The one-day JSPS-CDB-SNAP Meeting entitled， "Stem Cell Research in the Asia-Pacific Region" will be held on Wednesday， February 4th， 2009 from 10:00-16:50 at the RIKEN CDB in Kobe， Japan.

Registration for this meeting is not required. Please go directly to the Auditorium in Building C.

Abcam will be hosting its first international Stem Cells meeting to be held in Asia， organized by Dr. Larry Stanton (GIS， Singapore) and Dr. Noel Buckley (King's College London， UK). This event will run back to back with a Chromatin meeting (Feb.9-11) with an overlap day of plenary talks and poster session.

Topics include pluripotency， neural fates， hematapoietic lineage， endoderm specification， cancer stem cells， reprogramming， and germ cell development.