ISSCR Annual Meeting - HSCI speakers Friday, June 14, 2013

June 14, 2013

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute is co-sponsoring the 11th Annual International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting. The five-day conference has drawn nearly 4,000 people to the Boston-area, all to discuss the latest stem cell science in laboratories around the world.

If you are attending the ISSCR meeting and would like to listen to HSCI-affiliated presentations, our speakers, Friday, June 14, include:

9:00 – 11:20 AM
Plenary IV: Cell and Gene Therapy
Chair: David Scadden, HSCI and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
David Williams, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA (9:00 am – 9:25 AM)
Integrating Viral Vectors, Gene Transfer Into Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Therapies in Human Monogenic Diseases

1:15 - 3:05 PM
Concurrent IIIA: Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Chair: Amy Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center, USA

1:15 – 3:05 PM
Concurrent IIID: Chemical Control of Stem Cell Behavior
Quinn P. Peterson, Harvard University, USA (2:45 PM – 3:00 PM)
Combinatorial Small Molecule Modulation of HESC-Derived Pancreatic Multipotent Progenitor Cells

1:15 – 3:05 PM
Concurrent IIIE: Germ Cell Biology and Artificial Gametes
Robin M. Hobbs, Monash University, Australia (2:00 PM – 2:15 PM)
The TSC2-MTORCI Signaling Axis Controls Germline Stem Cell Fate

4:00 – 5:50 PM
Concurrent IVA: Stem Cells In Organ Development
Chair: Leonard I. Zon, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Akiko Kobayashi, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA (4:30 PM – 4:45 PM)
PAX2 Maintains the Nephron Lineage by Repressing Stromal Cell Fats in Nephron Progenitor Cells During Mammalian Kidney Development

4:00 – 5:50 PM
Concurrent IVD: Stem Cells and Cancer
Ellen van Rooijen, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School USA (4:30 PM – 4:45 PM)
A Chromatin Factor Screen in Zebrafish Identifies Neural Crest Regulator SATb2 As a Novel Driver of Melanoma

4:00 – 5:50 PM
Concurrent IVE: Chromatin Regulation in Stem Cells
Jay Bradner, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA (4:05-4:30 PM)
Chemical Control of Gene Expression
Andre Catic, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (4:30 pm – 4:45 PM)
A Functional Map of Nuclear Proteolysis

Photo: HSCI Executive Committee members Leonard Zon and Douglas Melton speak on a press panel at the 2013 ISSCR Annual Meeting (Credit: B.D. Colen)

See also: 2013, Announcement