16th Annual HSCI Retreat

Date: 

Thursday, May 20, 2021, 10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: 

Virtual, via Zoom - register to receive the link via email

To register for this free event for the HSCI research community, please CLICK HERE.

Co-chairs:

Jonathan Hoggatt (MGH) and Zhixun Dou (MGH)

9:50 – 10:00 a.m.

WELCOME | Brock Reeve, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

10:00 – 10:20 a.m.

Jason Buenrostro, PhD | HSCRB
Single-cell Epigenomics: Gene regulation at unprecedented resolution

10:20 – 10:50 a.m.

Trainee Presentations

  • • Elad Sintov: Genetic approaches to attain hypoimmunogenic human stem cell derived beta cells
  • • Mor Grinstein: A cell as its own niche, a novel progenitor cell population in dense matrix tissues
  • • Christa Haase: Spatial transcriptomics at early stages of leukemia progression identifies a population of proliferative AML cells marked by DPP4 expression
  • • Neha Nagpal: Regulation of human telomerase via targeting noncoding RNA pathways

10:50 – 11:00 a.m.

Audience votes for top trainee presentation | Break

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Walter Matweychuk, PhD | REBT
Changing What You Can Change and Accepting What You Cannot During Times of Adversity

11:30 a.m. – Noon

Anne Brunet, PhD | Stanford University
Mechanisms of aging and regeneration

Noon – 12:15 p.m.

Award Presentations

 

Jessica Whited, PhD | Recipient, 2020 Barry Family HSCI Innovation Award for Early-Career Investigators

 

2021 Barry Award recipient introduced to community

12:15 – 12:25 p.m.

Break | Lunch

12:25 – 12:55 p.m.

Jennifer Adair, PhD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery to hematopoietic stem cells

1:00 – 1:50 p.m.

James (Jay) Bradner, MD | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Cell and Gene Therapies: The Novartis Experience and Outlook

1:50 – 2 p.m. Top Trainee Award presentation

 

See also: Annual Retreat