Program of events

Wednesday 26th November 2008
Time Event Venue
8.00am-8.30am Registration Foyer, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University
8.30am-8.40am Introduction and Welcome Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University
Alan Mackay-Sim
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
Introduction and Welcome
8.40am-9.30am Opening Address Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Fiona Wood
Director, Western Australian Burns Unit
Scar free healing: A multidisciplinary scientific and clinical approach
9.30am-10.00am Symposium 1: Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Mari Dezawa
Department of Histology, Tohuku University
A challenge to auto-transplantation in neuro- and muscle-degenerative diseases: the discovery of specific induction systems in bone marrow stromal cells
10.00am-10.30am Morning Tea Foyer
10.30am-11.30pm Eva Sykova
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Charles University
Use of stem cells and biomaterials for treatment of spinal cord injury
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Gary Brooke
Mater Medical Research Institute
Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells
11.30pm-1.00pm Lunch Foyer
1.00pm-2.30pm Symposium 2: Autologous Sources for Cell Therapy Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Kohji Nishida
Graduate School of Medicine, Tohuku University
Corneal Reconstruction with Tissue-Engineered Cells
Sharon Oleskevich
Neuroscience Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Stem cell therapies in a rodent model of traumatic hearing loss
James St John
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
The olfactory ensheathing cell: origins of a heterogeneous population.
2.30pm-3.00pm Afternoon Tea and Posters Foyer
3.00pm-5.00pm Symposium 3: Stem Cell Bioinformatics Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Winston Hide
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University
A platform approach to classification of pluripotency using high throughput comparison between stem cell types
Alistair Forrest
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
Systems biology - lessons learnt from FANTOM4
Alistair Chalk
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
An integrated transcriptome analysis approach to characterise adult neural stem cells and study complex disease
Sean Grimmond
Institute of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Redefining stem cell biology through whole transcriptome sequencing
7.00pm-12.00pm Conference Dinner

Vino's Restaurant & Bar, Upper Level, Eagle Street Pier, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
Thursday 27th November 2008
Time Event Venue

8.00am-8.30am

Plenary
Hideyuki Okano
Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University
Neural differentiation of pluripotent stem cells-based therapy for spinal cord injury
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
8.30am-9.30am Symposium 4: Neural Stem Cells Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Kirsty Spalding
Karolinska Institute
Analysis of Neuronal Turnover in the Adult Human Brain
Stefano Pluchino
San Raffaelle Institute
The therapeutic plasticity of neural stem cells.
9.30am-10.30am Morning Tea and Posters Foyer
10.30am-12.00pm David Adams
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
Role of ion channels in adult neural precursor cell function
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Stephen Wood
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
Post-translational regulation of Neural Stem Cell function
Cate Browne
Institute of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Multipotent neural stem cells from adult mouse nose
12.00pm-1.00pm Lunch Foyer
1.00pm-3.00pm Free Presentations
Presentations from those submitted
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
3.00pm-3.30pm Afternoon Tea and Posters Foyer, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University
3.30pm-5.30pm Symposium 5: Stem Cells as Disease Models Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Christine Wells
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
The transcriptional landscape of the human olfactory stem cell niche
George Mellick
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
Using human olfactory-derived cell lines to study the aetiology of Parkinson's disease
John McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
and
The National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University.
What can stem cells tell us about schizophrenia?
Carolyn Sue
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, University of Sydney
Investigation of neurological disease using human olfactory stem cells
5.30pm-6.30pm Posters Foyer
7.30pm-11.00pm Speakers Dinner Tukka Restaurant
145 Boundary Street
West End, Brisbane 4101
Friday 28th November 2008
Time Event Venue
9.00am-9.30am Plenary
Nick Fisk, Director Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland
Fetal stem cells - betwixt and between - and their role in endogenous and therapeutic tissue repair.
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
9.30am-10.30am Symposium 6: Cancer Stem Cells Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Iver Langmoen
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oslo
Brain tumor stem cells - from the lab bench to the clinic
Brent Reynolds
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida
Targeting Cancer Stem Cells.

10.30am-11.00am

Morning Tea Foyer

11:00am-1.00pm

Session 7: Cell Therapy Clinical Trials in Australia Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Peta O'Connell
Office of Devices, Blood and Tissues, Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration
Clinical trials - the regulatory journey to the clinic
Zee Upton
Tissue Repair and Regeneration Program Queensland University of Technology
Towards clinical application of stem cells: development of novel defined media formulations for maintain stem cells serum-free and feeder cell-free culture of human embryonic stem cells
Silviu Itescu
Mesoblast Limited
Alan Mackay-Sim
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Griffith University
Olfactory ensheathing cells: A Phase I clinical trial in human spinal cord injury.
1.00pm-1.30pm Round Table Discussion
Where to from here: adult stem cells in the age of iPS cells?
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
1.30pm-1.45pm Closing Remarks
Alan Mackay-Sim, Director, National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
Ian Hanger Recital Hall
1.45pm-2.15pm Lunch Foyer

This is a preliminary version of the program

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