2024 SCARE Schedule
All lectures are in Loeb G70. Lab exercises are held in Loeb 306.
Coffee breaks will be served outside Loeb G70.
Meals are in the Swope Center Dining Room, 2nd floor. Any meal may be taken outdoors or in your room.
Breakfast: 7-8:30AM; Lunch: 11:30AM-1:00PM; Dinner: 5-7:00PM.
Time |
Event/Speaker |
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 |
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2:00 PM |
Optional Workshop: Basics of Cell Culturing |
5:00 PM |
Welcoming Dinner, Third floor of Loeb |
7:00 PM |
EEO Information and Logistics |
7:15 PM |
Brief Overview of Stem Cells, Directed Differentiation and iPSCs |
8:00 PM |
Introduction to Stem Cells and Regeneration in Planarian Flatworms |
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 |
|
9:00 AM |
MBL Welcome |
9:15 AM |
Skin Regeneration |
10:00 AM |
Pre-Lab Prep: hESC Differentiation |
10:45 AM |
Break |
11:00 AM |
Pre-Lab Prep: hESC Differentiation |
Noon |
Founder’s Luncheon (Loeb 3rd floor - Fish Bowl) |
1:00 PM |
Lab 1: Deriving Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells by Immunosurgery Lab 2: Regeneration in Planarians |
6:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM |
Course Participant Introductions |
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 |
|
9:00 AM |
Lecture: Using the Mexican Axolotl to Unlock the Secrets of Limb Regeneration |
9:45 AM |
Lecture: The Mexican Axolotl and Regeneration |
10:30 AM |
Break |
10:45 AM |
Lecture: Bottom-Up Islet Engineering |
Noon |
Founder’s Luncheon (Loeb 3rd floor - Fish Bowl) |
1:15PM |
Lab 1: Regeneration in Salamanders: limb regeneration Lab 2: Pancreatic Islet Engineering |
6:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM |
Pluripotent Stem Cells and Interspecies Organogenesis |
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 |
|
9:00 AM |
10x Presentation |
9:45 AM |
Break |
10:15 AM |
Lecture: Reenergizing Regeneration – Cell Metabolism at the Crossroads of Mammalian Digit Regeneration |
11:00 AM |
10x Presentation Lecture: Spatial Transcriptomic |
Noon |
Founder’s Luncheon (Loeb 3rd floor - Fish Bowl) |
1:00 PM |
Lab: Spatial RNA sequencing |
6:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM |
Stem Cell and Regeneration Research Funding |
8:00 PM |
Career Mentoring Discussion |
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 |
|
9:00 AM |
Lecture: Large Animal Models for Germ Cell Research |
9:45 AM |
Break |
10:00 AM |
Lecture: Derivation of Functional Spermatids from Pluripotent Stem Cells |
11:30 AM |
Free Afternoon to Explore Woods Hole and the Vineyard |
1:30 PM |
Optional Trip on the Gemma |
6:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM |
T-Shirt Nite Celebration |
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 |
|
9:00 AM |
Lecture: Investigating Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration using Patient-Specific Neurons |
9:45 AM |
Break |
10:00 AM |
Lecture: Picking your favorite - Cell identification and Selection Strategies in Human Neural Stem Cell Biology |
10:45 AM |
MBL Library Tours and Marine Resources Center |
Noon |
Founder’s Luncheon (Loeb 3rd floor - Fish Bowl) |
1:00 PM |
Lab 1: hESC Pluripotency & Differentiation Lab 2: Isolating & Characterizing Neural stem cells using FACS Strategy |
6:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM |
Zoom Lecture: Bioengineering CNS Morphogenesis for High-Throughput Screening in Regulatory Science and Disease Modeling Applications |
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 |
|
9:15 AM |
BIOETHICS LECTURE: "Biotech Boundaries: Ethical Animal Use and Reproductive Technologies" |
10:00 AM |
Coffee Break (Loeb break room, 3rd floor) |
10:30 AM |
Alumni Lecture: The influence of sperm on early embryo development: key to advancing assisted reproductive technologies |
11:15 AM |
Course Photo – Wear your T-shirts! |
Noon |
Lunch |
1:00 PM |
Lab 1: Finish all ongoing experiments |
3:00 PM |
Lab 2: Finish all ongoing experiments |
4:00 PM |
Break |
5:00 PM |
Pioneer Lecture: What makes a Stem Cell a Stem Cell and How Does it Go Bad? |
6:15 PM |
Break |
6:30 PM |
Reception and Awards Banquet |
8:00 PM |
Presentation of Pioneer Award and Student Certificates |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 |
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Check out of rooms before 10AM |