Stem Cell Retreat 2016
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The 2016 Retreat was held on Thursday, May 12 at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. The keynote speaker was Dr. Peter Zandstra from the University of Toronto. Please see the retreat schedule below.
Congratulations to Alex Wang (Tumbar Lab), Dah-Jiun Fu (Nikitin Lab), Rebecca Harman (Van de Walle Lab), and Lu Ling (Fischbach Lab), the 1st, 2nd (tie), and 3rd place winners of the 2016 Stem Cell Retreat poster competition!
| Stem Cell Program Retreat 2016 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: Peter Zandstra, University of Toronto Predictive control of stem cell fate |
Auditorium |
| 10:50-11:10 a.m. | Faculty Talk: Tudorita (Doina) Tumbar Molecular control of epithelial skin stem cells |
Auditorium |
| 11:15-11:35 a.m. | Faculty Talk: Alexander Nikitin Cancer-prone and cancer-resistant stem cell niches |
Auditorium |
| 11:40-12:00 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Benjamin Cosgrove Bioengineering approaches to elucidate and enhance muscle stem cell contributions to muscle repair |
Auditorium |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Set-up | Observatory |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Breakout Sessions: (1) Faculty Meeting, and (2) Trainees Meeting with Dr. Zandstra |
1 - Observatory |
| 2:00-2:20 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Robert Weiss Chemosensitive cancer stem cells as the basis for the exceptional responsiveness of germ cell cancers to conventional chemotherapy |
Auditorium |
| 2:25-2:45 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Andrew White Extrinsic and intrinsic mechanisms of skin cancer initiation arising from adult stem cells |
Auditorium |
| 2:50-3:10 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Nicolas Buchon Intestinal stem cells in Drosophila: from homeostatsis to allostasis |
Auditorium |
| 3:15-3:35 p.m. | Coffee Break | Observatory |
| 3:40-4:00 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Warren Zipfel Too many microscopies - choosing the right one for the job |
Auditorium |
| 4:00-4:20 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Ankur Singh Bio-manufacturing B cells: Immuno-engineered organoids for regulating the kinetics of B cell differentiation and antibody production |
Auditorium |
| 4:25-4:45 p.m. | Faculty Talk: Lawrence Bonassar Image-based tissue engineering of cartilage using mesenchymal stem cells |
Auditorium |
| 4:50-6:20 p.m. | Poster Session & Cocktails | Observatory |
| 6:20-6:30 p.m. | Award Presentation | Observatory |