The meeting, which is open to everyone in the cardiovascular stem cell community, will focus on approaches and techniques that we might share within the Cardiovascular Program toward the ultimate goal of regenerating myocardium and treating heart failure.

For more information, and to register, please contact Claudia Rizzini by June 17, 2011.

Agenda

12:30 - 1:00
Lunch

1:00 - 1:15
Introduction

1:15 - 1:30
Bernard Kuhn
How to study adult CM division

1:30 - 1:45
Zhong Wang
DNAse technology

1:45 - 2:00
Zoltan Arany
Transcription factor technology

2:00 – 2:15
Federica Del Monte
Cardiomyocyte technology

2:15 – 2:30
Ibrahim Domian
ES-cardiomyocyte technology

2:30 – 2:45
Break
   
2:45 – 3:00
Caroline Burns and Geoff Burns
Fish Technology

3:00 – 3:15
Laurie Jackson-Grusby
Mouse technology

3:15 – 3:30
Calum MacRae
Techniques in electrical mapping

3:30 – 3:45
William Pu
"How to" on ChIP-seq

3:45 – 4:00
Sean Wu
ES/iPS cardiogenesis, making iPS cells from different species (mouse, rat, pig, human)

4:00 – 4:15
Wrap up

4:15- 5:00
Cheese and Wine