The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Fall conference includes a keynote speaker, blitz talks, and a poster competition. The specific focus changes each year and is selected by the SCRMC Research Training Award winners who organize this event. The Research Training Award was established in 2008 to recognize and provide support for promising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting stem cell and regenerative medicine research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This program provides unique, interdisciplinary training for future leaders in stem cell and regenerative medicine research, which includes the opportunity to plan this conference. To view past conference topics, please visit our past meetings and conferences page.

Keynote Speakers:

Title: From Androgen to Penis: Cell Fate Specification that Defines Reproductive Future
Humphrey Yao, PhD, who leads the Reproductive Developmental Biology Group in the Reproductive & Developmental Biology Laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He also holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Epigenetics & RNA Biology Laboratory. Dr. Yao and his team are working to define the normal process of how sex-specific reproductive organs are established, and investigating whether this process is susceptible to harmful chemicals or maternal stress.

Title: Single-cell and spatial omics analysis of immune cells in cancer and inflammation
Huy Q. Dinh, PhD is an assistant professor of oncology with the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dinh investigates how the tumor microenvironment changes upon cancer progress, before and after treatment. His lab follows a systems biology approach, using high-dimensional data from multi-omics genome-wide (genomics and epigenomics) and single-cell assays, data mining, and bioinformatics.

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