2009 LHI/SCI Symposium

The and present the:

October 21-22, 2009

Coffman Memorial Union
University of Minnesota

300 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN

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Call for Abstracts

Wednesday, October 21

Keynote Speaker:
4:00 pm - Coffman Memorial Union Theater

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD -- bio
Harvard Medical School
"Modeling Human Disease with Pluripotent Stem Cells"

Social Hour and Poster Presentation
5:00 - 7:00 pm - Mississippi Room

Thursday, October 22

Symposium
8:00 am - 3:30 pm - Great Hall

8:00 – 8:30am   Continental Breakfast
Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union

8:30 – 8:40am   Opening Remarks

8:40am - 9:25am
Margaret A. Goodell, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
"Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells"

9:25 - 10:10am
Stephanie Dimmeler, PhD
University of Frankfurt, Germany
"Therapeutic Potential of Bone Marrow-Derived Progenitor Cells"

10:10 - 10:45am   Break

10:45 - 11:30am
Deepak Srivastava, MD
University of California, San Francisco
"microRNA Regulation of Cardiac Cell Fate"

11:30am - 12:15pm
Michael A. Rudnicki, PhD
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
"Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Function"

12:15 – 1:30 pm   Lunch
President’s Room, Coffman Memorial Union

1:30 - 2:15pm
Jonathan A. Epstein, MD
Penn Cardiovascular Institute
"Notch Signaling & Cardiac Development"

2:15 - 3:30pm
Konrad Höchedlinger, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Factors Influencing Nuclear Reprogramming"

3:00 – 3:15pm   Closing Remarks

Lunch on Thursday, 10/22 will be provided at $15 as an opportunity for casual interaction for all Symposium speakers, poster presenters, faculty, and students. Fee includes sandwich or salad, cookie, and beverage. Request lunch at registration.

Call for Abstracts: Please submit abstracts to Lindsy Halleckson at halle071@umn.edu. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Please indicate name, laboratory, department, principle investigator, and position (graduate student, postdoctoral or clinical fellow) with abstract submission. Posters should be no larger than 4 by 4 feet. Deadline for submission is October 2, 2009.

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