Meeting Description: Nobel laureate Paul Berg (Stanford), Stem Cells Innovator Gail Martin (UCSF), and authorities in the stem cells & tissue engineering fields including: Kevin Healy (UCBerkeley), Daniel Kraft (Stanford), Evan Snyder (Burnham Inst), Michael Mann (UCSF), Bronwen Connor (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand), Ira Black UMDNJ-Rutgers), Rasul Chaudhry (Oakland Univ), Yerem Yeghiazarians (UCSF), Ana Sofia Correia (Lund Univ., Sweden), and several biotech and pharmaceutical Communities will be speaking on the biology of various kinds of stem cells and their utilization in tissue engineering, regeneration and therapeutics.

The most-up-to-date developments will be addressed:
• Genetic and Transcriptional Controls of Stem Cells
• Control of Cell Differentiation and Reprogramming
• Self-renewal and Maintenance of Pluripotency
• Human and Cancer Stem cells & their Propagation
• Mutational analysis & Epigenetic Regulation
• Applications of Stem Cells in various Human Diseases
• Tissue Organ culture and Transplantation
• Biopolymer applications in Biomedical Engineering
• Stem Cells towards Developing Therapeutics

Target audience:
 Executives, Directors and Scientists of R&D from biotech and pharmaceuticals.
 Graduate students, Post-docs, and Professors from Academia.
 Investors, Thought leaders and Business Development people in life sciences who need to know
the emerging technologies.

Date: January 23-25, 2006 Place: Embassy Suites, San Francisco Airport 150 Anza Blvd. Burlingame, CA, 94010 USA Contact: GeneExpression Systems, Inc. Call: 781-891-8181. Fax: 781-891-8234. Email: Genexpsys@expressgenes.com. Web: www.expressgenes.com Academic US$699; Industry US$1099