| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ASYMMETRY AND CELL MIGRATION |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Harland (UC Berkeley) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)
"Germ cell migration in Drosophila" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Magdalena Zernica-Goetz (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge)
"Symmetry breaking in mouse development" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Tamara Caspary (Emory)
"The role of Hennin in cilia structure and establishment of the left-right body axis" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Scott Fraser (Caltech, Beckman Institute)
"Morphogenesis of organ primordia" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Greg Beitel (Northwestern University)
"Molecular genetic analyses of Drosophila tracheal morphogenesis reveal unexpected functions of the Na/K ATPase and cell junctions" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GENOMIC AND GENETIC APPROACHES (I) |
| Discussion Leader: Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Julie Ahringer (LMB Cambridge)
"Genomic scale RNAi in C. elegans" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School)
"RNAi in Drosophila" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Makoto Furutani-Seiki (Japan Science and Technology Corporation)
"Genetic screen in Medaka" |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:10 am | Ronald Plasterk (Hubrecht Laboratory)
"MicroRNAs in animal development" |
| 11:10 am - 11:35 am | Victor Ambros (Dartmouth Medical School)
"MicroRNAs in animal development" |
| 11:35 am - 11:50 am | Douglas J. Epstein (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
"Regulation of Sonic hedgehog expression by remote control" |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Rob Grainger (University of Virginia)
"Mining the Xenopus tropicalis genome for new enhancers" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Asako Sugimoto (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology)
"Profiling and cluster analysis of developmental RNAi phenotypes 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, MORPHOGENS AND MODELING |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Ahringer (LMB Cambridge) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Mike Levine (UC Berkeley)
"cis regulatory interpretation of morphogens" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Modeling of morphogen theshold output" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Chip Ferguson (University of Chicago)
"Spatial bistability of Dpp receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Nipam Patel (UC Berkeley)
"Diversification of cis-mechanisms in arthropods" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:30 pm | Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute)
"cis-regulatory interpretation of hox codes" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GROWTH AND PATTERNING |
| Discussion Leader: Janet Heasman (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Laura Johnston (Columbia University)
"Growth, competition, and size control" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Matt Freeman (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
"Integration of signaling and growth" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Joel Rothman (UC, Santa Barbara)
"Growth and death in C. elegans" |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:10 am | David Wilkinson (National Institute for Medical Research, UK)
"Signaling and segmentation in the fish hindbrain" |
| 11:10 am - 11:35 am | Detlev Arendt (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)
"Segmentation and axis elongation in the polychaete Platynereis dumerilii" |
| 11:35 am - 11:50 am | Trish Labosky (Penn)
"Molecular Conservation of Progenitor Cell Maintenance" |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Chris J. Cretekos (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
"Genetic Mechanisms of Divergent Limb Morphogenesis Between Bats and Mice" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Peter Reddien (University of Utah)
"RNAi screening identifies stem cell and regeneration regulators in planarians" |
| 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 | CELL MIGRATION AND BOUNDARY FORMATION |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Marianne Bronner-Fraser (California Institute of Technology)
"Neural crest migration" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Chris Wylie (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
"Control of the cortical actin skeleton in the early Xenopus embryo" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Maria Jesus Garcia-Garcia (Sloan-Kettering Institute)
"The chato mutation disrupts antero-posterior axis elongation of the mouse embryo" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:00 pm | Olivier Pourquie (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
"Segmentation of the somites in vertebrates" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Ray Keller (University of Virginia)
"Cell-substrate interactions in morphogenesis in Xenopus" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SIGNALING AND PATTERN FORMATION |
| Discussion Leader: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Roel Nusse (Stanford University)
"Wnt signaling and stem cell maintenance" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Christoph Niehrs (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ))
"Wnt signaling in vertebrate pattern formation" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Phil Soriano (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"Ephrin signaling in mouse neural crest cells" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Kristen L. Kroll (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Geminin regulates neuronal differentiation by antagonizing Brg1 activity" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Rueyling Lin (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
"Aysmmetric cell fates in C. elegans" |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Alex Schier (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine)
"Neural development in zebrafish" |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Arthur Lander (UC, Irvine)
"Co-receptors and the control of morphogen gradients" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Jeremy Reiter (UCSF)
"A new secreted regulator of Hedgehog signaling" |
| 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 | GROWTH AND PATTERN FORMATION (II) |
| Discussion Leader: Marianne Bronner-Fraser (California Institute of Technology) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Liz Robertson (University of Oxford)
"Axis development in the mouse gastrula" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt University)
"Morphogenesis in the zebrafish" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | John B. Wallingford (U.T. Austin, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology)
"Molecular and cellular basis of neural tube closure" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Matthew C. Gibson (Harvard University)
"An emergent topological order in proliferating epithelia of Drosophila, Xenopus, and Hydra" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Iswar Hariharan (UC, Berkeley)
"Growth, death and cell division in Drosophila" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SIGNALING AND MORPHOGENESIS DURING ORGANOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Laura Johnston (Columbia University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Janet Heasman (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
"Signaling and germ layer formation in Xenopus" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Andy McMahon (Harvard University)
"Kidney organogenesis" |
| 9:50 am - 10:05 am | Gerold Schubiger (University of Washington)
"Pluripotency of specific Drosophila imaginal disc cells - a stem cell connection?" |
| 10:05 am - 10:20 am | Juan Larrain (P. Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Syndecan-4 regulates non-canonical Wnt signaling and convergence extension movements in Xenopus embryos" |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Richard Harland (UC Berkeley)
"Early events in formation of the skeleton" |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Sean Li (Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School)
"A Novel Nuclear Strategy of the Wnt-Signaling Pathway" |
| 11:35 am - 11:50 am | Lori Sussel (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
"Identification and characterization of a novel pancreatic islet cell type" |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Kristi Wharton (Brown University)
"Contributions of the two BMPs, Dpp and Gbb, to the BMP activity gradient in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Martín I García-Castro (Yale University)
"Early specification of neural crest and the role of Pax7 on its early development" |
| 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 | GROWTH AND PATTERN (III) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion Leader / Business Meeting Leader: Stephen Cohen (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg) |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Gary Ruvkun (Massachusetts General Hospital)
"Growth, metabolism and longevity in C. elegans" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Karen J. Liu (Stanford University)
"Probing the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway with Novel Technologies" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:00 pm | Stephen Cohen (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)
"Regulation of Drosophila growth by microRNAs" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Cliff Tabin (Harvard Medical School)
"Regulation of vertebrate organogenesis by microRNAs" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
