Program

Doors open at 8:30 a.m.  with continental breakfast served.

10:00 a.m.
Prof. Sir John Gurdon, D.Phil, DSc, FRS  (Keynote)
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge, U.K.
"Nuclear reprogramming in amphibian oocytes"

10:40 a.m.
Jeannie Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
"X-chromosome inactivation:  From gamete to embryo and beyond"

11:20 a.m.
Guy Sauvageau, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics of Stem Cells
Scientific Director, Institute for Research in
Immunology and Cancer
Université de Montréal, Canada
"Eed and Bmi 1 as regulators of HSC proliferation"

Buffet lunch served from noon to 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology
University of Cambridge, U.K.
"Epigenetic events influencing pluripotency in the early mouse embryo"

1:40 p.m.
Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.
Professor of Biology and Member,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA
"Nuclear cloning, stem cells and pluripotency"

2:20 - 2:30 p.m.
Presentation by Nicole Ali (Harvard) and Jason Debasitis (BU), 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Interns

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Roundtable discussion with guest speakers.

3:15 - 5:30 p.m.
Poster session and cocktail reception

Dinner (by invitation only)
6:00 p.m.
Dinner Speaker:
David Gergen
Professor of Public Service/Director, Center for Public Leadership
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Building Public Support for Stem Cell Research"