Yale Stem Cell Center Recruitment Symposium

Amistad Building

Conference Room 112

8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am Opening Remarks

9:05 am Zachary Smith, PhD

Harvard University

Title: “Epigenetic regulation across major developmental

transitions”

9:55 am Valentina Lo Sardo, PhD

Scripps Research Institute

Title: “Deciphering the non-coding genome with iPSCs and genome editing”

11:05 am Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD

MIT

Title: “Translating nutrition facts into adult stem cell fate decisions”

11:55 am Joel Blanchard, PhD

MIT

Title: “Reconstruction of the Human brain in a dish to understand and reverse Genetic susceptibility to Neurodegeneration”