Speakers
- Bruce Ames
- Adam Arkin
- Stephen Badylak
- Laura Briggs
- Judith Campisi
- Irina Conboy
- Marisol Corral-Debrinski
- Ana Maria Cuervo
- Zheng Cui
- Rita Effros
- Claudia Gravekamp
- Kevin Healy
- Leanne Jones
- Christiaan Leeuwenburgh
- Ken Muneoka
- Bruce Rittmann
- David Schaffer
- Jerry Shay
- Matthias Stelzner
- Doris Taylor
- Tony De Tomaso
- Jan Vijg
- Amy Wagers
- Michael West
Amy Wagers
Joslin Diabetes Center
Biography
Dr. Wagers is a Principal Investigator in the Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology as well as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She received her doctoral degree in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University, and completed postdoctoral fellowship training in the laboratory of Irving Weissman, M.D., at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences and Smith Family New Investigator Award.
The broad interest of the Wagers Lab is to identify and characterize tissue-specific stem cell populations in adult animals. This work focuses on understanding the factors controlling the migration and expansion of bone marrow-derived and blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells in mice, as well as developing methods for the isolation and manipulation of distinct stem and progenitor cell populations from adult mouse skeletal muscle.