Seminar Series
The Center for Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series features invited speakers presenting topics related to stem cell biology, developmental biology, gene therapy, tissue injury and repair, or regenerative medicine. All are welcome to attend and no RSVP is needed. If you would like be added to the CReM Seminar Series e-mail list, please direct your request to Gustavo Mostoslavsky (gmostosl@bu.edu).
Please contact the Seminar Series organizers, Dr. Darrell Kotton (dkotton@bu.edu) or Dr. Gustavo Mostoslavsky (gmostosl@bu.edu) with any other inquiries.
Upcoming CReM Seminars:
April 30, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Stuart Orkin, MD, David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics
Chairman Department of Pediatric Oncology DFCI
The Children’s Hospital Boston – Harvard Stem Cell Institute
“Reawakening Fetal Hemoglobin in the Adult”
June 4, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Luigi Notarangelo, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Director Research and Molecular Diagnosis
Program of Primary Immunodeficiencies
The Children’s Hospital Boston
The Jeffrey Modell Chair, Harvard Medical School
“Novel Cellular Platforms for Primary Immunodeficiency Disease Modeling”
September 24, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Thomas Zwaka, MD PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (STaR) Center
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
“The Strange Case of Pluripotentiality: Embryonic Stem Cells, Germ Cells and Genomic Conflicts”
October 22, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Leonard I. Zon, MD, Grousbeck Professor in Hematology/Oncology
Director, Stem Cell Research Program
The Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“TBD”
November 12, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Paul Gadue, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Institue of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
The Center for cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“The Generation of Multipotent Human Endodermal Stem Cells from ES and iPS Cells”
December 3, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Kathrin Plath, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Eli and Edithe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research
“TBD”
Past CReM Seminars (2009-2011):
January 15, 2013 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Carla Kim, PhD, Associate Professor
Children’s Hospital Boston, Stem Cell Program
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
“Mechanisms Regulating Lung Injury, Repair and Lung Tumor-Propagating Cells”
December 4, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, Professor of Medicine
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Defining a Molecular Roadmap of Cellular Reprogramming into iPS Cells”
October 16, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Joyce Y. Wong, PhD, Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
“Biomaterial strategies to monitor and manipulate cell fate”
September 18, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Alan Cantor, MD PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School
Hematology Oncology Department
The Children’s Hospital Boston
“Regulation of RUNX1 in Stem Cell Biology”
June 26, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Justin Ichida, PhD, Research fellow Eggan’s Lab
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
“Towards Personalized Medicine: Chemical and Genetic Approaches to Patient-Specific Models of Neurodegenerative Disease”
May 15, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Amy Wagers, PhD, Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Investigator Joslin Diabetes Center
“Reversing Age-Related Dysfunction in Tissue Stem Cells”
March 20, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Alejandro B. Balazs, PhD, Research Fellow (David Baltimore’s Lab)
The Braun Laboratories, Biology Department
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena
“Antibody-Based Protection Against Pathogens by Vectored ImmunoProphylaxis”
February 28, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
James M. Wells, PhD, Associate Professor
Division of Developmental Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Ohio
“Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Tissues to Study Metabolic and GI Diseases”
January 10, 2012 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD Phd, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Director Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“It’s a Small World: Micro- and Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine”
December 13, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Richard Gregory, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
The Stem Cell Program at Children’s Hospital Boston
“MicroRNA Regulation in Stem Cells and Cancer”
December 6, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Juan Enriquez, B.A., M.B.A. Chairman and CEO, Biotechonomy
Founding Director Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project
“Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Where Is This All Taking Us”
November 15, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Fernando Camargo, PhD, Assistant Professor
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Children’s Hospital Boston
“Hippo/Yap Signaling in Stem Cells and Cancer”
October 4, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X715 EBRC Seminar Room
Wellington V. Cardoso, MD PhD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Director, Lung Development Program
Boston University School of Medicine
“Notch Regulation of Lung Progenitor Cell Fate”
May 25, 2011 Wednesday 9-10am, R3 Seminar Room
Hans-Willem Snoeck, MD PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine
Director, Flow Cytometry Shared Resource,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York
“Generation of anterior foregut endoderm from human pluripotent cells”
Joint seminar co-sponsored with the Pulmonary Center
May 3, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
David T. Scadden, MD, Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University
Co-Chair, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Chief, Hematologic Malignancies, MGH Cancer Center
“Stem cells and their niche: Lessons from the blood”
March 15, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Raul Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School
“The Histone Deacetylase Sirt6 is a Master Regulator of Glucose Homeostasis”
February 15, 2011 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Helen M. Blau, PhD, Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor
Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
“Of Newts and Niches: Regenerating Tissues by Mimicking Natural Processes”
December 7, 2010 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room
J. Keith Joung, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief of Pathology for Research
Director, Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
“Targeted Genome Modification Using Engineered Zinc Finger Nucleases”
November 9, 2010 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Darrell N. Kotton, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine
Co-Director Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
“Pluripotent Stem Cells as Models of Lung Development and Disease”
October 5, 2010 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Eran Meshorer, PhD, The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Senior Lecturer in Life Sciences
Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Chromatin Plasticity in Pluripotent Stem Cells”
September 21, 2010 Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
“Reprogramming Cell Fate With Transcription Factors”
May 25 2010, Tuesday, 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Lou Gerstenfeld, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery,
Director of Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory,
Boston University School of Medicine
“Bone Healing As a Paradigm of Post Natal Tissue Regeneration”
April 29 2010, Thursday, 4-5pm, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Jonathan Frampton, PhD, Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences,
Director of the Birmingham University Stem Cell Centre,
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
“c-Myb as a key player in the regulation of the haematopoietic hierarchy: The re-emergence of a neglected proto-oncogene”
March 16 2010, Tuesday, 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program,
Chair in Hematology, Children’s Hospital Boston,
HHMI Investigator;
Associate Professor of Biological Chemisry/Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
“Common Themes in Reprogramming, Development, and Cancer”
January 19 2010, Tuesday, 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Douglas A. Melton, PhD, Professor in Natural Sciences, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
“Stem Cells as Tools for Diabetes”
November 3 2009, Tuesday, 9-10am, R3 Seminar Room,
Gary S. Stein, PhD, Professor and Chair of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School;
Interim Director, UMass Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
“Transcription Factor Mediated Epigenetic Regulation of Cell Growth and Phenotype for Biological Control and Cancer”
October 6 2009, Tuesday 9-10am, R3 Seminar Room,
Chad Cowan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
“Twists of Fate: Programming and Reprogramming Development”
September 15 2009, Tuesday 9-10am, X-715 EBRC Seminar Room,
Rudolf Jaenisch, MD, Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute, MIT
“Stem Cells, Reprogramming, and the Induction of Pluripotency”
June 9, 2009 Tuesday 9-10am, R3 Seminar Room,
George J. Murphy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University
“iPS Cells: Novel Applications for Blood Disorders”
May 5, 2009 Tuesday 9-10am, R3 Seminar Room,
Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Boston University
“Democratizing Pluripotency: Cellular Reprogramming Using a Single Lentiviral Stem Cell Cassette Vector”
