2010 Poster Award Recipients

ISSCR received more than 1600 abstracts for this meeting, and almost 1400 were accepted for either an oral or poster presentation.  Here are the winning six posters.  The winners receive a $250 stipend, a one year subscription to Cell Stem Cell, a one year subscription to Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology and a complimentary registration to the ISSCR 9th Annual Meeting in Toronto.

Rebecca A. Ihrie
UC San Francisco
HEDGEHOG SIGNALING SPECIFIES FATE IN ADULT NEURAL STEM CELLS

Lucy Erin O’Brien
UC Berkeley
ADAPTIVE GROWTH OF THE ADULT DROSOPHILA INTESTINE VIA INSULIN-STIMULATED MIDGUT STEM CELL PROLIFERATION

Thomas Vierbuchen
Stanford Medical School
DIRECT CONVERSION OF FIBROBLASTS TO FUNCTIONAL NEURONS BY DEFINED FACTORS

Meritxell Huch Ortega
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
MOUSE AND HUMAN LGR5 GASTRIC STEM CELLS GENERATE IN VITRO LONG-TERM GASTRIC EPITHELIAL UNITS IN THE ABSENCE OF A NON-EPITHELIAL NICHE

Dung-Fang Lee
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
DISSECTING PHOSPHORYLATION MECHANISMS GOVERNING EMBRYONIC STEM CELL IDENTITY

Dominic Jian-Chien Heng
Genome Institute of Singapore
THE NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR5A2 CAN REPLACE OCT4 IN THE REPROGRAMMING OF MURINE SOMATIC CELLS TO PLURIPOTENT CELLS

Updated: July 13, 2010