SEPTEMBER     10

Jodi Nunnari (University of California-Davis)

The Machines that Divide and Fuse Mitochondria

                          17

Gordon Fishell (New York University)

The Developmental Genetic Origins of Cortical Interneurons

                          24

John DiPersio (Washington University)

Stem Cells and T Cells:  Optimizing Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

OCTOBER            1

David Chao (BioMed Valley Discoveries & Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Translational R&D at BioMed Valley Discoveries

                            8

Joel Rothman (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Specification and Reprogramming of Germ Layer Identity in C. elegans Embryos

                          15

Philip Benfey (Duke University)

Getting to the Root of Developmental Networks

                          22

David Shore (University of Geneva)

Exploring Mechanisms of Telomere Length Regulation

                          29

Chad Cowan (Stowers Medical Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute)

Modeling Disease with Human Pluripotent Cells 

NOVEMBER          5

Richard Young (Whitehead Institute)

Stem Cell Transcriptional Circuitry and Reprogramming

                          12

Fiona Watt (Cancer Research-UK, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research)

Stem Cell Renewal and Differentiation in Mammalian Epidermis

                          19

Alan Lambowitz (University of Texas at Austin)

Mobile Group II Introns:  Site-specific Integration into DNA and Applications in Gene Targeting

DECEMBER       
      Tuesday         2

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (University of Utah, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Dying Young as Late as Possible:  Planarians, Regeneration, and Stem Cells

                          10

Andrea Brand (Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK)

Self-renewal and Differentiation in the Drosophila Nervous System