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Disease Program Interlabs/Think Tanks

2017 Jun 20

Lin28b mediated kidney reprogramming and a Glomerulus on a chip

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Kidney Program Inter-lab meeting - Open to all members of the HSCI research community for a robust, interdisciplinary discussion - no registration required!

Guest lecturers:
Samira Musah, PhD
Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow
NIH/NIDDK Nephrology Research Fellow
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Harvard Medical School, Genetics Dept.
Ingber and Church Laboratories
"Directed differentiation of human iPS cells to reconstitute kidney glomerular...

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2017 Mar 31

Mini-Symposium on Cancer Stem Cells

9:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

Sean Morrison, PhD
Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research at Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern; Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics
UT Southwestern
Metabolic regulation of cancer initiation and progression

Mario Suva, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology, HMS
Assistant Molecular Pathologist, Pathology, MGH
Merkin Institute Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Deciphering human gliomas by single-cell analysis...

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2016 Jan 28

In Vitro Kidney Organoids and Functional 3D Renal Proximal Tubules via Bioprinting

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

HSCI Kidney Inter-lab Meeting

Guest speakers:
Dr. Ryuji Morizani
Bonventre Lab
Renal Division and Division of Biomedical Engineering
Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School


Prof. Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D.
Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Paulsen School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Co-Director, Harvard...

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2015 Oct 27

Recreating the nephron progenitor cell niche

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Guest speaker:
Leif Oxburgh
Senior Scientist, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

All members of the HSCI research community are welcome - no registration required!
Pizza and beverages provided.

2014 Apr 04

HSCI Cardiovascular Program Inter-Lab Meeting

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

Agenda:
Jordan Layton-Mange (Research Fellow in Medicine, Milan Lab)
"Utilizing Stem Cell-Derived Models of Arrhythmia: Increasing throughput, drug validation, and a new approach for genetic discovery"

Zhanpeng Huang (Instructor in Pediatrics, BCH, Wang lab)
"Regulation of cardiac hypertrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy by CIP"

Pizza and beverages will be provided at the meeting.

2014 Apr 02

HSCI Kidney Program Interlab Meeting

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

"Creating pathways of discovery through collaboration and innovative technology"
John Daley, Director of LMA CyTOF Core Facility

"Determining the mechanism of action of roscovitine in treating polycystic kidney fibrosis"
Jagesh Shah, Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, HMS and Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

This program is open to members of the HSCI research community at large - all are welcome!

2014 May 07

HSCI Cancer Program Pilot Grants Review Meeting

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

Presentations by:
Stuart Orkin/Guo-Cheng Yuan
"Single cell modeling of cellular hierarchy and transcriptional network for leukemia stem cells"

Carla Kim/Peter Kharchenko
"Tracking clonal dynamics of lung adenocarcinomas"

Zhe Li/Allon Klein (Marc Kirschner)
"Pathway-based quantitative clonal analysis for studying cancer stem cells in vivo"

All members of the HSCI research community are welcome to attend.  Attendees are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch...

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2014 Mar 07

HSCI Blood Program Meeting

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Room 335, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.

Presentations will be by:

Derrick Rossi - Pilot grant first year report:
“Reprogramming committed human blood cells back to hematopoietic stem cells with defined factors.”

Min Ye (Tenen lab):
"Leukemia initiating cell formation requires myeloid differentiation."

2014 Jan 27

HSCI Blood Group Meeting

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Center for Life Sciences, Conf. Room 0421, Three Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA

Guest presenters:
Peter Kharchenko (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CBMI and BCH)
presenting a joint project withthe Scadden Lab:
"Clonal analysis of hematopoiesis based on using fluorecence data"

Glenn MacLean (Orkin Lab)
"In vitro differentiation of human pluripotent cells reveals abnormalities of hematopoiesis due to Trisomy 21"

2014 Jan 06

HSCI Cardiovascular Program PIs Meeting

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Shapiro Bldg., Room S-L5A, 70 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Directions to the meeting room:
In the BWH Shapiro building, take the elevator to level 5. Exit the elevator and turn left. Go through the glass doors  (labelled "Cardiovascular Faculty Offices") and turn right. Walk around the right side of the reception desk towards the wall ahead of you. L5A is on your right, next to a portrait hanging on the wall.... Read more about HSCI Cardiovascular Program PIs Meeting

2013 Dec 05

HSCI Kidney Program Inter-lab Meeting

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Bldg., Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Presenters:
Susan Dymecki
Professor of Genetics, HMS
"Decoding the brain serotonergic system:  Intersectional genetics and functional probing"

Jing Zhou
Associate Professor, HMS and BWH
"TBA"

All members of the HSCI research community are welcome to attend.