Program

Session	Chairman	Time	Lecture/Lecturers	Language
		10.00-10.05	Greeting, Introduction

BIOLOGY OF STEM CELLS	Emília Madarász		Natural and induced pluripotency
		10.05-10.50	Austin Smith	ENG
			ESTOOLS Deputy Co-ordinator and Work Package Leader (University of Cambridge, UK)

			The Truth behind Promises and Threats of Embryonic Stem Cells
		10.50-11.35	András Nagy	ENG
			ESTOOLS Science Advisory Panel (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada)

		11.35-11.55	Coffee break

	Elen Gócza		Overexpression of miR-290-295 miRNA cluster in mouse ES
		11.55-12.25	Zsuzsanna Lichner, Em?ke Páll, Zsuzsanna B?sze, Elen Gócza	HUN
			Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöll?, Hungary University of Science and Veteriary Medicine, cluj-Napoca, Romania

			Signaling pathways activated by members of the TGFb cytokine family in stem cell differentiation and tumorigenesis
		12.25-12.55	Anna Sebestyén, Melinda Hajdú, László Kopper	HUN
			Semmelweis Univ., Ins. of Patholgy and Exp. Cancer Research, Budapest, Hungary

			Transposon-based transfection of human embryonic stem cells
		12.55-13.25	Ágota Apáti, Tamás Orbán, Balázs Sarkadi	HUN
			Stem Cell Laboratory of Hung. Blood Transfusion Inst., Budapest, Hungary

		13.30-15.00	Buffet Lunch and Poster Session

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF STEM CELLS	Balázs Sarkadi		Vasculogenic capability of adult stem cells; Applications in progressed stages of peripherial artery-diseases
		15.00-15.30	Éva Rajnavölgyi, Zoltán Veréb, János Kappelmayer, Zoltán Boda	HUN
			Debrecen Univ., II.Dept. of Internal Medicine; Inst. of Immmunology; Inst. of Clinical Biochem. and Molecular Pathology Debrecen, Hungary

			Transplantation of cord blood derived stem cells. Theoreticaland practical aspects
		15.30-16.00	Gergely Kriván, Tamás Masszi	HUN
			Szent László Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

			Stem cells from skin, skin from stem cells
		16.00-16.30	Gábor Szabad	HUN
			Szeged Univ. Medical School, Clinics of Dermatology, Szeged, Hungary

			Ethical and legal aspects of stem cell research
		16.30-16.50	Judit Sándor	HUN
			CEU Dept. of Political Science, Budapest, Hungary

		16.50-16.55	Closing of Symposium

		17.00	Test exam for PhD. students	HUN