Stem Cells, Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Wednesday 12 May - Saturday 15 May 2010
Programme
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Day One: Wednesday 12 May 2010 |
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| 15.00 - 16.45 | Registration with Coffee |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Hematopoietic Stem Cells | |
| Chair: Sten Eirik Jacobsen | |
| 17.00 - 17.40 | Dormancy in normal and malignant stem cells |
| Andreas Trumpp, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany | |
| 17.40 - 18.20 | DNA methylation governs cell fate programs in hematopoietic and leukemia stem cells |
| Frank Rosenbauer, Max-Delbruck-Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Germany | |
| 18.20 - 19.00 | Welcome Drinks |
| 19.00 - 20.00 | Keynote Lecture: Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cell |
| Irving Weissman, Stanford Ludwig Center for Stem Cell Research, USA | |
| 20.00 - 21.30 | Dinner |
| 21.30 - 23.00 | After dinner drinks in the Rooftop Lounge |
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Day Two: Thursday 13 May 2010 |
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| Cancer Stem Cells | |
| Chair: Irving Weissman | |
| 9.00 - 9.40 | Controlling the balance between self-renewal and differentiation in Drosophila neural stem cells |
| Juergen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biology, Austria | |
| 9.40 - 10.20 | Lgr5 Stem Cells in self-renewal and cancer |
| Hans Clevers, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands | |
| 10.20 -10.40 | Short talk: Marina Scheller, BCRT/MDC, Germany |
| 10.40 - 11.10 | Coffee Break |
| 11.10 - 11.50 | Role of Polycomb repressors in stem cells, cancer and development |
| Maarten van Lohuizen, NKI-AVL Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 11.50 - 12.30 | Intestinal stem cell genes in colorectal cancer |
| Eduard Batlle, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain | |
| 12.30 -12.50 | Short talk: Hideto Koso, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore |
| 12.50 - 14.10 | Lunch |
| Stem Cell Niches | |
| Chair: Stuart Orkin | |
| 14.10 - 14.50 | Hematopoietic Stem cells in the Hypoxic Niche |
| Toshio Suda, Keio University, Japan | |
| 14.50 - 15.10 | Short talk: Michel Cohen-Tannoudji, Institut Pasteur, France |
| 15.10 - 15.50 | Hematopoiesis |
| Paul Frenette, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA | |
| 15.50 - 18.30 | Poster session with drinks |
| 18.30 - 20.00 | Dinner at EMBL |
| 20.00 - 23.00 | After dinner drinks in the Rooftop Lounge |
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Day Three: Friday 14 May 2010 |
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| 09.00 - 10.00 | Keynote Lecture: Transcriptional control of stem cells and cancer |
| Stuart H. Orkin, Harvard Medical School, USA | |
| Epithelial and Muscle Stem Cells | |
| Chair: Claus Nerlov | |
| 10.00 - 10.40 | Identifying the cell lineage at the origin of skin cancers |
| Cedric Blanpain, University of Brussels, Belgium | |
| 10.40 - 11.00 | Short talk: Salvador Aznar Benitah, CRG Barcelona, Spain |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.10 | Regulation of muscle stem cell fate by Pax genes |
| Margaret Buckingham, Pasteur Institute, France | |
| 12.10 - 12.30 | Short talk: Christoph Lepper, Johns Hopkins University, United State of America |
| 12.30 - 13.50 | Lunch |
| Stem Cell Specification | |
| Chair: Thomas Graf | |
| 13.50 - 14.30 | Hierarchical organisation and early haematopoietic specification of the developing HSC lineage in the AGM region |
| Alexander Medvinsky, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | Tariq Enver, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 15.10 - 15.30 | Short talk: Oksana Bereshchenko, EMBL, Italy |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 - 16.40 | Tracking stem cell behaviour at the single cell level: New tool for old questions |
| Timm Schroeder, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen - German Research Centre for Environmental Health (GmbH), Germany | |
| 16.40 - 17.20 | Programming of blood and cardiac stem cells during development |
| Roger Patient, University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| 17.20 - 17.40 | Short talk: Luciano Di Croce, CRG Barcelona, Spain |
| 17.40 - 20.00 | Poster Session with drinks |
| 20.00 - 24.00 | Gala Dinner |
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Day Four: Saturday 15 May 2010 |
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| Stem Cells in Tissue Homeostasis and Regeneration | |
| Chair: Ian Wilmut | |
| 9.00 - 9.40 | Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors |
| Marius Wernig, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, USA | |
| 9.40 - 10.20 | Neurogenesis from glial cells ? novel sources for new neurons in the adult brain |
| Magdalena Goetz, LMU Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany | |
| 10.20 - 10.40 | Short talk: Dmitry Bulavin, IMCB, Singapore |
| 10.40 - 11.10 | Coffee Break |
| 11.10 - 11.50 | Lorenz Studer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Conversion of human ES and iPS cells into stable neural stem cell ground states |
| Oliver Bruestle, Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, Germany | |
| 12:30 - 13:10 | Wnts and Liver X Receptor Ligands Promote Midbrain Dopaminergic Differentiation of Embryonic Stem and Neural Progenitor Cells |
| Ernest Arenas, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | |
| 13:10 - 13:20 | Concluding Remarks |
| 13.20 | Packed Lunch |
| 13.30 | Bus departs to airport and downtown hotels |