Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Banbury Campus
July 30 - August 8, 2010
Stem cells construct organs and tissues in development. They sustain tissues in the adult and restore them after injury. Because of these properties, isolating and manipulating stem cells has become a major new element in biomedical science. This workshop course will cover a series of biological subjects including: the cells of the early embryo, the nature of germ cells, the mechanisms that control the number of stem cells, their stability and transformation into other cell types, epigenetics and stem cell reprogramming etc. This ten day-long discussion course will bring together leading researchers in the stem cell field with a small group of international students. A major aim of the workshop is to discuss in considerable detail the pros and cons of many of the emerging technoliogies relevant to stem cell research and development, including high throughput approaches, functional genomics and bioinformatics. A key feature of the course is the easy access to the workshop leaders and the invited lecturers for informal discussion. The purpose of the workshop is to provide participants with an opportunity to achieve an advanced understanding of the scientific and clinical importance of stem cells.
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Invited Speakers:
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Previous lecturers included:
Raju Chaganti, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ian Chambers, University of Edinburgh, UK
Martin Dym, Georgetown University
Niels Geijsen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center
Edith Heard, Curie Insitute, France
Brian Hendrich, University of Cambridge, UK
Konrad Hochedlinger, Massachusetts General Hospital
Soren Impey, Vollum Institute
Lorenz Studer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Azim Surani, Wellcome/CRC Institute, UK
Paul Tesar, Case Western University
Giuseppe Testa, European Institute of Technology, Italy
Marc Vidal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Terry Yamaguchi, National Cancer Institute
Haiyuan Yu, Harvard University
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, UK
Thomas Zwaka, Baylor College of Medicine
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