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LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS
2009 Morphogenesis & Regenerative Medicine Symposium
University of Virginia
May 27 – 29, 2009
Keynote Speaker:
Mario Capecchi – University of Utah
HOX genes and development of the vertebrate body plan
Mechanisms of Cell Fate Determination and Developmental Patterning:
Mark Peifer – University of North Carolina
"Building the body plan: the Miracle of Morphogenesis"
Jim Priess – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Cell fate specification through the Wnt and Notch signaling pathways
Alex Joyner – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Neural fate specification and development
Cell Signaling in Cancer:
Celeste Simon – University of Pennsylvania
Vascular development, hypoxic response, tumor angiogenesis
Angelika Amon – MIT
Mechanisms of cell division
Duojia D.J. Pan – Johns Hopkins University
Growth Control in development and cancer
Imaging in tissues/novel methods:
Peter Friedl – DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Würzburg, Germany
Cell movements in cancer and wound healing
Scott Fraser - Caltech
Cell movements in early development
Karl Deisseroth – Stanford University
Optical and stem-cell technologies for noninvasive imaging and control of neural tissue
Stem cells and Regeneration:
Arnold Kriegstein –University of California San Francisco
Neural stems cells, neurogenesis, regenerative medicine
Haifan Lin – Yale University
Epigenetic programming and small RNAs in stem cell self renewal
Ruth Lehman – Skirball Institute, NY
Germ cell development in Drosophila
The symposium will be ~2 1/2 days long, beginning early evening of the 27th, with the earlier part of the
day for arrival and registration. There will be talks and poster sessions on the 28th and 29th, finishing with
a dinner for speakers on the evening of the 29th, and departure on the morning of May 30th.