#  16th Annual HSCI Retreat 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 20, 2021** 

 10:00AM - 02:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Virtual, via Zoom - register to receive the link via email**  



 

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Sort    Co-chairs:

 

  **Jonathan Hoggatt** (MGH) and **Zhixun Dou** (MGH)

 

    9:50 – 10:00 a.m.

 

  WELCOME | **Brock Reeve**, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

 

    10:00 – 10:20 a.m.

 

  **Jason Buenrostro, PhD** | HSCRB  
*Single-cell Epigenomics: Gene regulation at unprecedented resolution*

 

    10:20 – 10:50 a.m.

 

  Trainee Presentations

- • Elad Sintov: Genetic approaches to attain hypoimmunogenic human stem cell derived beta cells
- • Mor Grinstein: A cell as its own niche, a novel progenitor cell population in dense matrix tissues
- • Christa Haase: Spatial transcriptomics at early stages of leukemia progression identifies a population of proliferative AML cells marked by DPP4 expression
- • Neha Nagpal: Regulation of human telomerase via targeting noncoding RNA pathways
 
 

    10:50 – 11:00 a.m.

 

  Audience votes for top trainee presentation | Break

 

    11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

 

  **Walter Matweychuk, PhD** | REBT  
*Changing What You Can Change and Accepting What You Cannot During Times of Adversity*

 

    11:30 a.m. – Noon

 

  **Anne Brunet, PhD** | Stanford University  
*Mechanisms of aging and regeneration*

 

    Noon – 12:15 p.m.

 

  Award Presentations

 

    

  **Jessica Whited, PhD** | Recipient, 2020 Barry Family HSCI Innovation Award for Early-Career Investigators

 

    

  2021 Barry Award recipient introduced to community

 

    12:15 – 12:25 p.m.

 

  Break | Lunch

 

    12:25 – 12:55 p.m.

 

  **Jennifer Adair, PhD** | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center  
*Nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery to hematopoietic stem cells*

 

    1:00 – 1:50 p.m.

 

  **James (Jay) Bradner, MD** | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research  
*Cell and Gene Therapies: The Novartis Experience and Outlook*

 

    1:50 – 2 p.m. 

  Top Trainee Award presentation 

 





 

 



 

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