Frontiers in Stem Cells & Regeneration – mbl.edu

Course Information

Course Date: October 8 October 14, 2017

Deadline: June 20, 2017 | Apply here

Tuition: $3150.00 Room and Board: $421.50 Financial Assistance Available: Yes

2016 Schedule (PDF)

Contact for more information: pdc@pdc.magee.edu

Directors: Jennifer Morgan, MBL; and Gerald P. Schatten, University of Pittsburgh

Course Description

The Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regeneration Course is a laboratory and lecture based course that includes a complete array of biological and medical perspectives from fundamental basic biology of stemness and mechanisms of regeneration through evaluation of pluripotent stem cells for therapeutic benefit. This dynamic, evolving course features world class lectures from experts in stem cells and regeneration biology, including a keynote Pioneer Lecture delivered by a leading expert. The laboratories explore a variety of timely topics including stem cell derivation, pluripotency, directed differentiation, and spinal cord and limb regeneration, using an array of experimental models ranging from planarians to human stem cells.

The NIH sponsored course is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, newly independent scientists, and established investigators seeking comprehensive and sophisticated training in research strategies and state-of-the-art cellular, molecular and genetic approaches for advancing stem cell and regeneration research.

The course also features bioethics seminars, career coaching, and ongoing one-on-one mentoring by course faculty participants.

The Stem Cells and Regeneration Course will exclusively use human embryonic stem cell lines on the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry and being routinely cultured at the Pittsburgh Development Center.

2016 Course Faculty & Lecturers

Eli Adashi, Brown University Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF Ona Bloom, Feinstein Institute Susan Bryant, University of California, Irvine Diane Carlisle, University of Pittsburgh Chad Cowan, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Ina Dobrinski, University of Calgary Charles Easley, Emory University School of Medicine David Forsthoefel, OMRF Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University / HHMI Jose Garcia Arraras, University of Puerto Rico David Gardiner, University of California, Irvine David Hyde, Notre Dame University Mark Hughes, Genesis Genetics Institute Jongwhan Kim, University of Texas-Austin Mark Krasnow, Stanford Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado, Boulder Michael Levin, Tufts University Malcolm Maden, University of Florida Alexander Meissner, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Maya Mitalipova, MIT James Monaghan, Northeastern University Jennifer Morgan, MBL Ken Muneoka, Texas A&M Andras Nagy, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto Phil Newmark, Univ. of Ill. Urbana-Champaign / HHMI Kyle Orwig, University of Pittsburgh Pasquale Patrizio, Yale University School of Medicine Jan Pruszak, University of Freiburg Ravi Ravindranath, NIH/NICHD Tobias Schatton, Brigham and Womens Hospital Jerry Shay, University of Texas-Southwestern Calvin Simerly, University of Pittsburgh Henk ten Have, Duquesne University Jonathan Tilly, Northeastern University Ava Udvadia, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee S. Randal Voss, University of Kentucky Amittha Wickrema, UChicago Hunt Willard, MBL Leonard Zon, Harvard / HHMI

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