Satellite Symposium on “Neural Crest and Ectodermal Placodes”

Thursday  July 23^rd San Francisco, California

Hyatt Regency - Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

Seacliff AB Conference Room

8:00-9:00 a.m.               Registration Desk

9:00-9:05 a.m.               Introduction by Organizers

 

9:05-10:00 a.m.             Session 1

            9:05-9:30           Andrea Streit - King’s College London
                                    "Specification of placode progenitors"       

            9:30-10:00         Andy Groves – Baylor College of Medicine
                                    “Transcriptional control of otic competence and induction”.           

            10:00-10:20       Berta Alsina-UPF-PRBB
                                    Signals and gene interactions regulating the establishment of a neurogenic territory during the development of the inner ear      

10:20-10:45                   Break 

10:45-12:30                   Session 2

            10:45-11:15       Paul Trainor - Stowers Institute for Medical Research
                                    "Neural crest cell induction: do mice do it differently?"

            11:15-11:35       Nathan Mundell- Vanderbilt University
                                    Foxd3 Regulates Neural Crest Multipotency and Self-Renewal.

.           11:35-12:05       Paul Kulesa -   Stowers Institute for Medical Research
                                     “Neural crest invasion:  A balance between migration and proliferation”    

            12:05-12:25       Lisa Taneyhill-  University of Maryland
                                    Down-regulation of adherens junctions components is requisite for chick neural crest cell emigration

12:30-1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:15-2:55 p.m.               Session 3

            1:15-1:45           Alex Nechiporuk  –  Oregon Health & Science University
                                    "Cell lineage analyses of the epibranchial ganglia in zebrafish"

            1:45-2:05           * Andy Aman- University of Utah
                                     Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Regulates Morphogenesis of the Lateral Line    
               
            2:05-2:35           Richard Lang – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation
                                     "Lens induction and morphogenesis in the mouse"

            2:35-2:55           *Mitchell Levesque- Max Planck Institute for DB
                                     Functional Genomics Screen of Zebrafish Neural Crest Development

2:55-3:30 p.m.               Break  

3:30-5:10 p.m.               Session 4

            3:30-4:00           Clare Baker – University of Cambridge UK
                                     "Olfactory ensheathing cells

            4:00-4:20           * Samantha Brugmann- Stanford University 
                                    Primary cilia provide a common etiology for a spectrum of midfacial craniofacial defects                             

            4:20-4:50           Roberto Mayor - University College London
                                     "Neural crest migration is controlled by signals produced by ectodermal placodes"

            4:50-5:10           * Robert Cornell- University of Iowa College of Medicine
                                     Transcription factor Activator Protein 2 Epsilon (TFAP2E) functions redundantly with TFAP2A
                                      to promote differentiation of melanocytes in zebrafish embryos

5:10-5:30 p.m.               General Discussion

5:30 p.m.                      Close meeting