Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Embryogenesis and Pluripotency
Discussion Leader: Eric Van Otterloo (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Lauren Geary (Northwestern University, USA)
"FGF Mediated MAPK and PI3K/Akt Signals Make Distinct Contributions to Pluripotency and the Establishment of Neural Crest"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Rebecca McLennan (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
"DAN (NBL1) Promotes Collective Neural Crest Migration by Restraining Uncontrolled Invasion"
4:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Discussion
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
General Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Embryogenesis and Pluripotency (continued ) / Diseases, Birth Defects and Applications
Discussion Leader: Annita Achilleos (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Kaivalya Shevade (University of Southern California, USA)
"Nuclear Reorganization Driving Mesenchymal Cell Fate Transition in Neural Crest Cells"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Yanxia Rao (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
"Dlc1, a Rho GTPase-Activating Protein, Is Essential for Cranial Neural Crest Development"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Surangi Perera (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"The Development of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells from the Neural Crest"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Aditi Dubey (New York University College of Dentistry, USA)
"Role of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Cranial Placode Development"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Zahra Motahari (George Washington University, USA)
"Axon Tracking: A New Approach to an Old Problem"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Margot Bowen (Stanford University, USA)
"Defining the Spectrum of Phenotypes that Can Be Induced by Different Levels of p53 Activation in Neural Crest Cells"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Keynote Session: Questions and Challenges for Crest and Placode Development / Crest"OMICS"
Discussion Leader: Kristin Artinger (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Andrew Groves (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"There's Plenty of Room at the Border: Questions and Challenges for Crest and Placode Development"
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
Lauren Wolfe (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
"Single Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Neural Crest Migration to Determine How Molecular Patterns Are Transduced into Collective Cell Behaviors"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Natalie Shaw (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA)
"Mutations in SMCHD1 Are Associated with Congenital Arhinia and Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Type 2"
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 10:50 am
Karla Terrazas (Stowers Insistute for Medical Research, USA)
"The Roles of Tcof1, Polr1c, and Polr1d in Ribosome Biogenesis, Craniofacial Development, and Disease"
10:50 am - 10:55 am
Discussion
10:55 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Panel Discussion
Discussion Leaders: Shachi Bhatt (Rockefeller University Press, USA) and Betsy Schock (Cincinnati Children's Hospital, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
The Different Faces of Academic Research
Paul Trainor (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
Samantha Brugmann (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA)
Laura Gammill (University of Minnesota, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes