| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Stem Cells and Germ Line |
| Janet Rossant (25 min)
"Lineages and asymmetries in the early mouse embryo" |
| Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (25 min)
"Secondary progenitors in the adult brain can function as stem cells" |
| 15 min break |
| Babette Heyer (15 min)
"Fate of chicken embryonic stem cells in chimeras" |
| Mark Van Doren (15 min)
"Germline-soma interaction and sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila gonad" |
| Chris Wylie (25 min)
"Germ cell migration in the early mouse embryo" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo session |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Early Embryogenesis and Pattern formation (I) |
| Alexander Schier (25 min)
"Nodal Signaling and mesendoderm induction in zebrafish" |
| Elizabeth Lacy (15 min)
"Middle Primitive Streak Assembly during Mouse Gastrulation" |
| Janet Heasman (25 min)
"A novel role for a nodal protein; Xnr3, FGF receptor and convergent extension movements" |
| 30 min break |
| Olivier Pourquie (25 min)
"Clocks and gradients: Segmenting the vertebrate embryo" |
| Deneen Wellik (15 min)
"Patterning of the Axial and Appendicular Skeleton by the Hox10 and Hox11 Paralogous Genes" |
| Robert Delotto (15 min)
"Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling and dynamic maintenance of
the Dorsal, NF-kappa B gradient during Drosophila embryogenesis" |
| Siew-Lan Ang (15 min)
"Otx2 and Mid-Hindbrain development" |
| Mark Patterson (15 min)
"Public Library of Science" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Embryogenesis and Pattern formation (II) |
| Mike Levine (25 min)
"Whole-genome analysis of Drosophila gastrulation" |
| Elizabeth Robertson (25 min)
"Nodal signals and effectors controlling A-P pattern in the mouse" |
| 15 min break |
| Vasso Episkopou (15 min)
"Maximum Nodal signalling depends on Arkadia function" |
| Hiroshi Hamada (25 min)
"Generation and transfer of asymmetric signals for left-right patterning" |
| Rebecca Burdine (15 min)
"A revised role for the midline in left-right patterning" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Developmental Timing and Cell Specification |
| Gary Ruvkun (25 min)
"Developmental timing and microRNAs" |
| Diya Banerjee (15 min)
"Ticking to the same tock?: Molecular parallels between the circadian clock and developmental timing in C. elegans" |
| Stephen Cohen (25 min)
"Patterning cues and growth control" |
| 30 min break |
| Chris Doe (25 min)
"Generation of cell diversity in the Drosophila CNS" |
| Fillipo Rijli (15 min)
"Direct regulation of Phox2b by homeodomain transcription factors and cranial motor neuron specification in the mouse" |
| Ed Giniger (15 min)
"What can Lola tell us about the spice of life?" |
| Nick Baker (15 min)
"Specifying the founder R8 cells in the Drosophila retina" |
| Gerold Schubiger (15 mins)
"Transdetermination in Drosophila a form of pluripotency" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Signaling systems |
| Roel Nusse (25 min)
"Signaling by isolated Wnt proteins" |
| Richard Harland (25 min)
"BMP antagonists in vertebrate development" |
| 15 min break |
| Xinhua Lin (15 min)
"Essential roles of Proteoglycans in Dpp signaling and morphogen gradient formation in Drosophila" |
| Andrew Spence (15 min)
"The Gli of sex: regulation of TRA-1 in C. elegans by
sex-specific processing, phosphorylation, and localization" |
| Tom Kornberg (25 min)
"Cytonemes and long range signaling in Drosophila imaginal discs" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell Behaviors |
| Antonio Garcia-Bellido (25 min)
"Control of cell proliferation in size and shape in the Drosophila wing" |
| Laura Johnston (15 min)
"Cell competition and wing disc size control" |
| Bruce Hay (25 min)
"Cell death, spermatogenesis and the RNA world - its a small world" |
| 30 min break |
| Pernille Roth (25 min)
"Guidance of cell migration in Drosophila" |
| Elizabeth Chen (15 min)
Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila |
| Scott Fraser (25 min)
"Imaging the cell motions that shape embryonic tissues" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organogenesis (I) |
| Alex Joyner (25 min)
"Lineage boundaries and an organizing center shape the midbrain and cerebellum" |
| Marianne Bronner-Fraser (25 min)
"Induction of the neural crest" |
| 15 min break |
| John Klingensmith (15 min)
"BMP signaling and its antagonism in mammalian neural crest development" |
| Cliff Tabin (25 min)
"Signals Patterning the Vertebrate Limb" |
| Brad Yoder (15 min)
"A role for cilia in skeletal patterning?" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organogenesis (II) |
| Didier Stainier (25 min)
"Endodermal organ development in zebrafish" |
| Matthias Hebrok (15 min)
"Pancreatic Hedgehog signaling: from Development to Disease" |
| Susan Mango (25 min)
"The Regulatory Network for Foregut Formation" |
| 30 min break |
| Andy McMahon (25 min)
"From development to physiology: the mammalian kidney as a model system" |
| Guillermo Oliver (15 min)
"Prox1 is a key regulator of lymphatic vasculature formation" |
| Ilaria Rebay (15 min)
"Signal integration during retinal development" |
| Deborah Andrew (15 min)
"Morphogenesis of the Drosophila salivary gland" |
| Laura Mathies (15 min)
"Genetic Analysis of Early Gonadogenesis in C.
elegans" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution and Developmental mechanisms |
| Tom Kaufman (25 min)
"Hox genes and the evolution of the Arthropod Body Plan" |
| Matthias Gerberding (20 min)
"Analysis of pattern formation in the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis" |
| 15 min break |
| Rob Grainger (15 min)
"Analysis of developmental patterning mutations
in Xenopus tropicalis" |
| Tom Humphreys (15 min)
"Otx expression in a hemichordate: conservation of dorsal neural
structures in bilaterians" |
| David Kingsley (25 min)
"The genetic architecture of morphological evolution in threespine
sticklebacks" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
