Public Lecture: Irv Weissman on Stem Cells (coordinated by Stanford Scientific Review magazine)

Stanford Scientific Review magazine is pleased to put on its first Public Lecture in Science. A question and answer period for all audience members will take place at the end of each lecture. Refreshments will be served.

Has California's Proposition 71 made you curious about the actual science behind the political hype surrounding stem cell research? Lecture #1 will feature Stanford Professor Irv Weissman. Weissman's research encompasses the phylogeny and developmental biology of the cells that make up the blood-forming and immune systems. His laboratory identified and isolated the blood-forming stem cell from mice, and has defined, by lineage analysis, the stages of development between the stem cells and mature progeny (granulocytes, macrophages, etc.). This required developing and cloning stromal cells of the hematolymphoid microenvironments—from the bone marrow for myeloid and B cells, and from the thymus for T cells.