Program Updates

• Registration is Open

  NYSTEM 2012
  Registration is now open
  Abstracts are due by March 9
  Early registration closes April 12.

• Stem Cell Awareness Day

  October 5, 2011 marked "Stem Cell Awareness Day." The winning images for NYSTEM sponsored third annual stem cell image contest are featured in the NYSTEM 2012 calendar

• Two RFAs issued

  September 28, 2011 - The New York State Department of Health issued two Requests for Applications: Institutional Awards for Short Term Faculty Training and Collaborative Opportunities; and, Empire State Medical, Dental and Veterinary Student Stem Cell Research Training Program.

• Information on Oocyte Donation

Hair Follicle Stem Cells

Image Source: Ting Chen and Elaine Fuchs, THe Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Cytoskeleton Staining of H9 Cells

Image Source: Martin Tomov and Janet Paluh, University at Albany, Albany, NY

Mouse Embryonic Endoderm

Image Source: Kat Hadjantonakis, Sloan-Kettering institute, New York, NY

Cells and Cancer

Image Source: Galina I Botchkina, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
Natalia Peunova, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

High STAT Activity in Germline Stem Cells in the Drosophila Testis

Image Source: Marc Amoyel and Erika Bach, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Purified Mesenchymal Progenitors Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cell

Image Source: Natalia Novoa and Mark J. Tomishima, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY

Spatial Organization of Cardiomyocytes in an iPS Cells-derived Embryoid Body

Image Source: Mayurika Desai and Charles Antzelevitch, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica, NY

Oligodendrocytes

Image Source: Tamara Major and Viviane Tabar, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

iPS Astrocyte

Image Source: Devin Chandler-Militello and Steven Goldman, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Vascular Foci

Image Source:Daylon James and Shahin Rafii, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hMSC) Sense Each Other on Collagen-I Coated Plates

Image Source: Kira Henderson and George Plopper, RPI, Rensselaer, NY

Retinal Pigment Epithelial (RPE) Cells are Plastic

Image Source:Enrique Salero, Timothy A Blenkinsop, and Barbara Corneo, Neural Stem Cell Institute, Regenerative Research Foundation, Rensselaer, NY

Cell Polarity and Chirality

Image Source:Leo Q Wan and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University, New York, NY

Stem Cell Awareness Day

October 5, 2011 was designated "Stem Cell Awareness Day". In observance of the day and to acknowledge stem cell research as one of the most promising areas of medical research, NYSTEM sponsored its third annual stem cell image contest. Many visually captivating and scientifically significant stem cell images were submitted by New York stem cell scientists. The selected top images have been used to create the NYSTEM 2012 calendar (more)

Shared Facilities and Resources Supported by NYSTEM

The Shared Facilities webpage has now been added to the NYSTEM website. It is intended to inform stem cell scientists across the state about the capabilities of NYSTEM-funded facilities, identify new collaborative opportunities and enhance cooperation among resources in order to best serve the stem cell science community. More

Modification of Fusion Protein Causes Blood Cancers

Lan Wang, Ph.D., an Empire State Stem Cell Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, just published new data in Science identifying the mechanism behind the uncontrolled cell proliferation leading to certain blood cancers.More

Conversion of Skin Cells From Alzheimer's Patients Into Functional Neurons

New research from the lab of Dr. Asa Abeliovich, M.D., Ph.D., at Columbia University Medical Center, shows that skin cells from Alzheimer´s disease (AD) patients can be converted directly into functional neurons, the cells damaged and lost in the disease. Dr. Abeliovich and his coworkers initially tried to replicate research in mice using three transcription factors, but this didn´t work. More

NYSTEM Investigator Unfolds the Dynamics between Hair Follicle Stem Cells and the Niche Microenvironment

New research findings published in Cell from the lab of Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., at the Rockefeller University provide more clues to determine the point where stem cells lose the self-renewing capacity and commit irreversibly toward a specific cell fate.More