CANCELLED: 2020 Spring Scientific Symposium

CANCELLED - (Postpended for fall, new date to come)

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Folkman Auditorium, Enders Research Building

Boston Children’s Hospital 320 Longwood Avenue

 

12:30 Registration, Sign-In, and Coffee

1:00 Introductory Remarks and first talk: Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD – Dana-Farber, HMS

ISC candidates, executors, and transcriptional control

 

1:40 Jason Spence, PhD – University of Michigan Medical School

Identifying intestinal stem cell niche factors in the developing human gut

 

2:10 Ophir Klein, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco

Regenerative strategies of the intestinal crypt

 

2:40 Kelley Yan, MD, PhD – Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons

Wnt pathway regulation of intestinal stem cells

 

3:10 – 3:30 Coffee break

 

3:30 Bruce Edgar, PhD – Huntsman Institute, University of Utah

Regeneration, tumorigenesis, and adaptive growth in the Drosophila intestine

 

4:00 Alan Hanash, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering/Weill Cornell Medical School

Bone marrow transplantation: Insights into GI damage and regeneration

 

4:30 Linda Samuelson, PhD – University of Michigan

Crypt cell remodeling and ISC niche regeneration after Notch inhibition

 

5:00 Omer Yilmaz, MD, PhD – Koch Center, MIT

Dietary Control of Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease

 

5:30 Closing Remarks – Wayne Lencer, MD

 

Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, Scientific Host

Wayne Lencer, MD and Richard S. Blumberg, MD, Co-Hosts

 

Registration – https://hddc.hms.harvard.edu/os_events/nojs/registration/1436476

For additional information, contact: kebrewosen.densamo@childrens.harvard.edu

 

Co-Sponsor:

HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUE