Student Society for Stem Cell Research at UCI

Patient, Physician, Scientist

2009-10-13T12:20:00.001-07:00

Hi all,
Please join the Stem Cell Research Center and UCI MIND for the Patient, Physician, Scientist event this Saturday afternoon from 1:00-3:30 in BioSci III.

The keynote speaker is Robert Klein, Chair of CIRM's Independent Citizens'
Oversight Committee. A panel featuring Dr. Frank LaFerla, Dr. Malcolm Dick and others moderated by Dr. Hans Keirstead will follow the keynote.
Refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to stemcell@uci.edu.

Hope to see you there!

Call for Posters

2009-09-23T08:49:00.000-07:00

We are still accepting posters for the Stem Cell Symposium, either new or used, showcasing work that has been done or presented recently.

To reserve space for your poster, please email ssscr.uci@gmail.com and provide the title of your poster.

UCI Stem Cell Symposium

2009-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 25th
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tamkin Hall (F114)

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Helen Blau
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor
Director, Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology
Stanford University

UC Irvine Speakers include: Steven Cramer M.D., Peter Donovan Ph.D., Frank LaFerla Ph.D., Charles Limoli Ph.D., Hans Keirstead Ph.D., Tom Lane Ph.D., Orhan Nalcioglu Ph.D. and Leslie Thompson Ph.D.

Breakfast, light lunch and refreshments will be provided.*

At 5PM, please join us for ‘Meet the Scientists’ reception and a poster session presented by CIRM Fellows and the Student Society for Stem Cell Research.

* Please RSVP to stemcell@uci.edu

Pictures from the 04-23-09 Hungtington's Disease Patient Panel

2009-05-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

04-23-09 Huntington's Disease Patient Panel

Stem Cell Seminar Series with Dr. Kathrin Plath

2009-05-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathrin Plath who will present a seminar in the Stem Cell Seminar series entitled:

"Defining the Mechanism of Transcription Factor Induced Reprogramming"

Location: Natural Sciences I

Room: 1114

Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday May 7, 2009

Please bring this to the attention of any students, post docs or colleagues who may be interested. If you would like to make appointment to talk to Dr. Plath please let Lila Sosnowska know at lila.s@uci.edu

Dr. Plath is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at UCLA and has been a member of the UCLA Stem Cell Institute since 2006. She completed her graduate work with Dr. Tom Rappaport at Harvard Medical School where she defined how the signal sequence of a secretory protein is recognized by translocation channels in the ER membrane. Dr. Plath was also a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Barbara Panning at UCSF where she began studying epigenetic gene regulation in female mammalian cells. Her interest in chromatin regulators continued when she joined Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch's lab at the Whitehead Institute at MIT studying embryonic stem cells. Dr. Plath currently works on the epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation and cancer. She uses human embryonic stem cells to understand how chromatin modifications during development can control gene expression, cell fate and cellular identity. Most recently, Dr. Plath's lab was one of the first labs to generate induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells. Her studies have shown that transcription factor-induced reprogramming can revert cells of the somatic epigenome to the ES-like state. Dr. Plath has received numerous awards for her work and recently received a Young Investigator Award from CIRM.

SSSCR at Wayzgoose

2009-04-17T16:53:00.000-07:00

Come visit our booth this Saturday 4/18 from 10:30am - 4pm at Wayzgoose aka Celebrate UCI in Aldrich Park!

Support our cause!! We will be selling stem cell enhanced cookies and brownies*, as well as t-shirts ($15) to raise money for our events and socials.

*not really stem cell enhanced - but still super delicious!!!

4-23-09 Huntington's Disease Patient Panel and Stem Cell Social

2009-03-17T11:42:00.001-07:00

Julie Harness and SSSCR featured in Today@UCI

2009-03-16T11:17:00.001-07:00

Graduate Student and President of the SSSCR, Julie Harness, is featured in Today@UCI - read the article here.

SSSCR at Discover UCI

2009-03-16T10:47:00.000-07:00

Look for the SSSCR at the Disover UCI Club/Organization fair!!!

Dates: April 9 & 15
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: Ring Road, between the flagpoles and Langson Library (booth #52)

Come stop by our booth and check out our baked goods and t-shirt sale!