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PROGRAM Wednesday, September 30 Arrival Mixer 5:00-6:30 PM, Swope Dinner 6:30-7:30 Introduction 7:30, Lillie Auditorium Jim Coffman (MDIBL): Welcome and opening remarks Plenary Session I- The GRN in Development and Evolution Eric Davidson (Caltech): Gene regulatory networks Joel Smith (Caltech): Regulative recovery in the sea urchin embryo, and the stabilizing role of fail-safe gene network wiring Greg Wray (Duke): Microevolutionary and developmental dynamics of a gene regulatory network Social 9:30-11:00, Swope
Thursday, October 1 Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM Plenary Session II- Mechanisms of Cell Fate Specification Isabelle Peter (Caltech): Different modes of endoderm specification: insights from a network Enhu Li (Caltech): Solving the sea urchin ectodermal gene regulatory network Lynne Angerer (NIH): Development of the animal pole domain Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon (Caltech): foxa cis-regulation: a spatio-temporal tale Alexandra Saudemont (Villefranche-sur-Mer): Deciphering the dorsal-ventral ectoderm gene regulatory network in Paracentrotus lividus Chuck Ettensohn (Carnegie Mellon): Normal and regulative deployment of the skeletogenic gene regulatory network Lunch 12:00-1:00 PM Emerging Topics I- Genomics: New Technology and Computational Approaches David Garfield (Duke): Natural selection in Strongylocentrotid sea urchins: the view from the genome Albert Poustka (Max Planck, Berlin): De novo S. purpuratus embryo transcriptome assembly from Solexa reads and comparison to gene predictions from the genome Bill Longabaugh (Institute for Systems Biology): BioTapestry: recent enhancements support the modeling and presentation of high-level network features Sorin Istrail (Brown): Report on the CYRENE Project: A cis-Lexicon containing the cis-regulatory architecture of 300 regulatory genes Autumn Yuan (Caltech): SpBase: the sea urchin genome database and web site Coffee Break 3:20-3:45 Concurrent Session I- Developmental Physiology Andrea Bodnar (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences): The secret to longevity: sea urchins as models for aging research Amro Hamdoun (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD): Throwing switches: cell biological regulation of multidrug efflux transport in development Bryan Cole (Stanford): Costs, benefits, and developmental expression of multidrug transporter proteins in S. purpuratus embryos Tony De Tomaso (U. California Santa Barbara): Early lineage specification and characterization of adult stem cells in the colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri Sam Dupont (U. Gothenburg): Impact of ocean acidification on echinoderm developmental rate and larval physiology - consequences for experimental design Hideki Katow (Tohoku U.): Dopaminergic preneural regulatory mechanism of embryonic swimming activity Andrew Juurinen (U. Victoria): Axon pathfinding: netrin and its receptors Concurrent Session II- Regulation of Gene Expression Patrick Cormier (Station Biologique de Roscoff): eIF4E-binding proteins are differentially modified after ammonia versus intracellular calcium activation of sea urchin unfertilized eggs Jia Song (Brown): Regulatory roles of small RNAs in early development Eric Gustafson (Brown): Gustavus directs Vasa accumulation selectively in multipotent cells during embryogenesis Magali Quirin (Villefranche-sur-Mer): Control of nodal expression and dorso-ventral polarity by maternal transcription factors downstream of the MAPK pathway ChiehFu Peng (U. Miami): Establishment and maintenance of the Dishevelled vegetal cortical domain in the sea urchin egg Tara Sharma (Carnegie Mellon): Activation of the micromere-PMC gene regulatory network Ho Kyung Rho (Duke): The role and regulation of foxN2/3 in the skeletogenic cells during sea urchin development Poster Session 5:45-6:30, Swope Dinner 6:30-7:30 Plenary Session III- Cellular and Developmental Physiology Michael Whitaker (Newcastle U.): Cdk2/cyclinE dependent DNA synthesis initiation after fertilization in sea urchin eggs is mediated by calcium-triggered ERK1 activation. Gary Wessel (Brown): Cell surface changes in the egg at fertilization Brad Shuster (New Mexico State U.): Defining the cleavage plane in the early sea urchin embryo David Burgess (Boston College): Sea urchin zygotes exhibit cell polarity upon cleavage Donal Manahan (U. Southern California): Molecular physiology of amino acid transporters during sea urchin development Poster Session 10:00-11:00, Swope
Friday, October 2 Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM Plenary Session IV- Cell Signaling and Morphogenesis Jenifer Croce (Villefranche-sur-Mer): Endomesoderm diversification during sea urchin embryogenesis David McClay (Duke): Preparation for morphogenesis Thierry Lepage (Villefranche-sur-Mer): Patterning of the dorsal-ventral axis in echinoderms: insights into the evolution of the BMP-Chordin signaling network Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 Nadine Peyriéras (CNRS, Paris): Reconstructing the cell lineage tree of Paracentrotus lividus as a framework for multiscale dynamics analysis Mat Barnet (Caltech): In vivo time-lapse imaging of sea urchin development: watching gastrulation as it happens Robert Burke (U. Victoria): Neural development Lunch 12:00-1:00 PM Emerging Topics II: Evolution of Development Feng Gao (Caltech): Comparative study of delta gene cis-regulatory modules across 500 million years of evolution Eric Roettinger (U. Hawaii): Investigating the role of the Nodal signaling pathway in a indirect developing hemichordate, Ptychodera flava Koji Akasaka (U. Tokyo): Gene expression involved in patterning along the anterior-posterior axis in crinoid (Oxycomanthus japonicus) development Kristen Yankura (Carnegie Mellon): Complex regulatory patterning of sea star embryonic ectoderm supports a larval origin of the deuterostomes Coffee Break 3:20-3:45 Concurrent Session III: Functional Genomics and Gene Regulation Cynthia Messier-Solek (U. Toronto): Role of Sp-Gatac and Sp-Scl in specification of mesodermal cells in the sea urchin embryo Paola Oliveri (U. College London): Analysis of the cis-regulatory system of the tbrain gene beyond GRN validation Celina Juliano (Brown): Nanos is required to maintain the fate of the small micromere lineage Mamiko Yajima (Brown): Vasa is essential for cell cycle progression Ina Arnone (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn): Gene regulation and organogenesis: evolution of digestive functions Andy Ransick (Caltech): Modulation of Spgcm transcriptional regulation in the early mesenchyme blastula Concurrent Session IV: Developmental Biochemistry and Cell Biology Brigitte Ciapa (UMR CNRS, Paris): Mechanisms of cell death in unfertilized sea urchin eggs Julia Morales (Station Biologique de Roscoff): Translational control during apoptosis in sea urchin embryos Antoine Aze (Banyuls-sur-mer): An unexpected cell cycle arrest with assembled pre-RC in unfertilized sea urchin eggs Sandip Patel (U. College London): Molecular aspects of calcium signaling in the sea urchin Richard Byrne (Cancer Research UK): Spatial and temporal regulation of phosphoinositide metabolism regulates nuclear envelope formation Valeria Matranga (IBIM, CNR Palermo): Skeleton growth inhibition in sea urchin embryos Paracentrotus lividus after manganese exposure Fred Wilt (Berkeley): Matrix and mineral in endoskeleton form and function Poster Session 5:45-6:30, Swope Dinner 6:30-7:30 Plenary Session V- Larval and Adult Development Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg): A brain expression atlas of the Platynereis larval nervous system Jonathan Rast (U. Toronto): Immunity in the feeding sea urchin larva Judy Venuti (LSU HSC New Orleans): Constructing the sea urchin tube foot nervous system Diane Adams (NIH): Dopamine mediates ectodermal-mesenchymal signaling underlying a developmental response to food availability Poster Session 9:45-11:00, Swope
Saturday, October 3 Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM Plenary Session VI- Genomic and Developmental Evolution Mark Martindale (U. Hawaii): An embryologist’s bottoms up view of bilaterian body plan evolution Athula Wikramanayake (U. Miami): The evolution of gastrulation: insights from sea urchins and sea anemones Veronica Hinman (Carnegie Mellon): Comparison of GRN architectures for mesoderm specification in sea urchins and sea stars Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 Andy Cameron (Caltech): The evolution of cis-regulatory modules Brad Davidson (U. Arizona): Cell fate specification in tunicate heart development and chordate heart evolution Mike Thorndyke (Royal Swedish Academy): Near future ocean acidification increases growth rate of the lecithotrophic larvae and juvenile of the seastar Crossaster papposus Lunch 12:00-1:00 PM Emerging Topics III– The Regulatory Genome and New Approaches Julius Barsi (Caltech): Regulatory gene interactions that drive development of the neurogenic ciliated band in the sea urchin embryo Qiang Tu (Caltech): cis-Regulatory analysis of SpTgif Cyndi Bradham (Boston U.): Pantropic retroviruses: a new rransduction tool for sea urchin embryos Yi-Hsien Su (Academia Sinica Taiwan): A top-down approach to identify unknown signaling ligands predicted from GRN analysis Jongmin Nam (Caltech): A novel experimental method for the multiplex and quantitative measurement of cis-regulatory module activity in vivo Coffee Break 3:20-3:45 Concurrent Session V- Advances and Opportunities in Undergraduate Research and Education Jason Hodin (Stanford): Virtual Urchin as a community-wide educational outreach tool: a proposal Panel Discussion: Careers in Undergraduate Teaching and Research – Rewards and Challenges Peggy Peeler (Susquehanna U.), John Henson (Dickinson College), Laura Romano (Denison College), Eric Ingersol (Penn State Abington), Rachel Fink (Mount Holyoke), and Carol Burdsal (Tulane, NSF) Concurrent Session VI- Cell Signaling and Fate Ryan Range (NIH): Wnt antagonists regulate the animal pole domain boundary in the sea urchin embryo Karl Bergeron (Simon Fraser U.): Sulfated glycosaminoglycans modulate Nodal signaling in the urchin embryo Katherine Buckley (U. Toronto): The sea urchin toll-like receptor gene family represents a novel form of immunity Harald Hausen (U. Bonn): Light matters- Identification of a complex photoreceptor system in sea urchins and starfish Shunsuke Yaguchi (Shimoda Marine Research Center): A zinc finger protein, Fez, downstream of FoxQ2, influences development of serotonergic neurons and the size of the animal plate ectoderm in the sea urchin embryo Homayoun Vaziri (U. Toronto): Telomeres and telomerase reverse transcriptase genes of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Business Meeting 6:00-6:30, Lillie Auditorium Social 6:30, Swope Lobster Banquet 7:30
Sunday, October 4 Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM Departure
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