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as of July 14, 2009
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Wednesday, September 9
15:00: Welcome Remarks
15:30-16:30: Donald Metcalf lecture
Hiromitsu Nakauchi (Tokyo, JAPAN)
16:30-18:30: Plenary Session 1: Imaging-In Vivo Trafficking
Chair: Susan Nilsson
Michael Dustin (New York, NY, USA); Linheng Li (Kansas City, USA);
David Scadden (Boston, MA, USA); David Traver (San Diego, CA, USA)
Thursday, September 10
8:30-10:30: Plenary Session 2: Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Cells
Chair: Marella De Bruijn
Ihor Lemischka (New York, NY, USA); John Stamatoyannopoulos (Seattle, WA, USA); Adrian Bracken (Dublin, Ireland)
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00-13:00: Plenary Session 3: Leukemogenesis and Leukemic Stem Cells
Chair: Dominique Bonnet
Ruud Delwel (Rotterdam, The Netherlands); Ingo Roeder (Leipzig, Germany)
Claus Nerlov (Monterotondo, Italy); James Mulloy (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
13:00-14:15: Lunch (on site)
14:15-15:45: Concurrent oral presentations in 3 rooms with 6 talks each
15:45-16:15: Coffee Break
16:15-18:15: Plenary Session 4: Myeloproliferative Disorders
Chair: Anthony Green
William Vainchenker (Villejuif, France); Francesco Passamonti (Pavia, Italy);
Richard van Etten (Boston, MA, USA)
18:15-19:30: Poster Viewing
Friday, September 11
8:30-10:00: Plenary Session 5: Regulation of Stem Cell Fate
Chair: Gerald de Haan
Jonas Larsson (Lund, Sweden); Toru Nakano (Osaka, Japan);
R. Keith Humphries (Vancouver, Canada)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30: Plenary Session 6: Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Chair: Stefan Karlsson
Stefan Karlsson (Lund, Sweden); Akiko Shimamura (Seattle, WA, USA)
11:30-12:30: Plenary Session 7: Aging Stem Cells and Cancer
Chair: Toshio Suda
Margaret Goodell (Houston, TX, USA); Peter Lansdorp (Vancouver, Canada)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-16:00: New investigator talks and Awards
4 post Doc / 4 PhDs
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-18:30: Presidential Symposium
Plenary Session 8: MicroRNAs in Hematopoiesis
Chair: Thalia Papayannopoulou
Fernando Camargo (Cambridge, MA, USA); Cesare Peschle (Rome, Italy);
Leighton Grimes (Cincinnati, OH, USA) Florian Kuchenbauer (Vancouver, Canada)
18:30-20:00: Poster viewing
Saturday, September 12
8:50-9:00: Annual meeting report
9:00-10:00: McCullough & Till lecture
Scott Armstrong (Boson MA, USA)
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-11:30: Plenary Session 9: Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Co-Chairs: Anthony D. Ho and William Fibbe
Willem Fibbe (Leiden, The Netherlands); Catherine Verfaillie (Leuven, Belgium); Pierre Charbord
(Le Kremlin Bicetre, France)
11:40-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:45: Simultaneous oral presentations
15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-17:30: Plenary Session 10: Microenvironment and Stem Cells
Chair: Kateri Moore
Paul Frenette (New York, NY, USA); Toshio Suda (Tokyo, Japan);
Carl Walkley (Fritzroy, VIC, Australia)