STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Pathology/Dev Bio 296 Winter Quarter 2009-2010

Room M??TBD M F 1:15-3:05

Course Directors: Renee Reijo Pera, Minx Fuller, Michael Longaker,

Roel Nusse and Irv Weissman

 

 

A-side, Basic Science

B-side, Medical

Week 1

Monday

¼

 

Stem Cell concepts

Roel Nusse

 

Regenerative medicine: Challenges in the clinic, Promises from the lab

Mike Longaker

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

1/8

 

Stem Cell Methods

Roel Nusse

Imaging Stem cells

Joe Wu??

 

 

Week 2

Monday

1/11

 

Hematopoiesis as a paradigm for adult or tissue stem cell biology

Irv Weissman

Tools for molecular analysis of stem cells

Steve Quake

 

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

1/15

 

Origin and regulation of normal and leukemic hematopoietic stem cells

Irv Weissman

HSC transplantation

Judith Shizuru

 

 


Week 3

Monday

1/18

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – NO LECTURES

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

1/22

 

Cell cycle control and the regulation of proliferation vs quiescence in stem cells and their lineages  Julien Sage

Oncogenes and Stem Cells

Mike Cleary

 

 

Week 4

Monday

1/25

 

Stem cells and the niche:

Asymmetric Division

Margaret Fuller

 Artificial niches in stem cell culture and therapeutic transplantation

Kevin Healy, UC Berkeley

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

1/29

 

Stem cells in epithelia: Intestine, colon, and mammary gland

Roel Nusse

Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Mike Clarke

 

 

 

Week 5

Monday

2/1

 

Epithelial stem cells: Skin, hair and wound repair

Tony Oro

Skin regeneration & skin tumors

Paul Khavari

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

2/5

 

Neuroblasts and neural precursors in early brain development   Ricardo Dolmetsch

 Regenerating spinal cord

Nobuko Uchida, Stem Cells, Inc.

 

Week 6

Monday

2/8

Neural stem cells and Adult Neurogen-esis/ Cancer Therapies and the brain

Theo Palmer

Brain Cancer: Childhood medulloblastoma

Mike Edwards

 

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

2/12

 

Stem cells in reserve: Muscle satellite cells and regulation of muscle repair

Tom Rando

Muscular Dystrophies: The promise of stem cell therapy

Tom Rando

 

Week 7

Monday

2/15

PresidentsÕ Day – NO LECTURES

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

2/19

 

Early developmental decisions in mammals: Origin of ICM and germline

Renee Reijo Pera

Gastrulation

Jeremy Reiter

UCSF? Or Renee?

 

Week 8

Monday

2/22

 

ES Cells: Transcriptional Regulation of Pluripotency

Margaret Fuller

 

Teratocarcinoma

Mike Clarke

 

 

WED.2/25

 

Friday

2/26

M114

Epigenetic maintenance of cell state

Joanna Wysocka

Reproductive technology

Barry Behr

 

Week 9

Monday

3/1

Aging and Stem Cells

Anne Brunet

Dedifferentiation and regeneration in limbs

Helen Blau

WED

Discussion Sections?

Friday

3/5

 

ICM/ES to Endoderm

Eric Chiao

Strategies for replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes

Magali Fontaine

Week 10 (Dead Week)

Monday

3/8

Aging and Stem Cells

Howard Chang

ÒCan stem cells make the deaf hear and the blind see?Ó   Stefan Heller

 

WED

 

Friday

3/12

Reprogramming

Marius Wernig

ES cells, cardiac stem cells, and heart repair

Deepak Srivastava, UCSF

Week 11 (End-Quarter Examinations) No Lectures

NB. GRAD ADMISSIONS –Mar ??

 

 

Make it all parts required for everyone. 3-5 credits for all