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Preliminary Schedule for the ISSCR 8th Annual Meeting
(Schedule subject to change)

Wednesday, June 16
8:00 AM – Noon Industry Wednesday Symposia
Satellite Symposia
1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Presidential Symposium: Irv’s Favorite Talks
Supported by Johnson & Johnson
Chair: Irving L. Weissman
Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Marius Wernig, Stanford University, USA
Owen N. Witte, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Keynote Address: Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute, USA
3:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibits/Posters Open
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
4:10 – 6:00 p.m.

Plenary II: Stem Cells, Oxygen and Metabolism
Chair: Sean J. Morrison
M. Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marc Van Gilst, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Yukiko Yamashita, University of Michigan, USA
Ricardo Pardal, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla – IbiS, Spain

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Opening Reception in Exhibit/Poster Hall
Supported by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
9:00 – Midnight

Junior Investigators Social Event
Supported by Stemgent
Thursday, June 17
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
9:00 – 10:50 a.m.

Plenary III: DNA Damage and Stem Cell Aging
Chair: Ihor R. Lemischka
Outstanding Young Investigator Award Winner
Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, European Institute of Oncology, Italy
Lenhard Rudolph, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Germany
Emmanuelle Passegue, UCSF, USA

10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Exhibits/Posters Open
10:50 – 11:20 a.m. Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Concurrent Session I
Track A: Leukemogenesis
Klaus Nerlov, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
Koichi Akashi, Kyushu University, Japan

Track B: Pluripotent Stem Cells
Konrad Hochedlinger, Harvard University, USA
Hitoshi Niwa, RIKEN, Japan

Track C: Cell Therapy
Supported by StemCells, Inc.
Joseph Gold, Geron Corp., USA
Alexandra W. Capela, StemCells Inc., USA

Track D: Stem Cell Niche
Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, USA
Shahin Rafii, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

Track E: Stem Cell Transplantation and Immune Regulation
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Ivan Maillard, University of Michigan, USA
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Meet the Experts Luncheon (Pre-registration required)
1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Commercial Tutorials
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Commercial Tutorials
3:00 – 5:20 p.m.

Plenary IV: Stem Cells of the Digestive Tract
Chair: Haifan Lin
Hans C. Clevers, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Rongwen Xi, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
David Bilder, PhD, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Markus Grompe, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Poster Teasers
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Poster Presentations/Exhibit Reception
7:30 p.m. Wed/Thu Posters Dismantle
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. 

Junior Investigator Career Session
Supported by Stemgent
Friday, June 18
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
9:00 – 10:45 a.m. 

Plenary V: Reprogramming and Pluripotency
Supported by The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF)
Chair: Ian Wilmut
James A. Thomson, University of Wisconsin, USA
Kathrin Plath, UCLA, USA
Maria Blasco, Spanish National Cancer Institute, Spain
Robert Blelloch, UCSF, USA
10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Exhibits/Posters Open
10:45 – 11:20 a.m. Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Concurrent Session II
Track A: Cancer Stem Cells and Tumor Progression
Michael Clarke, Stanford University, USA
Jane Visvader, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia

Track B: Hematopoietic Stem Cells
David T. Scadden, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Guy Sauvageau, Institute for Research in Immunology & Cancer, Canada

Track C: Small Molecule Screening for Stem Cell Regulation
Leonard I. Zon, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Sheng Ding, Scripps Research Institute, USA

Track D: Germline Stem Cells
Erika L. Matunis, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mitinori Saitou, MD, PhD, CDB RIKEN, Japan

Track E: Transcriptional/Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Cells
Benjamin T. Kile, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Eran Meshorer, Hebrew University, Israel
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Meet the Experts Luncheon (Pre-registration required)
1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Commercial Tutorials
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Commercial Tutorials
 3:00 – 5:20 p.m. Plenary VI: Neural Stem Cells
Elly Tanaka, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Grigori N. Enikolopov, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA
Magdelena Goetz, GSF Institute of Stem Cell Research, Germany
Arturo Alvarez Buylla, UCSF, USA
Poster Teasers
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Poster Presentations/Exhibit Reception

Saturday, June 19
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.

Plenary VII: Cardiac Stem Cells for Development and Regeneration
Supported by Pfizer Regenerative Medicine
Chair: Sally Temple
Gordon M. Keller, McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine, Ontario Cancer Inst., Canada
Kenneth R. Chien, Harvard University, USA
Christine L. Mummery, Leiden University, Netherlands
Deepak Srivastava, UCSF, USA

10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Exhibits/Posters Open
10:45 – 11:20 a.m.  Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Concurrent Session III
Track A: Epithelial Stem Cells
Emi Nishimura Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Michael Shen, Columbia University, USA

Track B: Muscle Stem Cells
Michael A. Rudnicki, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada
Amy Wagers , Joslin Diabetes Center, USA

Track C: Targeting Cancer Stem Cells
Austin Gurney, OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, USA
Speaker TBD

Track D: MicroRNA Regulation of Stem Cells
Narry Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Leanne Jones, Salk Institute, USA

Track E: Early Embryo Development
Elizabeth Robertson, University of Oxford, UK
Nancy Speck, University of Pennsylvania, USA
1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Commercial Tutorials
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.  Commercial Tutorials
3:00 p.m.   Posters dismantle
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.  ISSCR Business Meeting
Executive Director’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, Membership Q & A
3:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Plenary VIII: Disease Modeling and Cell Replacement
Chair: Olle Lindvall
George Q. Daley, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Lorenz Studer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr, USA
Kevin C. Eggan, Harvard University; USA
Kevin A. D’Amour, Novocell Inc., USA
Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture: Brigid L. Hogan, Duke University, USA
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.  Closing Reception
   
   

Updated February 15, 2010