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501.P1.52 501. Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Biology: Poster I

Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Biology Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Poster
Saturday, December 5, 2015: 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Hall A, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)

Naoya Uchida1, Fujita Atsushi1*, Haro-Mora J Juan1*, Thomas Winkler, MD2* and John F Tisdale, MD1

1Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch, NHLBI/NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
2Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Kyung-Rok Yu, PhD1*, Chuanfeng Wu, PhD2*, Diego Espinoza1*, Idalia Yabe1*, Sandhya R. Panch, MD, MPH1, So Gun Hong, PhD1*, Samson Jonathan Koelle, BA1*, Rong Lu3*, Aylin Bonifacino1*, Alan Krouse1*, Mark Metzger1*, Robert Donahue, VMD1 and Cynthia E. Dunbar, MD4

1Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
2National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
3Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
4Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Keisuke Sumide, Phar.B.1*, Yoshikazu Matsuoka, Ph.D.1*, Ryusuke Nakatsuka, Ph.D.1*, Hiroshi Kawamura, M.D.1*, Tatsuya Fujioka, M.D., Ph.D.1*, Yutaka Sasaki, M.D., Ph.D.1*, Hiroaki Asano, Ph.D.2* and Yoshiaki Sonoda, M.D., Ph.D.1

1Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan
2School of Nursing, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Yurino Ayano, MD1*, Takuji Yamauchi, MD, PhD2*, Takuya Nunomura, MD1*, Yasufumi Uehara, MD1*, Fumiaki Jinnouchi, MD1*, Shinya Daitoku, MD1*, Yuya Kunisaki, MD, PhD3*, Katsuto Takenaka, MD, PhD3 and Koichi Akashi, MD, PhD1

1Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan
2Department of stem cell biology and medicine, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan
3Center for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomohiko Ishibashi, MD1*, Takafumi Yokota, MD, PhD1, Hirokazu Tanaka, MD, PhD2, Michiko Ichii, MD, PhD1*, Takao Sudo, MD, PhD1*, Yusuke Satoh, MD, PhD3, Yukiko Doi, MD1*, Akira Tanimura, MD, PhD1*, Yuri Hamanaka, MD1*, Sachiko Ezoe, MD, PhD1*, Hirohiko Shibayama, MD, PhD1, Kenji Oritani, MD, PhD1* and Yuzuru Kanakura, MD, PhD1

1Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
2Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
3Department of Lifestyle Studies, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Kobe, Japan

Stefanie Kreutmair1*, Rouzanna Istvanffy, PhD2*, Cathrin Klingeberg, PhD3*, Christine Dierks, MD3*, Christian Peschel, MD2, Robert A.J. Oostendorp, BSc, MSc, PhD2*, Justus Duyster, MD, PhD4* and Anna Lena Illert, MD3*

1Dept. of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
2Hematology/ Oncology, Klinikum r. d. Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
3Department of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
4Department of Hematology&Oncology+Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg (CCCF), University of Freiburg Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Matteo Marchesini, PhD1*, Yamini Ogoti1*, Irene Ganan-Gomez, PhD, MSc1*, Yue Wei, PhD1, Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos2, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD3, Ronald A. DePinho4* and Simona Colla, PhD1*

1Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2Department of Leukemia, MDACC, Houston, TX
3Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Houston, TX
4Department of Cancer Biology, MDACC, Houston, TX

Ying Xie, PhD1*, Xin Hu, PhD1,2* and Zhe Li, PhD3

1Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China
3Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Ling Tian, PhD* and Lukas D. Wartman, MD

Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

Kutay Karatepe, MS1,2* and Hongbo R. Luo, PhD1,3

1Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
2Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Xiao Yan1,2, Heather A Himburg, PhD2*, Phuong L Doan, MD3, Mamle Quarmyne, PhD2*, Evelyn Tran2*, Liman Zhao2*, Nelson J. Chao, MD3 and John P Chute, MD2,4,5

1Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC
2Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
3Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Hematological Malignancies & Cellular Therapy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
4CA Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
5Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

David E. Muench, MEng, Chinavenmeni S. Velu, PhD, Andre Olsson, Ph.D.*, Sara E. Meyer, PhD and H. Leighton Grimes, PhD

Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Kellie R Machlus, PhD1*, Kelly Elizabeth Johnson, PhD2*, Rajesh Kulenthirarajan3*, Saleh El-Husayni4*, Jodi A Forward4*, Stephen K Wu3*, Joseph E Italiano Jr., PhD1 and Elisabeth M. Battinelli, MD, PhD3

1Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
4Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Kathryn Matthews, MSc*, Irina Eberle-Ayres, PhD*, Katherine Lu, PhD, MD*, Nishi Singh, PhD*, Murray J Cutler, PhD* and David Bell, PhD

Drug Development, Therapure Biopharma Inc., Mississauga, ON, Canada

Hiroki Kato, MD1,2*, Ari Itoh-Nakadai, PhD1*, Risa Ebina-Shibuya, MD1*, Masahiro Kobayashi, MD, PhD2*, Mitsuyo Matsumoto, PhD1*, Akihiko Muto, PhD1*, Tohru Fujiwara, MD, PhD2*, Hideo Harigae, MD, PhD2 and Kazuhiko Igarashi, MD, PhD1*

1Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
2Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Heidi Anderson1*, Taylor Patch2*, Pavan Reddy3*, Elliott Hagedorn3*, Owen J. Tamplin, PhD4, Daniel E. Bauer, M.D., Ph.D.5, Barry H. Paw, M.D., Ph.D.6, Dietmar Vestweber7*, Leonard I. Zon, M.D8, Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.9, George Q. Daley, MD, PhD10 and Dhvanit I. Shah, Ph.D.11,12

1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
3Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
4Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
5Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
6Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
7Max Plank Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany
8Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
9Department of Pediatric Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, HHMI, Boston, MA
10Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
11Hematology Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
12Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA

Zhenrui Li, MS1, Keiyo Takubo, MD, PhD2*, Pengxu Qian, PhD1, Toshio Suda, MD, PhD3 and Linheng Li, PhD1

1Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
2Department of Stem Cell Biology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
3Department of Cell Differentiation, The Sakaguchi Laboratory of Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Bin-Kuan Chou, PhD1*, Hao Bai, PhD2*, Yongxing Gao1*, Ying Wang1*, Zhaohui Ye, PhD1, Erika Mijin Kwon, PhD3*, Pu Paul Liu, MD, PhD4, Alan D. Friedman, MD5, Zack Z. Wang, PhD2 and Linzhao Cheng, PhD6

1Division of Hematology and Stem Cell Program in the Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
2Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, NIH, NHGRI, Bethesda, MD
4Oncogenesis and Development Section/NHGRI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
5Pediatric Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
6Division of Hematology and Stem Cell Program in the Institute for Cell Egineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Tatsuya Imi1*, Hiroyuki Maruyama, MD1*, Takamasa Katagiri, PhD1*, Yoshitaka Zaimoku, MD1*, Kana Maruyama, MD1*, Noriharu Nakagawa, MD1*, Kohei Hosokawa, MD, PhD1*, Ken Ishiyama1*, Hirohito Yamazaki, MD, PhD1*, Koichi Kashiwase, MD, PhD2* and Shinji Nakao, MD, PhD1

1Cellular Transplantation Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
2Japanese Red Cross Kanto-Koshinetsu Block Blood Center, Tokyo, Japan

Kam Tong Leung, PhD1*, Karen Li, PhD1*, Yorky Tsin Sik Wong, BSc1*, Kathy Yuen Yee Chan, PhD1*, Xiao-Bing Zhang, PhD2*, Alex Wing Kwan Leung, MRCPCH1*, Tak Yeung Leung, MD3*, Kam Sze Tsang, PhD4*, Pak Cheung Ng, MD, FRCPCH1* and Chi Kong Li, MD1

1Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
4Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Orna Steinberg Shemer, MD, MSc1*, Marta Byrska-Bishop, PhD2*, Jacob C Ulirsch3,4*, Osheiza Abdulmalik, DVM, MS5, Yu Yao, MD6*, Ah Ram Kim, PhD3,4*, Paul Gadue, PhD5*, Paul D. Kingsley, PhD7, Deborah French, PhD5*, Ross C. Hardison, PhD2*, James Palis, MD7, Vijay G Sankaran, MD, PhD3,4 and Mitchell J Weiss, MD, PhD1,6*

1Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2Penn State University, State College, PA
3Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
4Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
5Division of Hematology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
6Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
7Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Zhi-Jian Liu, Ph.D.1, Ioana Nitulescu2*, Henry Pelish, Ph.D.2*, Matthew Shair, Ph.D.2* and Martha Sola-Visner, MD3

1Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge
3Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Avishek Ganguly, PhD1*, Omar S. Aljitawi, MD2 and Soumen Paul, PhD3*

1Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
2Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
3University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

Lei Sun, Ph.D.

Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD

Darlene Monlish, PhD*, Angela Herman, MD*, Molly Romine*, Sima Bhatt, MD* and Laura G. Schuettpelz, MD, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

*signifies non-member of ASH