The McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, together with the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, is hosting a seminar series to profile exciting new research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Leading scientists from around the world are invited to present their research to the Toronto scientific community. Updates will be posted here regularly.
Upcoming Seminars
April 22, 2010 – Dr. Laurie Ailles and Craig Gedye,Division of Stem Cell & Developmental Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute
Location and Time: MS 2173, 1 King’s College Circle, 4-5pm
“Cancer Stem Cells: Concept or Con Job”
Past Seminars
February 25, 2010 – Dr. Thomas K Waddell, Division of Cellular & Molecular Biology, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Nadeem Moghal, Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute
Location and Time: MS 2172, 1 King’s College Circle, 4-5pm
“Stem cells and the lung – basic biology and therapeutic applications”
March 17, 2010 – Dr. Matthew Bjerknes, Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Location and Time: Red Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, TDCCBR Building, 160 College Street, 4-5pm
“Cell Lineage Metastability”
January 20, 2010 – Dr. Dan Goldowitz, University of British Columbia
Dr. Goldowitz is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child & Family Research Institute at the University of British Columbia
Location and Time: Red Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, TDCCBR Building, 160 College Street. 5-6pm
"GRiTS and the Construction of the Mammalian Brain"
August 28, 2009 – Dr. Cédric Blanpain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr. Blanpain is a researcher of the Belgian National Research Scientific Fund (FNRS) at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.
Location and Time: PMH Auditorium 6-604, 610 University Ave, 2-3 pm
"Deciphering the cellular and transcriptional hierarchy during cardiovascular progenitor specification"
July 20, 2009 – Dr. Michael Rudnicki, Ottawa Health Research Institute
Dr. Rudnicki is a Senior Scientist and Director of the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He is also Scientific Director of the Stem Cell Network and holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics.
"Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Function"
June 3, 2009 – Dr. Tsvee Lapidot, Weizmann Institute
Dr. Lapidot is a Professor of Immunology and the Edith Arnoff Stein Professorial Chair in Stem Cell Research at the Weizmann Institute, Israel.
"Dynamic interactions between the nervous and immune systems with the microenvironment regulate hematopoietic stem cells"
May 21, 2009 – Dr. Fiona Doetsch, Columbia University
Dr. Doetsch is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Columbia University Medical Center, New York.
"Stem cells and their niche in the adult mammalian brain"
 May 8, 2009 – Dr. Austin Smith, University of Cambridge
Dr. Smith is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge, UK.
"Capturing pluripotency"
March 26, 2009 – Dr. Amy Wagers, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Wager is a faculty member in the Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.
“Stem cell maintenance and function in aged and regenerating tissues”
 February 20, 2009 – Dr. Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Dr. Nishikawa is Director of the Lab for Stem Cell Biology at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan.
“Purification of hematopoietic stem cells without negative selection markers”
October 16, 2008 – Dr. Timm Schroeder, German Research Centre for Environmental Health
Dr. Schroeder is Deputy Director of the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Stem Cell Research.
"Tracking of stem cell behavior at the single cell level: New tools for old questions"
September 8, 2008 – Dr. Tony Green, University of Cambridge
Dr. Green is University Chair in the Department of Haematology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
"From the birth of a HSC enhancer to death in the myeloproliferative malignancies"
August 13, 2008 – Dr. Leif Carlsson, Umeå University, Sweden
Dr. Carlsson is a professor at the Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University in Sweden.
“The role of the LIM-homeobox gene Lhx2 in stem cell function, organ development and disease"
 June 26, 2008 – Dr. Joseph Wu, Stanford University
Dr. Wu is an assistant professor in Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.
“Molecular imaging of adult and embryonic stem cell fate”
 May 15, 2008 – Dr. Carla Bender Kim, Children’s Hospital, Harvard University
Dr. Kim is a member of the Department of Genetics and the Children’s Hospital Stem Cell Program at Harvard University.
“Examining stem cells in normal lung and lung cancer”
April 24, 2008 – Dr. Charles Murry from University of Washington
Dr. Murry is Co-Director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington.
“Embryonic Stem Cells: Differentiation Pathways and Cardiac Repair Applications”
April 3, 2008 – Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger,
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Dr. Hochedlinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Cancer Center and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Harvard University.
“Reprogramming of adult cells into pluripotent cells”
 November 13, 2007 – Dr. Austin Smith from Cambridge University
Dr. Smith, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge, presented his work in a presentation entitled "Capturing Pluripotency."
 November 1, 2007 – Visiting Speaker Dr. Anand Asthagiri from Caltech
Dr. Asthagiri, from the California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”), presented his work to a Toronto audience in a presentation entitled “Quantitative variations in molecular networks and the emergence of multicellular phenotypic diversity."
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