Joint CSH Asia/ISSCR Conference on
Cellular Programs & Reprogramming
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
Abstract Deadline:September 15, 2011
October 24 – October 28, 2011

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Arranged by:
Hongkui Deng,Cellular Programs & Reprogramming, China
Narry Kim,Seoul National University, Korea
Ronald McKay,The Lieber Institute, USA
Richard A. Young, Whitehead Institute/M.I.T., USA

We are pleased to announce the 1st Joint CSH Asia/ISSCR Conference on Cellular Programs & Reprogramming which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7.30pm on the evening of Monday October 24th, and will conclude after lunch on Friday October 28th, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 75th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in stem cell research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Topics:
- Human Stem Cells
- Control of Pluripotency
- Differentiation Mechanisms
- Cell Interactions
- Molecular Control
- Cell Lineage
- Cell Therapies

Keynote Speakers:
Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, USA
Gordon M. Keller, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada

Invited Speakers:
Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, CHINA
Linzhao Cheng, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Kevin D'Amour, VIACYTE, USA
Sheng Ding,University of California, San Francisco, USA
Hongkui Deng, Peking University, College of Life Sciences, CHINA
Tariq Enver, UCL Cancer Institute, UNITED KINGDOM
Fred Gage, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Memorial Sloan Kettering, USA
Narry Kim, Seoul National University, KOREA
Mark Krasnow, Stanford University School of Medicine/HHMI, USA
Linheng Li, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Haifan Lin, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Jennifer Nichols, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, UK
Hitoshi Niwa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, JAPAN
Hideyuki Okano, Keio University, JAPAN
Duanqing Pei, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health,CAS, China
Wolf Reik, The Babraham Institute, UNITED KINGDOM
Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institute, USCF, USA
Lorenz Studer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Toshio Suda, Keio University, JAPAN
Richard Young, Whitehead Institute/M.I.T., USA
Fiona Watt, CR UK Cambridge Research Institute, UNITED KINGDOM
Marius Wernig, Stanford University, USA
Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University, USA
Yi Zhang, HHMI and UNC at Chapel Hill, USA

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October 2011.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

Package Content:

Japanese Special Package Rate and Watson Program do not apply to this joint meeting.

Please kindly note:

1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.

For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.

For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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