Regenerative Medicine
Organized by Inder Verma and Fred Gage
October 18-20, 2002
Irvine, CA
Keynote Address
Stem CellsJohn Gurdon, Wellcome CRC Institute, University of Cambridge
Day 1:
Morning Session: Stem Cell Biology I: Species
Susan Bryant, University of California, Irvine, Chair
Stem Cell Populations in Plants
Jennifer Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley
Lounsbery Lecture
Beauty is Skin Deep: Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages
Elaine Fuchs, HHMI and The Rockefeller University
Pluripotency and Lineage Determination of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Austin Smith, University of Edinburgh
Biology of Murine Stem and Progenitor Cells
Irving Weissman, Stanford University School of Medicine
Afternoon Session: Stem Cell Biology II: Systems
Inder Verma, The Salk Institute, Chair
Differentiation of Pancreatic Beta-cells from Progenitor Cells
Michael German, The University of California, San Francisco
Unexpected Potential of Adult Stem Cells
Catherine M. Verfaille, University of Minnesota Medical School
Stem Cells and Regeneration in Planarians
Phil Newmark, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Stem Cells in the Adult Nervous System
Fred Gage, The Salk Institute
Day 2:
Morning Session: Regeneration I: Organogenesis
Ken Chien, University of California, San Diego, Chair
Regulation of Stem Cell Turnover in Drosophila
Margaret Fuller, Stanford University
Manipulation of the Stem Cell Compartment in Mammalian Epidermis
Fiona Watt, Cancer Research UK
Liver Repopulation by Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells
Markus Grompe, Oregon Health Sciences University
Regeneration and Notch Signaling
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, The Salk Institute
Prostate Development
Owen Witte, University of California, Los Angeles
Afternoon Session: Regeneration II: Tissue Engineering
Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego, Chair
Hematopoietic Engraftment from Embryonic Stem Cells Enables Therapeutic Cloning in a Murine Model of Immunodeficiency
George Daley, Whitehead Institute
Cloning
Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute
Parthenogenesis and Therapeutic Cloning
Jose Cibelli, Advanced Cell Technology
Adult Stem Cells from Bone Marrow Stroma. Isolation, Characterization and Use in an Ex Vivo Assay for Repair of Epithelium
Darwin J. Prockop, Tulane University School of Medicine
Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells
Peter Mombaerts, The Rockefeller University
