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\n Cristy Lytal<\/span>\n \n May 25, 2016<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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The Stem Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat was a total body experience \u2014 covering organ systems ranging from the brain to the skeleton, from the kidney to the heart.
\nHeld on May 20 in USC\u2019s Galen Center, the retreat showcased presentations and research posters by dozens of postdoctoral scholars and PhD students.
\n<\/span>Ophir Klein, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, delivered the keynote address, offering a window into the evolution and development of teeth with the remarkable ability to grow continuously \u2014 a trait that has independently evolved in mammals including lemurs, elephants, walruses, rabbits and mice. He also discussed insights into how a similarly regenerative organ, the intestines, co-evolved with parasitic worms.
\nAlbert Kim, a Hearst Fellow in the laboratory of Andy McMahon, outlined his efforts to understand mouse and human kidney development at a cellular level. Kim identified genetic similarities and differences between progenitor cells in mice and humans \u2014 offering clues about how kidneys develop and regenerate.
\nThe retreat also featured several researchers focusing on the neural system. Ismael Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez, a USC-CONACYT Provost Fellow in the laboratory of Michael Bonaguidi, introduced his work with fruit flies, which he is using to find and test drug-like compounds to help the brain regenerate from disease, aging or injury.
\nAlbina Ibrayeva, a master\u2019s student also in the Bonaguidi Lab, talked about the birth of new nerve cells in the region of the adult brain called the hippocampus, responsible for learning, memory and emotions. The production of new cells slows with age, as the brain\u2019s stem cells become less active.
\nContinuing the discussion of the brain, Casey Griffin, a PhD student in the laboratory of Ruchi Bajpai, introduced her efforts to induce stem and progenitor cells to differentiate into specialized cells called forebrain pericytes, which may play a role in Alzheimer\u2019s disease.
\nLouise Menendez, a PhD student in the laboratories of Justin Ichida and Neil Segil, reported her success in directly reprogramming skin cells into the sensory cells of the inner ear, responsible for hearing. She plans to use these inner ear cells to study hearing loss, resulting from genetic mutations or exposure to certain toxic chemotherapy drugs or antibiotics.
\nSeveral skeletal researchers also presented. Gabriel Ferguson, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Denis Evseenko, addressed the problem of osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease of joint cartilage. Ferguson is studying genes that are turned on at different stages during human cartilage development.
\nJoanna Smeeton, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Gage Crump, explored the evolutionary origin of a type of joint known as \u201csynovial,\u201d typified by the human knee and highly susceptible to osteoarthritis. She identified synovial joints in the jaws and fins of zebrafish, which can be used to study joint development and arthritis.
\nLindsey Barske, another postdoctoral scholar in the Crump Lab, shared her work about how mutations in a group of genes called Nr2f can disrupt the development of the upper face in zebrafish.
\nKaivalya Shevade, a PhD student from the Bajpai Lab, talked about his findings related to CHARGE syndrome, a genetic condition that can cause blindness, deafness, heart defects, genital abnormalities and developmental delays. Shevade found that a mutation in the gene CHD7, implicated in CHARGE syndrome, affects cell migration during development.
\nDu Jiang, a PhD student in the laboratory of Rong Lu, talked about how questions of \u201cnature versus nurture\u201d apply to blood-forming or hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in mice. Nature has an influence: these cells divide and produce \u201cdaughter cells,\u201d which inherit certain blood production tendencies. However, nurture also plays a role: these inherited tendencies can change if the daughter cells are transplanted into a new mouse.
\nLisa Nguyen, a fellow PhD student in the Rong Lu Lab, described another way that the environment can affect HSC behavior in mice. When co-transplanted with HSCs unable to make a certain type of blood cell, called B cells, normal HSCs compensate by producing extra B cells. She also found that certain drug-like molecules push HSCs to adjust their production of certain specialized blood cell types.
\nAndrew Petersen, a PhD student in the laboratory of Megan McCain, PhD, explained how the structure and stiffness of engineered heart muscle fibers influence the electrical pulses underlying heart arrhythmias.
\nTo help this research find its way into the pages of scientific journals, Sheila Chari, editor of Cell Stem Cell, pulled back the curtain on the peer review process, offering tips on how to get published. She advised scientists to \u201cbe their own reviewers,\u201d ensuring that their submitted papers address interesting and important research questions that make clear advances beyond what has already been published.
\nCore facility directors Seth Ruffins and Mickey Huang and postdoctoral research associate Adnan Chowdhury shared information about the cutting-edge technologies in imaging, drug screening and genetic sequencing available at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
\nAndy McMahon, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC<\/a>, concluded the event by thanking the retreat organizers, postdoctoral fellow Kim Staats and postdoctoral research associate Nils Lindstrom.
\n\u201cTo sum it all up, thank you all for coming today,\u201d said Lindstrom. \u201cThis was a great turn out, and I particularly want to thank all the speakers. 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