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Building a Better Mouse II a Success

Over 200 scientists from all over the world gathered for the Building a Better Mouse (BBM) II conference on July 12-14, 2007 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D., professor of Biology and founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led off the conference with a keynote address on July 12. Jaenisch is renowned for creating the first transgenic animals and has been recognized as a leader in the field of therapeutic cloning using embryonic stem cells.

Other speakers included Janet Rossant, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, who gave the second keynote address; Allan Bradley, Ph.D., Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England; and Gordon Keller, Ph.D., Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto.

The conference was organized by Mark Magnuson, M.D., Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology; Christopher Wright, D.Phil., Director of the Program in Developmental Biology; Ronald Emeson, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Center for Molecular Neuroscience; and Maureen Gannon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics.

For conference highlights, please refer to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter news articles below or see the BBM II Photo Gallery.

• Conference to explore ‘Building a better mouse’ - June 8, 2007
• Conference outlines advances in mouse genomic engineering - July 20, 2007