Events: stem

• RNAi screening identifies regeneration and stem cell regulatory genes in planarians
  • Starts: May 14, 2008 at 12:00 pm
  • Ends: May 14, 2008 at 01:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Peter Reddien, Assistant Professor, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT
  

  Location:

  Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Auditorium, , 250 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA.

• Fifty States, One Nation: Policy and Funding Considerations for Stem Cell Research at the State and National Levels
  • Starts: May 20, 2008 at 06:00 pm
  • Ends: May 20, 2008 at 08:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Kevin Casey, Assoc. Vice Presdient for Government, Community and Public Affairs, Harvard University
  Brooke M. Ellison, Author, Motivational Speaker, Political Activist and Former Candidate, NY State Senate
  Rep. Peter Koutoujian, Massachusetts State Representative; Chair, Jt. Committee on Public Health
  Warren Wollschlager, Founding Chair, Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research and Director, Stem Cell Program, Connecticut Dept. of Public Health
  

  Location:

  Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gymnasium (second floor), 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138

• Future Advances in Regenerative Medicine
  • Starts: June 13, 2008 at 09:00 am
  • Ends: June 13, 2008 at 05:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Dr Stephen Minger,, Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases at King's College London
  Professor Nureddin Ashammakhi,, Keele University, UK
  Dr Julie T Daniels,, Moorfields Eye Hospital Cells for Sight Tissue Bank, UK
  Dr Lyle Armstrong, , Centre For Stem Cell Biology & Developmental Genetics International Centre For Life, UK
  Professor Sarah Franklin, London School of Economics, UK
  Dr Paul Kemp,, Intercytex, UK
  Professor Glyn Stacey, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control, UK
  

  Location:

  BioPark Hertfordshire, , Broadwater Road , Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3AX United Kingdom

• Cardiac Development and Regeneration
  • Starts: October 10, 2008 at 09:00 am
  • Ends: October 11, 2008 at 05:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Cliff Tabin, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
  Margaret Buckingham, Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, France
  Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institute, UCSF
  Benoit Bruneau, Gladstone Institute, UCSF
  William Pu, Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School
  Debbie Yelon, Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine
  Stephen Duncan, Medical College of Wisconsin
  Michael Parmacek, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  Nathan Lawson, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  Sean Wu, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
  Kenneth Chien, Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center
  

  Location:

  Doubletree Guest Suites Boston, Longfellow Ballroom, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA. 02134-1893