2026 Keynote Speakers:
Title: TBD
Kristin K. Baldwin, PhD, is an American scientist who is a professor at the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University.
Her research focuses on using reprogrammed and induced pluripotent stem cells to identify mechanisms and therapies related to human genetic risk for neurologic and cardiovascular disease. Her lab also studies how disease and aging affect the genome; they have used cloning to produce the first complete genome sequence of a single neuron and helped assess the effect of aging on induced pluripotent stem cells that may be used for cell therapies. They also design bespoke neuronal cells in a dish to understand brain function and disease. Baldwin’s earlier work included being the first to clone a mouse from a neuron and being one of three groups to first produce an entire mouse from a skin cell by generating induced pluripotent stem cells epigenetic changes of the genome and the brain.
Title: TBD
Anna Huttenlocher, MD, PhD is a professor of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Huttenlocher seeks to understand how cell migration is regulated and how defects in cell migration contribute to human disease. Her work has centered on understanding how leukocytes are recruited to sites of tissue damage and resolution of inflammation by neutrophil reverse migration. Toward these goals her laboratory has developed tools to image and probe cell-cell interactions during innate immune responses and wound healing using zebrafish as a model system. She is also using human iPS derived neutrophils to engineer cells for better anti-microbial and anti-tumor function.
Event Details:
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Event History:
The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Fall conference includes a keynote speaker, blitz talks, and a poster competition. The specific focus changes each year and is selected by the SCRMC Research Training Award winners who organize this event. The Research Training Award was established in 2008 to recognize and provide support for promising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting stem cell and regenerative medicine research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This program provides unique, interdisciplinary training for future leaders in stem cell and regenerative medicine research, which includes the opportunity to plan this conference. To view past conference topics, please visit our past meetings and conferences page.
