Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology

Editors & Contributors

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Thorsten Schlaeger (Editor-in-Chief)
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Axel Schambach
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany

Evan Snyder
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Joseph Wu
Stanford University
Stanford, California

PAST EDITORS

Mick Bhatia
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrew G. Elefany
Monash University
Victoria, Australia

Susan J. Fisher
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Roger Patient
University of Oxford
Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yukiko Yamashita
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

CONTRIBUTORS

Rutu Acharya
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Catherine Adell O’Brien
University of Toronto
and University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lars Ährlund-Richter
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Robin R. Ali
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Zoraida Andreu
Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Madrid, Spain

Fernando Anjos-Afonso
London Research Institute
London, United Kingdom

Inês M. Araújo
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
and University of Algarve
Faro, Portugal

Benjamin R. Arenkiel
Baylor College of Medicine
and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas

Takashi Ariizumi
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Asashima
University of Tokyo
and Japan Science and Technology Agency
Tokyo, Japan
and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ibaraki, Japan

Jonathan M. Auerbach
GlobalStem Inc.
Rockville, Maryland

Stuart Avery
Institute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore

Roya Babaei-Jadidi
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Elodie Bachelard-Cascales
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon
and Université de Lyon
Lyon, France

Vasundhra Bahl
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Antonella Barbati
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy

Tiziano Barberi
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, California

Nick Barker
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
and University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU)
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Michael Baron
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Thomas J. Bartosh
Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
at Scott & White Hospital
Temple, Texas

Giuseppe Basso
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Rachel Z. Behar
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Gillian I. Bell
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Liat Benayoun
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Sean C. Bendall
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Ahmi Ben-Yehudah
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Christian Bernreuther
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

Ivan Bertoncello
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mickie Bhatia
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Shomi S. Bhattacharya
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER)
Sevilla, Spain

Elena Binda
University Milan-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Anne E. Bishop
Imperial College London
London, England

Lars Björk
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Alicia A. Blancas
University of California at Merced
Merced, California

Dominique Bonnet
London Research Institute
London, United Kingdom

Aaron T. Booy
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Leah F. Boyer
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
and School of Medicine
University of California
San Diego, California

Martin Breitbach
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Joshua M. Brickman
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Claudia Bruedigam
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Paul J. Bushway
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Benjamin Campbell
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, California

Josep M. Canals
Universitat de Barcelona
and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED)
Barcelona, Spain

Alan B. Cantor
Children’s Hospital Boston
and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Diana L. Carlone
Children’s Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Anália Carmo
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Carolyn A. Carr
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Bruno P. Carreira
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Caetana M. Carvalho
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Louis Casteilla
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and University of Toulouse
Toulouse, France

Carlos Castro
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chantal Cerdan
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ian Chambers
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Te-chuan Chan
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Tokyo, Japan

Marion Chapellier
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon
and Université de Lyon
Lyon, France

Allen K. Chen
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Centros, Singapore

Lu Chen
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California
Irvine, California

Xiaoli Chen
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Centros, Singapore

Jun Cheng
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

David A. Cheresh
UCSD Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, California

Anne Cherry
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kyunghee Choi
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Andre B.H. Choo
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Centros, Singapore

Jaehoon Chung
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Hun Chy
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Clayton, Australia

Kieran Clarke
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Hans Clevers
Hubrecht Institute
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
and University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Rick I. Cohen
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey

Alexandre R. Colas
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Ronald Coleman
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Giulio Cossu
Stem Cell Research Institute
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy

Magdaline Costa
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Mihaela Crisan
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Yi-Fang Cui
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
and Leibniz Institute for Primate Research
Göttingen, Germany

George Q. Daley
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ivan Damjanov
Department of Pathology
The University of Kansas School of Medicine
Kansas City, Kansas

Richard P. Davis
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia and
Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, The Netherlands

Sarah Decembrini
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Lidia De Filippis
University Milan-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Emmanuel Delay
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon
and Université de Lyon
and Centre Léon Bérard
Lyon, France

Alessandro Della Puppa
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Arianna Dellavalle
Stem Cell Research Institute
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy

Alejandro De Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jean de Vellis
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California

Scott L. Diamond
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

María Díaz-Moreno
Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Madrid, Spain

Marcel Dihné
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
University Hospital Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

M. Sirac Dilber
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Gian Carlo Di Renzo
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy

Kenneth Dorko
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mirella Dottori
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Biljana Dumevska
Sydney IVF
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ian D. Duncan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Stephen A. Duncan
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Gabriela Durcova-Hills
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research
UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Devanjali Dutta
DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Brad Dykstra
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Elaine Dzierzak
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Connie Eaves
University of British Columbia and
Terry Fox Laboratory
BC Cancer Agency
Vancouver, British Columbia

Allison D. Ebert
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Bruce A. Edgar
DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Rolf O. Ehrhardt
BioCision LLC
Larkspur, California

Marco Eijken
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Andrew G. Elefanty
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Ewa C. S. Ellis
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Georgina M. Ellison
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Olga Epifano
GlobalStem Inc.
Rockville, Maryland

Slaven Erceg
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER)
and Medical Genome Project
Sevilla, Spain

Jennifer A. Erwin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Araceli Espinosa-Jeffrey
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California

Cale D. Fahrenholtz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Dario O. Fauza
Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Ulrika Felldin
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Daniela Ferrari
University Milan-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Nicola Festuccia
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Fuegemann
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Amanda G. Fisher
Imperial College School of Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Bernd K. Fleischmann
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

David Forsberg
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Deborah L. French
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Christopher J. Fuegemann
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Mayumi Fujita
Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology
University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, Colorado
and Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Denver, Colorado

Keiichi Fukuda
Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

Paul Gadue
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fred H. Gage
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
and School of Medicine
University of California
San Diego, California

Isabella Garcia
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Christos Gekas
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Olga Genbacev
University of California
San Francisco, California

Karin Gertow
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden and
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Jean-Paul Giacobino
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Alessandro Giacomello
Pasteur Institute
University of Rome ‘Sapienza’
Rome, Italy

Cayetano Gonzalez
IRB-Barcelona
and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Barcelona, Spain

Rodolfo Gonzalez
University of California, San Diego
and Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Pilar González-Gómez
Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Madrid, Spain

Roberto Gramignoli
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Catarina Grandela
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia and
Center for Experimental Molecular Medicine
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alex Gregorieff
Hubrecht Institute
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sara Gualdoni
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Chunguang Guo
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Children’s Hospital Boston
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Gunnar Hargus
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
and University Medical Center Münster
and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine
Münster, Germany

Odelya Hartung
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Bharathi Hattiangady
Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center
and Scott & White Healthcare
Temple, Texas
and Duke University Medical Center
and Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Tanya Hatzistavrou
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Robert G. Hawley
The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, D.C.

Teresa S. Hawley
The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, D.C.

Eric Herlenius
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

David A. Hess
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Katherine L. Hill
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Emi Himeno
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Martin R. Hofmann
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California

Seok Ho Hong
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Outi Hovatta
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Koos E. Hovinga
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Michael Hsiao
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Hsing-I Huang
Cathay General Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan

Xiaojing Huang
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Johnny Huard
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Keith Humphries
British Columbia Cancer Agency
and University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Alan J. Hunt
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Hongguang Huo
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Elsayed E. Ibrahim
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dusko Ilic
StemLifeLine
San Carlos, California

Janice H. Imai
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
and Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Suzan Imren
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David A. Ingram
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

Ole Isacson
Harvard Medical School
McLean Hospital
Belmont, Massachusetts

Yuzuru Ito
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ibaraki, Japan

Taina Jaatinen
Finnish Red Cross Blood Service
Helsinki, Finland

Johan Jäderstad
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Linda Maria Jäderstad
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Daylon James
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Graham Jenkin
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Richard Josephson
GlobalStem Inc.
Rockville, Maryland

Stefan Jovinge
Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Lund, Sweden

Lothar Just
Eberhardt-Karls-University Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

Toshie Kai
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
and Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Mirhan Kapidzic
University of California
San Francisco, California

Dan S. Kaufman
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ernest Kawasaki
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

David Kent
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jaspal Singh Khillan
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cynthia Kim
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Seung U. Kim
University of British Columbia Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mark A. Kirkland
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Rachael J. Klein
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts and
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Christopher Kloss
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Marijke Koedam
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Yoichi Kondo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Bon-Kyoung Koo
Hubrecht Institute
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
and University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Antonija Kreso
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ana Krtolica
StemLifeLine
San Carlos, California and
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California

Tilo Kunath
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jarmo Laine
Finnish Red Cross Blood Service
Helsinki, Finland

Anita Laitinen
Finnish Red Cross Blood Service
Helsinki, Finland

Gilles Lajoie
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Jörn Lakowski
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Thomas E. Lane
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California
Irvine, California

Samantha Larkin
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, California

Eric C. Larsen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Andrew L. Laslett
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
and Monash University
Clayton, Australia

Nicholas E. Lauer
University of California at Merced
Merced, California

Ronika Leang
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California
Irvine, California

Marti Lecina
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Singapore

Jeannie T. Lee
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Qian Yi Lee
Bioinformatics Institute
Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore

Monika Lenkiewicz
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Na Li
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Xueling Li
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Zhonghan Li
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Daniel J. Liebl
University of Miami
Miami, Florida

Chee Gee Liew
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Rebecca Lim
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Robyn SuMay Lim
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
and Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Haifan Lin
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Sabrina C. Lin
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Yu-Tsen Lin
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
and Graduate Institute of Life Sciences
National Defense Medical Center
Taipei, Taiwan

Jeffrey N. Lindquist
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
and UCSD Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, California

Zhonghua Liu
Carnegie Institution for Science
Baltimore, Maryland

Alessandra Livigni
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Cristina Lo Celso
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts and
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sabine Loewer
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Alison Logar
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Yuin-Han Loh
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Matt Loose
Institute of Genetics
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Jeanne F. Loring
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Frank Leigh Lu
National Taiwan University Hospital
and National Taiwan University Medical College
Taipei, Taiwan

Jean Lu
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
and Graduate Institute of Life Sciences
National Defense Medical Center
and College of Life Science
National Taiwan University
and National Core Facility Program for Biotechnology
National RNAi Platform
Taipei, Taiwan

Tenneille Ludwig
University of Wisconsin-Madison and
WiCell Research Institute
Madison, Wisconsin

Jesse J. Lugus
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Dunja Lukovic
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER)
Sevilla, Spain

Yuchun Luo
University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, Colorado

Nianhan Ma
Institute of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
National Central University
Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yinghong Ma
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Yunglin D. Ma
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Vanessa Machado
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
and University of Algarve
Faro, Portugal

Vèronique Maguer-Satta
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon
and Université de Lyon
Lyon, France

Richard Malavarca
Millipore Corporation
Billerica, Massachusetts

Sunil K. Mallanna
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Maria Grazia Mameli
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy

Philip D. Manos
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fabio Marongiu
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Raquel Martín-Ibáñez
Universitat de Barcelona
and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED)
Barcelona, Spain
and Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Stockholm, Sweden

Louisa Mathias
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Kara E. McCloskey
University of California at Merced
Merced, California

Wesley L. McKeithan
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Shannon L. McKinney-Freeman
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Erin L. McMillan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Jonathan McQualter
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Laura E. Mead
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

Alexander Medvinsky
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sandra Mendes
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Isabella Mengarelli
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, California

Mark Mercola
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Elisa Messina
University of Rome ‘Sapienza’
Rome, Italy

Michael Metzner
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter, Florida

Jocelyn Mich-Basso
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Suzanne J. Micallef
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Anna E. Michalska
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Tatsuo Michiue
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Miki
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hanna K.A. Mikkola
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Helena Mira
Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Madrid, Spain

Ali Mirsaidi
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Mireia Moreno-Estellés
Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Madrid, Spain

Victoria Moreno-Manzano
Neural Regeneration Lab
Valencia, Spain

Gillian M. Morrison
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
and University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Maria Inês Morte
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Yanling Mu
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, California

Christine L. Mummery
University of Utrecht Medical Centre
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sean Murphy
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Grace N. Nasri
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Abdolrahman S. Nateri
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Christopher S. Navara
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Olaia Naveiras
Children’s Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Priscilla D. Negraes
Universidade de São Paulo
and Center for Applied Toxicology (CAT/CEPID)
Instituto Butantan
São Paulo, Brazil

Elizabeth S. Ng
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Nicholas Nguyen
University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, Colorado

Yuzo Niki
Ibaraki University
Ibaraki, Japan

Guido Nikkhah
Freiburg University Hospital
Freiburg, Germany

Agneta Nordenskjöld
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Isabel Nunes-Correia
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Michael O’Connor
Terry Fox Laboratory
BC Cancer Agency and
StemCell Technologies, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steve K.W. Oh
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Centros, Singapore

Mari Ohnuki
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

Ifigenia Oikonomopoulou
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stacie Oliver
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Petri Olivius
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Stuart H. Orkin
Children’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Motomi Osato
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Timo Otonkoski
Hospital for Children and Adolescents
and the Biomedicum Stem Cell Center
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland

Joel T. Outten
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gopal Pande
CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Hyderabad, India

Silvia Pandolfi
Istituto Toscano Tumori
Florence, Italy

Changwon Park
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

In-Hyun Park
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Maura H. Parker
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
and University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Robert Passier
University of Utrecht Medical Centre
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Roger Patient
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Rachel A. Pearson
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Bruno Péault
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Roger Pedersen
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mirza Peljto
Columbia University
New York, New York

Junia Y. Penachioni
Istituto Toscano Tumori
Florence, Italy

Carlos Filipe Pereira
Imperial College School of Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Luca Persano
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Teija Peura
Sydney IVF
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Francesca Pistollato
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Warren C. Plaisted
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California
Irvine, California

Audrey Player
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Daniel Prater
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

Jan Pruszak
Freiburg University Hospital
Freiburg, Germany and
Harvard Medical School
Mclean Hospital
Belmont, Massachusetts

Stefan Przyborski
School of Biological and Biomedical Science
University of Durham
Durham, United Kingdom

David M. Putman
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada

Caihong Qiu
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Shahin Rafii
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Afifah Rahman
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Elena Rampazzo
University of Padova
Padova, Italy

Tariq M. Rana
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Mahendra Rao
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
and Invitrogen
Carlsbad California

Sutheera Ratanasirintrawoot
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Saugata Ray
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Elena Rebollo
IRB-Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Carrie Redinger
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

D. Eugene Redmond, Jr.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Shaul Reuveny
Israel Institute for Biological Research
Ness Ziona, Israel

Katrin E. Rhodes
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Jerome Ricard
University of Miami
Miami, Florida

Peter J. Richards
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Paul R. Riley
UCL Institute of Child Health
London, United Kingdom

Helen J. Rippon
Imperial College London
London, England

Catherine Robin
Erasmus MC Stem Cell Institute
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Zev Rosenwaks
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Sharina Rosli
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Derrick J. Rossi
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ali Samadikuchaksaraei
Iran University of Medical Science
Tehran, Iran

Maurilio Sampaolesi
Stem Cell Research Institute
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy

Prabha Sampath
Institute of Medical Biology
Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore

Ajoy K. Samraj
Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Lund, Sweden

Roberta Santini
Istituto Toscano Tumori
Florence, Italy

Valentina Sasselli
Hubrecht Institute
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
and University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

David T. Scadden
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Melitta Schachner
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
and Shantou University Medical College
Shantou, China
and Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey

Julia Schaft
Sydney IVF
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Thorsten M. Schlaeger
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Esther Schnapp
Stem Cell Research Institute
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy

Brian Schryver
BioCision LLC
Larkspur, California

Scott C. Schuyler
College of Medicine
Chang Gung University
Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Telma T. Schwindt
Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Tomohisa Seki
Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

Sanja Sekulovic
British Columbia Cancer Agency
and the University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ayesh K. Seneviratne
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Khalid Shah
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Yuval Shaked
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Ashok K. Shetty
Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center
and Scott & White Healthcare
and Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Temple, Texas
and Duke University Medical Center
and Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Song-Hai Shi
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
and Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Fumiko Shimizu
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Kuldip S. Sidhu
The Prince of Wales Hospital
and The University of New South Wales
New South Wales, Australia

Angelo Sidoni
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy

Calvin Simerly
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Matthew Singer
Millipore Corporation
Billerica, Massachusetts

Sheila K. Singh
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Nicola Smart
UCL Institute of Child Health
London, United Kingdom

Jim Smith
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research
UK Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Evan Y. Snyder
University of California at San Diego
and The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Denis Soulet
Laval University
and CHUQ Research Center (CHUL)
Québec, Canada

Koula Sourris
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Jane C. Sowden
University College London
London, United Kingdom

Edouard G. Stanley
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Maria Elena Stavropoulos
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, California

Barbara Stecca
Istituto Toscano Tumori
Florence, Italy

Shaun A. Steigman
Children’s Hospital Boston and
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Tomas Stojanov
Sydney IVF
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Miodrag Stojkovic
Spebo Medical
Leskovac, Serbia
and University of Kragujevac
Kragujevac, Serbia

Stephen C. Strom
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Anne Marie Strömberg
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Stockholm, Sweden

Daniel J. Stuckey
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Bin Sun
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Qian Sun
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Azim Surani
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research
UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Clive N. Svendsen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Andrzej Swistowski
Buck Institute for Age Research
and XCell Science Inc.
Novato, California

Viviane Tabar
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Veysel Tahan
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kazutoshi Takahashi
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

Shuji Takahashi
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Prue Talbot
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Jun-Jie Tan
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Satoshi Tanaka
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Vivek Tanavde
Bioinformatics Institute
Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore

Samir Taoudi
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Tapscott
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
and University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Yang D. Teng
Harvard Medical School
Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
and Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
Boston, Massachusetts

Michelle H. Theus
University of Miami
Miami, Florida

Maria L. Thompson
BioCision LLC
Larkspur, California

James A. Thomson
University of Wisconsin-Madison and
WiCell Research Institute and
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin

Charoensri Thonabulsombat
University of California
Riverside, California
and Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand

André N. Tiaden
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Sherwin Ting
A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
Singapore

Abhilasha Tiwari
CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Hyderabad, India
and Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
and Monash Institute of Medical Research
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Rossana Tonlorenzi
Stem Cell Research Institute
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy

Gabi Tremml
Millipore Corporation
Billerica, Massachusetts

Alan O. Trounson
Monash University
Clayton, Australia

Cleber A. Trujillo
Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Bernard E. Tuch
The Prince of Wales Hospital
and The University of New South Wales
and The New South Wales Stem Cell Network
New South Wales, Australia

Melinda L. Tursky
Lowy Cancer Research Centre
University of New South Wales
New South Wales, Australia

Henning Ulrich
Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Christian Unger
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Mark Ungrin
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Ludovic Vallier
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jeroen van de Peppel
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bram C.J. van der Eerden
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Marjolein van Driel
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Johannes P.T.M. van Leeuwen
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Benjamin E. Van Vranken
Monash University
Clayton, Australia

Angelo Luigi Vescovi
University Milan-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Queenie P. Vong
Carnegie Institution for Science
Baltimore, Maryland
and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee

Sarah Walke
The Prince of Wales Hospital
and The University of New South Wales
New South Wales, Australia

Stuart Walsh
Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Lund, Sweden

Santiago Nahuel Villegas
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dustin R. Wakeman
University of California at San Diego
and The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Euan Wallace
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Stuart Walsh
Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Lund, Sweden

Angela Wang
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Chia-Hui Wang
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Jianlong Wang
Children’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Jiwu Wang
Allele Biotechnology
San Diego, California

Xiaoqun Wang
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Yonghong Wang
SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
NCI-Frederick
Frederick, Maryland

Yuhuan Wang
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Dorien Ward
University of Utrecht Medical Centre
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Fiona Wardle
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Luigi Warren
Allele Biotechnology
San Diego, California

Jason G. Weinger
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California
Irvine, California

Jo-Hao Weng
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California

Hynek Wichterle
Columbia University
New York, New York

Cheng-Chung Wu
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
and Graduate Institute of Life Sciences
National Defense Medical Center
Taipei, Taiwan

Hong-Jin Wu
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Sean M. Wu
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jinyi Xiang
DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Mayumi Yamada
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Shinya Yamanaka
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
and
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Kawaguchi, Japan
and
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
San Francisco, California

Jimmy Chen Yang
Children’s Hospital Boston
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Phillip C. Yang
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Solomon Yap
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Joni H. Ylostalo
Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
at Scott & White Hospital
Temple, Texas

Mervin C. Yoder
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

Ching-Chia Yu
Genomics Research Center
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Shinsuke Yuasa
Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

Peter W. Zandstra
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Nikica Zaninovic
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Xianmin Zeng
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, California

Qiansheng Zhan
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Bo Zheng
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Yixian Zheng
Carnegie Institution for Science
Baltimore, Maryland

Qi Zhou
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Clayton, Australia