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Stem Cell Retreat 2014

Stem Cell Retreat 2014
Stem Cell Retreat 2014
Stem Cell Retreat 2014
Stem Cell Retreat 2014
Stem Cell Retreat 2014
Stem Cell Retreat 2014

The 2014 Retreat was held on Saturday, May 17 at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. The keynote speaker was Dr. Lawrence Goldstein from the University of California, San Diego. Please see the retreat schedule below.

Congratulations to Chieh-Yang Cheng (Nikitin Lab), Aravind Sivakumar (Kurpios Lab), and Philip Houtz(Buchon Lab) the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the retreat poster competition!

Stem Cell Program Retreat 2014 Schedule
9:00-10:00 a.m. Light breakfast and coffee Observatory
10:00-10:05 a.m.

Opening Remarks: Alexander Nikitin and Andrew Bass

Auditorium
10:05-10:45 a.m.

Keynote Speaker: Lawrence Goldstein, UCSD
Using stem cells to understand and treat Alzheimer's disease

Auditorium
10:50-11:10 a.m. Faculty Talk: Doina Tumbar
Hair follicle stem cell quiescence links plasticity with
specialized chromatin states via growth factor signaling
Auditorium
11:15-11:35 a.m. Faculty Talk: Alexander Nikitin
Living dangerously at epithelial transitions
Auditorium
11:40-12:00 p.m. Faculty Talk: John Schimenti
Checkpoint development in the mammalian germ lineage
Auditorium
12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch and Poster Set-up Observatory
2:00-2:20 p.m. Faculty Talk: Paul Soloway
Single molecule epigenomic analysis
Auditorium
2:25-2:45 p.m.

Faculty Talk: John Lis
The interplay of Pol II elongation with promoter proximal pausing, chromatin, and exons in mouse ES cells

Auditorium
2:50-3:10 p.m.

Faculty Talk: Daniel Barbash
Investigating the rapid evolution of germline stem cell
regulatory genes

Auditorium
3:15-3:35 p.m.

Faculty Talk: Minglin Ma
The package delivers treatment -- Developing advanced biomaterials for (stem) cell delivery

Auditorium
3:40-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break Observatory
4:00-4:20 p.m. Faculty Talk: Gerlinde Van de Walle
The equine mesenchymal stem cell secretome: a stem cell-free therapy for cutaneous chronic wounds
Auditorium
4:25-4:45 p.m.

Faculty Talk: Julia Felippe
To the rescue of B cell production in common variable
immunodeficiency

Auditorium

4:50-6:20 p.m. Poster Session & Cocktails Observatory
6:20-6:30 p.m. Award Presentation Observatory