomimetic Histogenesis: In-Vitro 3D Modeling of Normal and Pathologic Tissues"

Scott Fahrenkrug, SCI Faculty

"Bringing Home the Bacon by Editing Livestock Genomes"

Wei-Shou Hu, SCI Faculty

"Bistable Switches in Biological Regulatory Network"

Yasuhiko Kawakami, SCI Faculty

"Distinct Genetic Programs Regulate Common Developmental Pathways in the Vertebrate Limb"

Wei Chen, SCI Faculty

"New In Vivo Imaging Approaches for Studying Cellular Metabolism, Physiology, and Pathology"

Patrick Ferrell (T32 Grant trainee)  "Reporting Hematopoiesis from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"

John Chan (T32 Grant trainee):  "Planarian Regeneration:  A Model for Small Molecule Regulation of Somatic Stem Cells In Vivo"

Guest:  Michel Sadelain, Director of Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

"Targeting Tumors with Genetically Enhanced T Lymphocytes"

Guest:  Ken Weinberg, M.D., Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Cancer and Blood Diseases, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

"Regenerative Medicine Through the Prism of Thymic Aging"

Jakub Tolar, SCI Faculty

"Two Strategies, One Goal:  Cell and Gene Therapy for Epidermolysis Bullosa"

Guest:  Alberto Hayak, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at UCSD and Scientific Director, The Whittier Institute for Diabetes, La Jolla, CA

"From Islets to Stem Cells in T1D Therapy"

Guest:  Matthias Hebrok, Professor of Medicine, Director of Diabetes Center, and Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professor in Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

"Stem Cell Based Efforts in Diabetes"

Guest:  Malcolm Maden, Professor, Department of Biology and UF Genetics Institute, Univeristy of Florida, Gainesville, FL

"From Axolotls to Mice: Lessons in How to Regenerate Complex Structures"

Ye Lei, SCI Faculty  CANCELLED

"Human Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair"

Mayank Verma (Asakura Lab)

"Increased Angiogenesis for the Treatment of Muscular Dystrophy"