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PLURIPOTENCY,
REPROGRAMMING
AND STEM CELLS
One day Meeting
Friday 12 December 2008
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Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Organised
by
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon
Thanks also to Rui Martins for his contribution to the graphics and
artwork for the poster
The organisers wish to thank the Company of Biologists for
their generous sponsorship of the Meeting
COB LOGO
9.00 - 9.30
REGISTRATION TEA AND COFFEE
14:00
AFTERNOON SESSION COMMENCES
Introduction from Richard Gardner and
Chris Graham
14.00 - 14.40
Culture adaptation of pluripotent stem
cells, self renewal and cancer
Peter W Andrews (Sheffield)
9.40 - 10.20
Using reprogramming and stem cells to
study the developmental biology of
disease Kevin Eggan (Harvard)
14.40 - 15.20
Transcription factor control of
pluripotent cell identity Ian Chambers
(Edinburgh)
10.20 - 11.00
Nuclear reprogramming in the human
and non-human primate: generating
isogenic pluripotent stem cells
James Byrne (Stanford)
15.20 – 15.50
AFTERNOON TEA
15.50 - 16.30
Therapeutic and research potential of
human stem cells Stephen Minger (Kings
College London)
16.30 - 17.10
Building 3-dimensional structures with
stem cells Kevin Shakesheff (Nottingham)
17.10 -17.50
The secrets of Eve Alison Murdoch
(Newcastle)
18.00
MEETING CLOSES
Introduction b
9.30 - 9.40
11.00 - 11.30
11.30 - 12.10
COFFEE
Title to be confirmed Martin Evans
(Cardiff)
12.10 – 12.50
Sox2, Sox9 and stem cell potential
Robin Lovell-Badge (NIMR, London)
12.50 - 14.00
LUNCH