11:00 AM Registration

12:30 PM Featured Speakers

How Human Cancer Cells Form
Robert Weinberg,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research/MIT, Cambridge

Self-Renewal in Normal Stem Cells and Cancer
Michael Clarke,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Adult
Stem Cell Development
Linheng Li,
Stowers Institute, Kansas City

2:45 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM Featured Speakers
 
Cardiac Regeneration in Zebrafish
Mark Keating,
Children’s Hospital,Boston

Biological Mechanisms Governing the Stem Cells
of Adult Tissues in Drosophila
Allan Spradling,
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore

A Genetic Program Regulating Germ Cell
Specification in Mice
Azim Surani,
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute,
University of Cambridge, UK

5:30 PM Posters and Reception