CCMB Symposium 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Broad CIRM Center 1st floor seminar room
1425 San Pablo St., Los Angeles, CA 90033
| 11:00am | Introduction | Yang Chai, DDS, PhD Director, CCMB Associate Dean of Research, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC |
| 11:00-11:40am | “Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during tooth development and renewal” | Irma Thesleff, DDS, PhD Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki |
| 11:40am-12:20pm | “Dental pulp mesenchymal stem cells in tooth growth and repair” | Paul Sharpe, PhD Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King’s College London |
| 12:20-1:20pm | Lunch | |
| 1:20pm-2:00pm | “Head formation in mouse: attributes of the gene regulatory network” | Patrick Tam, BSc, PhD, FAA FSB, FRS Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney |
| 2:00-2:20pm | “Beyond the mutant gene in CHARGE syndrome: mechanistic insights to develop novel therapeutic approaches” | Ruchi Bajpai, PhD CCMB and Keck School of Medicine of USC |
| 2:20-3:00pm | “Hippo signaling in craniofacial development” | James F. Martin, MD, PhD Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 3:00-3:20pm | Break | |
| 3:20-3:40pm | “Protein methylation signaling in cell differentiation” | Jian Xu, PhD CCMB |
| 3:40-4:00pm | “Regulating skeletal progenitor cells at the interface between tendon and bone” | Amy Merrill, PhD CCMB and Keck School of Medicine of USC |
| 4:00-4:40pm | “Using next generation sequencing to define monogenic causes of craniosynostosis” | Andrew Wilkie, FRS, FMedSci, FRCP Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University |
| Reception to follow |