Meeting program

25 Years of Embryonic Stem Cells

18 December
Time	Detailed Information
1:30 - 3:20	Twenty five years of embryonic stem cells in Cambridge Babbage Lecture Theatre, Downing Street
1:30	Prof Dame Anne McLaren, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge Chair, introductions
1.40	Robin Lovell-Badge, National Institute for Medical Research From stem cells to sex and back again
2.00	Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Embryonic Stem Cells: emerging genetics in vitro
2.20	Prof Elizabeth Robertson, University of Oxford How the embryo gets a head start in life
2.40	Tea / coffee break
3.20 - 4.50pm	Opening of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research Invited guests only
3.20	Prof Azim Surani, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge Chair, introductions
3.25	Prof Richard Gardner, University of Oxford Reflections on the origins of embryonic stem cells
3.40	Prof Bob Edwards, University of Cambridge “Embryo research in mice and men”
3.55	Sir Martin Evans, University of Cardiff Embryonic Stem Cells: past, present and future
4.10	Professor Austin Smith, WTCSCR, University of Cambridge, opening
4.15	Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge
4.30	Sir William Castell, Chairman, Board of Governors, Wellcome Trust
4.45	Austin Smith Summing up and thanks
4.50-7.30	Tea, poster session and mixer

19 December
Time	Detailed Information
9.00am - 6.00pm	Symposium on Stem Cells, Development and Regeneration Babbage Lecture Theatre
9.00	Gail Martin, University of California, San Francisco From embryonic to adult stem cells: an FGF signalling odyssey
9.30	Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Stem cells and early lineage development
10.00	Hitoshi Niwa, Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe Transcription factors regulating self-renewal and differentiation of ES cells
10.30	Tea/coffee break
	Chair: Tony Green, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge
11.15	Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust/CR-UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge Germ line, stem cells and epigenetic reprogramming
11.45	Maarten Van Lohuizen, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam Role of Polycomb group repressors in stem cells, cancer and development
12.15	Meinrad Busslinger, IMP, Vienna Lineage commitment and development plasticity of lymphocytes
12.45	Lunch & poster session
	Chair: Charles ffrench-Constant, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
2.15	Ron McKay, National Institute for Health, Bethesda Controlling the growth and differentiation of ES cells
2.45	Shin-ichi Nishikawa, Centre for Development Biology, Kobe Questions that are difficult to address without ES cell culture
3.15	Shinya Yamanaka, University of Kyoto Induction of pluripotent stem cells from fibroblast cultures by defined factors
3.45	Tea/coffee break
	Chair: James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge
4.30	Fiona Watt, WTCSCR, University of Cambridge Epidermal stem cells and lineage selection
5.00	Michaela Frye, WTCSCR, University of Cambridge Regulating epidermal stem cell fate
5.30	Austin Smith, WTCSCR, University of Cambridge The ground state of pluripotency

20 December
Time	Detailed Information
9.00-12.00	Inaugural meeting of the WTCSCR International Scientific Advisory Board Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research