The Annual Meeting of UC Berkeley Stem Cell Center took place in beautiful Asilomar. The meeting was very well attended and had dynamic discussion of presented posters and talks. Melod Mehdipour presented an excellent talk on BONCAT. Other notable talks:
Kevin Tharp (Stahl and Healy Labs; Weaver Lab, UCSF)
“Actomyosin-Mediated Tension Orchestrates Thermogenic Adipocyte Development and
Function”
Andrew Modzelewski (He Lab)
“The Role of Retrotransposon Reactivation in Pre-Implantation Development”
Verena Charwat (Healy Lab)
“Organ-on-a-Chip Systems for Advanced Drug Screening: a Human 3D Cardiac
Tissue Model”
John Boyle (Hockemeyer Lab)
“Telomere Length Regulation in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Mark Kline (X-Therma)
“Cryoprotectants: The Blue Print of Ice Defense – Past, Present, and Future”
Elaine Su (Herr Lab)
“Isoelectric Focusing of Single, Adherent Cells”
Alison Killilea (BDS Cell Culture Facility)
“New Stem Cell Resources at the UCB Cell Culture Facility” Melanie Worley (Hariharan Lab)
“Damage-Induced Cell Fate Plasticity in Drosophila”
Richard Harland
“Neural Progenitor Cell Hyperproliferation in a (Distant) Model of Autism
Spectrum Disorder”
John Ngai
“Deconstructing Stem Cell Trajectories at Single Cell Resolution”
Kevin Mark (Rape Lab)
“Ubiquitin-Dependent Regulation of Stem Cell Self-Renewal”
Yan Zhang (Wildsoet Lab)
“Role of RPE-Derived Mone Morphogenetic Proteins in Eye Growth Regulation –
Genes That Can See”
John Blair (Bateup Lab)
“Widespread Translational Remodeling during Human Neuronal Differentiation”
Shasha Chong (Darzacq and Tjian Labs)
“Live-Cell Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals Dynamic and Selective Transcription
Factor Low-Complexity Domain Interactions”
Johannes Schoeneberg (Drubin and Betzig Labs)
“4D Lattice Light-Sheet Imaging of Live Stem Cell-Derived Organoids”