18th Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium

Blood Stem Cells: Mechanisms, Pathogenesis, and Genome Editing

APRIL 17, 2024 | Madison, WI

Image courtesy of Xin Gao group, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This year’s Symposium is coordinated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, the Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute and the BTC Institute. The Symposium will be held at the Biopharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) on the Promega Corporation Campus in Fitchburg/Madison, WI. Promega Campus Map

Although blood stem cells were the first adult stem cells to be defined and isolated, there has been considerable recent progress in transforming knowledge on mechanisms endowing the stem cells with unique activity, establishing the complex cellular landscapes inhabited by the stem cells, engineering systems to generate the stem cells, and innovating stem cell-based therapeutics.  This symposium will bring together leaders in the field and trainees of diverse backgrounds to discuss these recent fundamental and translational advances, which inform broader aspects of stem cell biology and molecular medicine.

location: biopharmaceutical technology center (BTC) on the promega corporation campus in fitchburg, WI
Promega Campus Map

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SCHEDULE

POSTER SESSION + CONTEST

POSTER ABSTRACTS 2024

NOTE: the abstract limit has been reached – no longer accepting submissions – Thank you.

HOTEL information:

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Exhibitor’s Agreement Form
Rules and Regulations for Exhibitors
exhibitor/sponsorship payment form

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CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

Andrew Elefanty, Ph.D., Group Leader of the Blood Diseases Laboratory; co-presenter: Elizabeth Ng, Ph.D., Team Leader, Blood Development Laboratory; both: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital Flemington Road, Parkville Victoria, Australia

Xin Gao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Lingheng Li, Ph.D., Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; Professor, The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute; Co-leader, Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Cancer Center; Professor; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine; Kansas City, MO

Eirini Papapetrou, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Center for Advancement of Blood Cancer Therapies (CABCT); Professor, Departments of Oncological Sciences, and Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Matthew Porteus, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Stanford Medicine, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Alexandra Soukup, Ph.D., Scientist I, Bresnick Laboratory, Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

Nancy Speck, Ph.D., John W. Eckman Professor in Medical Science II; Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute; Member, Abramson Cancer Center; Member, Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Co-Leader, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Abramson Cancer Center; Chair, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Ulrich G. Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Professor, Department of Oncology; Professor, Department of Medicine; Chair Department of Cell Biology; Edward P. Evans Endowed Professor for Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Deputy Director, and Associate Director for Basic Science Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center; Co-Director, Blood Cancer Institute; Interim Director, The Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Owen Tamplin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Regenerative Biology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Adam Wilkinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Radcliffe School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

 

moderators

Marjorie Brand, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Jenny Gumperz, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

Igor Slukvin, M.D., Ph.D., Henry Pitot Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Jing Zhang, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

POSTER JUDGES

Randolph Ashton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Associate Director, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

Sean Palecek, Ph.D., Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Xuan Pan, VMD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Lixin Rui, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

organizing committee

Marjorie Brand, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Emery Bresnick, Ph.D., Gary Felsenfeld Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology; Lowell and Gwendolyn Smythe Endowed Professor; Director, UW-Madison Blood Cancer Research Program, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

Jane Churpek, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Medicine, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Xin Gao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Timothy J. Kamp, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Medicine, Cell and Regenerative Biology; Director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

Igor Slukvin, M.D., Ph.D., Henry Pitot Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Owen Tamplin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI