Annals Meeting Reports - NYSCF Fifth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference

This volume presents reports from three recent scientific meetings
on topics in emerging fields.



The first report comes from the New York Stem Cell
Foundation's "Fifth Annual Translational Stem Cell
Research Conference" convened in October 2010 at the
Rockefeller University in New York City. The conference attracted
over 400 scientists, patient advocates, and stem cell research
supporters from 16 countries. Compiled by young stem cell
scientists, this report summarizes the excellent, groundbreaking
progress in stem cell research.

The next report covers a conference on behavioral epigenetics
sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Warren Alpert
Medical School of Brown University in October 2010 at the
University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center. This meeting
featured speakers and panel discussions exploring the emerging
field of behavioral epigenetics, from basic biochemical and
cellular mechanisms to the epigenetic modulation of normative
development, developmental disorders, and psychopathology.
This report provides an overview of the research presented by
leading scientists and lively discussion about the future of
investigation at the behavioral epigenetic level.

The final report discusses the work presented at at the 2nd
Pepducin Science Symposium held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in
November 2010. This meeting report summarizes the symposium
proceedings that focused on increasing knowledge of the structure
and function of this ubiquitous superfamily of membrane receptors
and their potential modulation for disease treatment, and how GPCR
mechanisms might be exploited to treat diseases with pepducins,
novel synthetic lipopeptide pharmacophores that modulate
heptahelical GPCR activity from inside the cell membrane.

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