Abcam is pleased to announce its first international Stem Cells meeting to be held in Asia organized by Prof. Larry Stanton (GIS, Singapore) and Prof. Noel Buckley (King's College London, UK). As a new and unique feature, this event will run back to back with Abcam's Chromatin: Histones, Nucleosomes, Chromosomes and Genomes Conference (9-11 February 2009) with an overlap day of plenary talks and poster session. Visit the Chromatin: Histones, Nucleosomes, Chromosomes and Genomes Conference webpage at www.abcam.com/chromatinsingapore.

Topics will include:
- Pluripotency
- Neural fates
- Hematapoietic lineage
- Endoderm specification
- Cancer stem cells
- Reprogramming
- Germ cell development

Invited speakers:
- Laurie Boyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
- Noel Buckley (King's College London, UK)
- Sheng Ding (The Scripps Research Institute, US)
- Johan Ericson (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
- Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Paul Gadue (University of Pennsylvania, US)
- Joe Gold (Geron Corporation, US)
- Kristian Helin (BRIC, Denmark)
- Maarten van Lohuizen (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
- Christine Mummery (Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, The Netherlands)
- Huck Hui Ng (Genome Institue of Singapore)
- Shinichi Nishikawa (RIKEN, Japan)
- Lawrence Stanton (Genome Institue of Singapore)
- William Stanford (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Azim Surani (Gurdon Institute, UK)
- Bryan Turner (University of Birmingham, UK)

Abstracts for oral and poster presentation are invited. Those which most closely fit within the topics of the meeting will be selected. Posters will be judged. The winner will receive up to $150 off their registration for a future Abcam conference or an antibody from the Abcam catalog.
- Oral abstract deadline September 26, 2008
- Poster abstract deadline: November 28, 2008
Space for posters is unlimited.

The registration fee is fully inclusive of:
- attendance at sessions (plenary & poster)
- bed & breakfast accommodation for the nights of February 10, 11 and 12
- lunch and refreshments on February 11, 12 and 13
- welcome drinks reception
- conference materials, including book of abstracts

Early bird and student registration fees are available for this meeting.
- Early bird deadline: October 31, 2008

For futher information and to register please visit the Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells Conference website (www.abcam.com/stemcellssingapore).