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Junior Investigator Events
Junior Investigators Career Panel Discussion
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Grand Ballroom, Salon H, 5th Floor
In an evening panel discussion moderated by Jane Lebkowski (Geron Corp.),
Melissa Carpenter (Consultant), Allen Eaves (Stem Cell Technologies Inc.)
and Sean Morrison (University of Michigan) will talk about their career
experiences; where they have been, where they are now, and how they got there.
The discussion will include the opportunity to ask questions and will be followed by a 45 minute networking reception.
Moderator:
Jane Lebkowski, Geron Corp.
Panelists:
Sean Morrison, University of Michigan
Allen Eaves, STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
Melissa Carpenter, Consultant
Meet the Experts Breakfasts
Thursday, June 12, 2008, and Friday, June 13, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Grand Hall
Spread over two days, this year’s event offers you the opportunity to meet over breakfast with one of 48 stem cell research experts—see below for a full list. Reserve your spot now, as tables will fill up quickly!
Advance online sign-up is required for the Meet the Expert Breakfast. During sign-up, only tables with seats left available will appear. Registered junior investigators (associate investigators) have been sent instructions on how to sign-up. If you have not received this information or find yourself unable to attend the event after sign-up, please contact Ryan Detwiler, rdetwiler@isscr.org, +1-847-509-1944 ext. 254.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Mick Bhatia, PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Dominique Bonnet, PhD, Cancer Research UK London Institute, London, UK
Allen Eaves, MD, PhD, STEMCELL Technologies Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Connie Eaves, PhD, Terry Fox Lab BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Andrew Elefanty, PhD, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Berthold Gottgens, Dphil, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Thomas Graf, PhD, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Sir John Gurdon, FRS, Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research Campaign, Cambridge, UK
Rudolph Jaenisch, MD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Carla Bender Kim, PhD, Children's Hospital Stem Cell Program, Boston, MA, USA
Peter Lansdorp, MD, PhD, BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ronald McKay, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Douglas A. Melton, PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sean Morrison, PhD, University of Michigan HHMI Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Roger K. Patient, PhD, Weatherall Institute of Molectular Medicine, Oxford, UK
Elizabeth Robertson, PhD, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Toshio Suda, MD, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Sally Temple, PhD, NY Neural Stem Cell Institute, Rensselaer, NY, USA
Derek van der Kooy, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Fiona M. Watt, Dphil, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
Anthony Whetton, MD, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Sir Ian Wilmut, PhD, DSc, University of Edinburgh, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, UK
Ernst Wolvetang, PhD, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Leonard I. Zon, MD, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Friday, June 13, 2008
Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Ira J. Fox, MD, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Margaret Goodell, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Markus Grompe, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Katherine A. High, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eran Hornstein, MD, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Gordon M. Keller, PhD, McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Robb Krumlauf, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA
Tsvee Lapidot, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Doug Lauffenburger, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ihor R. Lemischka, PhD, Mt Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Linheng Li, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA
Judi Lieberman, MD, PhD, The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, MA, USA
Olle Lindvall, MD, PhD, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Christine L. Mummery, PhD, Hubrecht Laboratory, Utrecht, Netherlands
Hitoshi Niwa, MD, PhD, CDB RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
Charles J. Sherr, MD, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Paul J. Simmons, PhD, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Alok Srivastava, MD, FRACP, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Alan Trounson, PhD, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Nobuko Uchida, PhD, StemCells Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Amy Wagers, PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, USA
Owen N. Witte, MD, UCLA/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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