STEM CELLS
July 30 - August 8, 2010
Application Deadline: April 15, 2010

Workshop Leaders:
Ron McKay, NINDS, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Michael Shen, Columbia University College of P&S

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 relating to stem cells and regenerative medicine. Topics will include embryology and development, reprogramming, degenerative disease, cancer stem cells, and human genetics.

This ten day-long discussion course will bring together leading researchers in the stem cell field with a small group of international students. 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. A major aim of the workshop is to discuss in considerable detail the relationship between stem cells and disease. The significance of this relationship with respect to developing new approaches to treating and understanding human disease will be explored.

A key feature of the course is the easy access to the workshop leaders and the invited lecturers for informal discussion. The course will be held at the Laboratory’s Banbury Conference Center located on the north shore of Long Island. All participants stay within walking distance of the Center, close to tennis court, pool and private beach.

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

The course will be held at the Laboratory’s Banbury Conference Center located on the north shore of Long Island. All participants stay within walking distance of the Center, close to tennis court, pool and private beach.

This course is supported with funds provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute