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Agenda
Day One: February 11, 2008
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7:00am
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Registration
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8:00am
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Stem Cells for Therapy: Part I
Session Chair: Stephen Minger, Director, Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, King's College
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8:05am
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Spermatogonial Stem Cells from Adult Human Testis and the Generation of Pluripoteny In vitro and In vivo
Thomas Skutella, Professor, Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine
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8:35am
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Keynote Address - Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Christine Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology, University of Utrecht
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9:20am
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Fibrin Microbeads (FMB) for Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) Isolation, Expansion Differentiation and Implantation for Tissue Regeneration
Raphael Gorodetsky, Professor, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
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9:50am
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Coffee and Networking in Exhibit Hall
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10:35am
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Keynote Address - Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering Approaches Based on Adult Stem Cells from Different Sources Cultured onto Natural Origin Scaffolds Under Static and Dynamic Conditions
Rui Reis, Associate Professor, University of Minho
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11:20am |
Differentiation of Umbilical Cord Matrix Cells into Hepatocytes
Kathy Mitchell, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
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11:50pm |
Neural Progenitor Cells Derived from Adult Human Blood
Ina Sarel, Director of Neuroscience Program, Theravitae, Ltd.
Neural progenitor cells were generated from peripheral blood and characterized These cells have a neural phenotype, secrete neural growth supportive factors, respond to neuronal activation signals, migrate to lesions in neural tissue in vivo and engraft there.
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12:20pm
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Lunch and Poster Viewing
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1:50pm |
Stem Cells for Therapy: Part II
Session Chair: Christine Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology, University of Utrecht
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1:55pm |
Phase I/II Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Intracoronary Infusion of AC133 Stem Cells for the Treatment of Post-Infarct Chronic Heart Failure (PICHF)
Augusto Rojas-Martinez, Researcher, Hospital y Clinica OCA, SA de C.V.
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2:25pm
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Novel Isolation Methods for Adipose Stem Cells (ASC)
Manuela Gomes, Assistant Professor, University of Minho |
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2:55pm
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Skeletal Regeneration Using Adult and Fetal Mesenchymal Cell Based Strategies - An Interdisciplinary Approach
Richard O.C. Oreffo, University of Southampton
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3:25pm
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Coffee and Networking in Exhibit Hall
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4:10pm |
Bone Marrow Cells in the Therapy of Spinal Cord Injury - Preclinical and Clinical Studies
Pavla Jendelova, Scientist, Institute of Experimental Medicine ASCR
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4:40pm |
Rescue of Human Dystrophin After Transplantation of Exon Skipping-engineered DMD Stem Cells in a Dystrophic Animal Model
Yvan Torrente, Fondazione IRCSS Policlinico di Milano
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5:10pm
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Keynote Address - Stem Cell Advocacy 2.0
Bernard Siegel, Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute
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5:55pm |
Drinks Reception - Sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich
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Day Two: February 12, 2008
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8:30am |
Stem Cell Biology
Session Chair: Glyn Stacey, Director/Head, UK Stem Cell Bank
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8:35am
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Keynote Address - Differentiation of Endodermal and Pancreatic Cell Lineages from Human ES Cells
Henrik Semb, Professor in Functional Genetics, Assistant Director of the Stem Cell Center, Lund University
Human ES cells have emerged as a potential tool for studying human pancreas development and as a source for islet cells in cell replacement therapy of diabetes. Progress in identification and characterization of niche(s) important for beta cell development and the use of different strategies for differentiating human ES cells into endoderm and pancreatic cell lineages will be discussed.
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9:20am |
Modulating Stem Cell Properties by Nanog Protein Transduction
Frank Edenhofer, Group Leader, University of Bonn
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9:50am
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Coffee and Networking in Exhibit Hall
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10:35am |
Expansion and Engineering of Cord Blood Stem Cells
Randall Urban, Professor and Chair, University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston
We have identified signaling pathways that are critical to expansion, differentiation, and multipotency of CD133+ stem cells from cord blood and used bioinformatics tools to build a network-based understanding of the defining properties of cord blood stem cells.
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11:05am |
Harvesting of Embryonic Stem Cells Aiming at Embryo Conservation
Gianpiero Palermo, Associate Professor, Cornell University
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11:35pm
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Lunch and Poster Viewing
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1:05pm |
Stem Cell Technology
Session Chair: Henrik Semb, Professor in Functional Genetics, Assistant Director of the Stem Cell Center, Lund University
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1:10pm
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Keynote Address - International Stem Cell Banks: Delivery of High Quality Stem Cell Lines for Research and Therapy
Glyn Stacey, Director/Head, UK Stem Cell Bank
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1:55pm
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Cancer Stem Cell Being Utilized in Cell Based Assay Screening in the Development of Novel Anti-cancer Drug Candidates for Organ Specific Tumor Therapy
Jay Sharma, Vice President, Celprogen
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2:25pm
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Coffee and Networking
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3:10pm |
Microfluidic Stem Cell Culture System for Real Time Imaging
Dexter Poon, Senior Biologist, Nanopoint Inc.
We describe an active microfluidic device, cellTRAY deisgned for culturing and imaging stem cells. The device measures 1"x3" and contains an array of micron size wells for culturing small groups of cells over days.
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3:40pm |
Genome-wide Profiling of DNA Methylation Patterns in Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells
Guoping Fan, Associate Professor, UCLA
DNA methylation influences gene activities in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). A powerful approach to profile genome-wide DNA methylation patterns on gene promoters/CpG islands will be presented. The biology of DNA methylation patterns in ESCs will also be discussed.
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4:10pm |
Close of Conference |
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