Regenerative Medicine

Organized by Inder Verma and Fred Gage
The Beckman Center, Irvine, CA
October 18-20, 2002

Friday, October 18, 2002
5:00 and 5:30 Buses Depart The Sutton Place Hotel for the Beckman Center

5:15 6:00 Registration, Speakers and Colloquium Participants

6:00 7:00 Keynote Address: John Gurdon, Wellcome CRC Institute, University of Cambridge
Stem Cells
7:00 8:00 Reception

8:00 Buses Depart Beckman Center for The Sutton Place Hotel

Saturday, October 20, 2002
7:45 and 8:15 Buses Depart The Sutton Place Hotel for the Beckman Center

8:00 9:00 Breakfast

Morning Session: Stem Cell Biology I: Species
Chair: Susan Bryant, University of California, Irvine
9:00 9:45 Jennifer Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley
Stem Cell Populations in Plants
9:45 10:30 Elaine Fuchs, HHMI and The Rockefeller University
Beauty is Skin Deep: Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages*
10:30 11:00 Break
11:00 11:45 Austin Smith, University of Edinburgh
Pluripotency and Lineage Determination of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
11:45 12:30 Irving Weissman, Stanford University School of Medicine
Biology of Murine Stem and Progenitor Cells

12:30 2:00 Lunch
Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Stem Cell Biology II: Systems
Chair: Inder Verma, The Salk Institute
2:00 2:45 Michael German, The University of California, San Francisco
Differentiation of Pancreatic Beta-cells from Progenitor Cells
2:45 3:30 Catherine M. Verfaille, University of Minnesota Medical School
Unexpected Potential of Adult Stem Cells
3:30 4:00 Break
4:00 4:45 Phil Newmark, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stem Cells and Regeneration in Planarians
4:45 5:30 Fred Gage, The Salk Institute
Stem Cells in the Adult Nervous System

5:30 6:15 Reception

6:15 8:00 Dinner

8:00 Buses Depart Beckman Center for The Sutton Place Hotel

Sunday, October 20, 2002
7:15 and 7:45 Buses Depart The Sutton Place Hotel for the Beckman Center

7:30 8:30 Breakfast

Morning Session: Regeneration I: Organogenesis
Chair: Ken Chien, University of California, San Diego
8:30 9:15 Margaret Fuller, Stanford University
Regulation of Stem Cell Turnover in Drosophila
9:15 10:00 Fiona Watt, Cancer Research UK
Manipulation of the Stem Cell Compartment in Mammalian Epidermis
10:00 10:45 Markus Grompe, Oregon Health Sciences University
Liver Repopulation by Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells
10:45 11:15 Break
11:15 12:00 Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, The Salk Institute
Regeneration and Notch Signaling
12:00 12:45 Owen Witte, University of California, Los Angeles
Prostate Development

12:45 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Regeneration II: Tissue Engineering
Chair: Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego
2:00 2:45 George Daley, Whitehead Institute
Hematopoietic Engraftment from Embryonic Stem Cells Enables Therapeutic Cloning in a Murine Model of Immunodeficiency
2:45 3:30 Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute
Cloning
3:30 4:15 Jose Cibelli, Advanced Cell Technology
Parthenogenesis and Therapeutic Cloning
4:15 5:00 Darwin J. Prockop, Tulane University School of Medicine
Adult Stem Cells from Bone Marrow Stroma. Isolation, Characterization and Use in an Ex Vivo Assay for Repair of Epithelium
5:00 5:45 Peter Mombaerts, The Rockefeller University
Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

6:00 Buses Depart the Beckman Center for The Sutton Place Hotel and Orange County Airport

*Lounsbery Lecture