| Campus Stem Cell Lab meetings (aka Anatomy 675: Stem Cell Seminar; Cell & Regenerative Biology 675: Stem Cell Seminar) | ||
| Fall 2012 | ||
| 4-Sep | Sara Colopy, Clinical Instructor, Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine | Slow-Cycling Cells of the Urinary Bladder Epithelium |
| 11-Sep | Krishanu Saha, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery | Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells Using New Models and Biomaterials |
| 25-Sep | Marina Emborg, Associate Professor, Medical Physics | Why should we publish negative results? |
| 2-Oct | Jeffrey Jones, Director of Derivation, WiCell Research Institute | Derivation of three new clinical grade human embryonic stem cell lines under completely defined, feeder-free, xeno-free conditions. |
| 9-Oct | Christian Capitini, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology & BMT | Modulating alloreactivity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation |
| 16-Oct | Sanal Kumar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell and Regenerative Biology (Bresnick lab) | Cis-element Requirement for Establishment/maintenance of Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
| 23-Oct | Irina Elcheva, Associate Researcher, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Slukvin Lab | Gain-of-function genetic screen identifies transcriptional regulators that direct programming of human pluripotent stem cells to pan-myeloid and erythro-megakaryocytic hematopoietic lineages. |
| 30-Oct | Abraham Al-Ahmad, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Shusta’s Group | Blossoming a fully humanized blood-brain barrier out of stem cells |
| 6-Nov | Melissa Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University | A role for endogenous cell fusion in cancer progression |
| 13-Nov | Joe Phillips, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ophthalmology/Waisman Center, Gamm lab | Investigating the role of VSX2 (CHX10) in human retinal development with iPS cells |
| 20-Nov | Randolph Ashton, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering | Towards Engineering CNS Tissue Morphogenesis |
| 27-Nov | CANCELLED: Karen Downs, Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology | CANCELLED: Cryptic Progenitor Cell Pools Build the Mouse Embryo |
| 4-Dec | Lorenz Studer, Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Neural differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells – From Pain to Therapeutic Gain ? |
| 11-Dec | Weixiang Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow, SCRMC, Neuroscience/Waisman Center, Zhao Lab | RNA Binding Proteins and Adult Neurogenesis |
| Spring 2013 | ||
| 22-Jan | Gregory A. Hudalla, Research Associate, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago | Protein-bearing Nanofibers as Immunomodulators |
| 29-Jan | Rosario Isasi, Research Associate International Stem Cell Forum – Ethics Working Party, Secretariat Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) Faculty of Medicine, Dpt. of Human Genetics, McGill University | From Individuals to Populations: Exploring the Socio-Ethical and Policy Challenges posed by Stem Cell Genomics |
| 5-Feb | Sean Palecek and Eric Shusta, Professors, Chemical & Biological Engineering | Blood-brain barrier-like endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells. |
| 12-Feb | Qiang Chang, Assistant Professor, Genetics/Waisman Center | Studying Rett Syndrome Using Patient-Specific iPSCs |
| 19-Feb | Anita Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist, Waisman Center | Stem cells and Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
| 26-Feb | Ray Vanderby, Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Biomedical Engineering | Use of MSCs to enhance ligament healing |
| 5-Mar | Haifan Lin, Professor, Cell Biology and Genetics; Director, Yale Stem Cell Center Yale University School of Medicine | A Novel piRNA-Mediated Epigenetic Mechanism Related to Stem Cells |
| 12-Mar | Paul Wrighton, SCRMC Fellow, Biochemistry (Kiessling lab) | Synthetic Surfaces to Improve Directed Differentiation of hESCs and Dissect Insoluble Signaling Mechanisms |
| 19-Mar | Sam Gubbels, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, | Inner Ear Progenitor Cell Generation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| 2-Apr | Tapas Nayak, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Radiology, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Cai Lab) | Tissue Engineering with Carbon Nanomaterials and Stem Cells |
| 16-Apr | Kran Suknuntha, Research Assistant, Cellular and Molecular Pathology (Slukvin lab) | Generation of Leukemic stem cell-like cells from iPSCs derived from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia |
| 23-Apr | Daniel DiRenzo, Postdoctoral Trainee (Kent Lab), Vascular Surgery | TGF-beta/SMAD3 Driven Smooth Muscle Cell De-differentiation.” |
| 30-Apr | Daryl Nelson, Graduate Fellow, Cell and Regenerative Biology (Lyons lab) | The Homeobox Transcription Factor, Irx4, Identifies a Mutipotent, Ventricular-specific Cardiac Progenitor |
| 7-May | Samuel Rabkin, Associate Professor, Surgery/Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School | Cancer Stem Cells in Glioblastoma |
| Fall 2013 | ||
| 3-Sep | Timothy Kamp, Professor, Medicine | iPS Cells for Cardiac Repair: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 10-Sep | No Campus Stem Cell Lab meeting | No Campus Stem Cell Lab meeting |
| 17-Sep | Jon Odorico, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Transplant Research & Development | Beta Cell Differentiation from Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| 24-Sep | Meri Firpo, Assistant Professor, Medicine / Endocrinology, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota | Scale-up Cultures of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Endoderm |
| 1-Oct | Thomas Diekwisch, Professor, Oral Biology, UIC College of Dentistry | Odontogenic Lineage Specification and Stem-cell Based Attachment of Lost Teeth |
| 8-Oct | Myriam Bouchlaka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Capitini Lab) | 19F-MRI for Tracking NK Cells After Adoptive Transfer |
| 15-Oct | Eric Schmuck, Assistant Scientist, Medicine/Cardiology (Raval Lab) | Allogeneic “Prime and Boost” Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Swine, a Translational Research Study |
| 22-Oct | Abraham Al-Ahmad, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical & Biological Engineering (Shusta Lab) | Another Brick in The Wall: Using stem cell technology to model an in vitro human model of the blood-brain barrier as a tool to improve brain drug delivery and to better understand cerebrovascular diseases. |
| 29-Oct | Dagna Sheerar, Manager, UWCCC Flow Laboratory; Gene Ananiev, Manager, Small Molecule Screening Laboratory | Single Cell Sorting and Analysis of Stem Cells by Flow Cytometry: Established Methods and New Developments (Dagna) & High throughput screening and Drug discovery resources at UW Madison (Gene) |
| 5-Nov | John Canty, Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Clinical and Translational Research Center, SUNY-Buffalo | Stimulation of Endogenous Myocyte Proliferation in Viable Dysfunctional Myocardium with Allogenic Intracoronary Stem Cell Therapy |
| 12-Nov | Ethan Lippmann, SCRMC Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (Ashton Lab) | Axis patterning of spinal cord progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells |
| 19-Nov | Ruchira Singh, Assistant Scientist, Ophthalmology / Waisman Center(Gamm Lab) | Patient-specific iPS cell model of an inherited macular degeneration: Disease mechanism and potential therapeutics |
| 26-Nov | David Vereide, Assistant Scientist (Thomson Lab) | Life on the frontier: tales of trapping progenitor cells |
| 3-Dec | Albert Edge, Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School; Eaton-Peabody Laboratory Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary | Regeneration of Hair Cells from Cochlear Stem Cells |
| 10-Dec | Adam Bock, Honorary Fellow, College of Letters & Sciences (visiting from University of Edinburgh Business School) | Venturing in the Dark: Entrepreneurial capabilities and collaboration in regenerative medicine |
| Spring 2014 | ||
| 21-Jan | Erdem Aktas, Department of Orthopedics at the Ankara Oncology Research and Training Hospital, Ankara Turkey (visiting researcher in Vanderby lab) | Immune System Modulatıon wıth Prımed Mesenchymal Stem Cells Embedded in a Bıodegradable Scaffold for Regeneratıve Healıng of Rat Achılles Tendon Defect |
| 28-Jan | Wan-Ju Li Assistant Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation / Biomedical Engineering | Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Regulates Akt Signaling in Hypoxic Culture to Modulate Senescence of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells |
| 4-Feb | Alex Meissner, Associate Professor, Harvard University, Harvard Stem Cell Institute | DNA methylation dynamics in stem cells and development |
| 11-Feb | Alta Charo, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, Law School | Stem Cell Tourism |
| 18-Feb | Ronghui Li, SCRMC Fellow, Medical Genetics / Waisman Center (Chang Lab) | Understanding the molecular functions of Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 |
| 25-Feb | Waisman iPSC and CMN cores with Anita Bhattacharyya and Karla Knobel | How the Waisman Center Cellular and Molecular Core Facility can help your research |
| 4-Mar | Tejal Desai, Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California-San Francisco | Micro and Nanostructured Cues for Therapeutic Delivery and Tissue Regeneration |
| 11-Mar | Xin Gao, Research Assistant (Bresnick lab) | Genetic Basis for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Generation in the Mammalian Embryo |
| 18-Mar | No Campus Stem Cell Lab meeting (Spring Break) | |
| 25-Mar | Anita Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist, Waisman Center | Down syndrome iPSC derived neurons |
| 1-Apr | Justin Williams, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering | Neuroengineering: Emerging Multiscalar Technologies for Interfacing with the Nervous System |
| 8-Apr | Kunil Raval, Research Assistant, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) (Kamp Lab) | A Golgi-based Glycosylation Defect in a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte Model of Infantile-onset Pompe Disease |
| 15-Apr | Kyle Hewitt, Hematology Training Program Postdoctoral Fellow (Bresnick lab) | Deciphering the HSC cistrome to discover novel genetic mechanisms that control hematopoiesis |
| 22-Apr | Jonathan Van Dyke, Postoctoral Research Associate, Comparative Biosciences (Suzuki lab) | Generating Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells (Healthy and Diseased) Using Pluripotent Cell Sources |
| 6-May | Kaiming Ye, Professor / Department Chair Department of Bioengineering, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SUNY-Binghampton | Generating Pancreatic Tissues from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| Fall 2014 | ||
| 2-Sep | Pratik Lalit, Research Assistant, Medicine (Kamp lab) | Lineage reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts to proliferative and multipotent induced cardiac progenitor cells by defined factors |
| 9-Sep | No Tuesday talk. Fall Conference on Friday, September 12 | N/A |
| 16-Sep | Anita Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist, Waisman Center, and Tenneille Ludwig, Sr Scientist, WiCell | Waisman iPS core and WiCell characterization of those cells |
| 23-Sep | Justin Anderson and Paulanne Chelf, Intellectual Property Managers, WARF | Patent Eligibility: A Moving Target |
| 30-Sep | Special: UW-Madison Stem Cell Science: Where It Began, Where We’re Going | UW-Madison Stem Cell Science: Where It Began, Where We’re Going |
| 7-Oct | Hal Broxmeyer, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology/Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine | New Paradigms in Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor cells, and Hematopoiesis, that May Relate to other Stem Cell Systems |
| 14-Oct | Skye McIver, American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow, UW-Madison Blood Research Program, Carbone Cancer Center (Bresnick group) | The RNA-Degrading Exosome Complex is an Endogenous Suppressor of Erythroid Maturation |
| 21-Oct | David Jones, Postdoctoral Trainee, Neuroscience (Robertson Lab) | The Role of hERG 1b in Stem Cell Derived-Cardiomyocyte Action Potentials |
| 28-Oct | Randy Levinson, Senior Editor, Nature Medicine | Navigating the Publishing Process at High-Impact Journals |
| 4-Nov | Howard Colman, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Utah | Mesenchymal transition in Glioblastoma stem-like cells: Effects of microenvironment on differentiation state and treatment resistance |
| 11-Nov | Andrew Peterson, SCRMC Trainee (Zhang lab) | Identifying mitochondrial metabolic and positional defects in ALS iPSC-derived motor neurons |
| 18-Nov | Peiman Hematti, Associate Professor, Medicine / Hematology-Oncology | Cellular therapy for graft versus host disease |
| 25-Nov | Sana Salih, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology | Fertility Preservation in Female Cancer Patients: Preventing Doxorubicin-induced Ovarian Toxicity |
| 2-Dec | Christopher Evans, Director, Rehabilitation Medicine, Mayo Clinic | Gene based approaches to regenerating bone and cartilage |
| 9-Dec | Akhilesh Kumar, Research Associate, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Slukvin Lab) | Vasculogenic Potential of Mesenchymoangioblast |
| Spring 2015 | ||
| 20-Jan | Michael Schwartz, Assistant Scientist, Biomedical Engineering (Murphy Lab) | Human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural tissue models for predictive neurotoxicity screening and safety assessment |
| 27-Jan | Asuka Eguchi, SCRMC Trainee, Biochemistry (Ansari lab) | Triggering cell fate with artificial transcription factors |
| 3-Feb | CANCELLED: Brian Kaspar, Associate Professor, Ohio State University | Developing therapeutics for neuromuscular disease: from basic to translational studies |
| 10-Feb | Matthew Brown, Research Assistant, Surgery (Burlingham lab) | Investigation of Pluripotent Stem Cell Immunogenicity Using Humanized Mouse Models |
| 17-Feb | Ulrich Broeckel, Professor, Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin | Understanding Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Disease Mechanisms using Patients-Specific iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes |
| 24-Feb | Khoa Tran, Research Assistant, Cell & Regenerative Biology (Sridharan lab) | Collaborative rewiring of the pluripotency network by chromatin and signalling modulating pathways |
| 3-Mar | Allison Ebert, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin | Structural and functional abnormalities in LRRK2 G2019S iPSC-derived sensory neurons |
| 10-Mar | Ka Yi Ling, Research Assistant (Downs lab) | Hedgehog mobilizes bipotential hypoblast/visceral endoderm to create the fetal-umbilical connection |
| 17-Mar | Tsung-Lin Tsai, Research Assistant (Li lab) | Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Endothelial Cells Interaction through Endothelin-1 |
| 24-Mar | Xiaoping Bao, Research Assistant (Palecek lab) | Generation of cardiac cell lineages from human pluripotent stem cells by modulation of WNT signaling via small molecules |
| 7-Apr | Jared Carlson-Strevermer, SCRMC Trainee, Biomedical Engineering (Saha lab) | Medium throughput method for assaying CRISPR/Cas9 based fitness effects |
| 14-Apr | Kyle Hewitt, Postdoctoral fellow (Bresnick lab) | Discovering Novel Mechanisms of Hematopoiesis Through Interrogation of the GATA2 Cistrome |
| 21-Apr | Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng, Research Theme Leader, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Co-Director, Polymer Engineering Center | Fabrication of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and Devices |
| 28-Apr | Fima Zaltsman, SCRMC trainee, Biochemistry (Kiessling lab) | Role of mechanical cues in contributing to human pluripotent stem cell fate decisions |
| 5-May | Jay Schneider, Associate Director, Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, UT Southwestern | Opening new frontiers in muscle cell science and medicine with pluripotent human stem cells |
| Fall 2015 | ||
| 8-Sep | Yuejun Chen, Assistant Scientist, Waisman Center (Zhang lab) | Engineering Human Stem Cell Lines with Inducible Gene Knockout using CRISPR/Cas9 |
| 15-Sep | Bikash Pattnaik, Senior Scientist, Pediatrics | Use of iPS-RPE to model and treat blindness |
| 22-Sep | William Daly, Assistant Scientist, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation (Murphy lab); Core Director for the Human Models for Analysis of Pathway’s Center (H-MAPs Center) | Developing Human Models for Analysis of Pathways |
| 6-Oct | Kunlin Jin, Professor, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center | Stem cell therapy for stroke from bench to bedside |
| 13-Oct | Kevin W. Eliceiri, Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) | Multidimensional Imaging of the Cellular Microenvironment |
| 20-Oct | Ming Pei, Associate Professor, Orthopedics, West Virginia University | Decellularized Cell Matrix and Cartilage Regeneration |
| 27-Oct | Brett Napiwocki, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering; Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery – BIONATES | Micropatterned substrates control the cytoskeletal organization of hESC-Cardiomyocytes |
| 3-Nov | Brian Kaspar, Associate Professor, Ohio State University | Developing therapeutics for neuromuscular disease: from basic to translational studies |
| 10-Nov | Barak Blum, Assistant Professor, Cell & Regenerative Biology | Differentiation, de-differentiation and re-differentiation of pancreatic beta cells |
| 17-Nov | Ravi Vaidyanathan, Assistant Scientist, Medicine/Cardiology | IK1-Enhanced Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes: An Improved Cardiomyocyte Model to Investigate Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes |
| 24-Nov | Linda Hogle, Professor, Medical History and Bioethics | Evidence, Damned Evidence and Data: What Counts as “Acceptable” Knowledge of What Works in Regenerative Medicine? |
| 1-Dec | Yan Lu, Scientist, Medical Sciences, Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratory (Markel lab) | Evaluation of suture material loaded with growth factors on tendon healing in animal model |
| 8-Dec | Mitch Biermann, Research Assistant, Medicine/Cardiology (Kamp lab) | A human Irx4+ biptotential ventricular progenitor isolated with DNA nanoparticles |
| 15-Dec | Justin Koepsel, Biomedical Engineer, Stratatech Corporation | Development and Clinical Application of StrataGraft Skin Tissue in Severe Burns |
| Spring 2016 | ||
| 19-Jan | Gene Ananiev, Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF) | University of Wisconsin Madison Small Molecule Screening Facility: An Academic Fee For Service HTS Center |
| 26-Jan | Igor Slukvin, Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Discovery of Survival Factor for Primitive Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Cells Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| 2-Feb | David Traver, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC-San Diego | Embryonic specification of hematopoietic stem cells |
| 9-Feb | Kristyn Masters, Biomedical Engineering | Manipulation of the Extracellular Matrix Environment to Study Tissue Development and Disease |
| 16-Feb | Nathan Welham, Surgery/Otolaryngology | Bioengineered vocal fold mucosa for voice restoration |
| 23-Feb | Asuka Eguchi, SCRMC Trainee, CMB, Biochemistry (Ansari lab) | Genetic Screen of Artificial Transcription Factors to Induce Pluripotency |
| 1-Mar | Jeremy Mao, Dentistry/Center for Craniofacial Regeneration, Columbia University | Homing of endogenous stem cells by molecular cues and biomaterials |
| 8-Mar | Xin Gao, Research Assistant, Cell & Regenerative Medicine (Bresnick lab) | GATA Factor-G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Circuit Suppresses Hematopoiesis. |
| 15-Mar | Arshad Jahangir, Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI | The Aging Heart |
| 29-Mar | Divya Sinha, Biomedical Engineering (Saha lab) | Enrichment of hPSC-derived photoreceptors: Identifying efficient methods using an interdisciplinary approach |
| 5-Apr | Cynthia E. Dunbar, National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Investigating Pluripotent and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology and Therapeutic Potential inthe Rhesus Macaque Model |
| 12-Apr | George J. Murphy, Assistant Professor of Hematology & Oncology, Boston University; Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine | Brewing Blood: Pluripotent stem cell modeling of hematopoiesis in both health and disease |
| 19-Apr | Zafirah Zaidan, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (Sridharan lab) | The Role of HP1 Family of Proteins in Pluripotency |
| 26-Apr | M Taher Saif, Mechanical Engineering/Graduate Programs and Research, University of Illinois | Force connection to memory and learning |
| 3-May | David Jones, Neuroscience (Robertson lab) | Dominant negative consequences of a hERG 1b-specific mutation |
| Fall 2016 | ||
| 6-Sep | Sayaka Masuko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry/Biochemistry (Kiessling lab) | Elucidating the roles of heparan sulfate in human pluripotent stem cells |
| 13-Sep | Matthew Brown, Research Assistant, Surgery/Transplant Division (Burlingham lab) | Studying the human immune response to regenerative medicine therapies in humanized mouse models |
| 20-Sep | Jacques Galipeau, Professor, Oncology | Mechanistic analysis of MSCs for optimized use in clinical trials |
| 27-Sep | Stephanie Willerth, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, University of Victoria | Tools for engineering personalized neural tissue |
| 4-Oct | Scott Canfield, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical & Biological Engineering (Shusta/Palecek labs) | Development of a Stem Cell-Derived Blood Brain Barrier Model: Applications in Disease Modeling |
| 11-Oct | Jan Huisken, Director, Medical Engineering, Morgridge Institute for Research | Building a smart and gentle microscope for your sample |
| 18-Oct | Melissa Skala, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research | Quantitative optical imaging of organotypic cultures |
| 25-Oct | Jonathan Kimmelman, Associate Professor, Biomedical Ethics, McGill University | How to Succeed With Failing in Translational Research |
| 1-Nov | Gong Chen, Biology, Penn State University | Reversing Glial Scar For Brain Repair |
| 8-Nov | Marina Emborg, Associate Professor, Medical Physics | Real-Time Intraoperative MRI for brain delivery of cell-based therapies |
| 15-Nov | Kyunghee Choi, Associate Professor, Pathology and Immunology | Etv2 in the generation and regeneration of hematopoietic and vascular systems |
| 22-Nov | Gene Uenishi, Research Assistant, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Slukvin lab) | Investigating the role of NOTCH signaling during hematopoietic development using human pluripotent stem cells |
| 29-Nov | David Vereide, Morgridge Fellow, Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research | Arterial endothelial precursors yield clues about the origins of vascular disease |
| 6-Dec | Ivan Moskowitz, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Pathology & Human Genetics, University of Chicago | Gene regulatory networks for cardiac form and function |
| 13-Dec | Patrick Ingram, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (Beebe lab), and Laurel Hind, Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Huttenlocher lab) | iPSC-based in vitro model of neutrophil migration and extravasation |
| Spring 2017 | ||
| 17-Jan | Tim Kamp, Professor, Medicine | Cardiac Progenitors and Cardioregenerative Medicine |
| 24-Jan | Christian Capitini, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics | Human mesenchymal stem cell-educated macrophages confer protection from xenogeneic GVHD and radiation injury |
| 31-Jan | Ling Hao, Research Assistant, Pharmaceutical Science (Lingjun Li’s lab) | Embryonic specification of hematopoietic stem cells |
| 7-Feb | Graham C. Parker, Professor, Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine | Regenerative medicine: How conflicts of interest prevent real progress |
| 14-Feb | Toy Willem Lange, Associate Scientist, Pediatrics (Ralphe lab) | Human iPSC-Derived Engineered Cardiac Tissue as a Model to Study Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy |
| 21-Feb | Khoa Tran, Research Assistant, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (Sridharan lab) | Cellular Pharmacology (Sridharan lab) Epigenetic dynamics during the acquisition of pluripotentcy |
| 28-Feb | Jacques Galipeau, Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine | The use of B-cells for therapy of neuroinflammatory disease |
| 7-Mar | Joseph Wu, Professor, Medicine & Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine | Cardiac iPSCs for Disease Modeling, Drug Discovery, and Regenerative Medicine |
| 14-Mar | Tenneille Ludwig, Senior Scientist, WiCell, and Andrew Petersen, Assistant Scientist, Waisman Center | New PSC cell line and gene editing resources |
| 28-Mar | Bill Murphy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering / Orthopedics & Rehabilitation | Assembly of stem cell-derived human tissues for screening applications |
| 4-Apr | Robert Mauck, Orthopedic Surgery & Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania | Mechanical Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation |
| 11-Apr | Ron Stewart, Associate Director-Bioinformatics, Regenerative Biology Laboratory, Morgridge Institute for Research | Axolotl Regeneration and Development and Big Data Mining |
| 18-Apr | Mitch Biermann, Research Assistant, Medicine, Kamp lab | Activated cardiac progenitors from human induced pluripotent stem cells with enhanced capacity to generate mature cardiomyocytes in cardiac microtissue |
| 25-Apr | Ei Terasawa, Professor, Pediatrics and Wisconsin National Primate Research Center | National Primate Research Center Generation of GnRH Neurons from Stem Cells: Good News for Reproductive Medicine |
| 2-May | Ali H. Brivanlou, Stem Cell Biology & Molecular Embryology, Rockefeller University | Self-Organization of HESC’s and human embryos |
| Fall 2017 | ||
| 9/5/17 | Patrick C.H. Hsieh, Visiting Research Fellow and Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | Cardiomyocyte replenishment, reprogramming and regeneration |
| 9/12/17 | William Daly, Assistant Scientist, Orthopedics & Rehabiliation (Murphy lab) | Modelling Neurodevelopment and Disease using Vascularized Neural Organoids |
| 9/19/17 | Ahmed Mahmoud, Assistant Professor, Cell & Regenerative Biology | Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Mammalian Heart Regeneration |
| 9/26/17 | Jeffrey Jones, Research Associate, Neuroscience (Zhang lab) | From Structure to Function: iPSC Model of AxD Elucidates Functions of GFAP |
| 10/3/17 | George Gittes, Professor, Surgery/Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | Beta cell proliferation, regeneration, and protection |
| 10/10/17 | ChangHwan Lee, SCRMC Trainee, Biochemistry (Kimble lab) | C. elegans GLP-1/Notch activates transcription in a probability gradient across the germline stem cell pool |
| 10/17/17 | Edgardo Castro-Perez, Research Associate, Dermatology (Setaluri lab) | Reprogramming of melanocytes and melanoma cells to model the cellular origin of melanoma |
| 10/24/17 | Guojun Chen, Research Assistant, Biomedical Engineering (Gong lab) | Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for gene therapies |
| 10/31/17 | Weibo Cai, Associate Professor, Radiology, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences | Harnessing the Power of Molecular Imaging for Precision Medicine. |
| 11/7/17 | Atsushi Asakura, Associate Professor, Stem Cell Institute, McGuire Translational Research Facility, Univ of Minnesota | Skeletal muscle stem cell induction, maintenance and therapy |
| 11/14/17 | Bo Liu, Professor, Surgery | Roles of circulating cells in endothelial regeneration after arterial injury. |
| 11/21/17 | Gavin Knight, Research Assistant, Biomedical Engineering (Ashton lab) | Engineering 2D Organotypic CNS Tissues from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| 11/28/17 | Alta Charo, Professor, Law | Political Update: Federal and State Regulation and Funding Developments |
| 12/5/17 | Shannon Walsh, Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering (Henak lab) | Age-Dependent Activity of Articular Cartilage Progenitor Cells |
| 12/12/17 | Rudolph Jaenisch. Professor, Biology, Whitehead Institute, MIT | Stem cells, epigenetic regulation and disease relevance |
| Spring 2018 | ||
| 1/23/18 | Brandon Kim, SCRMC Trainee, CBE (Shusta lab) | iPSC derived neurovascular unit modeling of central nervous system infections |
| 1/30/18 | Patrick C.H. Hsieh, Visiting Professor, Medicine | Targeted Delivery of Cardiovascular Therapeutics |
| 2/6/18 | Amber Zhou, Research Assistant, Cell & Regenerative Biology (Sridharan lab) | Defining reprogramming checkpoints from single cell analysis of induced pluripotency |
| 2/13/18 | Leigh Turner, Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, & College of Pharmacy (Univ of Minnesota) | U.S. Businesses Selling Unproven “Stem Cell” Interventions: Ethical, Scientific, and Regulatory Concerns |
| 2/20/18 | Jayshree Samanta, Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences | Role of endogenous neural stem cells in remyelination |
| 2/27/18 | Dan Tremmel, SCRMC Trainee, Surgery (Odorico lab) | Development of a pancreatic ECM platform for enhancement of beta cell differentiation |
| 3/6/18 | Jan Nolta, Director, Stem Cell Program, UC-Davis | Next Generation Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapies |
| 3/13/18 | Anita Bhattacharyya | Defining interneuron deficits in Down syndrome with disorder-specific human stem cells |
| 3/20/18 | Zafirah Szidan, SCRMC Trainee, CRB (Sridharan lab) | Role of HP1 and H3K9 methylation in pluripotency and differentiation |
| 4/3/18 | Junsu Kang, Assistant Professor, CRB | Fishing for regulators of tissue regeneration |
| 4/10/18 | Max Salick, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuroscience, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research | Single-Cell Transcriptomics of CRISPR-Engineered TSC2-/- Human Cerebral Organoids Reveals Cell Type Specific Phenotypes in Tuberous Sclerosis and Treatment Response |
| 4/17/18 | Charu Mehta, Research Assistant, Cell and Regenerative Biology (Bresnick lab) | Integrating Enhancer Mechanisms to establish a hierarchical blood development program |
| 4/24/18 | Coral Wille, Research Associate, WID (Sridharan lab) | The role of transcriptional elongation in pluripotency acquisition |
| 5/1/18 | Mandi Lopez, Professor and Director, Laboratory for Equine and Comparative Orthopedic Research, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University | Flasks to Fruition – Tissue Regeneration for One Health |
| Fall 2018 | ||
| 9/11/18 | John Carter Ralphe, Associate Professor, Pediatric Professor | Functional iPSC Models of Human Cardiomyopathy |
| 9/18/18 | Elliot Swartz, Scientist, Good Food Institute | Opportunities for leveraging stem cell technology in the emerging clean meat industry |
| 9/25/18 | Jacques Galipeau, Professor, Medicine | Benchtop cell science to first-in-human studies – the UW paradigm |
| 10/2/18 | James A. Martin, Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa | The Intrinsic Regenerative Capacity of Articular Cartilage |
| 10/9/18 | Joe Klim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University (Eggan lab) | TDP-43 – The key to unlocking ALS through pluripotent stem cell disease modeling |
| 10/16/18 | Melissa Adams, Research Assistant, Cell & Regenerative Biology (Blum lab) | Role of Roundabout Receptors in the Islets of Langerhans |
| 10/23/18 | Patrick C.H. Hsieh, MD, PHD, Visiting Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica | The gut microbiota modulates heart repair after infarction |
| 10/30/18 | Teneeille Ludwig, Director, WiCell Stem Bank | 20 years of human pluripotent stem cell impact; Patents, publications and funding |
| 11/6/18 | Stephen Tsang, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University | Patient-specific stem cells as a platform for precision medicine |
| 11/13/18 | Tim Kamp, Professor, Medicine, & Will Burlingham, Professor, Surgery | Testing Immunogenicity of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiac Grafts |
| 11/20/18 | Benjamin Gastfriend, Research Assistant, Chemical & Biological Engineering (Shusta/Palecek labs) | Modeling blood-brain barrier development and function with stem cell-derived brain endothelial cells and pericytes |
| 11/27/18 | Tongcheng Qian, Postdoctoral Fellow, Morgridge Institute for Research / Biomedical Engineering (Skala lab) | Engineering stem cells for regenerative medicine and disease modeling |
| 12/4/18 | Christopher Breuer, Co-Director, Pediatric Surgery / Tissue Engineering, Nationwide Childrens’ Hospital | Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering |
| 12/11/18 | Gavin Knight, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (Ashton lab) | Engineering Standardized Organotypic Neural Slice Cultures from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells |