Biology and physiology of stem cells in the CNS

NERM June 2 - 5, 2010 POTSDAM
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The scope of this symposium is still being determined; more details will be added soon.

Session organizer

Dr. Margot Mayer-Pröschel is Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester, NY.

Dr. Mayer-Pröschel received her diploma in microbiology from Julius Maximilian University, Germany in 1986. She received her Ph.D. in Virology/Microbiology from the Inst. Of Virology & Immunology at the University of Wurzburg, studying under Dr. V. ter Meulen. She performed postdoctoral research at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, UK with Prof. Mark Noble, then in 1995 joined the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah as an assistant professor. In 2000 she joined the Department of Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester. She is now also a member of the Rochester Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Dr. Mayer-Pröschel's research aims to understand the biological and molecular mechanisms governing precursor cell division, differentiation and survival in the brain.

• Identification of lineage restricted precursor cells
• CNS precursor cells and their derivatives in human disease and tissue repair paradigms: Gestational iron deficiency, Ataxia Telangiectasia (AT), spinal cord injury repair and human viral infections as a contributor to failure of repair.

Confirmed speakers

• Prof. Bonnie Firestein, Dept. of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers University. Dr. Firestein works on the biology of synapse formation and dendritic branching, a process that is necessary for successful stem cell therapy.
• Prof. Christoph Pröschel, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester. Dr. Pröschel is a stem cell biologist whose research studies the generation of stem ells from human ES and iPS cells for therapeutic applications. He will give an overview of the stem cell field, chemical induced iPS technology and and example of the application for disease processes.
• Dr. Erhard Bieberich, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA. Dr Bieberich is a chemist whose research focuses on the significance of lipid-dependent cell signaling pathways for cancer cell and cancer stem cell biology.

Prof. Firestein	Prof. Pröschel	Prof. Beiberich