2011 Program
THANK YOU TO TODAY’S SPONSORS
Hamilton Thorne Irv & Diane Naylor McKnight Foundation Qualcomm
Friday, November 4, 2011 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM Henderson House Weston, MA
8:20 REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:50 WELCOME
ANN A. KIESSLING, PhD
Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
9:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS JANET ROSSANT, PHD
Professor of Molecular Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, and Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children
“Manipulating the mouse embryo: from lineages to stem cells and back again”
10:00 RAFAEL FISSORE, PHD
Chair of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts “Calcium signaling during egg maturation”
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 DAVID KEEFE, MD
Chair of Ob/Gyn at New York University School of Medicine
“Efficient generation of pluripotent stem cells from immature oocytes”
11:40 ANN KIESSLING, PHD
Harvard Medical School, and Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation “Are early human embryos naturally aneuploid?”
12:10 POSTER SESSION A
12:30 LUNCH
1:50 DIETER EGLI, PHD
New York Stem Cell Foundation
“Egg Donation and Reprogramming after Nuclear Transfer”
2:30 ALEX MEISSNER, PHD
Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Broad Institute
“DNA Methylation Dynamics in Stem Cells and Development”
3:10 COFFEE BREAK
3:40 LAURA GRABEL, PHD
Professor of Biology, Wesleyan University
“Embryonic stem cell-derived neurogenesis in vitro and in the hippocampus”
4:20 MAYA MITALIPOVA, PHD
Director of Whitehead Institute’s Stem Cell Facility, MIT
“Status of X-chromosome in human ES and iPS cells”
5:00 Cocktails & Poster Session B
6:00 DINNER SPEAKER CHRIS HEMPEL
Founder, Addi and Cassi Fund “iPS Cells – Game Changing Science for Rare Disease. A Patient Advocate Perspective.”
FOUNDATION MISSION
Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation is a biomedical institute which exists to conduct stem cell and related research for diseases and conditions which currently have no effective methods of treatment or cure.
THE POWER OF PRIVATE FUNDING
The tax-exempt status granted to public charities highlights the U.S. Government’s belief that taxpayers have the right to directly support activities they feel are important. To advance the treatment opportunities, to grow its community of scholars, and to enlarge the potential for miracles, the Foundation needs the help of private benefactors to raise funds.