Orin Smith Auditorium

Senior Scientist, Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences Oregon National Primate Research Center Oregon Health & Science University "Reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency by somatic cell nuclear transfer"

Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University Associate Member, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine "Transcriptional enhancers in development, evolution and disease"

Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology  Director, Detroit Cardiovascular Training Program  Wayne State University School of Medicine  "Troponin Regulation in Cardiac Adaptation and Heart Failure"  Click here for event flyer >>

Assistant Professor  Department of Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute for Discovery  University of Wisconsin-Madison  "Towards integration of synthetic biology into human stem cells"  Click here for event flyer >>

Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteProfessor, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School "CellNet: Enhanced Stem Cell Engineering via Network Biology" Click here for event flyer >>

A lively debate with Dr. Leslie Miller, an advocate of private stem cell clinics and Dr. Insoo Hyun, a bioethicist who has written extensively about the perils of this approach. Leslie Miller, MD Scientific Director Okyanos Stem Cell Institute Insoo Hyun, PhD Associate Professor of Bioethics Director, Stem Cell Ethics Center Case Western Reserve University "Stem Cell Clinics: Patient Advocates or Unapproved For-Profit Experiments?" Click here for event flyer >>

2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution" Click here for event flyer >>

Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology University of Washington "Human Kidney Organoids from Pluripotent Stem Cells" Click here for event flyer >>

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California, San Diego "Elucidating Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Risk Factors Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" Click here for event flyer >>

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry University of Washington Chromatin accessibility dynamics and gene expression changes driving vertebrate regeneration Click here for event flyer >>

Manager, Genomics, in vitro Human Cell Types Allen Institute for Brain Science Mapping human embryonic stem cell-derived brain development and lineage Click here for event flyer >>

Lya and Harrison Latta Endowed Chair in Pathology Professor and Chief, Division of Pediatric and Neonatal Pathology Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, and Bioengineering Director, Basic and Translational Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Director, Broad Stem Cell Research Center Bioengineering Core Associate Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program University of California, Los Angeles Mitochondria and Metabolic Regulation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Click here for event flyer >>

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Section of Cell and Developmental Biology University of California, San Diego Developmental specification of hematopoietic stem cells Click here for event flyer >>

Group Leader, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms Click here for event flyer >>

Associate Professor of Pathology NYSCF-Robertson Investigator Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar, Child Health Research Institute at Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine How to make a neuron Click here for event flyer >>

Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute Masschusetts Institute of Technology Stem cells, epigenetics and the different states of pluripotency Click here for event flyer >>

Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Development University of California Berkeley Probing pluripotency and proteostasis Click here for event flyer >>

Instructor, Department of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Research Associate, Department of Medicine Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital Using single-molecule tools to understand the role of force in hemostasis and thrombosis Click here for event flyer >>

Associate Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular  Medicine  Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology (VCSCB) Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems  Research and Education (VIIBRE) Vanderbilt University Medical Center Mechanisms of Cardiac Tissue Repair and Regeneration Click here for event flyer >>

Group Leader, Human Embryo and Stem Cell Laboratory The Francis Crick Institute London, UK Uncovering mechanisms of early human lineage specification by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing Click here for event flyer >>

Postdoctoral fellow, Mitinori Saitou lab Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Kyoto University Germline specification in primates and its reconstitution in vitro Click here for event flyer >>

Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Bioscience​ Co-director, Queensland Facility for Advanced Genome Editing The University of Queensland Using single cell transcriptional profiling and chromatin dynamics to identify the genetic drivers of cell states Click here for event flyer >>

Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Pathways regulating hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and migration"

Hematopoietic Clonal Evolution Under Cellular Stress Terrence Wong, MD, PhD Instructor, Division of Oncology Washington University School of Medicine

Team Leader, Cardiac Regeneration Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Human pluripotent stem cell models of heart development and disease

Associate Professor Cardiologist and Laboratory Head Westmead Institute for Medical Research University of Sydney "Cardiac repair using factors, fibroblasts and telomerase"

McCaw Endowed Chair in Muscular Dystrophy Professor of Neurology, Biochemistry and Medicine/Medical Genetics "Gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy arrives in the clinic"

Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology Member, Developmental Biology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center "Developing Pluripotent-based Cell Therapy Approaches for Nervous System Disease"

Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor of Medicine Professor of Developmental Biology Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Biology Benjamin D. Hall Endowed Chair in Basic Life Sciences Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington

Heart Foundation Fellow Group Leader, Genomics of Development and Disease Division, Institute for Molecular Bioscience Director, Queensland Facility for Advanced Genome Editing The University of Queensland

Director, Children’s Research Institute Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center "Niches for stem cells and progenitors in bone marrow"