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2011 World Stem Cell Report

World Stem Cell Report 2011 2011 World Stem Cell Report
More than 26 articles and 200 pages of previously unpublished insight into the forefront of regenerative medicine.
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Poster #03: The Pleotrophic Effects of IGF-I on Human Spinal Cord Neural Progenitor Cells;
Simon Lunn, J. Simon Lunn, Crystal Pacut, Carey Backus, Yu Hong, Karl Johe, Michael Hefferan, Martin Marsala, Eva Feldman;
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Poster #04: Counter-productivity of Patenting Stem Cell Research Methods and Procedures ;
Shwetha Maddur, Thrusha Chauhan;
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Poster #05: The derivation of pancreatic stem cells from human embryonic stem cells;
Margot Arntfield, Margot Arntfield, Lihua Li, Mike Wheeler, Cheryle Seguin, Derek van der Kooy;
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Poster #06: Possibility of Reprogramming of Normal and Cancerous Human Cells Lines Into Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells By Their Co-electroporation With Living Xenopus Laevis Frog Oocytes. ;
Sergei Paylian, None;
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Poster #07: Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Stem Cells in Head and Neck Cancer;
George Wilson, S. Galoforo, B. Marples, T. Geddes, B. Thibodeau, S. Park, J. Akervall,;
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Poster #08: Levels of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Angiopoietin-1 are Markedly Increased in Medium of Cultured Stem Cells after Exposure to Hypoxia/Anoxia;
Sharad Rastogi, Michelle Mohyi, Ramesh C. Gupta, Bipin Sunkara, Mengjun Wang, Itamar Ilsar, Hani N. Sabbah;
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Poster #11: Novel synthetic, xeno-free surface for expansion and differentiation of neural stem cells in serum-free conditions. (FINAL VERSION);
Wendy A. Baker, Sadashiva K. Pai Paula J. Dolley-Sonneville Zara K. Melkoumian Odessa N. Petzold;
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Poster #12: Targeting the Self-Renewal Capacity of Cancer Stem Cells with the Telomere Eradicating Agent KML001;
Silke Suer, Nicole Nechiporchik, Angelika Burger;
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Poster #13: MSC Specific Biomarkers;
May Al-Nbaheen, Vishnu Balaji, Dalia Ali, Mohamed Thajden, Moustapha Kassem, Fawzy Aljaser and Abdullah Aldahmash;
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Poster #14: In Vitro Redifferentiation of Thymus Cells into Parathyroid for Cellular Replacement Therapy of Hypoparathyroidism;
Kathleen Ignatoski, Eve L. Bingham, University of Michigan; Lauren K. Frome, University of Michigan; Gerard M. Doherty, University of Michigan;
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Poster #15: iPS-Cell Derived Neural Stem Cell for Glioma Therapy;
Esther Lee, Doang Hoang Lam and Wang Shu;
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Poster #16: Establishment of New Cell Lines and an Insight to Stem Cell Properties of Human Malignat Mesothelioma.;
Farhana Ishrat Ghani, Hiroto Yamazaki, Division of Clinical Immunology, Advanced Clinical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;Chikao Morimoto, Division of Clinical Immunology, Advanced Clinical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;
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Poster #17: Next-Generation Sequencing Tools For Genetic and Epigenetic Profiling of Single Stem Cells;
John Langmore, Emmanuel Kamberov, Takao Kurihara, and Joseph M'Mwirichia;
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Poster #18: Education On Umbilical Cord Blood Donation for African-American and Hispanic Families;
RoiAnn Phillips, Logan Faye Zinman AM Candidate, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Arthur Quern Fellow to HealthConnect One 1301 W Fletcher #131 Chicago, IL 60657 loganzinman@gmail.com 847-513-1716;
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Poster #19: Stem Cells as Imaging Probes and Gene Carrier;
Ali Arbab, Nadimpalli RS Varma, ASM Iskander, M Meser Ali, Branislava Janic;
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Poster #21: Neurotrophic Factor RT-PCR Array Analysis on Human Fetal Brain Cells Subjected to Experimental Hypoxia Followed by Hypothermia in Vitro.;
Nitin Chouthai, Reshma Khan Arun Saini Sharada Vangipuram;
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Poster #22: Identification of tumorigenic renal cancer stem cells in human renal carcinoma cell lines based on high aldehyde dehydrogenase activity;
Lin Wang, Lin Wang, Paul Park, Huina Zhang, Frank La Marca, Juan Valdivia and Chia-Ying Lin;
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Poster #23: Stem and progenitor marker expression as a predictor of renal regeneration in 5/6 nephrectomized rats treated with therapeutically bio-active primary renal cell sub-populations;
John W. Ludlow, Christopher W. Genheimer, Roger Ilagan, Thomas Spencer, Eric Werdin, Russell W. Kelley, Andrew T. Bruce, Sumana Choudhury, Deepak Jain, and Joydeep Basu;
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Poster #24: A novel and simple method for differentiation of dopaminergic neurons from human embryonic stem cells;
William Freed, Jia Chen, Lila Worden, Kevin G. Becker, Yongqing Zhang, Charles Spivak, Carl Lupica, and Tandis Vazin;
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Poster #25: Novel fibroblast-specific marker for rapid, efficient removal of mEFs from stem cell cultures by magnetic separation;
Sebastian Knoebel, Sebastian Knoebel, Annett Kurtz, Claudia Schwarz, Dominik Eckardt, Serena Barral, Andreas Bosio;
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Poster #26: Removal of early differentiated cells from mouse pluripotent stem cell cultures by magnetic cell sorting (MACS).;
Dominik Eckardt, Josephine Ecklebe, Sebastian Knoebel, Daniel Kuesters, Nadine Chelius, Frank Nicolai Single, Andreas Bosio, Dominik Eckardt;
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Poster #27: Stem cell translational research at the Cell and Molecular Therapy Center (NUCEL) aiming at new tools for Regenerative Medicine.;
Mari Sogayar, Ana Claudia O. Carreira, Thiago R. Mares-Guia, Letícia Labriola, Fernando H. Lojudice, Ana Carolina V. Campos-Lisbôa, Juan Carlos Bustos-Valenzuela, Maria Fernanda Forni, Erik Halcsik, Ana Lúcia C. Rodrigues, Letícia F. Terra, Patrícia M. Kossugue, Marluce C. Mantovani, Ilana Gabanyi, Mateus N. Aoki, Roberta F. Mourão, Gisella Grazioli, Laura S. Polizel, Patrícia M. Higa, Gabriel M. A. Antonini, Felipe S. Zattar, Thalita C. Oliveira, José Mauro Granjeiro, Mari C. Sogayar;
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Poster #28: The Promise on Hold: A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of the NIH Stem Cell Funding Freeze;
Geoffrey Lomax, CIRM;
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Poster #29: Rat Embryonic Stem Cell Line Derivation ;
Thomas Saunders, Wanda E. Filipiak Michael G. Zeidler Galina B. Gavrilina Elizabeth D. Hughes;
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Poster #30: Angiogenic potential of cord blood derived AC133+ endothelial progenitor cells after long term in vitro expansion and cryopreservation ;
Branislava Janic, ASM Iskander Nadimpalli Ravi S Varma M Meser Ali Ali S. Arbab;
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Poster #32: Growth of embryonic stem cells in self-assembling scaffolds;
Ferman Chavez, Chavez, Ferman A.1, Pawlak, Piotr L.1, Chaudhry, Faisal R.2, Ciavattone, Nicholas3, Dinda, S.2, Chaudhry, G. Rasul3 1Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 2 School of Heath Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Rochester, MI 48309;
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Poster #33: Is the Protein Component of the Conditioned Medium Responsible for Supporting the Undifferentiated Growth of Human Embryonic Stem Cells?;
Daniel Mortens, W. Dailey, S. R. Chaudhry, S. Dinda, C. McKee, G. Rasul Chaudhry;
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Poster #33b: INDUCTION OF STEROID RECEPTORS BY SEX HORMONS IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS;
Sumi Dinda, Dinda, Sumi1, Chaudhry, Sarah1, McKee, Christina2, Taylor, Donald3, Chaudhry, Faisal1, Perze-Cruet, Mick3, Chaudhry, G. Rasul2 1School of Health Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA, 2Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA, 3William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA;
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Poster #34: Migration of Murine Subventricular Zone Neurospheres;
Danny LeBert, Dr. Robert Winn;
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Poster #35: Plasticity of Canine Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (cAD-MSCs): Induction of expression of neural markers ;
Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan 1,2,3; Manish Neupane 1*; Matti Kiupel 1,4; Megan Goodall 3; and Chia-Cheng Chang 1,5. 1: Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, 2: Small Animal Clinical Sciences, 3: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 4: Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, *Current affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, 5: Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824.;
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Poster #36: DEVELOPING A MODEL OF HUMAN TUMOR VASCULATURE USING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS;
Daniela Burgos-Ojeda, D. Burgos-Ojeda1 , K. McLean3 , H. Pulaski3 , Y.Gong2 , and R.J. Buckanovich1,2,3 Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program1 , Department of Internal Medicine Division Hematology-Oncology2, and Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology Division of Gynecologic Oncology3, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;
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Poster #39: Noninvasive monitoring of Cells using the Sodium Iodide Symporter Gene (NIS);
Kah Whye Peng, Stephen J. Russell, M.D., Ph.D.;
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Poster #40: DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL AND TERATOMA FORMATION OF MOUSE PARTHENOGENETIC EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS WITH SUPRESSED H19 EXPRESSION;
NELI RAGINA, Keri Ann Cunniff Patricia Senagore Eun Ah Chang Kellie Sisson Pam Swiatek Jose Cibelli;
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Poster #42: Human iPS, ES, and Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Response to Attachment Proteins;
Mai Lam, Michael T. Longaker;
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Poster #43: Effect of Hazardous Chemicals on the Cord Blood Stem Cells;
Asma Mirza, Sarah Chaudhry, Sumi Dinda, and G. Rasul Chaudhry;
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Poster #45: CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED WILD BIRDS USING INTERSPECIES TRANSPLANTATION OF GERM-LINE PROGENITOR CELLS;
Ricardo Pereira, Ricardo JG Pereira1, Darrin M Karcher2, Elizabeth A McNiel3, Gloria I Perez1,4 Michigan State University, 1Department of Physiology, 4173 BPS, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. 2Department of Animal Sciences, 1287G Anthony Hall, East Lansing, MI. 3Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, D211 Veterinary Medical Center, East Lansing, MI. 4LARCel, Programa Andaluz de Terapia Celular y Medicina Regenerativa, Sevilla, Spain.;
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Poster #46: The expression of tgif1 in zebrafish retinal stem cells;
Christopher Sifuentes, Christopher J. Sifuentes1, Jenny R. Lenkowski1, Cecilia B. Moens2, Pamela A. Raymond1 1Dept. Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2HHMI, Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA;
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Poster #47: Raman imaging of Embryonic Mouse Stem Cells Differentiation via Formation of Embryoid bodies;
Evgenia Zuser, Evgenia Zuser, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University evgenia_zuser@yahoo.com Judith Newmark, Tatyana Chernenko, Max Diem The abstract is based on results that have been published at ICORS,2010;
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Poster #49: Automated Laser-Based Human iPS Cell Line Derivation & Propagation;
Kristi Hohenstein, Cory Peterson, Anuradha Soundararajan, Natalia Kan, Brandon Nelson, Mark Mercola, and Fredrik Kamme.;
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Poster #51: Reproducible Laser-Based Generation of Uniform Human iPS Cell-Derived Embryoid Bodies with Enhanced Differentiation Potential ;
Kristi Hohenstein, Cory Peterson, Anuradha Soundararajan,Natalia Kan, Mark Mercola, Fredrik Kamme.;
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Poster #52: RhoC GTPase influences the breast cancer stem cell phenotype;
Devin Rosenthal, Jie Zhang, Liwei Bao, Lian Zhu, and Sofia Merajver;
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Poster #53: Effects of gamma radiation on stem cells;
Christina McKee, Weisberg, Chloe, Chaudhry, Faisal, Vellaichamy, Gothum, Wilson, George, Taylor, Donald, Mitchell, Anne, Dinda, Sumi, Chaudhry, G. Rasul;
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Poster #54: DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES OF MOUSE TROPHOBLAST AND EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS TO CELLULAR STRESS;
Jill Slater, Slater JA, Zhong W, Proteasa S, Zhou S, Xie Y, Puscheck EE, and DA Rappolee;
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Poster #56: Novel Active Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells detected by high-resolution Mapping of RNA Polymerase-II around Gene Transcription Start Sites;
Kenneth Mitton, Janelle Buttry, Jason Sotzen, Wojciech Gryc, Ed Guzman, Padmaja Tummala*, Michael Trese**, Rasul Chaudhry***. Eye Research Institute, Control of Gene Expression Lab, Oakland University, Rochester Michigan. *College of Medicine, Australian National University, Canberra Australia. **Department of Ophthalmology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Michigan. ***Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester Michigan.;
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Poster #57: STRESS ENZYMES REPORT SUBOPTIMAL CULTURE CONDITIONS CAUSED BY CONTRADICTORY SIGNALS FOR PLURIPOTENCY IN STEM CELL CULTURE;
sichang zhou, Xie, Y;Abdallah, ME; Puscheck, EE;and DA Rappolee;;
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Poster #58: Inhibition of FGF receptor and MEK signaling improves derivation of mESC ;
Sandra Mojica-Perez, Crystal Pacut, Gary D. Smith, K. Sue O'Shea;
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Poster #61: Colonizing of human bone allografts with mesenchymal stem cells ;
Miklos Weszl, Attila Cselenyak, Levente Kiss, Zsombor Lacza;
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Poster #62: Evaluation of Klf4 Recombinant Proteins for Improved Reprogramming;
Yong Tang, Chih-Jen Lin, X. Cindy Tian;
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Poster #63: Characterization of Bone Marrow-Derived Adult Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Aastrom Autologous Cell Therapy Product, Tissue Repair Cells;
Frank Zeigler, F. Zeigler, M. Kreke, C. Parrish, J. Osborne, A. Wong and R. Bartel;
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Poster #64: Combining Fully-Synthetic Artificial Matrix with Defined Media for Long-Term Growth of Human Embryonic Stem Cells;
Gary Smith, Villa-Diaz L, Nandivada H, Krebsbach PH, O’Shea KS, Lahann J;
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Poster #65: Characterization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived 3D Artificial Tissue Structures Produced with Rudimentary Tissue Engineering Methods Using Natural ECM Scaffolding Materials.;
Timothy Lyden, Timothy Morris and Travis Cordie;
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Poster #66: Signaling from the adult lens and cornea inhibits the proliferation of adult retinal stem cells;
Carl Wonders, Laurent Balenci Brenda L. K. Coles Laura Clarke Derek van der Kooy;
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Poster #67: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation by a Novel microRNA;
Yao-chang Tsan, Maria H. Morell, PhD K. Sue O'Shea, PhD;
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Poster #68: Mesenchymal stem cell-based antioxidant gene therapy as a medical countermeasure against radiation;
Weiwen Deng, Weiwen Deng, Aly S. Abdel-Mageed, Anthony J. Senagore, Daniel W. Pietryga, Robert H. Connors, Troy A. Giambernardi, Rick V. Hay;
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Poster #69: Production of RBC from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (ES) in a Bioreactor System;
Ewa Carrier, Anjani Didwania, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego. Steven Josephs, PhD, Department of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, Rosalia DeNecochea-Campo, Department of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, Anand S Srivastava, PhD-,Department of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego;
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Poster #70: Search for a Clinical Biomarker for Human Normal and “Cancer” Stem Cells;
Mei-Hui Tai, Birgit Zipser James E. Trosko;
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Poster #71: Cell therapy using non-pluripotent H9c2 cardiomyoblasts attenuates cell death and decreases malondialdehyde levels in an in vitro ischemia-reperfusion model;
Miklos Weszl, Levente Kiss, Zsolt Benko, Mónika Szepes, Attila Cselenyák, Eszter Pankotai, Zsombor Lacza;
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Poster #72: Canine adult stem cells as a model for human cardiac stem cell research;
Hannah Geere, David J. Argyle Brendan M. Corcoran Bruce Whitelaw Elspeth Milne David Bennett Sally A. Argyle;
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Poster #73: The Corning® Synthemax™ Surface: A Synthetic, Xeno-Free Surface For Long-Term Self-Renewal of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Defined Media.;
Jennifer Weber, Zara Melkoumian, David Weber, Andrei Fadeev, Jerry Zhou, Paula Dolley-Sonneville, Jessica Kelley, Jiwei Yang, Liqun Qiu, Catherine Priest, Christopher Shogbon, Arthur Martin, Jodelle Nelson, Jim Beltzer, Santona Pal, Anthony Davies, Ralph Brandenberger;
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Poster #74: SYNTHETIC SURFACE FOR LONG-TERM CULTURE OF HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN SERUM-FREE, XENO-FREE CONDITIONS;
Paula Dolley-Sonneville, Katelin S. Mryglot, Zara K. Melkoumian;
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Poster #75: The Transcription factor Bright plays a role in re-programming by directly regulating key pluripotency factors;
Melissa Popowski, Kira Rose, Dr.Carol Webb, Dr.Phil Tucker;
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Poster #76: Study Cell-Substrate Interactions using Label Free Sensor Technology;
xiangqun Zeng, Xiangqun Zeng1*, Zhihong Shen1, Yanyan Wang1 , Weilian Qiu1 , Heping Yan2 , Ray Mernaugh2 AFFILIATION: 1Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA, 2Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232;
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Poster #78: Successful re-specification of adult cells to insulin producing phenotypes using transcription factors;
James Dutton, Akinci Ersin, Banga Anannya, Greder Lucas and Jonathan MW Slack Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, USA;
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Poster #79: Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from canine adult somatic cells;
Jiesi Luo, Steven T. Suhr, Eun Ah Chang, Kai Wang, Pablo J. Ross, Laura L. Nelson, Patrick J. Venta, Jason G. Knott, and Jose B. Cibelli;
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Poster #81: Neuronal precursors and functional cardiomyocytes derived from of human iPSCs generated using episomal plasmids;
Sebastian Canovas, Ruben Peco, Andalusian Initiative for Advanced Therapies and Michigan State University. Chang EA, Animal Science, Michigan State University. Cibelli JB, Michigan State University and Andalusian Initiative for Advanced Therapies and.;
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