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April 13 – 15, 2007
Chicago City Centre Hotel and Sports Club
300 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60611
Friday, April 13, 2007
Registration: 4:00pm - 7:15pm
Opening Remarks: 7:20pm - 7:30pm
Keynote
Lecture: 7:30pm - 8:30pm JANET ROSSANT,
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
“Stem Cells and Developmental Pathways”
Reception/Poster Session: 8:30pm
- 10:30pm
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Session I: Early Development 8:30am
-10:00am
Chair: 8:30 am - 9:00am Tim Schedl,
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
“Functional genomics approach to identify targets of MPK-1 ERK
signaling in C. elegans Germ Cell Development”
Talk 1: 9:00am - 9:15am Stephanie E. Lepage,
University of Toronto
“Comparative expression and role of zebrafish calpains and calpastatin
during early development”
Talk 2: 9:15am - 9:30am Igor Schneider,
University of Iowa
“Dorsal forerunner calcium fluxes integrate Left-Right signaling
cues via beta-catenin antagonism”
Talk 3: 9:30am - 9:45am Lisa De Boer-Emmett,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
“shRNA targeting of geminin in the post-implantation mouse embryo”
Talk 4: 9:45am - 10:00am Douglas W. Houston,
University of Iowa
“Maternal tgif and Smad2 are required for repression of nodal-related
genes in Xenopus”
Coffee break: 10:00am - 10:30am
Session
II: Evolution and Development 10:30am - 12:00pm
Chair: 10:30am - 11:00am Phil Newmark,
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
“Nervous system regeneration in planarians”
Talk 1: 11:00am - 11:15am Rahul Parnaik,
University of Chicago
”Derived and conserved features of octopus brain development”
Talk 2: 11:15am - 11:30am Marek K. Sliwinski,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The role of two LEAFY paralogs from Idahoa scapigera
(Brassicaceae) in the evolution of a derived plant architecture”
Talk 3: 11:30am - 11:45am Susan E. Lott,
University of Chicago
“Evidence for canalization of embryonic pattern formation in D.
melanogaster and its evolution among closely related species”
Talk 4: 11:45am - 12:00pm Steffen J. Lemke,
University of Chicago
“Evolutionary character reversals in early embryonic pattern formation
of flies”
Lunch with posters: 12:00pm
- 1:00pm
Education
Session: Alternative Careers in Science 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session
III: Neural Development 2:30pm
- 4:00pm
Chair: 2:30pm - 3:00pm Teresa Orenic,
University of Illinois, Chicago
“Hox gene modulation of proneural prepatterns generates morphological
diversity among the Drosophila adult limbs”
Talk 1: 3:00pm - 3:15pm Matthew S. McNeill,
University of Iowa
“Transient receptor potential melastatin 7 is required for basal
ganglia-like activity in zebrafish embryos”
Talk 2: 3:15pm - 3:30pm Sujin Bao,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
“Notch is required for organizing cells into a unique pattern
in the Drosophila eye”
Talk 3: 3:30pm - 3:45pm Stephanie A. Linn,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Ret and EphA4 signaling in motor axon pathfinding”
Talk 4: 3:45pm - 4:00pm G. Parker Flowers,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
“Regulation of Wnt signaling by extracellular matrix proteins
in zebrafish neural tube development”
Coffee break: 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Session
IV: Stem Cells, and Development and Disease 4:30pm
- 6:00pm
Chair: 4:30pm - 5:00pm Rex C. Haydon,
Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago
“BMP signaling in skeletal biology and diseases”
Talk 1: 5:00pm - 5:15pm Michael Hunter,
Yale University School of Medicine
“The homeobox gene Hhex is required for the proper morphogenesis
of the liver and biliary tract in mouse”
Talk 2: 5:15pm - 5:30pm Randall J. Roper,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
“Neural crest deficit in Down syndrome mice”
Talk 3: 5:30pm - 5:45pm Victor Chizhikov,
University of Chicago
“Lmx1a controls cerebellar morphogenesis by regulating progenitor
identity and migration in the roof plate and rhombic lip”
Talk 4: 5:45pm - 6:00pm Kathleen Molyneaux,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
“Bmp-signaling within the urogenital ridges supports pgc survival
and migration”
Reception/Poster Session: 6:00pm
- 8:00pm
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Session V: Genomic and Regulation in Development
9:00am - 11:00am
Chair: 9:00am - 9:30am Justin Borevitz,
Evolution and Ecology, University of Chicago
“Genomic Diversity in Developmental response to Seasons in Arabidopsis
thaliana”
Talk 1: 9:30am - 9:45am Alisha R Yallowitz,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
“Hoxa2 and Hox11 differentially regulate Six2 expression
via a single enhancer element”
Talk 2: 9:45am - 10:00am Andre Kulisz,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children’s
Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL
“A mechanism for the nuclear export of the transcription factor
Tbx5”
Talk 3: 10:00am - 10:15am Ivan Baxter,
Purdue University
“Linking Genetic Variation to Environmental Variation in the Arabidopsis
Ionome”
Talk 4: 10:15am - 10:30am Monica Rohrschneider,
University of Chicago
“The Hoxb1a target gene, prickle1b, is required for neuronal
migration”
Coffee break: 10:30am - 11:00am
Talks from
new PIs: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Talk 1: 11:00am -11:20am Q. Tian Wang, University
of Illinois at Chicago
“Functional screening of lineage-specific
roles of chromatin remodeling factors”
Talk 2: 11:20am - 11:40am Deborah Lang,
University of Chicago
“Characterization of a new mouse model
for the detection of melanocyte stem cells”
Talk 3: 11:40am - 12:00pm Vivian Lee,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Gastroenterology
Division, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
“The role of macrophage
migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in neural crest cell development”
Awarding of prizes and closing remarks: 12:00pm - 12:30pm
(pdf
of the program)
(pdf
of the abstract book - 10.9 MB)
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