Sunday, July 2
Session 1. 7:30 - 9:30 pm. | Intercellular Communication and the Establishment of Left/Right Asymmetry |
Chair: Alvin Chin.
- Nobutaka Hirokawa (U. of Tokyo) Molecular motors and left/right asymmetry.
- Alvin Chin (U. of Pennsylvania) No Turning - A mouse mutation causing left/right patterning defects.
- Michael Levin (Harvard Medical School) Gap junctions and ion channels.
Discussion Leader: Carolyn Larabell (UCSF)
Monday, July 3
Session 2. 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. | Pattern Formation in Complex Systems |
Chair: Don Ready.
- Philip Benfey (NYU) Radial pattern formation and asymmetric cell division in plants.
- Donna Fekete (Purdue U.) Morphogenesis of the inner ear.
- Bruce Morgan (Harvard Medical School) Pattern formation in the feather tract.
- Don Ready (Purdue U.) Drosophila photoreceptor morphogenesis: the eyes have it.
Discussion Leader: Richard Borgens (Purdue U.)
Monday, July 3
Session 3. 7:30 - 9:30 pm. | Generation and Maintenance of Cellular Polarity I |
Chair: Gloria Muday.
- Ira Mellman (Yale U.) The generation and maintenance of cell polarity.
- John White (U. of Wisconsin) Secretion is required for the terminal phase of cytokinesis in C. elegans.
- Gloria Muday (Wake Forest U.) Polar transport of a plant hormone is critical for initiation of developmental polarity.
Discussion Leader: Susan Strome (Indiana U.)
Tuesday, July 4
Session 4. 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. | Generation and Maintenance of Cellular Polarity II |
Chair: Kenneth Robinson.
- Kenneth Robinson (Purdue U.) Symmetry breaking in fucoid algal zygotes
- Christine Jacobs (Stanford U.) Dynamic temporal and spatial localization of cell fate determinants in Caulobacter crescentus.
- Brian Rowning (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) The Role of Dsh in vertebrate gastrulation
- Chuck Yeaman (Stanford U.) Cues for cellular asymmetry in polarized epithelial cells
Discussion Leader: Don ready (Purdue U.)
Tuesday, July 4
Session 5. 7:30 - 10:00 pm. | Growth Control in Polarity and Development |
Chair: Nicholas Spitzer.
- Veronica Franklin-Tong (U. of Birmingham) Inhibition of pollen tube growth in the self-incompatibility response of Papaver rhoeas.
- Colin McCaig (U. of Aberdeen) Cell behaviors in a physiological electrical field.
- Zhenbiao Yang (U. Cal. Riverside) Tip growth signaling in plants.
- Nicholas Spitzer (U. Cal. San Diego) Calcium Transients in Neuronal Growth Cones: Low Frequency, High Frequency and More?
Discussion Leader: Richard Nuccitelli (U. Cal. Davis)
Wednesday, July 5
Session 6. 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. | Pattern and Polarity within the Egg |
Chair: Larry Etkin.
- Susan Strome (Indiana U.) Establishing the germ line in C. elegans.
- Doug Houston (U. of Miami) Maternally localized RNAs in Xenopus and the development of primordial germ cells.
- Carolyn Larabell (UCSF) The role of cytoskeleton in embryonic polarity.
- Larry Etkin (U. Texas, MD Anderson) The role of maternal components in patterning of the embryo.
Discussion Leader: Lionel Jaffe (MBL, Brown U.)
Wednesday, July 5
Session 7. 7:30 - 10:00 pm. | Emerging Techniques in Developmental Biology |
Chair: William Mohler.
- Russell Jacobs (Cal Tech) Looking deeper into vertebrate development.
- Gaudenz Danuser (Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.) Getting the parameters of cell motility by computer vision.
- Rusty Lansford (Cal Tech) Dynamic multi-spectral, multi-modal imaging of avian development.
- William Mohler (U. of Wisconsin) C. elegans embryogenesis viewed by multiphoton microscopy and 4D/5D computer animation.
Discussion Leader: John White (U. of Wisconsin)
Thursday, July 6
Session 8. 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. | Signaling in Vertebrate Development |
Chair: Randall Moon.
- Ronen Schweitzer (Harvard Medical School) Limb morphogenesis: bone and tendon patterning
- Katherine Joubin (Columbia U.) Dynamics of Spemann's organizer.
- Ray Keller (U. of Virginia) Patterning and function of neural and mesodermal cell intercalation
- Randall Moon (U. of Washington) Beta-catenin-dependent and -independent Wnt signaling pathways mediate cell fate in vetebrate development.
Discussion Leader: Michael Levin (Harvard Medical School)
Thursday, July 6
Session 9. 7:30 - 10:00 pm. | Clinical Implications of Developmental Biology |
Chair: Lionel Jaffe.
- Richard Borgens (Purdue U.) Exploiting the physiology of neural injury to affect recovery from spinal trauma
- Andrzej Dlugosz (U. Michigan) Sonic hedgehog signaling in cutaneous development, regeneration and neoplasia
- Richard Nuccitelli (U. Cal. Davis) The role of endogenous electrical fields in human skin wound healing.
- Lionel Jaffe (MBL, Brown U.) Cancer starts with a pathological response to a chronic rise in calcium.
Discussion Leader: Colin McCaig (U. of Aberdeen)
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