Transcriptional and Translational Regulation of Stem Cells

1. The stem cell state; Gary R. Hime and Helen E. Abud

2. Induction of pluripotency; Corey Heffernan, Jun Liu, Huseyin Sumer, Luis F. Malaver-Ortega, Rajneesh Verma, Edmund Carvalho and Paul J. Verma

Model stem cell systems

(A) Invertebrate

3. Germline stem cells and their regulation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; Aaron Kershner, Sarah L. Crittenden, Kyle Friend, Erika B. Sorensen, Douglas F. Porter and Judith Kimble

4. Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of Drosophila germline stem cells and their differentiating progeny; Helen White-Cooper and Simona Caporilli

5. Stem cells in the Drosophila digestive system; Xiankun Zeng, Chhavi Chauhan, and Steven X. Hou

6. Mechanisms of Asymmetric Progenitor Divisions in the Drosophila Central Nervous System; Rita Sousa-Nunes and W. Gregory Somers

(B) Vertebrate

7. Transcriptional / Translational Regulation of Mammalian Spermatogenic Stem Cells; Cathryn Hogarth

8. Transcriptional Regulation and Specification of Neural Stem Cells; Kimberly J. Christie, Ben Emery, Mark Denham, Helena Bujalka, Holly S. Cate and Ann M. Turnley

9. Transcriptional Control of Epidermal Stem Cells; Briana Lee and Xing Dai

10. Regulation of intestinal stem cells by Wnt and Notch signalling; Katja Horvay and Helen E. Abud

11. Transcriptional regulation of haematopoietic stem cells; Adam C. Wilkinson and Berthold Göttgens

12. Regulation of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation; David Cook and Paul Genever

Molecular families implicated in stem cell regulation

13. The Musashi family of RNA binding proteins: Master regulators of multiple stem cell populations; Jessie M. Sutherland, Eileen A. McLaughlin, Gary R. Hime and Nicole A. Siddall

14. JAK-STAT signalling in stem cells; Rachel R. Stine and Erika L. Matunis

15. Myc in Stem Cell Behaviour: insights from Drosophila;