Previous Stem Cell Seminar Speakers
| Speaker Name | Talk Title | Date | Home (Lab, Uni, Inst) |
| Sharon Gerecht | Engineering human blood vessels for modeling and therapeutics | 4/28/26 | Duke University |
| Duc-Huy Nguyen | Engineering vascular endothelial cells and microphysiological system to support organ and tissue function | 4/21/26 | BME |
| Wisconsin Stem Cell Graduate Scholars | 4/14/26 | ||
| Cyrus Sethna | Beyond Gene Dosage: Multidimensional Islet Dysfunction in Down Syndrome-Related Type 2 Diabetes | 4/7/26 | Blum Lab |
| Ting Fu | Environmental Regulation of Intestinal Epithelial Function: Insights from Organoid Models | 3/24/26 | Pharmacy |
| Frank Seipel | Towards Bioengineering Scalable Models of Human Central Nervous System Development and Disease | 3/17/26 | Ashton Lab |
| Li-Fang Chu | Species-specific developmental clock models derived from pluripotent stem cells | 3/10/26 | University of Calgary |
| Sara McCoy | Targeting inflammatory salivary gland dysfunction: the therapeutic potential of MSCs | 3/3/26 | Rheumatology |
| Austin Feeney | Multi-omic and predictive modeling approaches to engineer robust human pluripotent stem cell differentiation to cardiomyocytes | 2/24/26 | Palecek Lab |
| Keisuke Ito | Mitochondrial Contributions to Hematopoietic Homeostasis and the Pathogenesis of Hematological Disorders | 2/17/26 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Matthew Wagner | Spatial resolution of extraendocrine Slit2/3 in compensatory islet expansion | 2/10/26 | Blum Lab |
| Mai Ngo | Engineering vascularized tissues to study cell-cell communication | 2/3/26 | CBE |
| Tim Kamp | Progress in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Therapies for Cardiac Regeneration | 1/27/26 | CRB |
| Gavin Knight | Quantitative High-Throughput Screening of Human Neurodevelopment for Toxicology and Precision Medicine with RosetteArray™ Technology | 1/20/26 | Ashton Lab / Neurosetta |
| Annemarie Branks | Regulation and function of GAGA factor mitotic retention in the early Drosophila embryo | 12/9/25 | Harrison Lab |
| Bryce LaFoya | On the Factory Floor: Building Brains with Stem Cells | 12/2/25 | Biochemistry |
| Matt Russo | Investigating the Synaptic Landscape of Trisomy 21 using human iPSCs | 11/25/25 | Bhattacharyya Lab |
| Chun Liu | Decoding Cardiotoxicity with Human iPSCs and CRISPR Screens | 11/18/25 | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| David Jones | Nuclei have Heart: A hERG1 Channel Subdomain Targets the Nucleus | 11/11/25 | University of Michigan |
| Sarah Hachmer | KMT2D acts through both enzyme-dependent and -independent mechanisms to regulate cell fate changes during muscle regeneration | 11/4/25 | Dilworth Lab |
| Shraddha Suryavanshi | Isoform-level transcriptional program of smooth muscle cells in coronary artery disease | 10/28/25 | Lo Sardo Lab |
| Natasha Mendez-Albelo | Fragile X Autosomal Homolog 1 (FXR1) is Required for the Development of Human Dorsal Forebrain Excitatory Neurons | 10/21/25 | Zhao Lab |
| Susmit Mhatre | In vivo characterization of adult hippocampal neural stem cell behavior | 10/14/25 | Moore Lab |
| Saydandeep Saha | ICAM-1 knockout pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells as a hypoimmune vascular cellular therapy. | 10/7/25 | Brown Lab |
| Octavia Santis Larrain & Alice Alhaj Kadour | Vcam1 in endothelial and stromal cells regulates hematopoietic stem cell contact with the niche & A Novel Model of Diffuse Midline Glioma in Zebrafish To Define Tumor Initation | 9/30/25 | Tamplin Lab |
| Katherine Hekman | The future of cellular therapy in peripheral vascular regeneration | 9/23/25 | Stanford |
| Fei Sun | Hb-EGF-mobilized epicardial cells direct cardiomyocyte proliferation dynamics during heart morphogenesis and regeneration | 9/16/25 | Morgridge |
| Rodsy Modhurima | Deletion of G Protein Subunit Alpha Z Protects from Obesity-Induced Diabetes by Maintaining Islet Integrity | 9/9/25 | Davis Lab |
| Paul Gadue | Using human pluripotent stem cells to model human development and disease | 4/29/25 | University of Pennsylvania |
| Darcie Moore & Melissa Skala | Using autofluorescence to identify neural stem cell state | 4/22/25 | Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering |
| Vu Tran | Dual mechanism of inflammation sensing by the hematopoietic progenitor genome | 4/15/25 | Bresnick Lab |
| Julia Colwell | Rhesus macaque iPSCs for in vitro modeling of genetic frontotemporal dementia | 4/8/25 | Emborg Lab |
| 2025 Wisconsin Stem Cell Graduate Scholar Awardees | 4/1/25 | ||
| Erik McIntire | Transcriptional responses to anticancer drugs in iPSC-derived heterogeneous cardiac cell cultures | 3/18/25 | University of Chicago |
| Justin Brumbaugh | Above the genome: post-transcriptional mechanisms that guide stem cell biology | 3/11/25 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Craig Byersdorfer | Metabolic Modulation to Minimize Graft-versus-host Disease and Promote Anti-cancer Immunity | 3/4/25 | University of Minnesota |
| Chris Barry | ISSCR Initiatives & Resources: Supporting the Global Stem Cell Research Community | 2/25/25 | ISSCR |
| Sam Weaver | Girk3 in bone development and disease | 2/18/25 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Corey Flynn | Inducible Expression of MKK3 as a Potential Therapeutic to Increase Skeletal Muscle Mass | 2/11/25 | Hornberger Lab |
| Armen Saghatelyan | The spatio-temporal regulation of neural stem cells by their progeny | 2/4/25 | University of Ottawa |
| Ken Poss | The machinery of innate heart regeneration | 1/28/25 | CRB |
| Nicole Woodhead | Integrin α4-dependent Interaction with the Niche During Development Programs Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells | 1/21/25 | Tamplin Lab |
| Emily Wessel | Unique metabolic demands of the germline stem cell lineage: glycolysis is required for stem cell maintenance and egg chamber growth, but not mitotic proliferation, meiotic entry, nor oocyte specification | 12/10/24 | Drummond-Barbosa Lab |
| Carissa Sirois | Loss of RACK1 regulation by FMRP contributes to electrophysiological and mitochondrial deficits in human Fragile X Syndrome neurons | 12/3/24 | Zhao Lab |
| Katharine Hubert | Hox function in Skeletal Stem Cells is critical for propagation of signaling required during fracture repair | 11/26/24 | Wellik Lab |
| Ryan Anderson | Direct reprogramming of canine fibroblasts to induced-motor neurons: A model for age-related canine peripheral neuropathies | 11/19/24 | Suzuki Lab |
| Andres Bratt-Leal | The ASPIRO Trial: Development of an Autologous, iPSC-based Neuron Replacement Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease | 11/12/24 | Aspen Neuroscience |
| Margot Amitrano | Synthetic hydrogels for iPSC-derived cardiomyocyte differentiation and maturation | 11/5/24 | Murphy Group |
| Randy Kimple | Cellular therapy for treatment of radiation-induced salivary dysfunction – preclinical to Phase I studies | 10/29/24 | Human Oncology |
| Kevin Pridham | New Innovations in Stem Cell & Cancer Research Workflows: From Gene Editing to Suspension Culture – A New Dimension in Disease Model Research | 10/22/24 | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Sam Dettle | Understanding Single Cell RNA Sequencing and It’s Utility in Stem Cell Research | 10/15/24 | Slukvin Lab |
| Romeo Blanc | Epigenetic erosion of H4K20me1 induced by inflammation drives aged stem cell ferroptosis | 10/8/24 | CRB |
| Jingshing Wu | Mechanisms involved in Tbx5- and Mef2c-Mediated Cardiac Formation | 10/1/24 | Pediatrics |
| Elsa Salido | Stem cell-based functional genomics of the 9p21.3 coronary artery disease risk locus | 9/24/24 | Lo Sardo Lab |
| Kwangdeok Shin | Harnessing Regenerative Power of interleukin11a (il11a) for the Heart Regeneration | 9/17/24 | Kang Lab |
| Paul Liu | RUNX1 is a key player in leukemogenesis: interaction with leukemia fusion gene CBFB-MYH11 and germline mutations in FPDMM | 9/10/24 | NIH |
| Anita Bhattacharyya | NA | 4/30/24 | Neuroscience |
| Sheena Kerr | NA | 4/23/24 | |
| Ruth Lehmann | NA | 4/16/24 | MIT |
| Lindsay Hinck | NA | 4/9/24 | UCSC |
| Joan Jorgensen Lab Student (name not listed) | “One Cell at a Time: Unlocking Fetal Testis Steroidogenesis During the Masculinization Programming Window” | 4/2/24 | Jorgensen Lab |
| Eliana Torres-Zelada | NA | 3/19/24 | Harrison Lab |
| Andrew Wagner | NA | 3/12/24 | Huttenlocher Lab |
| Ajit Magadum | NA | 3/5/24 | Temple University |
| Wyatt Paltzer | “Maturation, Metabolism, and mTORC1 in Cardiac Regeneration” | 2/27/24 | Mahmoud Lab |
| Justin Wolter | “Context Specific Effects of Common Genetic Variation on Molecular and Cellular Traits” | 2/20/24 | Medical Genetics |
| Carter Ralphe | “How Well Can iPSCs Reveal What’s in Your Heart?” | 2/13/24 | Pediatrics |
| Martha Echevarria-Andino | “Investigating Hox11-mediated mechanisms of osteochondral differentiation”. | 2/6/24 | Wellik Lab |
| Irina Elcheva | RNA-binding proteins in cancer progression | 1/30/24 | Penn State |
| Tim Kamp | Cardiac Regenerative Medicine – Progress and Promise | 1/23/24 | CRB |
| Spencer Halberg | NA | 12/12/23 | Roy Lab |
| Tenneille Ludwig | NA | 12/5/23 | WiCell |
| Barak Blum | Organogenesis and regeneration in the islets of Langerhans | 11/28/23 | CRB |
| Ruiqi Liao | Transcriptional Network Governing Ceramide Homeostasis Establishes a Cytokine-Dependent Developmental Process | 11/21/23 | Bresnick Lab |
| Marjorie Brand | Cell Fate Decisions in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis. | 11/14/23 | CRB |
| Dan Turner | “Neutral Sphingomyelinase is a Regulator of Cardiac Mechano-Transduction” | 11/7/23 | Glukhov Lab |
| Stefan Pietrzak | “Epigenetic Control of Cell Identity During the Transition of Somatic Cells to Induced Pluripotency” | 10/31/23 | Sridharan Lab |
| Madeline Smerchansky | “Engineering the Multicellular Niche for T cell Generation.” | 10/24/23 | Kinney Lab |
| Jeffery Dilworth | NA | 10/17/23 | CRB |
| Keerthana Shankar | NA | 10/10/23 | Saha Lab |
| Kristy (Yu) Guo | NA | 10/3/23 | Zhao Lab |
| Kim Edwards and Praveen Susai Manickam | NA | 9/26/23 | Gamm Lab |
| Brady Ludin | NA | 9/19/23 | Ashton Lab |
| Danielle Desa | NA | 9/12/23 | Skala Lab |
| Robert Krauss | NA | 5/2/23 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| John Maufort | NA | 4/25/23 | Morgridge |
| Portia Smith | “Generation of Tumor-Killing Macrophages through Genetic Interrogation of the “Don’t Eat Me” Receptor Pathways” | 4/18/23 | Slukvin Lab |
| Fei Zhao | Genetic and hormonal regulation of sexual differentiation of reproductive tracts | 4/11/23 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Mabel Jung | Pathogenic Human Variant that Dislocates GATA2 Zinc Fingers Disrupts Hematopoietic Gene Expression and Signaling Networks. | 4/4/23 | Bresnick Lab |
| Daniela Drummond-Barbosa | “Germline stem cells, diet, and physiology in the Drosophila model.” | 3/28/23 | Genetics |
| Aaron Simmons | NA | 3/21/23 | Palacek Lab |
| Wendy Crone | NA | 3/7/23 | Engineering Physics |
| Wan-Ju Li | “Turning Back the Clock on Aging Mesenchymal Stromal Cells” | 2/28/23 | Orthopedics and Rehabilitation |
| Jue Zhang | “Generation of anti-GD2 CAR macrophages from human pluripotent stem cells for cancer immunotherapies” | 2/21/23 | Morgridge |
| Ron Stewart | NA | 2/14/23 | Morgridge |
| Jared Churko | NA | 2/7/23 | Arizona |
| Richard Finnell | The Biology of Neural Tube Defects: From Prevention Efforts to Stem Cell Therapeutics | 1/31/23 | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Daniel Osorio Mendez | “Peripheral nervous system behavior during zebrafish fin regeneration” | 1/24/23 | Kang Lab |
| Sara McCoy | NA | 12/13/22 | Rheumatology |
| Brian Walczak | NA | 12/6/22 | |
| Andre Sousa | NA | 11/29/22 | Neuroscience |
| Valentina Fossati | NA | 11/22/22 | The New York Stem Cell Foundation |
| Rebecca Salamon | NA | 11/15/22 | |
| Alexander Birbrair | “Peripheral Nervous System in the War Against Cancer” | 11/8/22 | |
| Jacque Galipeau | Pre-clinical Science and Academic Clinical Development of a Living Cell Pharmaceutical – the Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell Paradigm. | 11/1/22 | |
| Daniel Osorio Mendez | “Peripheral nervous system behavior during zebrafish fin regeneration” | 10/25/22 | |
| Tim Kamp | “Human iPSC-derived Committed Cardiac Progenitors Repair in a Porcine Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Model” | 10/18/22 | |
| Yuanwei Yan | “Printing functional human neural tissues” | 10/11/22 | Zhang Lab |
| Tim Gomez | Axon guidance mechanisms in human health and disease | 10/4/22 | |
| Beth Pruitt | Engineering Cells and Microsystems to Study Mechanobiology | 9/27/22 | University of California – Santa Barbara |
| Guo-li Ming | “Engineering human brain organoids for modeling brain development, injury and disorders” | 9/20/22 | Penn State |
| Christopher Evans | “A Phase I Clinical Trial in the Gene Therapy of Osteoarthritis” | 9/13/22 | Mayo Clinic |
| Sonja Schrepfer | NA | 5/3/22 | Sana Biotechnology Inc |
| Hugo Lee | NA | 4/26/22 | Engin Lab |
| Ping Jiang | “Technology and functionality of hPSC-gEditing core facility at Waisman Center” | 4/19/22 | Bhattacharyya Lab |
| Ming Song Lee | NA | 4/12/22 | |
| Isabela Fraga | NA | 4/5/22 | Bresnick Lab |
| Stefan Pietrzak | NA | 3/29/22 | Sridharan Lab |
| Xiaoping Bao | NA | 3/22/22 | Purdue |
| Robert Lipinski | “Defining genetic and environmental regulators of the cranial neural crest to solve common human birth defects” | 3/8/22 | |
| Sin-rouw Tey | Skeletal muscle aging on a dish – myogenic progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells | 3/1/22 | Suzuki Lab |
| Coral Wile | NA | 2/22/22 | |
| Caleb Dillingam | “Heterochromatin associated demethylases alter RNA processing to control pluripotency” | 2/15/22 | Sridharan Lab |
| Damola Elujoba-Bridenstine | Bone marrow GABA regulates hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell differentiation via a feedback loop. | 2/8/22 | Tamplin Lab |
| Benjamin Gastfriend | NA | 2/1/22 | Palacek and Shusta Labs |
| Carissa Sirois | Using human pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons to study the FMR1 gene and Fragile X Syndrome | 1/25/22 | Zhao and Bhattacharyya Labs |
| William Bement | Cortical excitability, cell division and development: a conserved circuit for morphogenetic changes | 12/14/21 | |
| Marina Emborg | What can cell replacement strategies teach us about depression in Parkinson’s disease? | 12/7/21 | |
| Stephen Badylak | NA | 11/30/21 | UPMC |
| Jason Cantor | NA | 11/23/21 | |
| Kuan-Hung “Parker” Lin | The Role of TRIM28 in Adult Myogenesis | 11/16/21 | |
| Ngai Ting “Steve” Chan | “CTR9 regulates lineage specification of human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells.” | 11/9/21 | Wei Xu Lab |
| Randy Ashton | NA | 11/2/21 | |
| Nicholas Hess | “Uncovering Mechanisms of Human GVHD Development using Primary Human Samples and Humanized Mice” | 10/26/21 | Capitini Lab |
| Colin Crist | NA | 10/19/21 | McGill University |
| Martha Floy | “Developmental Lineage of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiac Fibroblasts affects their Functional Phenotype” | 10/12/21 | Palacek Lab |
| Judith Kimble | The Self-renewal Hub of the C. Elegans Germline Stem Cell Regulatory Network and its Control | 10/5/21 | |
| Melissa Harrison | “Pioneering the Developmental Frontier” | 9/28/21 | |
| Pilar Nicole Ossorio | NA | 9/21/21 | |
| Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Regional Specification of Postnatal Neural Stem Cells: Rethinking Brain Repair | 9/14/21 | UCSF |
| Douglas Melton | Making Stem Cell-derived Islets for Diabetes | 4/27/21 | Harvard |
| Gordan Keller | Modeling Human Cardiovascular Development with Pluripotent Stem Cells | 4/20/21 | McEwen Stem Cell Institute |
| Ru Gunawardane | “Creating an Image-based Map of Cell States from Pluripotency through Differentiation” | 4/13/21 | Allen Institute |
| Andrew Yoo | “Modeling Late-onset Neurodegenerative Disorders with Patient-derived Neurons Generated Through Direct Neuronal Reprogramming” | 4/6/21 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Ian Begeman | Decoding an Organ Regeneration Switch by Dissecting Cardiac Regeneration Enhancers | 3/30/21 | Kang Lab |
| Vlasta Lungova | Developmental Derivation of Three Dimensional Human iPSC-derived Vocal Fold Mucosa for Clinical and Pharmacological Applications | 3/23/21 | |
| Valentina Lo Sardo | Deciphering the non-coding genome with iPSCs and genome editing | 3/16/21 | |
| Stefan Pietrzak | “Investigating the Regulatory Dynamics of Somatic Cell Reprogramming to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” | 3/9/21 | |
| Michael Moore | “Microphysiological Models of the Nervous System: Beyond the Brain” | 3/2/21 | Tulane |
| Amritava Das | In vitro and in silico modeling of efficacious somatic cell genome editing strategies for recessive and polygenic diseases | 2/23/21 | Saha Lab |
| Brenda Ogle | “Strategies for 3D printing complex cardiac tissue mimics.” | 2/16/21 | University of Minnesota – Twin Cities |
| Paul Frenette | NA | 2/9/21 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Connie Chamberlain | Modulating Macrophage Behavior to Improve Tendon and Ligament Healing | 2/2/21 | Murphy Group |
| Yunlong Tao | Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease – Preclinical Studies in Rodents and Non-human Primates | 1/26/21 | Su-Chun Zhang Lab |
| Robin Franklin | NA | 12/8/20 | Cambridge University |
| Jayshree Samanta | Regulation of Adult Neural Stem Cells in Remyelination | 12/1/20 | |
| Diego Lema | Maternally-derived Extracellular Vesicles in Umbilical Cord Blood Promote Allotolerance | 11/24/20 | Burlingham Lab |
| Steven Mayerl | NA | 11/17/20 | Gamm Lab |
| Kristen Brennard | NA | 11/10/20 | Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital |
| Timothy Blenkinsop | NA | 11/3/20 | Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital |
| Sushmita Roy | NA | 10/27/20 | |
| Andrew Elefanty | NA | 10/20/20 | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Royal Children’s Hospital |
| Meha Kabra | NA | 10/13/20 | Pattnaik Research Group |
| Allison Ebert | NA | 10/6/20 | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Masatoshi Suzuki | Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering Using Stem Cells | 9/29/20 | |
| Cristina Lo Celso | The Effect of Inflammation on Healthy and Malignant Haematopoiesis | 9/22/20 | Imperial College London |
| Xinyu Zhao | Targeting Stem Cells for Neurodevelopmental Disorders | 9/15/20 | |
| Tim Kamp | Advances in Human PSC-derived Cardiomyocyte Products for Therapy | 9/8/20 | |
| Tenneille Ludwig | “The Three R’s of Research: Rigor, Reproducibility, and Redundancy” | 4/28/20 | |
| Matthew E. Brown | “Immunogenicity of PSC Therapies” | 4/21/20 | |
| Li-Fang Chu | “Pluripotency, Embryonic Stem Cells, and the Developmental Clock” | 4/14/20 | THOMSON LAB |
| Owen Tamplin | Understanding the Blood Stem Cell Niche in Zebrafish using Correlative Light Sheet and Electron Microscopy | 4/7/20 | |
| Randolph Ashton | Bioengineering Early CNS Morphogenesis for a Scalable Neural Tube Defect Risk Assay | 3/31/20 | |
| Tiago Fernandes | “A Mechanistic Approach to Stem Cell-based Bioassembly and Scalable Biomanufacturing” | 3/24/20 | |
| Melissa Adams | “Role of Roundabout Receptors in islet architecture and beta cell connectivity” | 3/10/20 | Blum Lab |
| Kran Suknuntha | “Rapid Generation of Functional Neutrophils from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using ETV2-Modified mRNA” | 3/3/20 | Slukvin Lab |
| Daniel Radecki | “Gpnmb is a Novel TGFbeta1 Target that Negatively Regulates Neural Stem Cell Remyelination” | 2/25/20 | Samanta Lab |
| Jiyoung Bae | “Metabolite Regulation of Mammalian Heart Regeneration” | 2/18/20 | Mahmoud Lab |
| Brian Walczak | “Enhancing mesenchymal stem cells for cartilage repair” | 2/11/20 | |
| Giorgia Quadrato | “Modeling human brain development and disease at single cell resolution with brain organoids” | 2/4/20 | |
| Tamer M A Mohamed | “Mending the broken heart from inside” | 1/28/20 | |
| Timothy Kamp | “Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Understand Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias” | 1/21/20 | |
| Amr Abdeen | “CRISPR-Cas9 Nanocapsules for efficient in vivo genome editing” | 12/10/19 | Saha Lab |
| Ethan Lippman | “Modeling and understanding neurovascular function in health and disease” | 12/3/19 | |
| Jenna Kropp Schmidt | “Derivation of Macaque Trophoblast STEM Cells: A Platform for Interrogating Primate Placentation” | 11/26/19 | GOLOS LAB |
| Coral Wile | The role of transcriptional elongation in pluripotency acquisition | 11/19/2019 | SRIDHARAN LAB |
| Peiman Hematti | Regulatory Considerations For More Than Minimally Manipulated and Non-Homologous Cell-Based Therapies: A Clinician Perspective | 11/12/19 | |
| Jason Meyer | Development and disease modeling of human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal ganglion cells | 11/5/19 | |
| Randolph Ashton | Bioengineering CNS Morphogenesis in 2/3D for Disease Modeling | 10/29/19 | |
| Feyza Engin | Stress-induced beta cell dedifferentiation prior to immune cell infiltration prevents type 1 diabetes | 10/22/19 | |
| Seth Taapken | Stem Cell Genetics – a Decade of Data | 10/15/19 | |
| Darcie Moore | The regulation of proteostasis in mammalian neural stem cells | 10/8/19 | |
| Farsh Gulak | Engineering stem cells with synthetic gene circuits as novel therapeutic delivery systems | 10/1/19 | |
| Charu Mehta | RNA-Regulatory Exosome Complex Confers Hematopoietic Progenitor Survival | 9/24/19 | Bresnik Lab |
| Divya Sinha | Mutation-specific responses to gene therapy in patient-specific iPSC model of autosomal dominant Best disease | 9/17/19 | GAMM LAB |
| Timothy Kamp | Overcoming iPSC-derived Cardiomyocyte Immaturity: How and Why | 9/10/19 | |
| Owen Tamplin | Getting to know your neighbors: Cells and signals in the hematopoietic stem cell niche | 5/28/19 | |
| Heinrich Jasper | Age-related Stem Cell Dysfunction in Barrier Epithelia – Strategies for Intervention | 4/30/19 | |
| Zhongwei Du, Xiang Li, Su-Chun Zhang | Fast Generation of Functional Subtype Astrocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | 4/23/19 | ZHANG LAB |
| Nisha Iyer | Regional Patterning of hPSC-Derived Posterior Central Nervous System Tissue | 4/16/19 | Ashton Lab |
| Kaivalya Molugu | Tracking and predicting somatic cell reprogramming using nuclear characteristics | 4/9/19 | Saha Lab |
| Mervin Yoder | Identification of resident vascular endothelial stem cells in mouse and man | 4/2/19 | Ped-Neonatal Medicine, Indiana University |
| Pawan Shahi | Leber Congenital Amaurosis 16 – A Form of Pediatric Blindness: The Cause & The Cure | 3/26/19 | PATTNAIK LAB |
| Eileen Lynch | In vitro modeling of skeletal muscle pathology using ALS patient iPSCs | 3/12/19 | Suzuki Lab |
| Flora Vaccarino | Gene regulation in telencephalic organoids in development and disease | 3/5/19 | Child Study Center & Neuroscience, Yale University |
| Deneen Wellik | Hox function in musculoskeletal development, maintenance and regeneration | 2/26/19 | Prof & Chair, Cell & Regenerative Biology |
| Brian Walczak | Reprogrammed Mesenchymal Stem Cells Acquire Enhanced Therapeutic Potential For Cartilage Repair | 2/19/19 | Li Lab |
| Matthew Forsberg | Monocytes educated with exosomes from TLR-4 primed mesenchymal stem cells treat acute radiation syndrome by promoting hematopoietic recovery | 2/12/19 | Capitini Lab |
| Daniel Radecki | Novel Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Remyelination by GPNMB | 2/5/19 | Samanta Lab |
| Angela Xie | Synthetic biomaterial strategies to control stem cell phenotype in 2D and 3D | 1/29/19 | Murphy Lab |
| Melissa Kinney | Integrative systems analyses reveal dynamics of transcriptional and signaling networks in hematopoiesis | 1/22/19 | |
| Gavin Knight | Engineering Standardized Organotypic Neural Slice Cultures from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | 12/11/18 | Ashton Lab |
| Christopher Breuer | Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering | 12/4/2018 | Co-Director, Pediatric Surgery / Tissue Engineering, Nationwide Children’s Hospital |
| Tongcheng Qian | Monitoring stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte maturation by optical metabolic imaging | 11/27/18 | Skala Lab |
| Benjamin Gastfriend | Modeling blood-brain barrier development and function with stem cell-derived brain endothelial cells and pericytes | 11/20/18 | SHUSTA / PALECEK LABS |
| Will Burlingham & Tim Kamp | Testing Immunogenicity of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiac Grafts | 11/13/18 | BURLINGAM |
| Stephen Tsang | Patient-specific stem cells as a platform for precision medicine | 11/6/18 | Ophthalmology, Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University |
| Tenneille Ludwig | 20 years of human pluripotent stem cell impact; Patents, publications and funding | 10/30/18 | WiCell |
| Patrick C.H. Hsieh | The gut microbiota modulates heart repair after infarction | 10/23/18 | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica |
| Melissa Adams | Roundabout Receptors control architecture in the Islets of Langerhanss | 10/16/18 | Blum Lab |
| Joe Klim | TDP-43 – The key to unlocking ALS through pluripotent stem cell disease modeling | 10/9/18 | Harvard (Eggan Lab) |
| James A. Martin | The Intrinsic Regenerative Capacity of Articular Cartilage | 10/2/18 | University of Iowa |
| Jacques Galipeau | Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Clinical Challenges and Therapeutic Opportunities | 9/25/18 | |
| Elliot Swartz | Opportunities for leveraging stem cell technology in the emerging clean meat industry | 9/18/18 | Good Food Institute |
| J. Carter Ralphe | Functional iPSC Models of Human Cardiomyopathy | 9/11/2018 |