Chemical and Functional Genomic Approaches to Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Sheng Ding is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society for Cell Biology, and the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Dr. Ding is the author or coauthor of thirty-four papers and seventeen reviews and book chapters, in addition to being coholder of thirteen?patents.

Chapter 1. Embryonic Stem Cells (Crystal L. Sengstaken, Eric N. Schulze and Qi-Long Ying). Chapter 2. Adult Stem Cells (Lief Fenno and Chad A. Cowan). Chapter 3. Genome-wide expression analysis technologies (John R. Walker). Chapter 4. Genomic cDNA and RNAi Functional Profiling and its Potential Application to the Study of Mammalian Stem Cells (Jia Zhang, Myleen Medina, Genevieve Welch, Deanna Shumate, Anthony Marelli, and Anthony P. Orth). Chapter 5. Chemical Technologies: Probing Biology with Small Molecules (Nicolas Winssinger, Zbigniew Pianowski, and Sofia Barluenga). Chapter 6. Protein Characterization by Biological Mass Spectrometry (Venkateshwar Reddy and Eric C. Peters). Chapter 7. Large scale genomic analysis of stem cell populations (Jonathan D. Chesnut and Mahendra S. Rao). Chapter 8. Exploring stem cell biology with small molecules and functional genomics (Julie Clark, Yue Xu, Simon Hilcove, and Sheng Ding). Chapter 9. Regeneration Screens in Model Organisms (Chetana Sachidanandan and Randall T Peterson). Chapter 10. Proteomics in stem cells (Qiang Tian and W. Andy Tao).