Shoukhrat Mitalipov, PhD – Oocyte Keynote: “Contributions of Oocyte Cytoplasm to Reprogramming and Development” –

Joseph Takahashi, PhD – Circadian Keynote: “Circadian Clock Mechanisms in Mammals and Their Relevance to Aging and Longevity”

Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD – “The Circadian Clock as a Window into Neurodevelopment Disorders: Mechanisms and Opportunities”

Arthur Applbaum, PhD: “Gene Editing Human Embryos: Who Should Decide?”

Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD – “Human / Mouse Chimeras for Disease Modeling”

David Whitmore, PhD – “Embryonic Circadian Clocks: Do They Control Anything Important?”

Carla Green, PhD – “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Protein Expression by the Circadian Clock”

David Albertini, PhD – “Oocyte Contributions to Embryogenesis: Mother’s Legacy”

Ann A. Kiessling, PhD – “First Evidence for Circadian Rhythms in Early Human Embryos”

Dr. Ivar Mendez “Stem Cell Transplantation for Parkinson’s Disease and Spinal Cord Injury”

Dr. Mario Capecchi “Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders.”

Ann Kiessling, PhD, “Are early human embryos naturally aneuploid?”

Janet Rossant, PhD, FRS, FRSC, “Manipulating the mouse embryo: from lineages to stem cells and back again”

Wise Young, MD, PhD, “Lithium Effects on Blood and Brain Stem Cells”

Melvin L. DePamphilis, PhD, “Eukaryotic DNA Replication, from Embryo to Adult”

Steven L. Stice, PhD: “Amplification of neural progenitor cells for FDA safety”

Ian Wilmut, PhD, “Cloning in the 10 Years Since Dolly”

Steven L. Stice, Ph.D. “Human ESC differentiation toward neural and vascular networks”

Robert Truog, MD “Why Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committees Are Not Necessary”

Steven D. Sheridan, PhD, “Alternate Surfaces for Embryonic Stem Cell Expansion and Differentiation”

Xiangzhong Yang, PhD “Are Adult Stem Cells Necessary for Animal Cloning?”

Lawrence Wangh, PhD, “And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story”

Alan Trounson, MSc, PhD, “Pluripotent Stem Cells: the Future”

Daniel Wikler, PhD, “The ethics of research with human eggs”

Stephen Sullivan, PhD, “Reprogramming of Human Somatic Cells by Fusion with Human ES Cells”

Zhongde Wang, PhD, “Sequential Gene Targeting in Cattle”

David Battaglia, PhD, “Eggs, Sugar and Ice: Recipe for Fertility Preservation”

Anne McLaren, PhD, “Human Eggs: Why do we need them? How do we get them?”

George Daley, MD, PhD Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine and Reproductive Biology

John Biggers, PhD, “Caveats in the Use of Chemically Defined Media for Embryo Culture”

Arthur Applbaum, PhD, “Stem Cell Research and the Political Philosophy of Moral Disagreement”

Rafael Fissore, PhD, “Regulation & Function of Ca2+ Oscillators at Fertilization”

Rudolph Jaenisch

Rudolph Jaenisch was the Activated Egg Symposium’s first Keynote speaker in 2002