Program:
10:00 a.m.
Brigid Hogan, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center
"Delaying the last gasp with airway stem cells"

Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Investigator, HHMI
University of Utah School of Medicine
"Dying Young as Late as Possible:  Planarians, Regeneration and Stem Cells"

Andreas Trumpp, PhD
Assistant Professor, EPFL School of Life Sciences
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Epalinges, Switzerland
"Dormant and Activated Stem Cells During Homeostatsis Injury and Cancer"

Noon - 1:00 p.m.  Lunch break

1:00 p.m.
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD  APPEARANCE CANCELLED
Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"Reprogramming bivalent histone code during vertebrate regeneration"

Randall T. Moon, PhD
Director and William and Marilyn Conner Professor of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington School of Medicine
"Wnt Signaling in Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine"

Lorenz Studer, MD
Director, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Tumor Biology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Neural Fate Specification in Human Embryonic Stem Cells"

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Scientific poster session and cocktail reception

Faculty Chairs:  Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD and Chad Cowan, PhD
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine
Dept. of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University