THANK YOU TO TODAY’S SPONSORS THE SEVENTH ANNUAL McKnight Foundation Olympus ctivated gg SYMPOSIUEM Please mail November 6, 2009 FOUNDATION MISSION contributions to: Sponsored by the BEDFORD STEM CELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation is a biomedical institute A which exists to conduct stem cell and related research for Bedford Stem Cell diseases and conditions which currently have no eective Research Foundation methods of treatment or cure. PO Box 1028 Bedford, MA 01730 THE POWER OF PRIVATE FUNDING Please enclose the name The tax-exempt status granted to public charities highlights the and address of anyone you U.S. Government’s belief that taxpayers have the right to directly would like to be notied of support activities they feel are important. To advance the your contribution or added treatment opportunities, to grow its community of scholars, and to our mailing list. to enlarge the potential for miracles, the Foundation needs the Donate Online at: help of private benefactors to raise funds. www.bedfordresearch.org BOARD OF TRUSTEES ETHICS ADVISORY BOARD Alan S. Geismer, Esq Chairman of the Board Arthur Applbaum, PhD Chairman of the Board PARTNER, SUGARMAN, ROGERS, BARSHAK AND COHEN PROF. OF ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY, Jose Cibelli, DVM PhD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT PROF. OF ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Stanley J. Bodner, MD INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST Lawrence R. Jones CEO, JONES MARKETING SERVICES Kenneth A. Burry, MD PROF. OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Robert L. Kaufmann, MD OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST Norman Daniels, PhD PROF. OF ETHICS & PUBLIC HEALTH, Sean Kealy, Esq BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH John D. Lee, MEd EXTENSION EDUCATION Robert D. Truog, MD PROF. OF MEDICAL ETHICS AND PEDIATRICS, CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Alan Mayer ARCHITECT Daniel Wikler, PhD PROF. OF ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH, Susan L Moss, JD, PhD HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR OF EQUITY & DIVERSITY Anil Purohit, PhD DIRECTOR, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Friday, November 6, 2009 PROGRAMS FOR AIDS TESTING AND AWARENESS Carol M. Warner, PhD Chairman Margaret S. Wray, BSN PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PROF. OF BIOLOGY, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 8:30 AM - 7:30 PM Henderson House Weston, MA ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Dr. Ann Kiessling has pursued her dual interest in virology PO BOX 1028, Bedford, MA 01730 and reproductive biology since receiving her doctorate from Main Office: 781-718-7896 Oregon State University. She has published over one hundred Fax: 781-275-5970 scientific papers covering both areas of research and is Email: [email protected] Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Photo by Yorgos Nikas THE 1:30! JESSE MAGER, PhD Assistant Professor, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, ctivated gg University of Massachusetts, Amherst E 1 SYMPOSIUM “Essential functions of Yin-Yang during oogenesis and A November 6, 2009 preimplantation development." 2:10! REN HE XU, MD, PhD “When you start 8:20! REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Associate Professor, Department of with a portrait and search for a pure Genetics & Developmental Biology, form, a clear 8:50! WELCOME University of Connecticut Health volume, through ! ANN A. KIESSLING, PhD Center successive ! Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation "A Neglected Role of bFGF in eliminations, you ! Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Supporting Culture of Human arrive inevitably at Pluripotent Stem Cells" the egg.” - Pablo Picasso ! 9:00! KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3:00! COFFEE BREAK Renee A. Reijo Pera, PhD Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology 3:20! LAURA GRABEL, PHD Director, Stanford’s Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell ! Professor of Science in Society, Wesleyan University! Research and Education “From Embryonic Stem Cell to Neuron, with Stops Along "Human Embryo Development and Pluripotent Stem Cells" the Way” 10:00! HAIFAN LIN, PhD 4:10! ANN A. KIESSLING, PHD Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Yale Stem Cell Center ! Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation "Stem Cells, Small RNAs, and Self-Renewal of the Germline." ! Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School ! “8-Cell Human Embryos: the Penultimate Pluripotent Cells” 10:40! COFFEE BREAK “Omne Vivum Ex Ovo” 4:50! CONCLUSIONS 11:00! GARY STEIN, PhD - William Harvey, 1620 Professor and Chairman, 5:00! COCKTAILS & POSTER SESSION B Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts “Transcription Factor Mediated Epigenetic Control of Cell Growth Phenotype” 6:00! DINNER SPEAKER !!I. GLENN COHEN, JD 11:40! POSTER SESSION A Assistant professor at Harvard Law School Co-Director of the Petri-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, 12:10! LUNCH Biotechnology and Bioethics. BEDFORD STEM CELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION!!!!!! WWW.BEDFORDRESEARCH.ORG.