Keynote and Symposia
2024 Keynote
Saturday, December 14, 4:30 pm PST
Origin Stories of Cell Therapies
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Lorenz Studer
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2024 Symposia
Organelle Dynamics and Communication
Sunday, December 15, 2024, 8:45 am to 9:45 am
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Pietro De Camilli
Yale University
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Gia Voeltz
University of Colorado-Boulder
Unveiling Cellular Complexity: From Multimodal Single-Cell Genomics to High throughput Cell Engineering
Sunday, December 15, 2024, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
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Sarah Teichmann
Cambridge University
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Lacramioara Bintu
Stanford University
Aging Cell and Senescence
Monday, December 16, 2024, 8:45 am to 9:45 am PST
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Anthony Covarrubias
University of California, Los Angeles
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Vera Gorbunova
University of Rochester
Cell Mechanics to Gene Expression
Monday, December 16, 2024, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
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Michael Murrell
Yale School of Medicine
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Cynthia Reinhart-King
Rice University
Directing Cell Fate
Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 8:45 am to 9:45 am
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Mina Gouti
Max Delbruck Center
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Deepak Srivastava
Gladstone Institutes
Plasticity in Cancer
Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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Carlos Carmona-Fontaine
New York University
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Juanita Merchant
University of Arizona
Intracellular Aggregates and Condensates
Wednesday, December 18, 2024, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
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Ibrahim Cissé
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
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Amy Gladfelter
Duke University
** Heinz Herrmann Symposium. Heinz Herrmann was Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. A symposium in his honor was endowed at the ASCB in 1990. A founder of the ASCB, Professor Herrmann was well known for his pioneering approach to research in developmental biology, which has led to over 100 publications. He also wrote two books—Cell Biology and From Biology to Sociopolitics.