Date/Time

Event

Welcoming remarks:

Scientific Session I:
Plenary lecture

Dennis Roop
University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado

8:30 to
11:30 AM*

Scientific Session II:
The Microenvironment, Plasticity, and Tissue Morphogenesis

• Petra Boukamp, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. The Environment Determines Long-term Regeneration of Human Epidermal Stem Cells in Organoypic Cultures
• Derek Radisky, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota. Matrix metalloproteinase-induced Rac1b causes EMT and aneuploidy in mammary epithelial cells
• Darrell Irvine, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Molding the Microenvironment of Immune Cells
• Keiran Smalley, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Who Rules the Roost? The Role of the Microenvironment in Tumor Progression
  

Scientific Session III:
The Stem Cell Niche

• Pritinder Kaur, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Pericytes in the Microenvironmental Niche of Epidermal Stem and Progenitors of Human Skin Act as Important Regulators of Skin Tissue Regeneration.
• Kenneth Yamada, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, National Institutes of Health/NIDCR. Dynamic 3D Cell-Matrix Interactions and Morphogenesis
• David Kaplan, TUFTS University, Dept. Biomedical Engineering. Functionalized Biomaterial Systems for Tissue Engineering
• Teng Ma, FAMU & FSU, College of Engeneering. Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell (hMSC) Development in a 3-D Model System and Effects of Physiological Microenvironment
  

Scientific Session IV:
Tumor stem cells: Embryonic versus adult /somatic stem cells

• Willy Lensch, Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. The Pluripotent Stem Cell Niche
• Daniel Aberdam, INSERM, University of Nice, France. A Pure Ectodermal Cell Population Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Skin and Cornea Cell Therapy
• Jackie Bickenbach, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Reprogramming Skin Keratinocytes by the Embryonic Transcription Factor OCT-4
• Ian Mackenzie, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, U.K. Behavioural Characteristics of Normal and Malignant Epithelial Stem Cells

Scientific Session Va:
The Tissue Microenvironment and Cancer Progression

• Margareta Müller, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Inflammation, Angiogenesis and Tumor Invasion. The tumor and its Microenvironment
• Kelvin Tsai, Laboratory of Tumor Microenviromics, Taipei Medical University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Three Dimensional Dissection of Therapeutic Resistance in Breast Cancer
• David DeNardo, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. CD4+ T Cells Functionally Contribute to Mammary Tumor Progression

Scientific Session Vb:
Disease Models: Translational Applications of 3D in vitro Models

• Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts. Engineered Human 3D Tissue Platforms for Translational Discovery and Development
• Sarah Ferber, Chiam Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. Using Adult Tissues for Generating New Organs: Autologous Cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes