September 9-12, 2009 - Hotel Divani Caravel - Athens, Greece

Thanks to everyone who attended the ISEH 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in Athens, Greece!

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ISEH Meeting Objectives

• Exposure to cutting edge in vivo approaches usef for imaging of hematopoietic stem progenitor cells and discussion of the results obtained.
• Definition of leukemia stem cells, maintaining cells and interactions with their niches.
• To analyze the epigenetic changes to hemopoietic stem cells that affect stem cell fate decisions.
• To describe epigenetic changes that affect leukemic cell transformation.
• To present information on the changes in stem cell populations with aging and any impact on leukemogenesis.
• To describe an update on the molecular pathogenesis of myeloproliferative disorders.
• To describe an update on the molecular defects in bone marrow failure syndromes.
• To explore micro RNA changes in hematopoiesis and their influence on lineage differentiation.
• To present an update on molecular definition and effects in vivo of mesenchymal stem cells.

Award Winners

ISEH Donald Metcalf Lecture Award
Dr. Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Tokyo, Japan
"SINGLE-CELL TRANSPLANTATION AND CLONAL ANALYSIS OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS: EXPLORING HETEROGENEITY AND HIERARCHY

ISEH McCulloch and Till Lecture Award
Dr. Scott Armstrong, Boston, MA - USA
"MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF LEUKEMIA STEM CELL DEVELOPMENT"

2009 New Investigator Awards
The Society takes great pride in supporting the work of new Investigators by awarding prizes in recognition for their outstanding promise and excellent work on an annual basis.

1st Prize
Michael Heuser
TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAM DEFINING CELLULAR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MN1-INDUCED TRANSFORMATION (abstract #33)
 

2nd Prize*
Fumio Nakahara
HES1 CONFERS SELF-RENEWAL CAPABILITY ON COMMITTED PROGENITORS AND INDUCES CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA BLASTIC CRISIS-LIKE DISEASE (abstract #27)

Fernando Anjos-Afonso
DISTINCTIVE CELLULAR/MOLECULAR SIGNATURES DEFINE THE QUIESCENCY AND PRIMITIVENESS OF HUMAN CD34NEG HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS (abstract #01)

Teresa Bowman 
WNT AND BMP SIGNALING MODULATE HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELL ACTIVATION (abstract #08)