Germline Immortality and Asymmetric Stem Cell Division

Yukiko Yamashita, PhD

Professor, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Center

Cell-Cell Interactions in Regulation of Lung Homeostasis, Disease & Cancer

Carla F. Kim, PhD

Professor, Genetics & Pediatrics, Harvard University; and

Faculty, Boston Children’s Hospital Stem Cell Program

Building a Spinal Cord: The Dynamics of Neural Tube Development

James Briscoe, PhD

Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute

Regeneration in the Uterus

Kara McKinley, PhD

Assistant Professor, Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Neural Crest Stem Cell Potential Along the Body Axis

Marianne Bronner, PhD

Professor, Biology; and Director, Beckman Institute,

California Institute of Technology

Finding New Targets to Treat Aggressive Epithelial Cancers

Owen Witte, MD

Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics;

Founding Director Emeritus, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center;

and Presidential Chair, Developmental Immunology,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Human Pluripotency to Skeletal Muscle in Development and Disease

April D. Pyle, PhD

Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics; and Vice Chair,

Undergraduate Education, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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Uncovering Human Kidney Disease Targets for Injury Repair

Samira Musah, PhD

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine, Nephrology,

Duke University

Website – https://uclastemcells.eventbrite.com/

Contact – Carly Jerome – cjerome@mednet.ucla.edu

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