**Meet the editors**

Aakash Goyal received his Master degree in Biotechnology from Guru Jambeshwar University Hissar, India (2001) and Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding (formerly Agriculture Botany) from Ch. Charan Singh University Meerut, India (2007). He was awarded NSREC Visiting Fellowship in 2008 and thus, joined molecular breeding program of spring wheat and triticale at Leth-

bridge Research Center, Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada. Currently, he is working as Canadian wheat Breeder in Bayer Crop Science, Saskatoon, Canada. He is involved in the development of new spring wheat primaries from new sources of wheat with major emphasis on yield, Fusarium head blight (FHB) and rust disease resistance. He has published several research papers, review articles, book chapters and book reviews. He is a member of Canadian Society of Agronomy, and elected fellow member of International College of Nutrition.

Muhammad Asif has been a Senior Research Scientist at Wheat, Barley and Triticale Program, Crop Sciences Institute, National Agriculture Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. (Hons.) education from University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 1998. He also served Pakistan Agriculture Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan for

seven years where he was involved in wheat varietal/germplasm development for rainfed areas of Pakistan. He has written more than 50 scientific articles and 10 book chapters. He immigrated to Canada during 2003. Over the last three years at Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, he has focused on the improvement of doubled haploid production technology in wheat and triticale along with QTL mapping and Marker Assisted Breeding for various agronomic, quality, disease resistance and competitive ability traits in wheat.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Stem Cell Biology 1**

Pereira

Chapter 1 **Regulators of the Proliferation of Hematopoietic Stem and**

Chapter 2 **Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche: Role in Normal and Malignant**

Chapter 3 **Expression Profile of Galectins (Gal-1, Gal-9, Gal-11 and Gal-13)**

Yasushi Kubota and Shinya Kimura

**Different Culture Mediums 33**

Chapter 6 **Stem Cell Predictive Hemotoxicology 79** Holli Harper and Ivan N. Rich

Chapter 4 **Canonical HSC Markers and Recent Achievements 51**

Yukiko Doi, Kenji Oritani and Yuzuru Kanakura

Chapter 5 **Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Response to Interferon 65**

**Hematopoiesis 17**

Faouzi Jenhani

Atsuko Masumi

**Progenitor Cells During Hematopoietic Regeneration 3**

Sergio P. Bydlowski, Debora Levy, Jorge M.L. Ruiz and Juliana

**in Human Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in**

Takao Sudo, Takafumi Yokota, Tomohiko Ishibashi, Michiko Ichii,
