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Web Desc
Stem Cells Organizer(s): Catherine M. Verfaillie and Austin G. Smith Date: March 27 - April 01, 2006 Location: Whistler Conference Centre, Whistler, BC, Canada Supported by The Director's Fund For important information on the coronavirus, please click here Summary of Meeting: Elucidation of self-renewal and commitment pathways that determine stem cell fate are of great interest, both for fundamental biology and for clinical applications in regenerative medicine and cancer therapy. Many efforts are underway to determine cell intrinsic and microenvironmental signals that govern self-renewal and differentiation, and to identify genetic perturbations in these pathways that may result in tumourigenesis. By 2006, progress in unraveling cellular and molecular mechanisms can be expected to begin informing new strategies for clinical intervention. This conference will bring together stem cell biologists in the areas of self-renewal and tissue diversification, the stem cell niche, cancer stem cells and cell therapy, to discuss the biological and clinical significance of normal and malignant stem cell function. Scholarship Deadline: November 28 2005 Discounted Abstract Deadline: November 28 2005 Abstract Deadline: December 19 2005 Discounted Registration Deadline: January 27 2006 We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from: We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Grant No. 1R13 GM076902-01 We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising: Click here to view more of these organizations Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds: Click here to view more of these organizations

Web Desc

Stem Cells

Organizer(s): Catherine M. Verfaillie and Austin G. Smith

Date: March 27 - April 01, 2006
Location: Whistler Conference Centre, Whistler, BC, Canada

Supported by The Director's Fund

For important information on the coronavirus, please click here

Summary of Meeting:

Elucidation of self-renewal and commitment pathways that determine stem cell fate are of great interest, both for fundamental biology and for clinical applications in regenerative medicine and cancer therapy. Many efforts are underway to determine cell intrinsic and microenvironmental signals that govern self-renewal and differentiation, and to identify genetic perturbations in these pathways that may result in tumourigenesis. By 2006, progress in unraveling cellular and molecular mechanisms can be expected to begin informing new strategies for clinical intervention. This conference will bring together stem cell biologists in the areas of self-renewal and tissue diversification, the stem cell niche, cancer stem cells and cell therapy, to discuss the biological and clinical significance of normal and malignant stem cell function.

Scholarship Deadline: November 28 2005

Discounted Abstract Deadline: November 28 2005

Abstract Deadline: December 19 2005

Discounted Registration Deadline: January 27 2006

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by:

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Grant No. 1R13 GM076902-01

We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Program


Monday, March 27 \| 3:00PM - 7:30PM Registration Room: Sea to Sky Foyer
Monday, March 27 \| 6:30PM - 7:30PM Refreshments Room: Sea to Sky Foyer
Monday, March 27 \| 7:30PM - 8:30PM Keynote Address Room: Sea to Sky Ballroom A Speaker 1 of 1 Anne McLaren, University of Cambridge, UK Ethics and Science of Stem Cell Research
Tuesday, March 28 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Lower Level
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 6 * Ihor R. Lemischka, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 6 Haifan Lin, Yale University, USA Terra Incognita: Translational Regulation of Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 6 Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Institut Pasteur, France Myogenic Stem Cell Niche and Template DNA Segregation
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 6 Robert Sablowski, John Innes Centre, UK Plant Stem Cell Niches
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 6 Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan Comparison of Melanocyte and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Systems
Tuesday, March 28 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Stem Cell Niche Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 6 of 6 Samir Taoudi, Institute for Stem Cell Research, University of Edinburgh, UK Short Talk: Anatomical Polarity of Definitive Hematopoietic Stem Cell Emergence and Expansion
Tuesday, March 28 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Tuesday, March 28 \| 11:00AM - 1:00PM Poster Setup Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Tuesday, March 28 \| 1:00PM - 10:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Tuesday, March 28 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Tuesday, March 28 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Self-Renewal Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 5 * Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
Tuesday, March 28 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Self-Renewal Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 5 Shinya Yamanaka, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Gladstone Institutes, Japan Pluripotency and Nuclear Reprogramming
Tuesday, March 28 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Self-Renewal Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 5 Guy Sauvageau, IRIC/Université de Montréal, Canada Bmi1 and Hoxb4 Regulate Proliferation and Fate of Hemopoietic Stem Cells
Tuesday, March 28 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Self-Renewal Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 5 Ihor R. Lemischka, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Stem Cell Circuitry
Tuesday, March 28 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Self-Renewal Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 5 Ryan E. Davey, University of Toronto, Canada Short Talk: Quantitative, Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Cell Signaling Reveals a Novel Autoregulatory Embryonic Stem Cell Niche
Tuesday, March 28 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Tuesday, March 28 \| 7:30PM - 10:00PM Poster Session 1 Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Lower Level
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 6 * Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 6 Jason H. Pomerantz, University of California San Francisco, USA Short Talk: Chromatin Remodeling during Nuclear Reprogramming by Somatic Cell Fusion
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 6 Gordon M. Keller, University Health Network, MaRS Centre, Canada Commitment of ES Cells to Mesoderm and Endoderm
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 6 Jonathan M.W. Slack, University of Bath, UK Transdifferentiation and Metaplasia in the Endoderm
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 6 Yann Barrandon, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Epidermis and Epithelia
Wednesday, March 29 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Tissue Diversification Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 6 of 6 Sharon Gerecht-Nir, USA Short Talk: Mechanotransduction Signaling during Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells on Nanopatterned Surfaces
Wednesday, March 29 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 11:00AM - 1:00PM Poster Setup Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 1:00PM - 10:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cellular and Nuclear Reprogramming Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 5 * Guy Sauvageau, IRIC/Université de Montréal, Canada
Wednesday, March 29 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cellular and Nuclear Reprogramming Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 5 Gerold Schubiger, University of Washington, USA Transdetermination in Drosophila Imaginal Discs
Wednesday, March 29 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cellular and Nuclear Reprogramming Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 5 Markus Grompe, Oregon Health & Science University, USA In vivo reduction divisions in cells reprogrammed by fusion
Wednesday, March 29 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cellular and Nuclear Reprogramming Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 5 Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA Cloning and Nuclear Transfer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cellular and Nuclear Reprogramming Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 5 Nobuaki Kikyo, University of Minnesota, USA Short Talk: Chromatin Decondensation and Nuclear Reprogramming in Somatic Cell Nuclear Cloning
Wednesday, March 29 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Wednesday, March 29 \| 7:30PM - 10:00PM Poster Session 2 Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Lower Level
Thursday, March 30 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Neural Differentiation Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 5 * Olle Lindvall, University of Lund, Sweden
Thursday, March 30 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Neural Differentiation Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 5 Austin Smith, University of Cambridge, UK From Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells to Neural Stem (NS) Cells and Back Again
Thursday, March 30 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Neural Differentiation Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 5 Wieland B. Huttner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany The Cell Biology of Neurogenesis
Thursday, March 30 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Neural Differentiation Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 5 Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, University of California, San Francisco, USA Subventricular Zone Astrocytes Expressing PDGF Receptors Function as Adult Brain Progenitors
Thursday, March 30 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Neural Differentiation Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 5 Laurie A. Boyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Short Talk: Transcriptional Regulation of Pluripotency in Embryonic Stem Cells
Thursday, March 30 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 11:00AM - 1:00PM Poster Setup Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 1:00PM - 10:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cancer Stem Cells Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 5 * Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University, USA
Thursday, March 30 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cancer Stem Cells Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 5 Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University, USA Normal and Neoplastic Hematopoiesis
Thursday, March 30 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cancer Stem Cells Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 5 Michael F. Clarke, Stanford University, USA Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Thursday, March 30 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cancer Stem Cells Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 5 Peter Dirks, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Charaterization of Human Brain Tumor Initiating Cells
Thursday, March 30 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Cancer Stem Cells Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 5 Malcolm R. Alison, Queen Mary University of London, UK Short Talk: Colonic Stem Cells are Unable to Selectively Segregate their Genome at the Time of Mitosis: Any Replication Errors Could Persist in Stem Cells
Thursday, March 30 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Thursday, March 30 \| 7:30PM - 10:00PM Poster Session 3 Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Lower Level
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 6 * Austin Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 6 Elly M. Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria The Neural Progenitor Cells for Spinal Cord Regeneration
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 6 Giulio Cossu, Stem Cell Research Institute, Italy Cell therapy of the Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy by systemic delivery of donor mesoangioblasts
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 6 Freda D. Miller, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Skin-Derived Neural Crest Precursors (SKPs): What, Where and Why?
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 6 Catherine M. Verfaillie, University of Minnesota, USA Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00AM - 11:15AM Regeneration and Adult Multipotency Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 6 of 6 Michelle B. Bowie, STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada Identification of a Programmed Developmental Switch in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Properties
Friday, March 31 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 11:00AM - 12:00PM Poster Setup Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 12:00PM - 2:30PM Poster Session 4 Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 12:00PM - 1:00PM Light Lunch Room: Lower Level
Friday, March 31 \| 12:00PM - 5:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Therapeutic Prospects Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 1 of 5 * Giulio Cossu, Stem Cell Research Institute, Italy
Friday, March 31 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Therapeutic Prospects Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 2 of 5 Michele De Luca, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Human Epithelial Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
Friday, March 31 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Therapeutic Prospects Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 3 of 5 Olle Lindvall, University of Lund, Sweden Neuronal Replacement for Brain Repair in Humans
Friday, March 31 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Therapeutic Prospects Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 4 of 5 Ronald D. McKay, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, USA Stem Cell Renewal and Regeneration in the CNS
Friday, March 31 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Therapeutic Prospects Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm A Speaker 5 of 5 Alexandra Aicher, University of Frankfurt, Germany Short Talk: The Wnt Antagonist Dickkopf-1 (Dkk-1) Mobilizes Endothelial Progenitor Cells
Friday, March 31 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C, Foyer
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00PM - 11:00PM Entertainment Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C
Friday, March 31 \| 8:00PM - 11:00PM Cash Bar Room: Sea to Sky Ballrm B/C
Saturday, April 01 \| 10:21AM - 10:21AM Departure *Session Chair †Invited, not yet responded.