Steve Reiner received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College in 1982. He received an M.D. degree from Duke University in 1985. He is clinically trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco in the laboratory of Richard Locksley from 1990 to1994. In 1994, he took his first faculty appointment, in the Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research at The University of Chicago. In 1999, he became...

Luis F. Parada grew up in Bogota, Colombia. He obtained a BS from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 1985 identifying oncogenes in human cancer. He was a Damon Runyon and later Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pasteur Institute. From 1988 to 1994, he headed the Molecular Embryology Section at the NCI in Frederick, Maryland. His work there centered on the identification and characterization of Trk receptor tyrosine kinases as physiological neurotrophin...

Sean Morrison’s laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell function in the nervous and hematopoietic systems. Dr. Morrison obtained his B.Sc. in biology and chemistry from Dalhousie University (1991), then completed a Ph.D. in immunology at Stanford University (1996), and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurobiology at Caltech (1999). Since 1999, Dr. Morrison has been at the University of Michigan, where his laboratory studies the mechanisms that regulate...

Ron McKay received a B.Sc. in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Edinburgh, where he studied under the tutelage of Edwin Southern examining DNA organization and chromosome structure. He received postdoctoral training at University of Oxford working with Walter Bodmer examining restriction-fragment-length polymorphism (RFLPs). In 1978, he became a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory concentrating on two areas: the interaction of SV40 T antigen with the specific...

Dr. Ihor R. Lemischka is currently the Director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute, and Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Gene and Cell Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Lemischka relocated to Mount Sinai in July of 2007 after twenty-one years as Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Dr. Lemischka received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982 under the mentorship of Dr. Philip A. Sharp. He did...

Born in Cologne, Germany, Ruth Lehmann studied Drosophila embryology and genetics with Gerold Schubiger’s at the University of Washington, Seattle and with the late Jose Campos-Ortega at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she described the neurogenic genes in Drosophila. During her doctoral thesis in the laboratory of Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, she characterized maternal effect genes that organize the embryonic axes in...

Brigid Hogan, PhD, FRS is the George Barth Geller Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center. She is also Director of the Duke Stem Cell Program. Prior to joining Duke, Dr Hogan was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Hortense B. Ingram Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Hogan earned her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. After completing her PhD, she was a...

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla is the Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair in the Department of Neurological Surgery and Professor of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He received his undergraduate degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1988 he obtained his PhD from Rockefeller University and after a brief postdoctoral fellowship, becomes Assistant Professor and then Associate Processor-Head of Laboratory at this same...

Carla Kim received her PhD in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital in Boston and the Genetics Department at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Kim developed a method to isolate the first stem cell population from the...

Rudolf Jaenisch received his M.D. in Munich in 1967. After postdoctoral work at Princeton and five years as a Research Professor at the Salk Institute, he became Head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology. Since 1984 he has been a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at M.I.T. and in 2005 he established the Human Stem Cell Facility at the Whitehead. Dr. Jaenisch is a pioneer in making...