Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Stem Cells, Cancer and Cell Fate Diversity
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:35 pm
8:35 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Exosomes as Modulators of Anti-Tumor Immune Response"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Decoding Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self-Renewal"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:50 am
"A Subpopulation of Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells Are Reserve Stem Cells Regulated by the Tumor Suppressors Rb, p53 and Notch"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
"Overcoming Chromatin Impediments in Endoderm Development and Reprogramming"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells in Developmental and Regenerative Myogenesis"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
"The Ripk4-Irf6 Signaling Axis Ensures Epidermal Differentiation and Barrier Function"
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:10 pm
"Developmental Rewiring of an Injury Response from Regeneration to Hypertrophy in the Drosophila Hindgut Pylorus"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Organogenesis and Tumorigenesis
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Role of Adult Stem Cells in Tissue Homeostasis, Cancer Initiation and Relapse"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:25 pm
"Nerve-Stem Cell Interactions During Tissue Regeneration"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
"Sox2 Regulates Bipotent Potential of Sca-1+ Luminal Cells of Murine Prostatic Proximal Ducts"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Stem Cells and Tissue Regeneration in the Liver"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Self-Renewal and Differentiation Mechanisms
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Metabolic Heterogeneity Among Melanoma Cells Confers Differences in Metastatic Potential"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:50 am
"A Bi-Stable Transcriptional Network Motif Governs Self-Renewal and Differentiation in SCCs"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
"Novel Mechanisms of Merunogenesis and Direct Neuronal Reprogramming"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Stem Cells, Niches and the Emergence of Hematopoietic Clonality"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
"Uncovering Early Events in Stem Cell Activation Driving Skeletal Muscle Regeneration: Immediate Action by a Stress-Responsive Transcriptional Regulator"
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
"Aging of the Niche Attenuates Intestinal Regeneration"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Polycomb Group Genes in Stem Cell Fate and Tumorigenesis"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
"Unravelling Stem Cell Fates, Lineage Relationships and Clone Sizes"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
"Mining the Microproteome for New Players in Cancer Cell Plasticity"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Single-Cell Epigenomics: Gene Regulation at Unprecedented Resolution"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Metabolism and Metastasis
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Metabolic Regulation of Stem Cell Function"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:50 am
"Tumor Heterogeneity During the Progression of Metastatic Breast Cancer"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
"Colon Cancer Stem Cell Dynamics in Primary and Metastatic Tumors"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Metabolic Manipulation of Hair Follicle Stem Cells"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
"A Stem Cell-Driven Lymphoangiogenic Switch Coordinates Tissue Regeneration"
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
"Retinoic Acid Signaling in Muscle Stem Cell Aging"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cell Fate and Aging Effects
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Epigenetic Memory in Metastatic-Initiating Cells: Why What We Eat Matters"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:25 pm
"Senescence in Tissue Rejuvenation and Cancer"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
"Fixation and Spread of Somatic Mutations in Adult Human Colonic Epithelium"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Mechanisms of Brain Aging and Rejuvenation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Pluripotency and Lineage Plasticity
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"A New Mechanism of Gene Silencing by Xist RNA"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:50 am
"Glutamine Independence Is a Selectable Feature of Pluripotent Stem Cells"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
"Transition to Human Naïve Pluripotency Models Pan-Cancer DNA Hypermethylation"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:00 am
"Mapping Trajectories of Drug-Induced Tumor Evolution 'One Cell at a Time'"
11:00 am - 11:05 am
Discussion
11:05 am - 11:30 am
"Tracing Fibroblasts During Pancreatic Cancer Progression at Single-Cell Resolution"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
"Building an Active Enhancer to Drive Cell Fate Decisions"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
"PKA Signaling Shapes Tumor Evolution by Regulating Lineage Plasticity and Differentiation in Breast Cancer"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Disease Modeling and Therapeutics
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Improving Therapeutic Efficacy of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Pediatric Neuromalignancies"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"How Cancer Stem Cells Evade Chemotherapy"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:15 pm
"Cellular Cross-Talk in Epithelial Wound Repair and Cancer"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure