Location:
Harvard Business School, Spangler Center, Auditorium and Williams Room

Faculty Chairs:
Caroline Burns, PhD (MGH) and Hanno Hock, MD, PhD (MGH)

2009 Harvard Stem Cell Institute Retreat Agenda

8 - 9 am:                       Registration and Poster set-up

(moderated by Doug Melton)
9:00 - 9:10 am:              Introduction by Doug Melton

9:15 – 10:00 am:            KEYNOTE - Rudolf Jaensich, MD, Whitehead Institute 

10:00 – 10:15 am:          Coffee Break

(moderated by David Scadden)
10:20 – 11:30 am:            New PI talks
                                        (W. Goessling, T. North, D. Langenau, K. Parker
                                        A. Brack, Z. Wang, J. Karp)

11:30 – noon:                   Young Investigators Program
                                        2007 – Cellular Development:       A. Wagers
                                        2008 -  Cell Regulation:                C. Kim
                                        2009 -  Epigenetics and Aging:      A. Meissner

Noon – 1 pm:                   LUNCH

(moderatd by Caroline Burns and Hanno Hock)
1:05 – 2:30 pm:               2007 Seed Grant Recipients (6 min. talk; 3 min. Q&A)
                                      (L. Chai, Z-Y Chen, D. Egli, R. Gregory, B. Humphreys,
                                      C. Kim, K. Lashkari, S. Orkin, S. Rao/I. Domian, S. Signoretti)

2:30 – 3:00 pm:             Core Facilities
                                     Genome Modification Facility (10 minutes) M. Baetscher
                                     Flow Cores (Joslin, MGH, BI – 10 minutes total)  J. LaVecchio; 
                                     L. Prickett; J. Tigges
                                     iPS Core (10 minutes total)  L. Daheron

3:00 – 3:20 pm:            Coffee Break

(moderated by Len Zon)
3:30 – 5:00 pm:            Disease Programs
                                    Blood – Dan Tenen     Len Zon
                                    Cardiovascular – Ken Chien
                                    Diabetes – Gordon Weir
                                    Kidney – Joe Bonventre
                                    Nervous System – Jeff Macklis
                                    Cancer - David Scadden

5:00 – 6:00 pm:            Poster and Cocktail hour

Registration for the poster session has closed - thanks to all who submitted an abstract - we look forward to viewing your posters on June 12!