#  ISSCR Annual Meeting - HSCI speakers Friday, June 14, 2013 

 





June 14, 2013

 

 

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The Harvard Stem Cell Institute is co-sponsoring the 11th Annual International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting. The five-day conference has drawn nearly 4,000 people to the Boston-area, all to discuss the latest stem cell science in laboratories around the world.  
   
 **If you are attending the ISSCR meeting and would like to listen to HSCI-affiliated presentations, our speakers, Friday, June 14, include:**   
   
 9:00 – 11:20 AM  
 *Plenary IV: Cell and Gene Therapy*  
 Chair: **David Scadden**, HSCI and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA  
 **David Williams**, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA (9:00 am – 9:25 AM)  
 Integrating Viral Vectors, Gene Transfer Into Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Therapies in Human Monogenic Diseases  
   
 1:15 - 3:05 PM  
 *Concurrent IIIA: Hematopoietic Stem Cells*   
 Chair: **Amy Wagers**, Joslin Diabetes Center, USA  
   
 1:15 – 3:05 PM  
 *Concurrent IIID: Chemical Control of Stem Cell Behavior*   
 **Quinn P. Peterson**, Harvard University, USA (2:45 PM – 3:00 PM)  
 Combinatorial Small Molecule Modulation of HESC-Derived Pancreatic Multipotent Progenitor Cells  
   
 1:15 – 3:05 PM  
 *Concurrent IIIE: Germ Cell Biology and Artificial Gametes*   
 **Robin M. Hobbs**, Monash University, Australia (2:00 PM – 2:15 PM)  
 The TSC2-MTORCI Signaling Axis Controls Germline Stem Cell Fate  
   
 4:00 – 5:50 PM  
 *Concurrent IVA: Stem Cells In Organ Development*   
 Chair: **Leonard I. Zon**, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA  
 **Akiko Kobayashi**, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA (4:30 PM – 4:45 PM)  
 PAX2 Maintains the Nephron Lineage by Repressing Stromal Cell Fats in Nephron Progenitor Cells During Mammalian Kidney Development  
   
 4:00 – 5:50 PM  
 *Concurrent IVD: Stem Cells and Cancer*   
 **Ellen van Rooijen**, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School USA (4:30 PM – 4:45 PM)  
 A Chromatin Factor Screen in Zebrafish Identifies Neural Crest Regulator SATb2 As a Novel Driver of Melanoma  
   
 4:00 – 5:50 PM  
 *Concurrent IVE: Chromatin Regulation in Stem Cells*   
 **Jay Bradner**, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA (4:05-4:30 PM)  
 Chemical Control of Gene Expression  
 **Andre Catic**, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (4:30 pm – 4:45 PM)  
 A Functional Map of Nuclear Proteolysis***Photo:** HSCI Executive Committee members Leonard Zon and Douglas Melton speak on a press panel at the 2013 ISSCR Annual Meeting (Credit: B.D. Colen)*



 

 

 



 

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