WHO: The Wistar Institute

WHERE: The Wistar Institute,
Joseph N. Grossman, M.D., Auditorium
Open to the Public, No Admission

WHEN: Wednesday, May 5, 1999, 9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m. "Regenerative Biology: A Millennial Revolution"
David Stocum, Ph.D.,
Department of Biology,
Indiana University- Purdue University at Indianapolis

11:35 a.m. "Towards the Identification and Characterization of the Molecular Events Regulating Epimorphic Regeneration in Metazoans"
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D.,
Department of Embryology,
Carnegie Institute of Washington

1:55 p.m. "Towards a Functional Analysis of Limb Regeneration"
Susan V. Bryant, Ph.D.,
Development Biology Center & Department of Development & Cell Biology,
University of California, Irvine

2:55 p.m. "Plasticity of the Differentiated State in Urodele Regeneration"
Jeremy P. Brockes, Ph.D.,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University College London

4:00 p.m. "Ependymal Cells: A Key to Spinal Cord Regeneration"
Ellen A.G. Chernoff, Ph.D.,
Department of Biology,
Indiana University- Purdue University at Indianapolis

Thursday, May 6, 1999, 10:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m. "From Stem Cells to Circuits in the Nervous System"
Ronald D.G. McKay, Ph.D.,
Laboratory for Molecular Biology,
National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke

11:50 a.m. "Marrow Stromal Cells as Vectors for Therapy of Diseases of the Skeletal System and Central Nervous System"
Darwin Prockop, M.D., Ph.D.,
Center for Gene Therapy,
MCP Hahnemann University

1:45 p.m. "p63, A p53 Homologue Essential for Limb Development and Epidermal Morphogenesis"
Alea A. Mills, Ph.D.,
Baylor College of Medicine

2:35 p.m. "Genetic Dissection of Mouse Regeneration"
Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D.,
The Wistar Institute

3:40 p.m. "Myogenic Progenitors from the Bone Marrow: A New Tool for Muscle Cell Replacement and Gene Therapy"
Fulvio Mavilio, Ph.D.,
Gene Therapy Program,
San Raffael Medical School

4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
David Stocum, Ph.D.

The Wistar Institute, established in 1892, was the first independent medical research facility in the country. For more than 100 years, Wistar scientists have been making history and improving world health through their development of vaccines for diseases that include rabies, German measles, infantile gastroenteritis (rotavirus), and cytomegalovirus; discovery of molecules like interleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fight bacteria, parasites, viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contribute to the development of diseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center.