NYSTEM’s 5^th Annual Meeting is a one and one-half day event that features some of New York’s leading stem cell researchers, includes a keynote address from Clive Svendsen from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a panel discussion on stem cell therapies, plus plenary and poster sessions.  Additional plenary talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Clive Svendsen, Ph.D.

Director of Regenerative Medicine

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Confirmed Speakers:

Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine

Steven Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center

Sally Temple, Ph.D., Neural Stem Cell Institute

Jan Vijg, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Panel Discussion: Navigating the Maze of Stem Cell Therapies

Moderated by Lorenz Studer

Featuring: Clive Svendsen, Steven Goldman, Sally Temple       

NYSTEM 2013 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013

12:00 PM           Registration and Poster Set-Up

1:00 – 1:10        OPENING REMARKS

PLENARY I: Single Cell Analyses

1:10 – 2:10        Chair: Fiona Doetsch, Columbia University Medical Center

1:10 – 1:30        Jan Vijg, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

SINGLE CELL GENOMICS

1:30 – 1:50        David Keefe, New York University School of Medicine

A NOVEL METHOD TO STUDY TELOMERE LENGTH IN INDIVIDUAL STEM CELLS

1:50 – 2:10        El-ad Amir, Columbia University

TRAJECTORY DETECTION ORDERS HALLMARKS OF EARLY HUMAN B CELL DEVELOPMENT

2:10 – 2:40        BREAK AND POSTERS

PLENARY II: Stem Cells in Cancer

2:40 – 4:00        Chair: Paul Frenette, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2:40 – 3:00        Iannis Aifantis, New York University School of Medicine

DISTINCT THRESHOLDS OF MYC PROTEIN HALF-LIFE CONTROL SELF-RENEWAL OF NORMAL AND CANCER STEM CELLS

3:00 – 3:20        Maria Themeli, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

HUMAN iPS CELL-DERIVED ANTIGEN-TARGETED T CELLS ERADICATE CD19-POSITIVE TUMOR CELLS

3:20 – 3:40        N. Sumru Bayin, New York University School of Medicine

SELECTIVE TARGETING AND ABLATION OF GLIOBLASTOMA STEM CELLS

3:40 – 4:00        Zhongwei Cao, Weill Cornell Medical College

TUMOR VASCULAR NICHE INDUCES AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR AND CHEMORESISTANCE IN LYMPHOMA STEM CELLS

4:00 – 6:00        POSTER SESSION I & RECEPTION

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013

8:00 AM              Registration And Poster Viewing

PLENARY III: Stem Cell Biology

9:00 – 11:00      Chair: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University

9:00 – 9:20        Janet Paluh, University at Albany

EVALUATION OF STEM CELL PLURIPOTENCY USING LTA-PDMS TRANSPARENT GRIDS FOR 3D TEMPLATING AND TIMELAPSE MONITORING

9:20 – 9:40        George Eng, Columbia University

Electromechanical Conditioning of Human Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes

 9:40 – 10:00      Elena Ezhkova, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Polycomb subunits Ezh1 and Ezh2 regulate the Merkel cell differentiation program in skin stem cells

10:00 – 10:20    Raffaella Di Micco, New York University School of Medicine

BET proteins regulate embryonic stem cell identity by controlling transcriptional elongation of core pluripotency genes

10:20 – 10:40    Xiajun Li, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Genomic imprinting is variably lost during iPS cell derivation

10:40 – 11:00    Hans-Willem Snoeck, Columbia University Medical Center

HIGHLY EFFICIENT GENERATION OF AIRWAY AND LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS

11:00 – 12:00    POSTER SESSION II

12:00 – 1:00      LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION II

1:00 – 1:10        COMMISSIONER’S REMARKS/INTRO. OF KEYNOTE

1:10 – 2:00        KEYNOTE: Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

                             Taking stem cell and growth factor therapy to the clinic for Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)

2:00 – 3:15        PANEL: NAVIGATING THE MAZE OF STEM CELL THERAPIES

Moderator: Lorenz Studer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Panelists:  Steven Goldman, University of Rochester

                    Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

                    Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute

3:15 – 3:45        BREAK AND POSTERS

PLENARY IV: NYSTEM Success Stories

3:45 – 4:45        Chair: Ira Cohen, Stony Brook University

3:45 – 4:05        Jian Feng, University at Buffalo

Cell Cycle and p53 Gate the Direct Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Dopaminergic Neurons

4:05 – 4:25        Alexandre Gaspar-Maia, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The histone variant macroH2A acts as an epigenetic barrier for reprogramming

4:25 – 4:45        Ulrich Steidl, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

H2.0-Like Homeobox (HLX) Induces Unlimited Clonogenicity and a Block in Differentiation in Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Cooperates with FLT3-ITD in the Induction of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

5:00                    ADJOURN

PLEASE NOTE: there will be an $80 non-refundable fee to cancel your registration.

Information: http://stemcell.ny.gov/nystem-meetings

Contact:        NYSTEM, NYS Dept. of Health

                    stemmtg@wadsworth.org

                    518 473-1394