2005 Program
8:50 AM Welcome
9:00 AM Dr. Anne McLaren, University of Cambridge, London, England
"Human Eggs: Why Do We Need Them? How Can We Get Them?" (In Memoriam )10:00 AM Dr. David Battaglia
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR
"Egg Sugar and Ice: Recipe for Fertility Preservation"10:50 PM Coffee Break
11:05 AM Dr. Tom Ducibella
Professor of Cell Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine
"Are All Mechanisms of Egg Activation Created Equal?"11:55 AM Senator Cynthia Creem
"Stem Cell Research in The Commonwealth"12:15 PM Lunch
1:45 PM Dr. Stephen Sullivan
Laboratory of Kevin Eggan, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
"Derivation of Disease Specific Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines"
2:35 PM Dr. Zhongde Wang
"Hematech Corporation "Sequential Gene Targeting in Cattle"3:25 PM Coffee Break
3:40 PM Dr. Chi-Wei
"Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Model for Cell Fate in the Early Embryo"4:30 PM Dr. Carol Brenner
"Dopamine Neurons from Cyno-1 Primate Cells"5:20 PM Conclusions & Cocktails
6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner Speaker: Dr. Daniel Wikler
Professor of Ethics at Harvard School of Public Health
"Stem Cell Research and the Political Philosophy of Moral Disagreement"