Speakers

The 2012 Buck Symposium: Stem Cell Research and Aging provides a stage for key players in the rapidly developing areas of stem cell research and the basic biology of aging to share their research, findings and thoughts. Some of the world’s most influential and respected investigators from diverse background, in fields such as development, diseases, stem cell biology and model systems will be sharing their ideas, sparking new dialog, new alliances and promising collaborations.

Organizers

Lisa M. Ellerby, PhD

Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Brian Kennedy, PhD

CEO and President
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Victoria V. Lunyak, PhD

Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD

Director, Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine

Xianmin Zeng, PhD

Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Speakers

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD

Department of Neurological Surgery
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
UCSF, School of Medicine

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD

Roger Guillemin Nobel Chair
Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Anne Brunet, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Stanford University

Irina Conboy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

John Crispino, PhD

Professor
Northwestern University

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Samuel E. Lux, IV Professor of Hematology
Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program
HHMI/Children's Hospital Boston

Ellen Feigal, MD

Senior Vice President
CIRM

Susan J. Fisher, PhD

Professor
The Eli & Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Director, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program
UCSF, School of Medicine

Rachelle J. S. Galvin, PhD

Lilly Research Labs
Lilly Corporate Center

Joel M. Gottesfeld, PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Jing-Dong Jackie Han, PhD

Director of Laboratory
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology

Ole Isacson, MD

Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience)
Harvard Medical School
Director of Neuroregeneration Laboratories and Neuroregeneration Institute at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Heinrich Jasper, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biology
University of Rochester

Leanne Jones, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCSD
William Scandling Developmental Chair Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD

Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard
Director, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean

Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD

John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor in Stem Cell and Tissue Biology
Director, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCSF
UCSF School of Medicine