2009 Program of Speakers

8:20 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast

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Ann A. Kiessling, PhD
Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School[/three_fourth]

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[one_fourth][/one_fourth][three_fourth last=last]9:00 AM Keynote Address
Renee A. Reijo Pera, PhD
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Stanford’s Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education

“Human Embryo Development and Pluripotent Stem Cells”

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10:00 AM Dr. Haifan Lin, Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Yale Stem Cell Center www.cellbiology.yale.edu/faculty/lin_h/lin_h.html

“Stem Cells, Small RNAs, and Self-Renewal of the Germline.”

10:40 AM Coffee Break

11: 00 AM Gary Stein, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts
https://www.umassmed.edu/cellbio/faculty/stein_g.cfm

“Transcription Factor Mediated Epigenetic Control of Cell Growth Phenotype”

 

1:30 PM Dr. Jesse Mager, Assistant Professor, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Assistant Professor, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, UMASS Amherst

“Essential functions of Yin-Yang1 during oogenesis and preimplantation development.”

2:10 PM Dr. Ren-He Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics & Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center stemcell.uconn.edu/funding/core.html

“A Neglected Role of bFGF in Supporting Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”

3:20 PM Dr. Laura Grabel, Professor of Science in Society Wesleyan University
www.wesleyan.edu/bio/grabel/grabel.html

“From Embryonic Stem Cell to Neuron, with Stops Along the Way”

 

4:10 PM Dr. Ann Kiessling, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Director, Bedford Research Foundation www.bedfordresearch.org

“8-Cell Human Embryos: the Penultimate Pluripotent Cells”

6:00 PM Dinner Speaker
I. Glenn Cohen, JD
Assistant professor at Harvard Law School
Co-Director of the Petri-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,
Biotechnology and Bioethics.