Beckman Symposium Program

Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
The 26th Beckman Symposium
November 4, 2016

 

8:30 to 9 a.m.  

Registration

 

9 to 9:10 a.m.

Welcome, Linda Malkas, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Basic Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

9:10 to 9:20 a.m.

Overview of Morning Session, Yanhong Shi, Ph.D. & Arlene Chiu, Ph.D., City of Hope

 

9:20 to 10:10 a.m.   

Keynote - Cellular programming and reprogramming to study Diversity, Disease and Evolution
Fred Gage, Ph.D., The Salk Institute

 

10:10 to 10:30 a.m.

 Break

 

10:30 to 11:20 a.m.

In Vivo Approaches to Regenerative Medicine
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Ph.D., Salk Institute

 

11:20 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.

From Stem Cells to Organs: Exploiting the organ niche for interspecies organogenesis
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Ph.D., The University of Tokyo

 

12:10 to 1:10 p.m.

Lunch

 

1:10 to 1:20 p.m.

Overview of Afternoon Session, John Zaia, Ph.D. & Victoria Seewaldt, M.D., City of Hope

 

1:20 to 2:10 p.m.

Niches for Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Osteogenesis
Sean J. Morrison, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

 

2:10 to 3 p.m.

Analysis of Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis, One Cell at a Time
Hongjun Song, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

 

3 to 3:20 p.m.

Break

 

3:20 to 4:10 p.m.

Adipocyte Regulation Epithelial Tissue Regeneration
Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., Yale University

 

4:10 to 5 p.m.

Therapeutic Approaches to Genetic Disease
Bruce R. Conklin, M.D., Gladstone Institutes, UCSF, San Francisco, CA