7th Annual Stem Cell Science Symposium

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Schedule of Events

8:30 am	Opening Remarks – Aileen Anderson, PhD
8:45 am	Sally Temple, PhD Neural Stem Cell Institute “Stem cell-based Approaches to Age-related Neurodegenerative Diseases”
9:25 am	Break
9:35 am	Leslie Thompson, PhD University of California, Irvine “Stem cells and Huntington’s disease – insights into disease mechanisms and therapeutics”
10:00 am	Lisa Flanagan, PhD University of California, Irvine “Neural stem cell glycosylation impacts fate”
10:25 am	Robert Hunt, PhD University of California, Irvine “Interneuron transplantation & TBI therapy”
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Mehrdad Abedi, MD University of California, Davis
11:40 am	Angela Fleischman, MD, PhD University of California, Irvine “Impact of Inflammation on Normal and Malignant Hematopoietic Stem Cells”
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Camilla Forsberg, PhD University of California, Santa Cruz “Chasing Mavericks: Developmental Waves of Hematopoiesis”
1:40 pm	Richard Van Etten, MD, PhD University of California, Irvine  “Targeting Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells: A Systems Biology Approach”
2:05 pm	Lunch
2:15 pm	Christine Mummery, PhD Leiden University Medical Center “Multicellular systems from human pluripotent stem cells to study cardiovascular disease”
2:55 pm	Anna Grosberg, PhD University of California, Irvine “Exploring the Heart: from Genetic Mutations to Tissue Function”
3:20 pm	Christopher Hughes, PhD University of California, Irvine “Personalized Medicine: The Promise of Stem Cell-Derived Tissues”
3:45 pm	Leon Schurgers, PhD Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht “Role of vascular smooth muscle cells in vascular calcification”
4:30 pm	Symposium Concludes