8:00 a.m.

Registration, Networking breakfast

8:45 a.m.

Welcome
David Page, Director, Whitehead Institute

Morning Session:
(Chair—Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute)

8:50 a.m.

Opening remarks
Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute

9:00 - 9:40 a.m.

Interrogating development and disease using nuclear transplantation and stem cells
Kevin Eggan, Harvard University

9:45 - 10:25 a.m.

Maintenance and renewal of blood and muscle stem cells
Amy Wagers, Harvard Medical School / Joslin Diabetes Center

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

11:00 - 11:40 a.m.

TGFbeta-induced failure of tissue regeneration: Lessons from Mendelian disorders
Hal Dietz, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

11:45 - 12:25 p.m.

Tissue engineering
Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

Afternoon Session:
(Chair—Hazel Sive, Whitehead Institute)

2:00 - 2:10 p.m.

Opening remarks
Hazel Sive, Whitehead Institute

2:10 - 2:50 p.m.

Neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain
Fred Gage, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

2:55 - 3:35 p.m.

Neural stem cells: Novel signals and sources
Freda Miller, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute

3:40 - 4:20 p.m.

RNAi screening identifies regeneration regulatory genes in planarians
Peter Reddien, Whitehead Institute and MIT

4:25 - 5:05 p.m.

Organ regeneration in zebrafish
Kenneth Poss, Duke University

5:10 - 5:15 p.m.

Closing remarks