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Session 1:  High Throughput and Microfluidic Screening Platforms
Chairs:  Sangeeta Bhatia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Joel Voldman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session 2:  iPS Cell Reprogramming and Disease Models
Chairs:  Mahendra Rao (Invitrogen) and Stephen Oh (Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR, Singapore)

Session 3:  Systems-Based Approaches to Understanding Fate Decisions
Chairs:  Ihor Lemischka (Mount Sinai Medical Center) and Doug Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session 4: Engineering Approaches to Endogenous Repair
Chairs: Anand Asthagiri (Cal Tech) and Carsten Warner (University of Dresden)

Session 5:  Intercellular Signaling and the Engineered Niche
Chairs:  Christopher Chen (University of Pennsylvania) and John Aunins (Merck)

Session 6:   Bioreactors and Bioprocesses for Cell Expansion and Differentiation
Chairs:  Jamie Piret (University of British Columbia) and Joaquim Cabral (Technical University of Lisbon)

Session 7:  Novel Approaches for Adult Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation
Chairs:  Lars Ahrlund (Karolinska Institutet) and William Miller (Northwestern University)

Session 8: Defining and Eradicating Cancer Stem Cells
Chairs: Mattahias Lutoff (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and Sharon Gerecht (Johns Hopkins University)

 Session 9: Tissue Engineering and Regeneration using Stem Cells
Chairs:   Todd McDevitt (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Jennifer Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins University)

Session 10:  Novel Approaches for Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation
Chairs: Ralph Brandenberger (Geron Corporation) and Sean Palecek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)