Stem Cells and CNS Regeneration

Thursday, May 31, 2007

 

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

Session I - Endogenous Stem Cells and Their Mobilization

Robin Franklin, Chair

 

8:00 am Opening Remarks

 

8:10 am Keynote Address: Neuronal Replacement in Adult Avian Brain

Fernando Nottebohm

 

8:50 am Ventricular Zone Neurogenesis

Arnold Kreigstein

 

9:30 am miRNAs in Neural Stem Cell Differentiation

Fiona Doetsch

 

10:10 am Break

 

10:30 am Activity-dependent Regulation of Adult

Hippocampal Neurogenesis

Hongjun Song

 

11:10 am Regulatory Control of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells

Fraser Sim

 

11:50 am Stem Cells, Precursors and Remyelination

Robin Franklin

 

12:30 pm Lunch

 

Session II - Exogenous Stem Cells as Cell Therapeutics

Ole Isacson, Chair

 

1:30 pm Transgenic ES Strategies

Mahenra Rao

 

2:10 pm Regenerative Therapeutic Processes In Neurodegenerative Disease

Ole Isacson

 

2:50 pm Dopaminergic Differentiation From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Lorenz Studer

 

3:30 pm Break

 

3:50 pm Isolation and Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem

Cell-derived Dopaminergic and Motor Neurons

Neeta Roy

 

4:30 pm Convergences of Cell and Gene Therapy

Howard Federoff

 

5:10 pm Poster Awards Presentation and

Presentation of the BioSymposia Junior Investigator Award

 

5:20 pm Poster Reception

 

Friday, June 1, 2007

 

7:00 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast

 

Session III - Stem Cells and Disease

Bruce Trapp, Chair

 

8:00 am The Many Roles of NSCs in Lysosomal Storage Disorders

Evan Snyder

 

8:40 am Neural Stem Cell Activation in Stroke: Angiogenesis,

Neurogenesis and A Neurovascular Niche

S. Thomas Carmichael

 

9:20 am A Stem Cell Source for Remyelination in The Adult

Brain?

Bruce Trapp

 

10:00 am Break

 

10:20 am Embryonic, Adult and Cancer Stem Cells in vitro and in vivo

Dennis Steindler

 

11:00 am Molecular Regulation of Tumor Stem Cells

Harley Kornblum

 

11:40 am Signaling Pathways in Gliomagenesis

Abhijit Guha

 

12:20 pm Lunch

 

Session IV - Stem Cells and Disease

Steven Goldman, Chair

 

1:20 pm Toxicant Effects on Endogenous Stem and Progenitor Cells

Mark Noble

 

2:00 pm NSCs as Therapeutic Vectors in ALS

Clive Svendsen

 

2:40 pm Therapeutic Plasticity of Neural Stem Cells

Gianvito Martino

 

3:20 pm Break

 

3:40 pm Neural Stem Cells: Their Involvement in Adult

Neurogenesis and CNS Repair

Hideyuki Okano

 

4:20 pm Cell-based Strategies Exhibiting Preclinical Efficacy

Steven Goldman

 

5:00 pm Closing Remarks

 

5:10 pm Adjourn