Program Agenda:
8:30 a.m – 3:30 p.m
Registration – Harvard Hall Foyer (continental breakfast available)

9:55 a.m
Welcome – Harvard Hall

10:00 a.m.
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
“Signaling and Chromatin Regulation to Program Beta Cell Progenitors”

10:40 a.m.
E. Edward Baetge, PhD
Novocell, Inc.
“Making Stem Cell-Generated Islets”

11:20 a.m.
Douglas A. Melton, PhD
Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
“Stem Cells to Make Beta Cells and Understand the Causes of Type 1 Diabetes”

Noon -1:20 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m.
Jacob Hanna MD, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
“Developing New Models for Type I Autoimmune Diabetes Using Stem Cell-Based Technologies”

2:10 p.m.
Armand Keating, MD, FRCPC
Toronto General Research Institute
“Novel Stem / Progenitor Cells: Implications for Cell Therapy”

2:50 p.m.
Jonathan M. Graff, MD, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells to Cure Obesity and Diabetes”

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Gordon Weir and Amy Wagers will moderate a discussion with the presenters challenging them on research presented during the day.

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Poster session and cocktail reception – second floor – Massachusetts and Aesculapian Rooms