UCLA Stem Cell Research Symposium:
Molecular Biology to Therapeutic Applications

Public Health 805   0.6 CEU


Offered in Cooperation with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Extension

Course Description & Enrollment

Phone Number: (310) 825-7093
Contact E-mail: ASalonga@uclaextension.edu

Friday, April 22, 2005

Time: 8:50 am-5:30 pm
Location: De Neve Lecture Auditorium
at Sunset Village on
the UCLA Campus

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Coordinator: Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD, Associate, Professor, Departments of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and Pediatrics, and Director, Neural Stem Cell Research Center, UCLA

Keynote Speakers: Irving L. Weissman, MD, Director, Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine & Derek van der Kooy, PhD, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto
8:15 am Check-in begins.
8:50 am Introduction Leonard H. Rome, PhD, Senior Associate Dean of Research, UCLA
8:55 am Welcome & Opening Remarks Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD
9:00 am Session I Chair: Judith Gasson, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology and Biological Chemistry; Director, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
9:00 am   Kinase Inhibitors in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Charles L. Sawyers, PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;  Hematology-Oncology, UCLA
9:30 am   Prostate Stem Cells and Prostate Cancer Development
Owen Witte, MD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Distinguished Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA
10:00 am   Stem Cells and Tumorigenesis: Animal Models
Hong Wu, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Session II Chair: Robert M. Strieter, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA
10:45 am   Mesenchymal Stem Cells from the Artery Wall
Linda Demer, MD, Vice Chair for Cardiovascular and Vascular Medicine, UCLA
11:20 am Keynote Speaker: Stem Cells, Cancer Stem Cells, and Aging
Irving L. Weissman, MD
12:30 pm Lunch in Bradley International Room
1:30 pm Session II
(Continued)		 Chair: Robert M. Strieter, MD
1:30 pm   Bone Marrow Derived Endothelial Cell Progenitors Participate in Vascular Repair and Expansion
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, Professor Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA
2:00 pm   Circulating Fibrocytes: Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Fibrosis and Obesity
Robert M. Strieter, MD
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Session III Chair: Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD
2:45 pm   Identity and Functions of Adult Neural Stem Cells
Michael V. Sofroniew, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology Gonda Research Center, UCLA
3:15 pm   Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Differentiation
Guoping Fan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, UCLA
3:45 pm   Prospects for the Use of Stem Cell in Myelin Repair
Araceli Espinoza-Jeffrey, PhD, Research Biologist, Neurobiochemistry Group, de Vellis' Lab, Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA
4:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Where Do Brain Stem Cells Come From?
Derek van der Kooy, PhD
5:30 pm Symposium Concludes

More Information

Early registration advised.

UCLA students, staff, and faculty may attend free of charge, but must pre-register and show a UCLA BruinCard Photo ID at symposium check in.

A buffet luncheon will be served in the Bradley International Room.

Registration at the door subject to space availability.

Parking is available but limited in the Sunset Village parking lot. All UCLA staff and faculty are encouraged to park in their designated lots and enjoy the walk to Sunset Village in the northwest sector of UCLA. Parking also is available in Lot P7. Click here for parking information and a campus map.

UCLA Extension is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), Provider Number BRN# CEP 11952. This symposium is approved for 6.5 contact hours.