Thursday, May 2, 2024
12:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Orin Smith Auditorium
UW South Lake Union Campus, 850 Republican Street
Join Seattle’s vibrant stem cell community for a series of talks on current issues pertaining to stem cells in development, tissue regeneration and cancer research.
Program
12:00 – 12:10 p.m. Opening Remarks
12:10 – 12:40 p.m. Alfred George, Jr., MD
12:40 – 1:10 p.m. Trainee Lightning Talks
1:10 – 1:40 p.m. Princess Imoukhuede, PhD
1:40 – 2:05 p.m. Break and Poster Session
2:05 – 2:35 p.m. Cigall Kadoch, PhD
2:35 – 3:00 p.m. Faculty Lightning Talks
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Michael Rudnicki, OC, PhD, FRS, FRSC
4:00 – 4:05 p.m. Closing Remarks
4:05 – 5:00 p.m. Reception and Poster Session
Presentations
Alfred L. George, Jr., MD
A.N. Richards Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology
Director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Automated Electrophysiological Recording of Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes
Princess Imoukhuede, PhD
Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair
Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Precision Bioengineering: Advancing Understanding in Obesity, Vascular Dysfunction, and Labor
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Health and Disease
Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc
Canada 150 Research Chair in Developmental Epigenetics
Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
Hypertranscription in stem cell biology
Michael Rudnicki, OC, PhD, FRS, FRSC
Senior Scientist, Regenerative Medicine Program
Director, Regenerative Medicine Program and Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa
Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell function
Session Talks
All talks will take place in the Orin Smith Auditorium of SLU Building C. For detailed information about who will be speaking and their topics, please see the schedule of talks.
Poster Session
The Poster Session is scheduled from 1:40 – 2:05 p.m. and 4:05 – 5:00 p.m. in the main lobby / café area located on the first floor of SLU Building C. While the formal sessions are scheduled for 1:40 p.m. and 4:05 p.m., the posters will remain up for the duration of the meeting.
Ten abstracts have been selected for 2-minute lightning talks during the symposium. For poster titles and authors presenting, please see the listing of posters.
Transportation & Parking
SLU campus is located at the UW Medicine Research complex at 850 Republican Street. Parking at the SLU campus is very limited. Everyone is encouraged to use public transportation and/or the UW/SLU shuttle service to get to the event.
For UW permit holders, you may park “out of area” in the SLU garage located off of Republican. Punch a ticket upon entering the garage and bring your permit and/or husky card to the reception desk and they will validate your parking. For non-UW permit holders, there is limited on-street hourly parking around the perimeter of the building. You may park in the garage without a permit, but please note, you will need to pay with a credit card and full day parking charges (~$21.00) will be in effect.