CRM researchers Prof Clare Blackburn and Dr Val Wilson are co-organising this two day meeting, sponsored by Abcam.

Description
Determining the origin of tissue stem/progenitor cells is key to our understanding of developmental biology. This meeting will focus on how and when self-renewing tissue stem cells arise during embryonic development. We will discuss common features between different stem cell lineages, and examine how modelling can inform in vivo studies. Join us in Edinburgh to learn more, exchange ideas and accelerate discoveries with leading scientists in this field.

Topics

• Gut and associated organs: when, where and how do stem cells arise?
• Specifying the hematopoetic lineage
• Stem cell development
• Specifying the neural lineag
• PGCs

Speakers
Keynote speakers

• Jonathan Slack (University of Minnesota, US)
• Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Institut Pasteur, France)

Invited speakers

• Clare Blackburn (CRM, University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Nicolas Bouchon (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Marella de Bruijn (University of Oxford, UK)
• Sten Eirik Jacobsen (University of Oxford, UK)
• Kim Jensen (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Robin Lovell-Badge (NIMR, MRC, UK)
• Alexander Medvinsky (CRM, University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Sarah Millar (University of Pennsylvania, US)
• Jean-François Nicolas (Institut Pasteur, France)
• Ben Simons (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Kate Storey (University of Dundee, UK)
• Val Wilson (CRM, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Details
Venue: Quincentenary Building, Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh
Program: preliminary program & timing to be confirmed
Capacity: max 150, register early to avoid dissapointment

Please visit the Abcam website for registration and further details.