Invited Speakers

Keynote Address – Nancy S. Wexler, PhD, Columbia University, The Hereditary Disease Foundation, USA
Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture - Janet Rossant, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Kari K. Alitalo, MD, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Eduard Batlle, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain
Glenn Begley, PhD, Amgen, USA
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Spain
Paolo Bianco, MD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Maria Blasco, PhD, Spanish National Cancer Institute, Spain
Claudio Bordignon, MD, Vito-Salute Sou Roffeeie University, Italy
Jeremy Brockes, FRS, University College London, UK
Marianne Bronner-Fraser, PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA
Margaret Buckingham, DPhil, Pasteur Institute, France
Meinrad Busslinger, PhD, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Elena Cattaneo, PhD, University of Milano, Italy
Hans C. Clevers, MD PhD, Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands
Irina M. Conboy, PhD, UC Berkeley, USA
Ana Cumano, PhD, Institute Pasteur, France
Gerald De Haan, PhG, UCMG, The Netherlands
Hongkui Deng, PhD, Peking University, China
Luciano Di Croce, PhD, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Bruce A. Edgar, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Sara Ferber, PhD, Endocrine Institute, Israel
Jonas Frisen, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rockefeller University, USA
Fred H. Gage, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Yukiko Gotoh, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Richard Gregory, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, USA
Harry Heimberg, MD, PhD, Beta Cell Biology Consortium, Belgium
Etienne Hirsch, PhD, French National Institute for Health & Medical Research (INSERM) France
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Mark A. Krasnow, MD PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University, USA
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Haifan Lin, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Douglas A. Melton, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD, UCLA, USA
Huck-Hui Ng, PhD, Genome Institute, Singapore
Hitoshi Niwa, MD, Phd, CDB RIKEN, Japan
Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD, Kieo University, Japan
Kathrin Plath, PhD, UCLA, USA
Olivier Pourquie, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Victoria Prince, PhD, University of Chicago, USA
Peter W. Reddien, PhD, Broad Institute MIT, USA
Allan Spradling, PhD, Carnegie Institute, USA
Azim Surani, PhD, Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research UK Gordon Institute, UK
Elly Tanaka, PhD, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Thea Tlsty, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA
David Traver, PhD, UC San Diego, USA
Jane E. Visvader, PhD, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Debbie Yelon, PhD, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine, USA
Richard A. Youngm PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Peter W. Zandstra, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Leonard I. Zon, MD, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Thomas P. Zwaka, MD, Baylor College, USA

October 17, 2008