Table of Contents

Cellular and nuclear reprogramming

  1. Inducing pluripotency
    Kit T Rodolfa
  2. Stem cells in animal models of regeneration
    Kyle A. Gurley, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
  3. Small RNAs – their biogenesis, regulation and function in embryonic stem cells
    Joshua E. Babiarz, Robert Blelloch

Ectoderm specification and differentiation

  1. The cranial sensory nervous system: specification of sensory progenitors and placodes
    Andrea Streit
  2. Tooth organogenesis and regeneration
    Irma Thesleff, Mark Tummers
  3. Melanocyte stem cells
    Masatake Osawa
  4. Limbal epithelial stem cells of the cornea
    Genevieve A. Secker, Julie T. Daniels
  5. Neural crest-derived stem cells
    Olga Shakhova, Lukas Sommer

Endoderm specification and differentiation

  1. Pancreatic stem cells
    L. Charles Murtaugh, Daniel Kopinke
  2. Specification and patterning of the respiratory system
    Wellington V. Cardoso, Darrell N. Kotton
  3. Liver development
    Aaron M. Zorn
  4. Endoderm specification
    Anne Grapin-Botton

Epigenetics

  1. Imaging chromatin in embryonic stem cells
    Eran Meshorer
  2. Epigenetic silencing during early lineage commitment
    Howard Cedar, Yehudit Bergman
  3. The chromatin signature of pluripotent cells
    Ky Sha, Laurie A. Boyer
  4. Stem cells, cancer, and epigenetics
    Stephen B. Baylin

Genomics and proteomics

  1. Proteomic studies of stem cells
    Jianlong Wang, Jennifer J. Trowbridge, Sridhar Rao, Stuart H. Orkin
  2. Genome-wide transcription factor localization and function in stem cells
    Wai-Leong Tam, Bing Lim
  3. The pluripotent transcriptome
    Marica Grskovic, Miguel Ramalho-Santos

Germ cell and somatic stem cell biology in reproduction

  1. Regulation of spermatogonia
    Qing Zhou, Michael D Griswold
  2. piRNA function in germline development
    Jaspreet S. Khurana, William E. Theurkauf
  3. The role of microRNAs in germline differentiation
    Steve Reynolds, Hannele Ruohola-Baker
  4. Germline stem cell niches
    Ting Xie
  5. Uterine stem cells
    Jose Teixeira, Bo R. Rueda, James K. Pru
  6. Modeling germ cell differentiation
    Niels Geijsen, George Q. Daley
  7. Lineage analysis of stem cells
    D.T. Fox, L.X. Morris, T. Nystul, A.C. Spradling
  8. Somatic stem cells of the ovary and their relationship to human ovarian cancers
    Henry L. Chang, David T. MacLaughlin, Patricia K. Donahoe

Mesoderm specification and differentiation

  1. Epigenetic mechanisms controlling mesodermal specification
    Maria Jose Barrero, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
  2. Mouse kidney development
    Alan J. Davidson
  3. Adult mesenchymal stem cells
    Ernestina Schipani, Henry M Kronenberg
  4. Adipose
    April Cook, Chad Cowan

Niche biology, homing, and migration

  1. Hematopoietic stem cell trafficking
    Claire Magnon, Paul S. Frenette
  2. The neural stem cell microenvironment
    Ilias Kazanis, Justin Lathia, Lara Moss, Charles ffrench-Constant

Renewal

  1. Aging and stem cell renewal
    Haroldo Silva, Irina M. Conboy
  2. Quiescent stem cells in the niche
    Fumio Arai, Toshio Suda
  3. Mechanisms regulating stem cell polarity and the specification of asymmetric divisions
    Hila Toledano, D. Leanne Jones

Stem cell immunology

  1. Immunologic targeting of the cancer stem cell
    Catherine J. Wu
  2. Immunological considerations for cell therapy using human embryonic stem cell derivatives
    Micha Drukker
  3. Mouse models of graft-versus-host disease
    Pavan Reddy, James L.M. Ferrara

Therapeutic prospects

  1. The hematopoietic stem cell niche
    Louise E. Purton, David T. Scadden
  2. Medical applications of epidermal stem cells
    Gaelle Lapouge, Cédric Blanpain
  3. Mesenchymal stromal cells as a drug delivery system
    Lata G. Menon, Veronica J. Shi, Rona S. Carroll
  4. Egress and mobilization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
    Kfir Lapid, Yaron Vagima, Orit Kollet, Tsvee Lapidot
  5. Cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
    Hal E. Broxmeyer

Tissue engineering

  1. Combining stem cells and biomaterial scaffolds for constructing tissues and cell delivery
    Stephanie M. Willerth, Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert
  2. Autologous approaches to tissue engineering
    Shaun A. Steigman, Dario O. Fauza
  3. Flow perfusion culture of mesenchymal stem cells for bone tissue engineering
    F. Kurtis Kasper, Jiehong Liao, James D. Kretlow, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Antonios G. Mikos
  4. Engineering microenvironments to control stem cell fate and function
    Shawdee Eshghi, David V. Schaffer
  5. The role of bone marrow-derived stem cells in lung regeneration and repair
    Elizabeth K. Sage, Michael R. Loebinger, Julia Polak, Sam M. Janes
  6. Mechanical control of stem cell differentiation
    Daniel M. Cohen, Christopher S. Chen
  7. Skin tissue engineering
    David J. Wong, Howard Y. Chang
  8. Molecular imaging of stem cells
    Martin Rodriguez-Porcel, Joseph C. Wu, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir