Stem Cell and Development Biology Weekly Talks
Schedule 2010-2011
Fridays at 1pm, BCC Seminar Room
2010
8
Atsushi Nakano (UCLA): “Lineage Diversification of Cardiovascular Progenitors”
15
Jieun Kim (Lien lab): “Signaling Pathways During Zebrafish Heart Regeneration”
22
No meeting (SCDB retreat)
29
(Broad Dedication)
October
5
November
December
Nan Sook Lee (Chow lab): "Generation of Insulin-secreting Glucose-responsive
Beta-cells from Human Stem Cells"
12
Marius Wernig (Stanford): “Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts to Functional
Neurons”
19
Mamoru Ishii (Maxson lab): “Self-Renewing Potential of Multipotent Cranial
Neural Crest”
3
Taka Ohyama (House Ear Institute): “Sensory Development of the Inner Ear”
10
Anika Das (Crump lab): “Twist1 Genes in Specification of the Ecto-mesenchyme
Lineage of Cranial Neural Crest”
17
Periklis Pantazis (Caltech)—Gregor Adams, host: “Imaging of Pluripotency in
Systems Biology”
2011
January
7
Jennifer Fogel (Mariani lab): “Cell Death and Growth Factor Signaling during
Vertebrate Rib Development”
1
February
14
Zong Wei (Wange Lu lab): “Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Somatic
Cell Reprogramming”
19
Lorenz Studer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) *Wednesday at 1pm:
“Modeling Human Neural Development and Disease in Pluripotent Stem Cells”
28
Iruela-Arispe (UCLA) *1:30 pm—Henry Sucov, host: “Signaling Events that
Regulate Cross Talk between Blood Vessels and Liver Parenchyma: Relevance to
Endothelial Cell Technology”
4
Hexin Yan (Ying lab): “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Embryonic Stem Cell
Self-Renewal”
11
Ni Zeng (Stiles lab): “PTEN Controls Beta-Cell Aging through p16-Regulated Cell
Senescence”
17
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa (Japan) *Thursday at 4pm—Kouichi Hasegawa, host:
“Oncogenic Program Integrated in ES Cell Pluripotency”
18
No meeting (UCLA Symposium)
25
Ahmed El-Hashash (Warburton Lab): “Eya1 Protein Phosphatase is a
Novel Regulator of Lung Epithelial Stem/Progenitor Cell
Development”
4
Linzhao Cheng (Johns Hopkins)—Wange Lu, host: “Human iPS Cells: Derivation
and Gene Targeting by Plasmid Vectors”
11
Debbie Yelon (UCSD)—Henry Sucov, host: “Sculpting an Organ: Interactions that
Shape the Embryonic Heart”
18
Salman Khetani (Hepregen Corp, Boston)—Martin Pera & Neil Kaplowitz, hosts:
“Microscale Liver Models for Investigating Drug-Induced Liver Injury and
Infectious Diseases”
March
25
2
Carolina Parada (Chai lab): “Ctgf Acts as Mediator and Modulator of TGFPathway during Palatogenesis”
April
1
Michael Hughes (Chuong lab): “Epigenetic Modulation of Skin Morphogenesis by
HDAC1”
8
Andres Collazo (HEI): “In Vivo Imaging of Single Cells and Proteins in the
Developing Zebrafish Inner Ear”
15
Micha Drukker (Stanford)—Martin Pera, host: "Prospective Isolation of
Trophoblast, Primitive Endoderm, Vascular Endothelial and Meso-endoderm
Development Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
22
Vicki Fox (Stem Cell Core): “Overview of USC’s Stem Cell Core”
29
Rupa Sridharan (UCLA)—Martin Pera, host: "Deciphering the Mechanisms of
Transcription Factor Mediated Reprogramming"
6
Lei Wang (Songtao Shi lab): “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Osteoporosislike Mice”
13
Yuchang Li (Pashmforoush lab): “Nkx2-5 Positively Regulates Wnt/β-catenin
Signaling in Second Heart Field Progenitors”
20
Clive Svendsen (Cedars Sinai)—Martin Pera, host: “Using Stem Cells to Model
and Treat Neurological Diseases”
27
Kouichi Hasegawa (Pera lab): "Small Molecule Orchestration of Wnt Signaling
Provides Long-Term Xeno-Free Human Pluripotent Cell Expansion"
May
3
Ruchi Bajpai (Craniofacial and Molecular Biology): “Epigenetics Development
and Cancer: the Universal Nexus”
June
10
Eve Kandyba (Kris Kobielak lab): “Targeting BMP Functions in Hair Follicle Stem
Cells”
3
17
No Meeting (ISSCR, Toronto)
24
Baruch Frenkel (IGM): “Cross Talk Between Runx2 and Sex Steroid Signaling in
Bone and Cancer Cells ”
24
Dan Gazit (Cedars-Sinai)—Charles McKenna, Host: “Stem Cell Therapy and
Molecular Imaging in Skeletal Disorders”
29
Michaela Patterson (Cedars-Sinai)—Charles McKenna, Host: “Defining the
Nature of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Progeny”
2
Susanna Cavallero (Sucov lab): “Mitogenic Control of Cardiovascular
Morphogenesis”
9
Fred Sala (Children’s Hospital)—Henry Sucov & Tracy Grikscheit, hosts:
“The Importance of the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche in Tissue-Engineered Intestine”
16
Christine Cao (Agnes Kobielak lab)—Agnes Kobielak, host:
“Catulin Plays a Role in Cell Migration during Early Development and Tumor
Progression”
23
Litao Tao (Neil Segil lab)—Neil Segil, host:
“CDK Activity is Involved in Aminoglyoside-Induced Hair Cell Death“
30
Amy Merrill, CCMB:
“A Novel Skeletal Disorder Defines Distinction between Extracellular and
Intracellular FGFR2 Development“
August
September
4