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Preliminary Program
Friday
7:00
Keynote Lecture - Monica Vetter (Utah) - Becoming neural in the developing retina
8:00
Education Talk - Edward Marcotte (UT, Austin) - Computational biology
tools for Developmental Biology
8:45
Welcome Reception
Saturday
1. Regenerative Biology
8:00
NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION TRANSFORMATION IN AGING ANIMALS IS CAUSED BY MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND REGENERATION
Yue Li – University of Texas at Austin
8:15
TOWARD ENGINEERING VASCULARIZED TISSUE SCAFFOLDS THAT MIMIC THE UNIQUE VASCULAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEURAL STEM CELL NICHE
James Culver – Baylor College of Medicine
8:30
STEMS CELLS AND TUBULOGENESIS IN CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT.
Ondine Cleaver – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
8:50
A TARGETED UAS-RNAI SCREEN IN DROSOPHILA LARVAE IDENTIFIES WOUND CLOSURE GENES REGULATING DISTINCT CELLULAR PROCESSES
Christine Lesch – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:10
BREAK
2. Signaling
9:30
AUXIN GENERATED THROUGH IBA-TO-IAA CONVERSION PLAYS CRITICAL ROLES IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA SEEDLING DEVELOPMENT
Lucia Strader – Rice University
9:45
TISSUE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF EWS-FLI1 IN ZEBRAFISH IMPLICATES WNT SIGNALING IN EWING’S SARCOMA
Stefanie West Leacock – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:00
PRIMED FOR SUCCESS: PISTIL SIGNALS POTENTIATE POLLEN TUBES PRIOR TO FERTILIZATION
Ravi Palanivelu – University of Arizona
10:20
Endocytosis and Notch signaling
Janice Fischer – University of Texas at Austin
3. Organogenesis I
10:40
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE HIPPO SIGNALING PATHWAY IN MOUSE LIVER
Li Lu – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:55
REGULATION OF PODOCYTE DEVELOPMENT IN XENOPUS
Bo Zhang – Louisiana State University
11:10
REGULATION OF RETINAL PROGENITOR CELL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR BY HOMEOBOX GENES
Edward Levine – University of Utah
11:30
WNT SIGNALING IN MOUSE KIDNEY MORPHOGENESIS
Tom Carroll - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
11:50
LUNCH ON OWN AND POSTERS
1:00
POSTERS
4. Morphogenesis
3:00
DFMRP AND CAPRIN, TRANSLATIONAL REGULATORS OF SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY, CONTROL THE CELL CYCLE AT THE DROSOPHILA MID-BLASTULA TRANSITION
Ophelia Papoulas – University of Texas at Austin
3:15
POLLYWOG IS REQUIRED FOR YOLK SYNCYTIAL LAYER
INTEGRITY AND COORDINATION OF MORPHOGENESIS IN ZEBRAFISH
Christopher Holterhoff – Rice University
3:30
ACTIN COATS AND ENDOSOMAL DYNAMICS IN XENOPUS EGGS
Anne-Marie Sokac – Baylor College of Medicine
3:50
DIRECT ACTIVATION OF SHROOM3 TRANSCRIPTION BY PITX1 DRIVES EPITHELIAL MORPHOGENESIS IN THE DEVELOPING GUT
Mei-I Chung – University of Texas at Austin
4:10
BREAK
5. Neural Development
4:30
MUTATIONS IN THE MITOCHONDRIAL METHIONYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER AND HOMO SAPIENS CAUSE NEURODEGENERATION
Vafa Bayat – Baylor College of Medicine
4:45
PAX8 COORDINATES SEQUENTIAL INDUCTION OF OTIC AND EPIBRANCHIAL PLACODES THROUGH
DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF FOXI1, SOX3 AND
FGF24
Mahesh Padanad – Texas A+M University
5:00
BONE MORPHOGENETIC P[ROTEINS DIRECT NEURAL TUBE CLOSURE BY REGULATING APICOBASAL POLARITY
Seema Agarwala – University of Texas at Austin
5:20
REGULATION OF POST-EMBRONIC NEUROGENESIS BY THE WNT PATHWAY
Rich Dorsky – University of Utah
5:40
BREAK
6:00
POSTERS
7:00
Banquet
9:00
Music
Sunday
6. Evolution and Development
8:00
MULTIPLE SOXE GENES REGULATE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRANCHIAL SKELETON IN LAMPREYS
David McCauley – University of Oklahoma
PAXβ GENES REGULATE THE TRANSITION TO BILATERALLY SYMMETRIC CLEAVAGES IN SPIRALIAN EMBRYOS.
Matthew Schmerer – University of Texas at Austin
8:30
EVOLUTION OF TOOTH DEVELOPMENT
David Stock – University of Colorado
8:50
CYTOSKELETAL POLARITY MEDIATES LOCALIZED INDUCTION OF THE HEART PRECURSOR LINEAGE
Brad Davidson – University of Arizona
9:10
BREAK
7. Cell Fate Determination
9:30
DECISION MAKING AT A SUBCELLULAR LEVEL:
LESSONS FROM A SIMPLE SYSTEM
Ido Golding – Baylor College of Medicine
9:45
EYELESS REPRESSION IN THE DROSOPHILA RETINA IS MEDIATED BY NOTCH AND THE RETINAL DETERMINATION NETWORK
Mardelle Atkins – Baylor College of Medicine
10:00
SPECIFICATION OF PRIMORDIAL GERM CELLS IN C. ELEGANS
Rueyling Lin – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:20
PUTTING TRICHOMES UP ON A PEDESTAL
Greg Hatlestad – University of Texas at Austin
8. Organogenesis II
10:40
HIPPO AND WNT/β CATENIN SIGNALING IN CARDIAC ORGAN SIZE
DETERMINATION
Todd Heallen – Texas A+M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology
10:55
MICRORNA-218 REGULATES VASCULAR PATTERNING BY MODULATION OF SLIT-ROBO SIGNALING
Eric Small - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
11:10
PDGF SIGNALING IN MOUSE DEVELOPMENT
Michelle Tallquist – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
11:30
TWO HANDS AND ONE JAW
David Clouthier – University of Colorado at Denver
11:50
CONCLUDING REMARKS
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