Schedule

Friday, March 25th

Session I: 2:00 - 5:45

Co-Chairs: Florence Marlow and James Li

 
  2:00 - 2:15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Jesús Torres-Vázquez and Mark Zervas
  2:15 - 2:45 Florence Marlow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Assistant Professor
“Establishing Oocyte Asymmetries And The Animal-Vegetal Axis In Zebrafish”
  2:45 - 3:00 Kristin Beale, Brown University
“Gamete plasma membrane fusion triggers a block to polytubey in Arabidopsis thaliana.”
  3:00 - 3:15 Mary Trask, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Yin-Yang1 is required in the epiblast during mammalian gastrulation”
  3:15 - 3:45 Steven Q. Irvine, University of Rhode Island, Associate Professor
“Developmental cis-regulatory elements: are there rules for their organization?”
  3:45 - 4:15 Coffee Break
  4:15 - 4:45

James Li, UConn Health Center, Assistant Professor
“Interplay Between Intrinsic And Extrinsic Factors In Controlling The Formation Of The Midbrain-Hindbrain Boundary”

  4:45 - 5:00 Isabel Dominguez, Boston University School of Medicine
“Role of CK2α in Wnt/β-catenin signaling in vivo”
 
  5:00 - 5:15 Stephen Armenti, New York University
“In vivo analysis of epithelial cell polarization”
 
  5:15 - 5:45 Cynthia Bradham, Boston University, Assistant Professor
“A High Throughput Sequencing-Based Screen For Sea Urchin Patterning Genes”
 
 
Dinner: 6:00 - 7:15    
 

Keynote Address: 7:30-8:30
Kenneth Birnbaum, New York University

Built to Rebuild: What Organ Regeneration Tells Us About Organogenesis in Plants

 
Poster Session And Mixer: 8:45 - 10:45  

Saturday, March 26th

Breakfast: 8:00 - 9:00    
Session II: 9:00 - 12:00

Co-Chairs: Paola Arlotta and Michael Marr

 
  9:00 - 9:30
Paola Arlotta, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor
“Molecular Development Of Projection Neuron Types And Building Of Local Microcircuitry In The Cerebral Cortex”
 
  9:30 - 9:45 Kimberly Johnson, UMass Amherst, Amherst
“Characterizing the role of Eg5 kinesin on mediating neural stem cell division in the developing zebrafish neural tube”
 
  9:45 - 10:00 Nellwyn Hagan, Brown University
“Wnt1 expression temporally allocates upper rhombic lip progenitors and defines their terminal cell fate in the cerebellum”
 
  10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break  
  10:30 - 11:00
Michael Marr, Brandeis University, Assistant Professor
“Multi-level Control of Gene Expression by Foxo transcription factors”
 
  11:00 - 11:15 Rob Savage, Williams College
“Early markers of mesoderm and segmental morphogenesis in annelids”
 
  11:15 - 11:30 Brook Chernet, Tufts University
“Bioelectric detection and control of carcinogenesis in vivo”
 
  11:30 - 12:00 Meeting Break  
       
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00    
  1:15 - 1:45
Alison DeLong, Brown University, Associate Professor
“The Importance of Being Dephosphorylated: Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulation of Arabidopsis Seedling Development”
 
  1:45 - 2:00 Xin Li, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Gpr125 - a novel planar cell polarity pathway component in zebrafish”
 
  2:00 - 2:15 Kimberly D. Tremblay, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Single-cell recombination in embryonic tissues mediated by dose sensitivity of a tamoxifen-inducible Cre line”
 
  2:15 - 2:30 Jessica Chang, Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Na+K+ATPAse: a bifunctional protein complex that regulates brain ventricle volume”
 
  2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break  
       
Session III: 3:00 - 5:00

Co-Chairs: Arkhat Abzhanov and Erika Bach

 
  3:00 - 3:30 Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard University, Assistant Professor
“Pecking At The Origin Of Morphological Variations: Insights From Darwin’s Finches And Other Birds"
 
  3:30 - 3:45 Tingting Huang,University of Massachusetts Medical School
“An interplay between anterior and posterior visceral endoderm controls anteroposterior axis formation in mice”
 
  3:45 - 4:00 Laura Anne Lowery,Harvard Medical School
“Quantitative live imaging and function of microtubule plus-end-tracking proteins in the neuronal growth cone”
 
  4:00 - 4:30 Erika Bach, New York University, Assistant Professor
“Regulation of Growth Control And Competition During Development”
 
  4:30 - 4:45 Kristy Kenyon, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“Faculty development opportunity—learn C.R.E.AT.E.—how to use primary literature to demystify science, promote critical thinking and stimulate student engagement”
 
  4:45 - 5:00 Meeting Break  
       
Education Session
      5:00 - 6:00
Professional Development Workshop
A Survival Guide For The Junior Investigator In The Early Years of Establishing An Independent Research Program
 
  5:00 - 5:30 Mark Zervas and Jesús Torres-Vázquez  
  5:30 - 6:00 Q & A  
Dinner: 6:00 - 7:15    
 
 
Poster Session And Mixer: 8:45 - 10:45  

Sunday, March 27th

Breakfast: 8:00 - 9:00    
Session IV: 9:00 - 12:00

Eric Morrow and Zheng-Zheng Bao

 
  9:00 - 9:30
Eric Morrow, Brown University, Assistant Professor
“Heterogeneous Genetic Mechanisms in Autism and Related Developmental Disorders”
 
  9:30 - 9:45 Abbie Jensen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Generation of a genetically encoded measure of outer segment renewal in zebrafish rod photoreceptors”
 
  9:45 - 10:15
Vivian Irish, Yale University, Professor
“Regulation of Arabidopsis Petal Organogenesis”
 
  10:15 -10:45 Coffee Break  
  10:45 - 11:15
Zheng-Zheng Bao, UMass Medical Center, Assistant Professor
“Sonic Hedgehog Noncanonical Signaling Pathways And Membrane Trafficking In Directional Axon Turning”
 
  11:15 - 1145 Mustafa Sahin, Children’s Hospital Boston, Assistant Professor
"Role of TSC/mTOR Pathway in Axonal Connectivity"
 
  11:45 - 12:00
Meeting Business
 
  12:00 - 12:15
Poster Awards
 
  12:15
Boxed Lunch