Stem Cell Work In Progress

Upcoming Schedule

Stem Cell Work In Progress meetings take place each third Tuesday in Lecture Hall II of the Veterinary Research Tower from 12:20 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. WIP is offered as BIOMS 7900 - Seminars in Stem Cell Research to students enrolled in the Stem Cell Biology Minor.

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Recent Presentations

DATE	PRESENTERS
May 16, 2023	Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou Gene Regulation in Neurodevelopment and Autism
May 16, 2023	Matalin Pirtz (Nikitin/Cosgrove Labs) Investigating Carcinogenesis in the Mouse Endometrium
April 18, 2023	Brian Aguilera (Kurpios Lab) Pitx2 Regulates Epithelial Homeostasis and Function in the Postnatal Intestine
April 18, 2023	Seona Lee (Tumbar Lab) The Role of SOX6 in Stem Cell Heterogeneity and Tissue Regeneration in Skin
March 21, 2023	Nikola Danev (Van de Walle) Bovine Milk-Derived Cells Express Transcriptome Markers of Pluripotency and Secrete Bioactive Factors with Regenerative and Antimicrobial Activity
March 21, 2023	Daryl Phuong (Schimenti Lab) Determining the Role of Cell State and Genetic Alterations in Initiation and Progression of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma
February 21, 2023	Bhargav Sanketi (Kurpios Lab) Origin, Assembly and Regeneration of Villus Muscles
February 21, 2023	Chris Ke Bai (Tumbar Lab) Dissecting the Role of H3K9me3 in Skin Development
January 17, 2023	Leanne Donahue (White Lab) Identifying a Role for Hmga2 in the Cutaneous Response to UVB
January 17, 2023	Emily Laurilliard (Cosgrove Lab) Dissecting Endothelial Cell-Muscle Stem Cell Communication in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
December 20, 2022	Nicole Sempertegui (Fischbach Lab) Collagen Mineralization and Breast Cancer-Derived Factors Regulate Mesenchymal Stem Cell Behavior
December 20, 2022	Amaresh Chaturbedi (Lee Lab) Regulation of Fat Metabolism and Longevity by Germline Stem Cells in C. elegans
November 15, 2022	Rebecca Irwin (Delco Lab) Connexin 43 mediates Mitochondrial Transfer from Mesenchymal Stromal Cells to Chondrocytes
November 15, 2022	Krista Angileri (Feschotte Lab) Transposon Control as a Checkpoint During Regeneration
October 18, 2022	Marissa Baccas (Liu Lab) SEM-2/SoxC regulates the specification, proliferation, and diversification of a multipotent blast cell in C. elegans
October 18, 2022	Anushka Dongre Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in heterogeneous breast tumors: Causes and Consequences of targeting CD73
September 20, 2022	Gopal Chovatiya (Tumbar Lab) Adulty endothelial and non-endothelial VE-cadherin expressing lineages highlight coordinated vasculature and nerve homestatic remodeling
September 20, 2022	Coulter Ralston (Nikitin/Cosgrove Labs) Identifying cancer-prone cell states within the tubal epithelium
April 19, 2022	Andrew Yen Control of cell differentiation by retinoic acid
April 19, 2022	Trista Thorn (Aydemir Lab) Deletion of metal transporter Slc39a14/Zip14 protects neural progenitors from manganese toxicity
March 15, 2022	Charles Danko ChRO-seq: a new lens for interpreting genome sequence
March 15, 2022	Munisha Mumingjiang (Schimenti Lab) The role of genome maintenance during placental development
February 15, 2022	Gerlinde Van de Walle The potential of the mesenchymal stromal cell secretome in wound healing
February 15, 2022	Amanda Loehr (Weiss Lab) Investigating the effects of oncogene activation in the germline
January 18, 2022	Seona Lee (Tumbar Lab) The role of Sox6 in stem cell heterogeneity and tissue regeneration in skin
January 18, 2022	Charles Heinke (Cosgrove Lab) Engineered biomimetic niche reveals notch ligand-specific muscle stem cell fate regulation
December 21, 2021	Jacqueline Copeland (Simoes-Costa Lab) Systems level discovery of key regulators for human neural crest cell formation
December 21, 2021	Danysh Abetov (Nikitin Lab) Single cell transcriptome of prostate cancer progression
November 16, 2021	Abby Benvie (Berry Lab) The role of platelet derived growth factor receptor beta in myogenesis
November 16, 2021	Jelena Lujic (Cohen Lab) The spermatogonia-to-meiosis transition as a novel contraceptive target
October 19, 2021	Sangeeta Ghuwalewala (Tumbar Lab) Epidermal regenerative micro-domains harbor multiple stem and progenitor populations for robust homeostasis and stress responses
October 19, 2021	Shing Hu (Kurpios Lab) The asymmetric Pitx2 gene regulates gut muscular-lacteal development and protects against fatty liver disease
September 21, 2021	Divya Shiroor (Adler Lab) ATM kinase regulates radiation-induced stem cell apoptosis in planarians
September 21, 2021	Lauren Walter (Cosgrove Lab) Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of age-related changes in skeletal muscle regeneration
May 18, 2021	Danysh Abetov (Nikitin Lab) Understanding the role of neuroendocrine cells in prostate development and cancer
May 18, 2021	Yiwen Qin (Schimenti Lab) Investigating the maternal effects in female-biased embryonic death induced by genomic instability
April 20, 2021	Krista Angileri (Feschotte Lab) Transposable elements respond to eye injury
April 20, 2021	Paula Petrella (Cosgrove Lab) Elucidating the role of the stem cell phenotype in triple-negative breast cancer resistance to combined chemotherapy
March 16, 2021	Gopal Chovatiya (Tumbar Lab) RNA Polymerase II mediated transcriptional regulation in tissue specific adult stem cells in vivo
March 16, 2021	Elizabeth Moore (Fischbach Lab) The roles of fibrotic extracellular matrix in breast cancer stem-like cell therapy resistance
February 16, 2021	Meg Fahey (Delco Lab) Investigating mechanisms underlying the ability of mesenchymal stromal cells to prevent degenerative disc disease
February 16, 2021	Matt Edwards (Koren Lab) Identification of DNA replication timing asynchronies at imprinted genomic loci using uniparental stem cells
January 19, 2021	Yu-Han Amy Hung (Sethupathy Lab) Discovery of candidate microRNA regulators of human small intestinal identity during early development
January 19, 2021	Amanda Loehr (Weiss) Lab) Differentiation therapy as an alternative treatment strategy for malignant testicular germ cell tumors
December 15, 2020	Shing Hu (Kurpios Lab) The asymmetric Pitx2 regulates intestinal muscular-lacteal development and protects against fatty liver disease
December 15, 2020	Melanie Maurer (Lammerding Lab) LMNA-mutant stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes exhibit nuclear defects, lamin mislocalization, and altered DNA damage response
November 17, 2020	Luye An (White Lab) Determining the role of proinflammatory factors TNFα and Cox2 in UVB-induced melanocyte stem cell activation and migration
November 17, 2020	Amaresh Chaturbedi (Lee Lab) Regulation of fat metabolism and longevity by germline stem cells in C. elegans
October 20, 2020	Carrie Adler Planarian stem cells sense the identity of missing tissues to launch targeted regeneration
October 20, 2020	Manvendra Singh (Feschotte Lab) Human endogenous retroviruses remodel the cis-regulatory networks of embryonic and germ stem cells
September 15, 2020	Megan Rothstein (Simoes-Costa Lab) Integration of signaling systems within the neural crest gene regulatory network via TFAP2 pioneer factors
September 15, 2020	Jamie Blum (Thalacker-Mercer Lab) Intracellular and circulating metabolic mediators of muscle progenitor cell proliferation
May 19, 2020	Gopal Chovatiya (Tumbar Lab) Transcriptome analysis of hair follicle stem cells in adult skin
May 19, 2020	Cybelle Tabilas (Rudd Lab) Microbial exposure in early life alters the developmental layering of CD8+ T cells
April 21, 2020	Max Kushner (Zipfel Lab) A novel microscopy based method for detecting the genomic contacts of a genomic locus
April 21, 2020	Xinbao Ding (Schimenti Lab) Identification of human infertility alleles in vitro
February 18, 2020	Ian Rose (Nikitin Lab) Organoid formation and gene expression patterns in the human fallopian tube epithelium
February 18, 2020	Chelsea Stephens (Butcher Lab) Microvascularization of bioengineered neo-tissue flaps for chronic wound repair
January 21, 2020	Charles Danko Bayesian inference of cell composition and gene expression reveals tumor-microenvironment interactions
January 21, 2020	Dashiell Massey (Koren Lab) High-throughput profiling of DNA replication timing in single human cells
December 17, 2019	Charlotte Marx (Van de Walle Lab) The antimicrobial properties of equine mesenchymal stromal cells as biologic alternative to antibiotics
December 17, 2019	Miwa Wenzel (Aquadro Lab) Interactions between the germline stem cell gene bam and the bacteria Wolbachia
November 19, 2019	Alan Chiu (Ma Lab) Engineering vasculature to support encapsulated insulin producing cells
November 19, 2019	David McKellar (Cosgrove/De Vlaminck Labs) Integrating single-cell and nascent RNA sequencing to identify regulatory factors in myogenesis
October 15, 2019	Elizabeth Moore (Fischbach Lab) Obesity-associated extracellular matrix remodeling and its effect on the DNA damage response of breast cancer cells and tumor-initiating mammary stem cells
October 15, 2019	Brooke Marks (Coonrod Lab) Identification of c-kit as a potential mediator of tamoxifen resistance
September 17, 2019	Michelle Delco Mitochondrial donation as a new paradigm for Mesenchymal Stromal Cell function in orthopedic regenerative medicine
September 17, 2019	Ajeet Singh The role of the MicroRNA-7 in intestinal regeneration and host metabolism
May 21, 2019	Xinbao Ding (Schimenti Lab) Identification of human infertility alleles in an ESC differentiation system
May 21, 2019	Yu-Han Amy Hung (Sethupathy Lab) Chromatin run-on sequencing reveals the transcriptional programming that determines stem cell identity during early human small intestinal development
April 16, 2019	Mallikarjun Bidarimath (Nikitin Lab) Stem/progenitor cells of the human tubal epithelium and their role in ovarian carcinoma
April 16, 2019	Divya Shiroor (Adler Lab) Injury promotes stem cell survival in planarians
March 19, 2019	Max Kushner (Zipfel Lab) A novel microscopy based method for detecting the genomic contacts of a genomic locus
March 19, 2019	Chelsea Stephens (Butcher Lab) Hemodynamic flow and paracrine-mediated crosstalk on the angiogenic response within a 3D-bioprinted tissue
February 19, 2019	Masoud Golshadi (Cheetham Lab) Promoting functional recovery after peripheral nerve injury by alteration of macrophage phenotype using exogenous interleukin-10 delivery
February 19, 2019	Peter Nagy (Buchon Lab) Gut microbes modulate immune pathways in intestinal stem cells to influence their lineage
January 15, 2019	Daniel Berry A perivascular niche controls adipose tissue biology
January 15, 2019	Asif Rashid (Yen Lab) Roscovitine synergize with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced leukemia cell differentiation: A promising therapeutic agent for blood/bone marrow cancer
December 18, 2018	Sangjo Kang (Tumbar Lab) Low levels of Histone H3 K4/9/27me3 are required for adult hair follicle stem cell dynamics and proper tissue regeneration
December 18, 2018	Pragya Shah (Lammerding Lab) Squish and squeeze: Confined cancer cell migration and its impact on DNA damage
November 20, 2018	Vimal Selvaraj Trophoblast stem cell self-renewal and differentiation
November 20, 2018	Alex Loiben (Cosgrove Lab) Engineering microenvironments to achieve long-term, clinical-scale skeletal muscle stem cell expansion
October 16, 2018	Thomas Carter (Feschotte Lab) Endogenous retroviruses as a source of regulatory evolution in primate embryonic stem cells
October 16, 2018	Shivem Shah (Singh Lab) Immune organoids to study B cell differentiation
April 17, 2018	David Small (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) The influence of hypoxia on c-kit expression following cardiac injury
April 17, 2018	Mallikarjun Bidarimath (Nikitin Lab) Stem/progenitor cells of the human tubal epithelium and their role in ovarian carcinoma
March 20, 2018	Kathryn Grive (Cohen Lab) Elucidating genetic regulatory mechanisms critical for mammalian germline stem cell identity and differentiation
March 20, 2018	Simon Frueh (Tait Wojno Lab) The role of Lin28b in lymphoid cell development
February 20, 2018	Roman Spektor (Soloway Lab) Effects of lead toxicity on methylation and transcriptional landscapes in the mouse central nervous system
February 20, 2018	Robert Yamulla (Schimenti Lab) Drivers of High Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma
January 16, 2018	Sangjo Kang (Tumbar Lab) Manipulating histone methylation levels in the skin regulates hair follicle stem cell regulation via BMP signaling
January 16, 2018	Debadrita Bhattacharya (Simoes-Costa Lab) Control of neural crest multipotency by Wnt signaling and Lin28/let-7 axis
December 19, 2017	Michael McCoy (Fischbach Lab) Interleukin-8 Regulates Glioblastoma Cancer Stem Cell and Endothelial Cell Crosstalk
December 19, 2017	Gat Rauner (Van de Walle Lab) Understanding susceptibility and resistance to mammary cancer through species comparison
November 21, 2017	Kelly Jun Liu The C. elegans Spalt-like protein SEM-4 functions through the SoxC transcription factor SEM-2 to promote a proliferative blast cell fate in the postembryonic mesoderm
November 21, 2017	Tinyi Chu (Danko Lab) Chromatin run-on reveals nascent RNAs that differentiate normal and malignant brain tissue
October 17, 2017	Praveen Sethupathy MicroRNA regulators of intestinal stem cell behavior
October 17, 2017	Wilfred Leung (Richards Lab) Investigating the role of SETD2 in canine and human B-cell lymphoma
September 19, 2017	Hyeongsun Moon (White Lab) Mechanisms of melanoma initiation from adult stem cells
September 19, 2017	Chinatsu Mukai (Coonrod Lab) TGFb signaling as a potential driver of extracellular matrix remodeling and tumor progression in canine hemangiosarcoma
May 16, 2017	Andrea De Micheli (Cosgrove Lab) Interrogation of muscle stem cell-niche interactions using artificial 3D niche micro-gels and single-cell RNA sequencing
May 16, 2017	Robert Weiss Insights into the origins and stem cell properties of testicular germ cell tumors
April 18, 2017	Dah-Jiun Fu (Nikitin Lab) The cell-of-origin of gastric transitional zone cancer
April 18, 2017	Jiahn Choi (Schaffer/Nishmura Lab) Coordinated motion of the stem cell niche is critical to recovery after damage due to in vivo femtosecond laser ablation
March 21, 2017	Aditi Iyengar (Nikitin Lab) The role of neuroendocrine dysregulation in prostate cancer
March 21, 2017	Robert Yamulla (Schimenti Lab) Drivers of high grade serous ovarian carcinoma
February 21, 2017	Miguel Brieno Enriquez (Cohen Lab) The commitment of human female PGCs into meiosis and folliculogenesis
February 21, 2017	Benjamin Cohen (Bonassar Lab) The use of mesenchymal stem cells in tissue engineering the human auricle
January 17, 2017	Prachi Jain (Tumbar Lab) Hair follicle epithelial stem cells remodel their environment to regulate tissue homeostasis
January 17, 2017	Xi Liu (Buchon Lab) Microbes alter epithelium composition and ISC lineage in Drosophila midgut
December 20, 2016	Christine Charvet (Koren Lab) Genome-wide variation in DNA replication timing across human embryonic stem cells
December 20, 2016	Tim Robinette (Libert Lab) Study of germline immortality and oocyte rejuvenation
November 15, 2016	Katharina Wittmann (Fischbach Lab) Obesity-associated stromal changes promote cancer stem cell properties in breast cancer
November 15, 2016	Jackie Hill (Fortier Lab) Mesenchymal stem cell antigenicity is suppressed in an inflamed joint environment
October 18, 2016	Carrie Adler Planarian stem cells and organ regeneration
October 18, 2016	Melissa Ledet (Van de Walle Lab) Differential response of equine and canine mammosphere derived cells to carcinogens
September 20, 2016	Jocelyn Wang (Rudd Lab) Fetal and adult progenitors give rise to unique populations of CD8+ T cells
September 20, 2016	Jason Lu (Ma Lab) Small packages, big potential: organogenesis and tumorigenesis in microcapsules
April 19, 2016	Veerle Rottiers (Lee Lab) Germline stem cells regulation of lifespan in males and hermaphrodites in C. elegans
April 19, 2016	Aditi Iyengar (Nikitin Lab) Neuroendocrine cells in prostate development and prostate cancer
March 15, 2016	Lauren Webb (Tait Wojno Lab) Type 1 immunity during gastrointestinal helminth infection
March 15, 2016	Paul Soloway Mechanisms underlying RNA-mediated DNA methylation in mice
February 16, 2016	Daniel Zinshteyn (Barbash Lab) Rapidly evolving stonewall maintains germline stem cells and regulates transposons
February 16, 2016	Tim Pierpont (Weiss Lab) Testicular germ cell tumors harboring chemosensitive cancer stem cells originate during a restricted window of embryonic development
January 19, 2016	Prachi Jain (Tumbar Lab) Runx1 controls hair follicle stem cell activation by regulating both cell-intrinsic and environmental cues
January 19, 2016	Ling Qi Make beta cell proliferate again!
December 15, 2015	Dania Villarnovo (Richards Lab) The role of Sox2 in canine lymphomas
December 15, 2015	Stephen Sammons (Liu Lab) The histone chaperone RBA-1 is critical for C. elegans mesoderm patterning
November 17, 2015	Charles Danko Mechanistic insights into cellular function from analyzing transcription in T-cells and breast cancer cells
November 17, 2015	Megan Bernard (Cheetham Lab) Immunomodulatory effects of nerve specific extracellular matrix in sciatic repair
October 20, 2015	Robert MacDonald (Yen Lab) The role of CD38 in all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation of an acute myelogenous leukemia cell line
October 20, 2015	Jaclyn Bubnell (Aquadro Lab) Functional evolution of bag-of-marbles, the key switch for gametogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster
September 15, 2015	Sachi Horibata (Coonrod Lab) PAD2 as a novel therapeutic target for breast cancer
September 15, 2015	Jiahn Choi (Schaffer/Nishimura Lab) Understanding the dynamics of the stem cell niche in the small intestine with femtosecond laser photo disruption
May 19, 2015	Michael Platov (Libert Lab) Comparative omics analysis of Canis lupus familiaris to elucidate longevity-associated pathways
May 19, 2015	Wei Song (Ma Lab) Engraftment of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes in immunocompetent mice via 3D co-aggregation and encapsulation
April 21, 2015	Leen Bussche (Van de Walle Lab) A comparative approach to study mammary stem cell renewal
April 21, 2015	Ben Cosgrove Quantitative dissection of heterogeneous muscle stem cell dysfunctional in aging
March 17, 2015	Nora Springer (Fischbach Lab) Obesity-associated inflammation contributes to adipose stromal cells pro-fibrotic phenotype
March 17, 2015	Alberto Purwada (Singh Lab) Artificial follicle organoid for improved B cell differentiation
February 17, 2015	Mary Clare McCorry (Bonassar Lab) Stem cell applications in meniscus tissue engineering
February 17, 2015	Schimenti Lab Staff Overview of the Stem Cell and Transgenic Core Facility and CRISPR projects
January 20, 2015	Jennifer Cassano (Fortier Lab) Bone marrow concentrate and platelet rich plasma differ in cell distribution and interleukin 1 receptor antagonist protein
January 20, 2015	Alex Wang (Tumbar Lab) Gata6 is essential for maintenance of hair follicle progenitor cells
December 16, 2014	Tim Pierpont (Weiss Lab) Investigating how the DNA damage response and stem cell properties of testicular germ cancers influence chemosensitivity
December 16, 2014	Dah-Jiun Fu (Nikitin Lab) Epithelial transition zone and gastric cancer
November 18, 2014	Philip Houtz (Buchon Lab) Genetic regulation of stem cell behavior in the Drosophila midgut
November 18, 2014	Christelle Johnson (Shen Lab) Metabolic reprogramming in metastatic disease
October 21, 2014	Patricia Davidson (Lammerding Lab) Using microfabricated devices and patient-derived iPSCs to study cardiac laminopathies
October 21, 2014	Viju Vijayan Pillai (Selvaraj Lab) Towards the generation of bovine pluripotent stem cells
September 16, 2014	Bin Duan (Butcher Lab) Micro- and macro-environmental design to control stem cell differentiation and matrix remodeling in 3D hydrogels
September 16, 2014	Paula Cohen Strategies for studying human oocytes and primordial germ cells
April 15, 2014	Robert Weiss New insights into cancer stem cells from a mouse testicular germ cell tumor model
April 15, 2014	Brian Rudd The fate of CD8+ T cells during infection is linked to their developmental origin
March 18, 2014	Scott Coonrod Role of PAD2 in skin carcinogenesis
March 18, 2014	Daniel Zinshteyn (Barbash Lab) Rapid evolution of a Drosophila germline stem cell maintenance factor
February 18, 2014	Jun Kelly Liu Cell fate specification in the C. elegans post embryonic mesoderm
February 18, 2014	Philip Houtz (Buchon Lab) Control of intestinal stem cell activity in the Drosophila gut in response to infection
January 21, 2014	Jayhun Lee (Tumbar Lab) Hair follicle stem cell quiescence is associated with low epigenetic identity and high genome plasticity mediated by growth factor signaling
January 21, 2014	Maureen Lynch (Fischbach Lab) 3D culture models for investigating the effects of mechanical loading on osteogenic stem cell differentiation in breast cancer bone metastasis
December 17, 2013	Ankur Singh Adhesive signature-based, label-free isolation of human pluripotent stem cells
December 17, 2013	Alexander Nikitin & Warren Zipfel Stem cell pathology, imaging and the Stem Cell Core
November 19, 2013	Cait Costello (March Lab) Synthetic small intestines for studies of host-microbe interactions
November 19, 2013	John Schimenti Genome editing in mice and the Stem Cell Core
October 15, 2013	Leen Bussche (Van de Walle Lab) A comparative stem cell model for breast cancer
October 15, 2013	Wendy Mercer Geil (Yen Lab) Nuclear Raf-1 kinase regulates BLR1/CXCR5 promoter by binding to NFATc3 to control retinoic acid-induced leukemic cell differentiation
September 17, 2013	Xiling Shen MicroRNA versatility in cell fate determination
September 17, 2013	Ian Welsh (Kurpios Lab) From tissues to chromosomes, the developmental genomics of organ asymmetry
May 21, 2013	Brian Rudd Neonatal immunity and the layered immune hypothesis
May 21, 2013	Young Hye Song (Fischbach Lab) Adipose-derived stem cells as physicochemical regulator of tumor angiogenesis
April 16, 2013	Laura Hockaday (Butcher Lab) In-Situ photocrosslinking and 3D bioprinting of defined matrix environments to control differentiation of adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells within tissue engineered heart valves
April 16, 2013	Kim Holloway (Cohen Lab) Investigating regulatory pathways involved in mammalian meiosis and gametogenesis
March 19, 2013	Patricia Davidson (Lammerding Lab) Using patient-derived iPSCs to investigate cardiac disease caused by lamin and titin mutations
March 19, 2013	Patrick Murphy (Soloway Lab) Analysis of cell type specific epigenetic mark coordination using single molecule methods
February 19, 2013	Timothy Pierpont (Weiss Lab) Elucidation of the DNA damage response and stem cell properties of murine metastatic testicular germ cell cancer
February 19, 2013	Iris Jonkers (Lis Lab) The dynamics of RNA polymerase II in the transcription cycle
January 15, 2013	Brooke Wilson (Fortier Lab) Novel use of a microfluidics device to identify the optimal biologic to enhance endogenous stem cell recruitment and homing
January 15, 2013	Yunhai Luo (Schimenti Lab) Primordial germ cell depletion in FANCM-deficient mice involves p53-p21 signaling
December 18, 2012	Aiko Sada Nishimura (Tumbar Lab) Defining the cellular lineage hierarchy in adult skin epidermis
December 18, 2012	Holly Jensen (Yen Lab) Overcoming the differentiation block: Understanding retinoic acid-induced differentiation in a model human leukemic progenitor cell line
November 20, 2012	Andrea Flesken-Nikitin (Nikitin Lab) Identification of a novel cancer-prone stem cell niche for the ovarian surface epithelium
November 20, 2012	Qiaoming Long Role of SEL1L in liver cholesterol metabolism and tumorigenesis
October 16, 2012	Nicolas Buchon Epithelium renewal in the Drosophila gut: how intestinal stem cells behave in a microbial world
October 16, 2012	Xiling Shen Pattern formation in intestinal crypts
September 18, 2012	Lawrence Bonassar Marrow-derived stem cells for intervertebral disc tissue engineering
September 18, 2012	Scott Coonrod Linking structure to function in the mammalian oocyte cytoplasm
May 15, 2012	Vikas Ghai (Liu Lab) Investigating the role of SEM-4/SALL in proliferation versus differentiation decisions during development of C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm
May 15, 2012	Tim Cowley (Lee Lab) Elucidating the roles of mammalian HCF-1 and HCF-2 in beta-cell and embryonic stem cell function
April 17, 2012	Ute Schwab (Felippe Lab) Establishing culture conditions favorable for equine B lymphopoiesis
April 17, 2012	Iris Jonkers (Lis Lab) The role of P-TEFb in the RNA Polymerase II transcription cycle
March 20, 2012	Vimal Selvaraj Directing differentiation of embryonic stem cells to oligodendrocytes
March 20, 2012	Jonathan Flax (Soloway Lab) The role of DNA methylation in alternative splicing
February 21, 2012	Bo Ri Seo (Fischbach Lab) Obesity-associated adipose stromal cells as physicochemical modulators of breast tumorigenesis
February 21, 2012	Ewelina Bolcun-Filas (Schimenti Lab) Quality control in germ cells
January 17, 2012	Jayhun Lee (Tumbar Lab) Epigenetic regulation of hair follicle stem cell proliferation during adult skin homeostatis
January 17, 2012	Yogindra Vedvyas (Jin Lab) Development of mAb against Ephrin-B2: Application to detection of tumor, tumor-vasculature, and cancer stem cells
December 20, 2011	Amy Lyndaker (Weiss Lab) A novel mouse model of testicular cancer: Simultaneous Pten loss and Kras activation in postnatal germ cells results in teratocarcinogenesis
December 20, 2011	Xuesen Zhang (Coonrod Lab) PAD2-catalyzed histone Arginine 26 citrullination facilitates E2-reguated gene transcription
November 15, 2011	Iris Sun (Qi Lab) ATP-P2X7 signaling is dispensable for inflammasome activation in adipose tissue in obesity
November 15, 2011	Aparna Mahadevan (Kurpios Lab) Role of left-right signaling pathway in organ specific vascularization of the midgut
October 18, 2011	Chang-il Hwang (Nikitin Lab) mir-34 deficiency increases cell proliferation but not iPS cell reprogramming efficiency
October 18, 2011	Laura Hockaday (Butcher Lab) 3D printed heterogeneous microenvironments: Gradient stiffness hydrogels for directed stem cell differentiation
May 17, 2011	Ashlee Watts (Nixon Lab) Characterization and musculoskeletal application of pluripotent ESC-like cells derived from fetal tissue
May 17, 2011	Yunhai Luo (Schimenti Lab) Genome Maintenance in germline stem cells
April 19, 2011	Adam Francisco (Long Lab) Haploid Insufficiency of Suppressor Enhancer Lin12 1 Like (SEL1L) Predisposes Mice to High Fat Diet-induced Hyperglycemia
April 19, 2011	Julia Felippe B cell differentiation from hematopoietic stem cells
March 15, 2011	Chieh-Yang Cheng (Nikitin Lab) Role of neuroendocrine cells in prostate development
March 15, 2011	Michael Kotlikoff Cardiac renewal - stem cells or dedifferentiation
February 15, 2011	Boram Kim (Coonrod Lab) Role for MATER in Organelle Redistribution During Oocyte Maturation
February 15, 2011	Ian Welsh (Kurpios Lab) A functional genomics approach to understand the transcriptional and signaling regulation of cellular behavior
January 18, 2011	Emily Chandler (Fischbach Lab) Adipose progenitor cells and their role in breast tumorigenesis
January 18, 2011	James Hagarman (Soloway Lab) Mutual antagonism between DNA methylation and H3K27 trimethylation in mouse ES cells
December 21, 2010	Iris Jonkers (Lis Lab) Genome wide distribution of RNA polymerase II after inhibition of P-TEFb
December 21, 2010	Heather Flores (Aquadro/Barbash Labs) Evolutionary analysis of the Drosophila bag of marbles gene elucidates both intraspecific function and the consequences of interspecific divergence
November 16, 2010	Xiling Shen "Assymetric Division of Colon Cancer Stem Cells
November 16, 2010	Rodica Buncaciu (Yen Lab) "AhR promotes retinoic acid-induced differentiation by decreasing Oct4 expression in human myeloblastic leukemia cells (HL-60) "
October 19, 2010	Lauren Schabel (Fortier Lab) "iPS cells from mouse, dog and horse
October 19, 2010	Amy Lyndaker (Weiss Lab) "Recurrent copy number variation and intact DNA damage signaling in 129-Dnd1Ter/Ter murine testicular teratomas "
September 21, 2010	Ling Qi "The role of myeloid progenitor cells in obesity and diabetes"
September 21, 2010	Karin Lilja (Tudorita Tumbar Lab) "Runx1 promotes tumorigenesis through a p21 mediated pathway in skin "
May 18, 2010	David Infanger (Claudia Fischbach Lab) "Engineering 3D microenvironments to study brain tumor stem cell behavior"
May 18, 2010	Sophy Jesty (Michael Kotlikoff Lab) "The role of cardiovascular precursor cells in cardiac repair after infarction"
April 20, 2010	Le Cheng (Alexander Nikitin Lab) "The role of miR-376b/467b - cIAP1/2 pathway in mammary cancer stem cells"
April 20, 2010	Terri Iwata (Sylvia Lee Lab) "A possible role for HCF1 and HCF2 in stem cell function"
March 16, 2010	Josh Waterfall (John Lis Lab) "Tracking RNA polymerase genome-wide by sequencing nascent transcripts"
March 16, 2010	Jiajie Yu (John March Lab) "Towards an in vitro intestine: Developing 3D epithelial cell culture"
February 16, 2010	Jun Kelly Liu "Diversification of the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm by a FoxF/C forkhead protein and a Six2 homeodomain protein"
February 16, 2010	Nokyoung Park (Dan Luo Lab) "A cell free protein producing gel"
January 19, 2010	Rui Kan (Scott Coonrod Lab) "Regulation of Oocyte Microtubule and Organelle Dynamics by PADI6 and the Cytoplasmic Lattices"
January 19, 2010	Moonsoo Jin "Multi-scale Approach to Human Health: Targeting cancer, inflammation, and association between them "
December 15, 2009	Ryan Tasseff (Andrew Yen Lab) "Modeling and Analysis of the Pathways Governing RA Induced Differentiation in Uncommitted Precursor Cells"
December 15, 2009	Alexander Nikitin "State of the Stem Cell Program"
November 17, 2009	Song Eun Lee (Tudorita Tumbar Lab) "The role of Runx1 in hair follicle stem cells during tissue homeostasis"
November 17, 2009	Kenneth Kemphues "The C. elegans embryo: a model for asymmetric division"
October 20, 2009	Yin He (Ling Qi Lab) "The IRE1a/XBP1 pathway of the UPR is required for adipogenesis"
October 20, 2009	Tunde Babalola (Larrry Bonassar Lab) "Differential response of chondrocytes and MSCs to the dynamic loading"
September 15, 2009	Suzanne Hartford (John Schimenti Lab) "DNA Repair and Replication Genes and their involvement in Spermatogonial Stem Cell Maintenance"
September 15, 2009	Heather Flores (Daniel Barbash/Chip Aquadro Labs) "Testing the functional consequences of adaptive protein evolution at the drosophila germline stem cell regulatory gene bag of marbles"
May 18, 2009	Emily Chandler (Claudia Fischbach Lab) "Microenvironmental cues at the breast cancer interface alter adipocyte progenitor cell function"
May 18, 2009	Qiaoming Long "Control of Notch signaling and Pancreatic Development"
April 20, 2009	Paul Soloway "Single Molecule Chromatin Analysis - A Tool for Stem Cell Research"
April 20, 2009	Irene Min (John Lis Lab) "Genome-wide Analysis of Engaged RNA Polymerase Activity and Promoter Status in Stem Cells"
March 16, 2009	Mike Kotlikoff "Role of stem cells in repair of the adult heart"
March 16, 2009	Huseyin C. Yalcin (Jonathan Butcher Lab) "Simulated embryonic environmental conditions on stem cell differentiation towards cardiac phenotypes"
February 16, 2009	Alex Travis "Using Stem Cells to Develop Canine Transgenesis--Soliciting the Audience's Feedback on our Data and My R01 Proposal"
February 16, 2009	W. Lee Kraus "Signaling, Chromatin, and Transcription: Mechanisms in Search of a Model System"
January 19, 2009	Le Cheng (Alexander Nikitin Lab) "Genomic instability in cancer stem cells"
January 19, 2009	Miaoqing Shen (Andrew Yen Lab) "c-Cbl interacts with CD38 and promotes RA-induced differentiation and G0 arrest of human myeloblastic leukemia cells"
December 16, 2008	Kelly Liu "Mesodermal patterning and diversification in C. elegans"
December 16, 2008	Joanna Krzyspiak (John March Lab) "Recreating In Vivo Epithelial Behavior Using Stem Cells in a Microfluidic Platform"
November 18, 2008	Scott Coonrod "Epigenetic Regulation of Preimplantation Development and Breast Cancer"
November 18, 2008	Lisa Fortier "The Use of Magnetic Activated Cell Sorting for Enrichment of Equine Bone Marrow Derived Stromal Cells"
October 21, 2008	Ying Zhang (Tudorita Tumbar Lab) "Temporal and spatial segregation of differentiation and self-renewal for adult hair follicle stem cells"
October 21, 2008	Siu Sylvia Lee "Probing a role of the longevity gene hcf-1 in stem cell maintenance"
September 16, 2008	Jin Hyang Choi (Alexander Nikitin Lab) "Role of the local dermal progenitor cells in sarcomagenesis associated with p53 and Rb inactivation"
September 16, 2008	Weipeng Mu (John Schimenti Lab) "The essentiality of PDCD2 in mouse preimplantation development implicates its involvement in embryonic stem cell self-renewal"
May 20, 2008	Paula Cohen "Investigating the determinants of normal gametogenesis in the mouse: meiosis and beyond"
May 20, 2008	Xia Xu (Robert Weiss Lab) "A mouse model for lung cancer and possible roles for lung stem cells in tumor initiation"
April 15, 2008	Paul Soloway "Epigenetic Reprogramming in the Mouse Germline"
April 15, 2008	Emily Chandler (Claudia Fischbach Lab) "Adipocyte Precursor Cells and Their Role in Breast Cancer Malignancy"
March 18, 2008	Qiaoming Long "Sel1L, the mammalian ortholog of the C. elegans sel-1 gene, is required for growth and expansion of pancreatic stem cells"
March 18, 2008	Leighton Core (John Lis Lab) "Classification of transcription regulatory mechanisms by genome-wide analysis of transcriptionally engaged RNA polymerases"
February 19, 2008	Jonathan Butcher "Mechanical regulation of cell differentiation and tissue morphogenesis - The playground of embryonic development"
February 19, 2008	James Lee Smith II "Cytometric analysis of Raf1 localization and phosphorylation during retinoic acid induced differentiation of HL60 cells"
January 15, 2008	Andrew Yen "Decisions, Decisions: Multiplication and Division for Making Change; ie., Retinoic acid, cell proliferation and differentiation"
January 15, 2008	Catherine Radcliffe (Lisa Fortier Lab) "Defining a Molecular Marker Profile for Equine Mesenchymal Stem Cells"
December 18, 2007	Alyson Spealman (Michael Kotlikoff Lab) "Isolation, Expansion, and Differentiation of Cardiac Precursor Cells from c-kitBAC-EGFP Mice"
December 18, 2007	Rebecca Holmes (Paula Cohen Lab) "Meiosis and the Argonautes"
November 20, 2007	Yung-Hao Ching (John Schimenti Lab) "Plzf : polydactyly and male germ cell depletion"
November 20, 2007	Yeunhee Kim (Alex Travis Lab) "Stem cell-based technologies of assisted reproduction in the cat and dog"
September 18, 2007	Le Cheng (Alex Nikitin Lab) "Mammary stem cells and cancer"
September 18, 2007	Karen Osorio (Doina Tumbar Lab) "Hair follicle stem cell activation"
August 11, 2007	Lawrence Bonassar "Research overview"
	Warren Zipfel "Research overview"
	John Schimenti "Research overview"
	Alex Travis "Research overview"
July 16, 2007	Alan Nixon "Research overview"
	Andrea Quaroni "Research overview"
	Watt Webb "Research overview"
	Bob Weiss "Research overview"
June 18, 2007	Claudia Fischbach "Research overview"
	Lisa Fortier "Research overview"
	Mike Kotlikoff "Research overview"
	Alex Nikitin "Research overview"
	Doina Tumbar "Research overview"