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2014 Important Dates
| Housing Registration Opens |
January 15 |
| Abstract Submission Opens |
April 9 |
| Conference Registration Opens |
April 11 |
| Deadline for Early (Discounted) Conference Registration |
May 22 |
| Abstract Submission Deadline |
June 10 |
| Conference Registration & Housing Deadline |
July 24 |
| Advertising/Exhibiting Contract Deadline (based on availability) |
July 1 |
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Schedule of Events
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Sunday, August 24 |
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| 1:00 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Registration | | Merrill Hall |
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| 2:30 pm |
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2:45 pm |
Welcome and Opening Remarks | | Merrill Hall |
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| 2:45 pm |
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3:00 pm |
Xenopus: The View from NIH - James Coulombe, NICHD | | Merrill Hall |
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| 3:00 pm |
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6:00 pm |
Session 1
Moderator: Richard Harland, UC Berkeley | | Merrill Hall |
| 3:00 pm | Polarized Wnt signaling regulates ectodermal cell fate in Xenopus
Christof Niehrs, IMB Institute of Molecular Biology, 55128 Mainz, Germany; Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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| 3:20 pm | Trigger Waves in Mitosis and Apoptosis
James Ferrell, Stanford University
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| 3:40 pm | Dead-End1 is Required and Sufficient to Activate nanos Translation in the Xenopus Germline
Mary Lou King, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136
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| 4:00 pm | Genome assemblies and the origin of tetraploidy
Don Rokhsar, University of California, Berkeley
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| 4:20 pm | Oct4 duplication and the delination of distinct conserved mechanisms of pluripotency
Joshua Brickman, DanStem - The Novo Nordisk Foundation Section for Basic Stem Cell Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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| 4:40 pm | Role and Mechanism of Branching Microtubule Nucleation
Sabine Petry, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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| 5:00 pm | Combining Xenopus Embryology with Human Genetics – The Case of Anks6, a Novel Nephronothisis Gene
Soeren Lienkamp, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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| 5:20 pm | Spinal circuit remodeling during developmental transitions in motor behavior
Lora B. Sweeney, Molecular Neurobioloy Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
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| 5:30 pm | Understanding regeneration from the inside out: chromatin and transcription landscapes in the regenerating tadpole tail
Andrea E. Wills, Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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| 5:40 pm | Functional anatomy of a transcription factor: learning how GATA4 induces cardiogenesis
Branko Latinkic, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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| 6:00 pm |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 7:30 pm |
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8:30 pm |
Opening Reception | | Meadows |
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Monday, August 25 |
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| 7:30 am |
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8:30 am |
Breakfast | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 8:30 am |
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10:40 am |
Session 2
Moderator: Sally Moody, George Washington University | | Merrill Hall |
| 8:30 am | Non-canonical Wnt signaling mediates morphogenesis of the extreme anterior domain during mouth formation
Hazel Sive, Whitehead Institute and MIT, Cambridge , MA
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| 8:50 am | The calcium-dependent ribonuclease XendoU promotes ER network formation through local RNA degradation
Mike Blower, Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hosptial, Boston, MA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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| 9:10 am | Radial Intercalation is regulated by the Par complex and the microtubule-stabilizing protein CLAMP/Spef1
Brian Mitchell, Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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| 9:30 am | Age-Defying Proline, Because It's Worth It
Bruno Reversade, Institute of Medical Biology, www.reversade.com, A*STAR, Singapore
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| 9:50 am | Neural Crest Migration and Neuronal Differentiation is Mediated by tfap2e in Xenopus
Sofia Medina Ruiz, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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| 10:00 am | Parent-of-origin effects in Xenopus laevis gene expression
Leonid Peshkin, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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| 8:30 am |
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11:30 pm |
Odd Numbered Posters Open for Viewing | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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| 10:10 am |
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10:40 am |
Break - Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 10:40 am |
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11:50 am |
Session 3
Moderator: Jeremy Green, Kings College, London | | Merrill Hall |
| 10:40 am | Regulation of cell division orientation during epithelial morphogenesis
Sarah Woolner, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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| 11:00 am | Novel Regulations in Early Neural and Neural Crest Development
Anne Monsoro-Burg, Insitut Curie, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, INSERM
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| 11:20 am | Not Separate but Equal: Cohesion Establishment during DNA Replication
Susannah Rankin, Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK; Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
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| 11:40 am | Spinal cord regeneration in Xenopus laevis
Juan Larrain, Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millenium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology; Facultad de Ciencias Bioló
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| 12:00 noon |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 1:00 pm |
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1:30 pm |
Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 1:30 pm |
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2:30 pm |
Special Lectures
Moderator: Carole LaBonne, Northwestern University | | Merrill Hall |
| 1:30 pm | Past, present, and possible future of Xenopus research
John B. Gurdon, Zoology [Gurdon Institute], University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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| 2:00 pm | How do we get to an explanation in biology
Marc Kirschner, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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| 3:00 pm |
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4:30 pm |
Session 4
Moderator: Chenbei Chang, University of Alabama | | Merrill Hall |
| 3:00 pm | microRNA input into an ultradian oscillator provides an autonomous but tunable timer for differentiation
Nancy Papalopulu, University of Manchester
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| 3:20 pm | Epigenetic fine-tuning of cell fate choices: impact on developmental disorders
Ruchi Bajpai, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033
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| 3:40 pm | Embryogenesis kinetics revealed by high-resolution absolute quantitation of transcripts
Nick Owens, Division of Systems Biology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
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| 3:50 pm | Unliganded thyroid hormone receptor alpha regulates gene repression and developmental timing as revealed by gene knockout in Xenopus tropicalis
Daniel R. Buchholz, Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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| 4:00 pm | More than one frog in the pond: evolutionary modulations of gut morphogenesis in tadpoles with different diets
Nanette Nascone-Yoder, Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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| 4:10 pm | Protein Networks In Cardiac Morphogenesis
Frank Conlon, University of North Carolina McAllister Heart Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA; Department of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA; Department of Genetics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA
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| 4:30 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Break - Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 5:00 pm |
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5:50 pm |
Session 5 - Large Scale Resources for Xenopus Research
Moderator: Rob Grainger, University of Virginia | | Merrill Hall |
| 5:00 pm | Xenbase
Peter Vize, Univ. Calgary
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| 5:10 pm | The National Xenopus Resource
Esther Pearl, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
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| 5:20 pm | The Institute for Amphibian Biology
Atsushi Suzuki, Hiroshima University
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| 5:30 pm | The European Xenopus Resource Center
Matt Guille, University of Portsmouth, UK
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| 5:40 pm | The Xenopus ORFeome
Todd Stukenberg, University of Virginia
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| 6:00 pm |
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7:10 pm |
Dinner | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 7:30 pm |
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8:30 pm |
Keynote Lecture
Moderator: John Wallingford, Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Dept of Molecular Biosciences | | Merrill Hall |
| 7:30 pm | Mechanisms of mitosis and size control in Xenopus
Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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| 8:30 pm |
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11:30 pm |
Poster Session 1 - Odd Numbered Posters
Cash Bar | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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Tuesday, August 26 |
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| 7:30 am |
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8:30 am |
Breakfast | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 8:00 am |
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10:40 am |
Odd Numbered Posters Open for Viewing
All odd numbered posters must be removed by noon. Posters that are not removed will be recycled. | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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| 8:30 am |
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10:10 am |
Session 6
Moderator: Julie Baker, Stanford University | | Merrill Hall |
| 8:30 am | Understanding Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in development, stem cell, and cancer
Xi He, F. M. Kirby Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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| 8:50 am | Anillin Regulates Cell-Cell Junction Integrity by Organizing Junctional Accumulation of RhoA-GTP and Actomyosin
Ann Miller, The Cellular and Molecular Biology Program (CMB), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology (MCDB), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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| 9:10 am | RNA transport in the oocyte cytoplasm: How to get there from here
K. Mowry, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI
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| 9:30 am | Pancreatic development: cell fate choices and plasticity
Francesca Spagnoli, Molecular and Cellular Basis of Embryonic Development, MDC, Berlin, Germany
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| 9:50 am | Nuclear functions of the "other catenins" in stem cell/ developmental decisions
Pierre McCrea, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
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| 10:00 am | Quantitative proteomics of Xenopus laevis embryos: expression kinetics of 4000 proteins during early development
Norman J. Dovichi, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
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| 10:10 am |
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10:40 am |
Break - Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 10:40 am |
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11:50 am |
Session 7
Moderator: Jerry Thomsen, Stony Brook University | | Merrill Hall |
| 10:40 am | System-level analysis of pancreatic cell type differentiation in Xenopus
Marko Horb, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering and National Xenopus Resource, Marine Biological Laboratory
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| 11:00 am | Using Frog Faces to Better Understand Orofacial Development
Amanda J. G. Dickinson, VCU, Richmond, VA
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| 11:20 am | Reconstituting the mechanisms of actin remodeling
Jennifer Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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| 11:40 am | Genomics Study of the Spemann-Mangold Organizer: Occupancy of Tissue-Specific cis-Regulatory Modules by Otx2 and TLE/Groucho for Embryonic Head Specification
Yuuri Yasuoka, OIST, Japan; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
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| 12:00 noon |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 1:00 pm |
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1:30 pm |
Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 1:00 pm |
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11:30 pm |
Even Numbered Posters Open for Viewing
Even numbered posters can be placed on boards between noon and 1 pm | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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| 1:30 pm |
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3:00 pm |
Career Advice for Postdocs and Students | | Merrill Hall |
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| 3:00 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Free Time to Visit Posters and Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 3:00 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Free Time to Visit Exhibits/Posters | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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| 5:00 pm |
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6:00 pm |
Session 8
Moderator: Asako Shindo, Nagoya University | | Merrill Hall |
| 5:00 pm | Xenopus Smad4 at the intersection of FGF, Wnt and TGF-β
Edward De Robertis, Biological Chemistry, HHMI/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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| 5:20 pm | TACC3 is a microtubule plus-end tracking protein that promotes axon elongation and regulates microtubule plus-end dynamics in multiple embryonic cell types
Laura Anne Lowery, Dept of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
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| 5:40 pm | Regulation of replication intitation and cell cycle events at the mid-blastula transition (MBT)
Philip Zegerman, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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| 6:00 pm |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 7:10 pm |
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8:30 pm |
Session 9
Moderator: Mike Sheets, University of Wisconsin | | Merrill Hall |
| 7:10 pm | Proteomic analysis of the DNA double-strand break response
Jean Gautier, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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| 7:30 pm | Coco is a dual-activity modulator of TGFβ signaling
Alessia Deglincerti, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave, New York, NY
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| 7:40 pm | Identification of novel genes involved in epicardial development
P. Tandon, Molecular Biology, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC; Department of Genetics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC; McAllister Heart Institute, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
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| 7:50 pm | Mechanisms and functions of nuclear size regulation in early Xenopus development
Daniel Levy, Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
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| 8:10 pm | Role of cytoskeletal regulators in cranial neural crest migration
Shuyi Nie, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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| 8:30 pm |
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11:30 pm |
Poster Session 2 - Even Numbered Posters
Cash Bar | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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Wednesday, August 27 |
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| 7:00 am |
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8:00 am |
Breakfast | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 8:00 am |
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10:00 am |
Session 10
Moderator: Amy Sater, University of Houston | | Merrill Hall |
| 8:00 am | A Gene Regulatory Network controlling lung development
Aaron Zorn, Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's, Cincinnati, OH
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| 8:20 am | Cell behaviors associated with somite formation in Xenopus laevis
Carmen Domingo, Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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| 8:40 am | The Role of Heparan Sulfate Nanostructures in Morphogen Gradient Formation and Signaling Reception
Masanori Taira, Univ. of Tokyo
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| 9:00 am | X-ray phase contrast microtomography: 4D livecell imaging of structural development
Ralf Hofmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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| 9:20 am | Regulation of neurogenesis with Sox transcription factors and F-box-mediated protein degradation
Elena Silva Casey, Dept of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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| 9:40 am | Cadherin-11 localizes to focal adhesions and promotes cell-substrate adhesion
Jubin Kashef, Zoological Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Cell and Developmental Biology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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3:00 pm |
Even Numbered Posters Open for Viewing
Even numbered posters must be removed by 4:00 pm. Posters that are not removed will be recycled. | | Fred Farr/Kiln |
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| 10:00 am |
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10:30 am |
Break - Exhibits | | Merrill Hall |
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| 10:30 am |
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11:50 am |
Session 11
Moderator: Mike Gilchrist, National Institute of Medical Research, London | | Merrill Hall |
| 10:30 am | Regulation of IP3-dependant calcium signalling during early embryogenesis
Karel Dorey, The Healing Foundation Centre, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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| 10:50 am | Cellularization of a Cell-Free System to Study Mechanisms of Organelle Scaling
Jay Gatlin, Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
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| 11:10 am | Polycomb regulation of retinal progenitor proliferation and differentiation
Monica L. Vetter, Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 11:30 am | A systems-level dissection of multiciliated cell specification
Ian Quigley, Molecular Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
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| 11:40 am | A novel genetically tractable tumor model for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis using TALEN-mediated gene disruption in Xenopus tropicalis
Kris Vleminckx, Dept. Biomed. Mol. Biol., Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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| 12:00 noon |
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1:00 pm |
Open Lunch and Women in Science Roundtable Lunch | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 12:00 noon |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 1:30 pm |
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3:00 pm |
Career Advice for New PIs | | Merrill Hall |
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| 3:20 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Session 12
Moderator: Anna Philpott, Cambridge University | | Merrill Hall |
| 3:20 pm | A role for reactive oxygen species in regeneration and early embryogenesis
Enrique Amaya, The Healing Foundation Centre, The University of Manchester
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| 3:40 pm | Nuclear Mechanics: An F-actin scaffold and gravitational stabilization of RNA/Protein Droplets in Large Cells
Clifford Brangwynne, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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| 4:00 pm | Sox5 modulates TGF-β signaling during early embryogenesis to correctly establish ectodermally derived tissue lineages
Kara Nordin, Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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| 4:10 pm | Reversible control of GSK-3 in the neural crest
Karen Liu, Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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| 4:30 pm | Post-transcriptional regulation of left-right axis formation
Maike Getwan, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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| 4:40 pm | Molecular studies of spinal cord regeneration in the axolotl using over-expression and CRISPR-mediated knock out approaches
Elly Tanaka, DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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| 6:00 pm |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 7:30 pm |
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10:30 pm |
Dancing/General Conviviality | | Merrill Hall |
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Thursday, August 28 |
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| 7:30 am |
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8:30 am |
Breakfast | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 8:30 am |
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10:40 am |
Session 13
Moderator: Dan Weeks, University of Iowa Medical School | | Merrill Hall |
| 8:30 am | Genome-wide view of Nodal/Foxh1 regulation of the early mesendoderm program
Ken Cho, Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA
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| 8:50 am | Cyclin-dependent Kinase Constrained Cortical Chaos
William (Bill) Bement, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
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| 9:10 am | The cdc20b/miR-449 locus controls multiciliogenesis in Xenopus embryonic epidermis
Laurent Kodjabachian, IBDM, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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| 9:30 am | Analysis of newly-synthesized proteins during brain development and experience-dependent plasticity in Xenopus laevis
Hollis T. Cline, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; The Dorris Neuroscience Center, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Department of Chemical Physiology
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| 9:50 am | Protein tyrosine kinase 7 (PTK7) modulates Wnt signaling activity via LRP6 in the developing neural plate
Dale Frank, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine - Technion, Haifa, Israel
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| 10:00 am | Role of lbh during Xenopus Craniofacial Development
Helene Cousin, Vet. & Animal Sciences department, UMass- Amherst, Amherst, MA
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10:40 am |
Break | | Merrill Hall |
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| 10:40 am |
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12:00 noon |
Session 14
Moderator: Carmen Domingo, San Francisco State University | | Merrill Hall |
| 10:40 pm | A novel control mechanism to enable adaptive morphogenesis
Lance Davidson, Departments of Bioengineering, Developmental Biology, and Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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| 11:00 pm | Shaping Kidney Tubules through Planar Cell Polarity Signaling and Cilia
Rachel Miller, Pediatrics- Research Center, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Graduate Program in Genes & Development; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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| 11:10 pm | The Nuclear Proteome of a Vertebrate Oocyte
Martin Wühr, Department of Cell Biology; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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| 11:20 pm | Xenopus epigenome and enhancer dynamics
Gert Jan Veenstra, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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| 11:40 pm | Gene Discovery in Birth Defect Patients and Mechanism Disovery in Xenopus
Mustafa Khokha, Pediatrics & Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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| 12:00 noon |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch
If you pre-ordered a box lunch, bring your ticket to Crocker Dining Hall | | Crocker Dining Hall |
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| 1:00 pm |
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5:00 pm |
PI Meeting | | Merrill Hall |
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