Intestinal Stem Cells: Identity, Development, and Metabolic Control

Date and Time

April 6, 2021
01:00PM - 05:40PM EDT

Location

Virtual, Via Zoom - register to receive the link

Program of the 

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Register in advance for this webinar:
https://bostonchildrens.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sveer91PQNO4HgK0UYMmNw

PROGRAM AGENDA:

1:00
Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD - Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School
 
Introductory Remarks and first talk
 
ISC candidates, executors, and transcriptional control
 
1:40
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco
 
Regenerative strategies of the intestinal crypt
 
2:10
Frederic de Sauvage, PhD - Genetech
 
Role of intestinal stem cell plasticity in tumorigenesis 
 
2:40
Kelley Yan, MD, PhD – Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons
 
Wnt pathway regulation of intestinal stem cells
 
3:10 – 3:30 
Break
 
3:30
Bruce Edgar, PhD – Huntsman Institute, University of Utah
 
Regeneration, tumorigenesis, and adaptive growth in the Drosophila intestine
 
4:00
Jason Spence, PhD – University of Michigan Medical School
 
Identifying intestinal stem cell niche factors in the developing human gut
 
4:30
Linda Samuelson, PhD – University of Michigan
 
Crypt cell remodeling and ISC niche regeneration after Notch inhibition
 
5:00
Omer Yilmaz, MD, PhD – Koch Center, MIT 
 
Dietary control of stem cells in physiology and disease
 
5:30
Closing Remarks – Wayne Lencer, MD

Wayne Lencer, MD and Richard S. Blumberg, MD, Co-Hosts

Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, Scientific Host

For additional information, contact: kebrewosen.densamo@childrens.harvard.edu

This program is co-sponsored by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute