Friday, October 24, 2008 3:00pm – 6:30pm
Chairperson: Darlene Berryman
Welcome: Lothar Hennighausen
Darlene Berryman: Impact of Growth Hormone on Adipose Tissue: Studies in GH Transgenic and GH Receptor Gene Disrupted Mice
Peter Klover: Implicating STAT5A/B in Muscle Physiology: Growth Reduction and Muscle Fiber Changes of the STAT5A/B Muscle-Knockout Mouse
Bruce Kelder: CIDE-A Gene Expression in Liver and Fat as a Function of Aging, Diabetes, and GH Receptor Status
Ed List: Lipolytic Versus Diabetogenic Actions of Growth Hormone
Break
Gabriel Angel Martos-Moreno: Adipokines in Type I Diabetic and Insulin Resistant Children
Nick Okada: A Proteomic Approach Toward the Discovery of New Biomarkers of Diabetes
Marius Henkel: Mass-spectrometry Approach to Discover New STAT5 Binding Partners
8:00pm – open
John Kopchick: Overview and Update on Growth Hormone Antagonists
Discussion leader: Peter Klover
Timm Schroeder: Tracking of Stem Cell Behavior at the Single Cell Level: New Tools for Old Questions
Discussion leader: Akiko Kimura
Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:00am - 12:30pm
Chairperson: Traudl Robinson
Benjamin Smejkal: The Behavioral Signature of HOX Induced Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self Renewal
Michael Rieger: Myeloid Cytokines Instruct Hematopoietic Lineage Choice
Philipp Hoppe: Transcription Factor Networks in Hematopoietic Lineage Choice
Akiko Kimura: GM-CSF Controls Proliferation and Survival of the Granulocyte Lineage Through the Transcription Factors STAT5A/B
Bingmei Zhu: Is STAT5 Essential for BCR-ABL Transformed Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in a Mouse Model?
Mark Wickre: STAT5 and Tet-Based Inducible Gene Expression Systems
Ji Hoon Yu: Effects of Plasmid-based STAT3-specific Short Hairpin RNA in Hepatocytes
Alex Schoell: PAL M High Resolution Microscopy
8:00pm - open
Justus Duyster: Linking oncogenic tyrosine kinases to the cell cycle machinery: the E3 Ligase NIPA
Discussion leader: Bingmei Zhu
Jeff Rosen: Therapeutic Resistance of Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Discussion leader: Daisuke Yamaji
Sunday, October 26, 2008 8:30am - 11:00pm
Chairperson: Priscilla Furth
Adam Pond: Cooperation of FGF and Wnt Pathway Signaling in Mammary Tumorigenesis
Daisuke Yamaji: What Roles Does STAT5 Play in Mammary Stem/Progenitor Cells? -Using the Cre/LoxP System and HER2/Neu/ErbB2-induced Mammary Tumor Model
Yonatan Feuermann: MicroRNA, STAT5 and Mammary Gland Development
Round Table Discussion: Where do we go from here?
