The Activated Egg 2010
| 8:20 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:50 AM Welcome with Dr. Ann A. Kiessling | |
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9:00 AM Keynote Address "Brain Repair in Parkinson's Disease: The Clinical Challenge" Dr. Mendez will speak on the new methods he is developing for delivering stem cells to the brain and the spinal cord. |
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10:00 AM Douglas Kerr, MD, PhD Associate Medical Director, Experimental Neurology, BiogenIdec, Cambridge, MA Former director of Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center |
| 10:40 AM Coffee Break | |
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11:00 AM Philip Horner, PhD Associate Professor Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington "Stem Cell Transplantation into the Injured Spinal Cord" |
| 11:40 AM Poster Session A | |
| 12:10 PM Lunch | |
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1:30 PM Martin Dym, PhD Professor Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC "Potential of Male Germline Stem Cells" |
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2:20 PM Jaime Rivera, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School "A Nieuwkoop Center Equivalent Signals Axial Development in Mammals" |
| 3:10 PM Coffee Break | |
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3:30 PM Dr. Connie Wong |
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4:10 PM Dr. Kevin Loewke Speaking on October 4's landmark paper, "Non-invasive imaging of human embryos before embryonic genome activation predicts development to the blastocyst stage" (Nature Biotechnology) |
| 4:50 PM Conclusions | |
| 5:00 PM Cocktails & Poster Session B | |
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6:00 PM Dinner & dinner speaker Dr. Ed Wirth, Geron Corp. Dr. Wirth will speak on the first FDA approved clinical trial for stem cell therapy. The trial's focus is acute spinal cord injury. |
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Poster Session - please notify
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if you will be bringing a poster. Two Apple Gift Cards have been donated for best poster award. |
