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Sunday, July 6, 2008
 
 
Conference Room
 
Sunday Sessions
 
 
 
The Sunday Sessions are organized and supported by German Academy of Sciences LEOPOLDINA and  Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
   

Sunday Mesenchyme Chair: Ezio Bonifacio (Dresden)

  1

 
15:00 – 15:20
Didier Montarras (Paris)
Gene expression profiling of purified adult skeletal muscle progenitor cells
   
15:20 – 15:40
Reinhard Henschler (Frankfurt)
Mesenchymal stem cells interact in a coordinated fashion with the vessel wall under conditions of shear stress
   
15:40 – 16:00
Nicole Georgi (Brisbane)
Co-culture of human mesenchymal stem cells and chondrocytes in nanofiber-fibrin-alginate composites
   
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break    
16:20 – 16:40
Wolfgang Wagner (Heidelberg)
Maintenance of human hematopoietic progenitor cells upon co-culture with mesenchymal stromal cells is a complex process that involves various adhesion proteins
   
16:40 – 17:00
Gerhard Gross (Braunschweig)
Adult murine and human mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-dependent formation of tendon and osteotendinous junctions
   
17:00 – 17:20
Valeria Sordi (Milan)
Mesenchymal cells appearing in pancreatic tissue culture are bone marrow-derived stem cells that act as feeder cells for transplanted islets
   

Sunday Neurons  Chair: Gerd Kempermann (Dresden)

2

 
15:00 – 15:20
Jovica Ninkovic (München)
Molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal subtype specification and integration in adult neurogenesis
   
15:20 – 15:40
Julius Steinbeck (Bonn)
Safety, neuronal maturation and axon outgrowth after human ES cell-derived neural stem cell transplantation
   
15:40 – 16:00
Rod Rietze (Brisbane)
Physical exercise in aged mice restores endogenous neural stem cells to youthful levels and augments the regenerative capacity of the brain
   
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break    
16:20 – 16:40
Monika Krampert (Regensburg)
Smad7 regulates adult neural stem/progenitor proliferation in a TGF-beta independent manner
   
16:40 – 17:00
Hai-Kun Liu (Heidelberg)
The nuclear receptor tailless is required for generation and maintenance of adult neural stem cells 
   
17:00 – 17:20
Rainer Glass (Berlin)
Endogenous neural precursors suppress glioma stem cells by releasing BMP7
   

Sunday Reprogramming  Chair: Marius Wernig (Cambridge, USA)

 3

 
15:00 – 15:20
Tobias Cantz (Münster)
Metabolic liver disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells
   
15:20 – 15:40
Björn Oback (Hamilton, New Zealand)
Antler stem cells and their differentiated progeny show similar reprogramming efficiency after nuclear transfer cloning in red deer
   
15:40 – 16:00
Richard Davis (Melbourne)
The homeobox gene, MIXL1, marks a primitive streak-like cell population in differentiating human embryonic stem cells
   
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break    
16:20 – 16:40
Kay Eckelt (Barcelona)
Flatworms, regeneration and DNA-Arrays, new techniques for an old model organism
   
16:40 – 17:00
Rupa Sridharan (Los Angeles)
Mechanism of transcription factor induced reprogramming of somatic cells to a pluripotent state 
   
17:00 – 17:20
Ulrike Ziebold (Berlin)
The undifferentiated state of mouse embryonic stem cells: a potential role for inhibitors of the Ras and FGF pathways 
   
 
 
 
 
Welcome and Opening Keynote Lecture
 
 
The Opening Keynote Lecture is sponsored by “Klaus Tschira Foundation gGmbH”
 
18:00 – 19:00
 
Austin Smith (Cambridge, UK)
Capturing Pluripotency
Welcome and Chair: Gerhard Ehninger (Dresden)
 
 
 
Social Event
 
 
 
 
 
 
19:30 – 23:00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Welcome Summer Party (Terrace Foyer)
 
 
 
 
 
 


Monday, July 7, 2008
 
Main Hall
Hall 1 & 2
Hall 3 - 5
Keynote Lecture
 
 
9:00 – 9.45
Yuval Dor (Jerusalem)
Determinants of pancreatic beta cell proliferation and regeneration
Chair: Michele Solimena (Dresden)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
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presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
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presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
will be
presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
Session 1
Diabetes
Chair: Michele Solimena (Dresden)
9:45 – 10:15
Andrew F. Stewart (Pittsburgh)
Molecular control of pancreatic beta cell replication and regeneration
10:15 – 10:30
Eckhard Lammert (Dresden)
The vascular niche of pancreatic islets
10:30 – 11:00
Evert Kroon (San Diego)
In vivo generation of glucose-responsive insulin-secreting cells from human embryonic stem cell-derived pancreatic endoderm
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00
Harry Heimberg (Brussel)
Beta cell progenitors in the adult pancreas
12:00 – 12:15
Insa Schroeder (Gatersleben) Directed differentiation of SOX17-DsRed-expressing mouse embryonic stem cells into the endodermal and pancreatic lineage by Activin A
12:15 – 12:45
Ezio Bonifacio (Dresden)
The role of accessory cells and signals in maintaining islet beta cell survival and renewal
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch & Posters & Exhibition
Session 2
Neural stem cells
Chair: Frank Buchholz (Dresden)
14:00 – 14:30
Jonas Frisén (Stockholm)
Stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult central nervous system
14:30 – 14:45
Hisato Kondoh (Osaka)
The regional identity of mouse neural stem cells indicated by their dependence on specific Sox2 enhancers
14:45 – 15:15
Ryoichiro Kageyama (Kyoto)
Oscillations in Notch signaling regulate maintenance of neural progenitors
15:15 – 15:30
Jan Kaslin (Dresden)
Adult neurogenesis in the zebrafish: constitution and molecular regulation of the progenitor niche
15:30 – 16:00
Derek van der Kooy (Toronto)
Case studies in clonality, self renewal and differentiation of mouse and human neural stem cells
16:00 – 16:30
Yves Barde (Basel)
Embryonic stem cells: A powerful tool to study neural development in vertebrates
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
Session 3
Neural stem cells (continued)
Chair: Wieland Huttner (Dresden)
17:00 – 17:30
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (San Francisco)
Adult neural stem cells and their niche
17:30 – 18:00
Arnold Kriegstein (San Francisco)
The dynamics of neural stem and progenitor cells in cortical development
18:00 – 18:30
Kirsty Spalding (Stockholm)
Analysis of neurogenesis in the adult human brain using bomb-carbon
18:30 – 19:00
Gerd Kempermann (Dresden)
What is adult hippocampal neurogenesis good for?
Poster Session
19:00 – 21:00
 
Poster,
Beer & Brezel


Tuesday, July 8, 2008
 
Main Hall
Hall 1 & 2
Hall 3 - 5
Keynote Lecture
 
 
9:00 – 9.45
Martin Schwab (Zürich)
Repair of interrupted fiber connections and circuits after spinal cord and brain injury
Chair: Michael Brand (Dresden)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
will be
presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
will be
presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posters
will be
presented
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exhibition
will be open
all day
 
Session 3a
Neural stem cells (continued)
Chair: Michael Brand (Dresden)
9:45 – 10:15
Elly Tanaka (Dresden)
The properties of neural stem cells that can regenerate an injured spinal cord
Session 4
Hematopoetic stem cells
Chair: Martin Bornhäuser (Dresden)
10:15 – 10:45

Andreas Trumpp (Lausanne) Dormant and activated HSCs during homeostasis injury and cancer