'98 SDB Meeting Program

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	SDB 57th ANNUAL METTING Stanford University, June 20-25, 1998

	PROGRAM

	SATURDAY JUNE 20
	12:00-7:00 pm	*Registration*

	7:30-9:00 pm	*President's Symposium, Three Kingdoms* Matthew Scott (Chair)
	7:30	Richard Losick	Asymmetric division and cell fate
	8:00	John Doebley	The evolution of plant form: Examples from maize
	8:30	Janet Rossant	Signaling centers in the gastrulating mouse embryo

	9:00 pm on	*Opening Reception*


SUNDAY JUNE 21
8:00 am-5:00 pm	*Registration*

8:30 am-12:00	*Plenary Session 1, Starting Off Right* Six 25 min talks, each with 5 min for questions, and a 30 min break
8:30	Kathryn Anderson (Chair)	Mutants that affect early axis determination in the mouse embryo
9:00	William Talbot	The role of enhancer of cyclops during gastrulation in zebrafish
9:30	Allan Spradling	Structure and function of germline cysts
10:00	Break
10:30	Elizabeth Robertson	TGF-beta signaling and anterior patterning in the mouse
11:00	Cliff Tabin	Transcriptional control of limb identity and left-right asymmetry
11:30	Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz	Relationship between cell fate and axial development in the mouse egg and early embryo

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12:00-2:30 pm	*Poster Session I* With lunch options and exhibits.

2:30-5:30 pm	Concurrent Symposia 1-3 Six 20 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions, with a 30 minute break

	*Symposium 1, Organogenesis I*
2:30	Didier Stainier (Chair)	Induction of the myocardial lineage in zebrafish
2:55	Mark Mercola	Gap junctions are involved in early determination of left-right asymmetry
3:20	Margaret Baron	Induction of mouse embryonic hematopoietic and vascular development by visceral endoderm signals
3:45	Break
4:15	Doug Melton	Development of the endoderm and pancreas
4:40	Seppo Vainio	Induction and patterning of organogenesis: kidney as a model system
5:05	Peter Mombaerts	Targeting olfaction

	*Symposium 2, Lines of Communication*
2:30	Ellen Robey (Chair)	Regulation of T cell development by Notch
2:55	Stuart Johnston	The role of mammalian Fringe genes in developmental decisions and their relationship to the Notch pathway
3:20	Daphne Preuss	Sending the right signals: polarity in Arabidopsis pollen tube guidance
3:45	Break
4:15	William Lennarz	Molecular basis of cell-cell interactions in fertilization of Xenopus eggs
4:40	Roel Nusse	Wnt signaling during Drosophila development
5:05	Pao-Tien Chuang	Identification and characterization of a novel hedgehog-binding protein

	*Symposium 3, Cell Biology of Development*
	(Sponsored by Upstate Biotechnology)
2:30	William Klein (Chair)	Cell fate-specification in the sea urchin embryo
2:55	Bill Theurkauf	DNA replication checkpoints, mitotic spindle assembly, and the midblastula transition
3:20	Stuart Kim	Mechanism of basolateral localization of the C. elegans EGF receptor
3:45	Break
4:15	Laurie Smith	Genetic studies of cell patterning during maize leaf development
4:40	Bruce Edgar	Coordinating growth with cell cycle control in the developing wing of Drosophila
5:05	Norbert Perrimon	Mechanisms involved in the long range diffusion of Wnt and Hedgehog morphogens

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6:00-7:00 pm	*Dinner*

7:30 pm on	*Education Workshop*
7:30	Kathryn Tosney (Chair)	Strategies for survival in academia
8:30	Judith Swan	Making sense of the science: a workshop on effective scientific communication

7:30 pm on	*Poster Session I*, continues (posters not necessarily attended by presenters)


MONDAY JUNE 22
8:00 am-5:00 pm	*Registration*

7:30-8:30 am	*Breakfast Session: Funding Opportunities in Developmental Biology* Presentations by representatives from Federal and private agencies Ida Chow (Moderator) NSF, NICHD, NCI, NIGMS, NASA and other agencies

8:30 am-12:00 noon	*Plenary Session 2, Putting Signals to Good Use* Six 25 min talks, each with 5 min for questions, and a 30 min break
8:30	Benny Shilo (Chair)	The Drosophila EGF receptor (DER) signaling pathway
9:00	Stephen Cohen	Axis formation in Drosophila limb development
9:30	Jeffrey Wrana	TGF-beta signaling during early vertebrate development
10:00	Break
10:30	Bruce Bowerman	Cell polarity and cell fate in early C. elegans embryo
11:00	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas	Notch signaling
11:30	Philip Ingham	Functions of Hedgehog signaling

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12:00-2:30 pm	*Poster Session I*, continues With lunch options and exhibits.

2:30-5:30 pm	Concurrent Symposia 4-6 Six 20 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions, with a 30 minute break

	*Symposium 4, Tissue Differentiation*
2:30	Ken Zaret (Chair)	How genes in chromatin become responsive to developmental signals for the liver
2:55	Richard Firtel	Spalten, a protein containing G-alpha-protein-like and PP2C domains, and a Ser/Thr kinase comprise a novel signaling pathway controlling cell-type differentiation in Dictyostelium
3:20	Robert Angerer	Specification of cell fates along the sea urchin embryo animal-vegetal axis
3:45	Break
4:15	Margaret Fuller	The always early (aly) gene of Drosophila encodes a lin-9 homolog that regulates transcription of meiotic cell cycle and spermatid differentiation genes during male gametogenesis
4:40	Haifan Lin	Making a difference: the asymmetric division of stem cells in the germline
5:05	Bruce Baker	Sex in the 90's

	*Symposium 5, Building and Rebuilding the Body Plan*
2:30	Liliana Solnica-Krezel	Genetic analysis of the zebrafish gastrula organizer
2:55	Alejandro Calderon-Urrea	Cell death, cell protection and cell arrest determine floral organ fate in maize
3:20	Lee Niswander	Control of vertebrate limb development by BMP
3:45	Break
4:15	Randy Johnson	Limb phenotypes of lmx-1b mutations in mice and man
4:40	Jeremy Brockes (Chair)	Amphibian limb regeneration—rebuilding a complex structure
5:05	David Kingsley	Genetic analysis of skeletal development

	*Symposium 6, Development and Evolution*
2:30	Mike Levine (Chair)	Transcriptional repression in Drosophila and Ciona embryos
2:55	Hans Bode	Evolution of head development
3:20	Nic Williams	Ways to get 'ahead' in evolution: the Amphioxus model
3:45	Break
4:15	Billie Swalla	Development and evolution of the chordate body plan: Genes, molecules and morphology
4:40	Nipam Patel	Analysis of the evolution of arthropod patterning using virus mediated gene misexpression
5:05	Sean Carroll	The formation and evolution of butterfly wing color patterns

5:30-6:00 pm	*SDB Business Meeting*

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6:00-7:00 pm	*Dinner*

8:00-9:00 pm	*Conklin Award Lecture*—Thomas C. Kaufman
	Hunting the wild homeotic with gun and camera* (*well actually just the camera)

9:00 pm on	*Award Reception*


TUESDAY JUNE 23
8:00 am-5:00 pm	*Registration*

8:30 am-12:00 noon	*Plenary Session 3, Neural Development and Patterning* (Sponsored by Genentech) Six 25 min talks, each with 5 min for questions, and a 30 min break
8:30	Thomas Jessell (Chair)	Inductive signaling and the control of neuronal identity in the vertebrate CNS
9:00	Marnie Halpern	cyclops encodes a Nodal-related signal that patterns the zebrafish brain and ventral neural tube
9:30	John Oberdick	A fly in the brain: Evidence for genetic control of cerebellar lobulation in the Mouse brain
10:00	Break
10:30	Carla Shatz	Form from function: neural activity sculpts connectivity in visual system development
11:00	Cori Bargmann	Sensory development and function in C. elegans
11:30	Catherine Dulac	Molecular biology of pheromone perception in mammals

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12:00-2:30 pm	*Poster Session II* With lunch options and exhibits.

2:30-5:30 pm	Concurrent Symposia 7-9 Six 20 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions, with a 30 minute break

	*Symposium 7, Coordinate Regulation of Gene Expession*
2:30	Barbara Meyer (Chair)	Chromosome segregation and X chromosome dosage compensation in C. elegans
2:55	Tom Kaufman	The role of centrosomin in the centrosome and oocyte MTOC in Drosophila
3:20	John Tamkun	Chromatin remodeling factors and control of cell fate
3:45	Break
4:15	Renato Paro	Maintenance of homeotic gene repression
4:40	Susan Strome	The polycomb group in C. elegans and control of germ line development
5:05	David McClay	Germ layer specification in sea urchin embryos involves Notch and beta-catenin signaling

	*Symposium 8, Seeing is Believing*
2:30	Dorothea Schulte	Patterning the chick retina
2:55	John Flanagan	EPH ligands and receptors as mediators of axon guidance
3:20	Linda Holland (Chair)	Expression of Pax6 in Amphioxus: All eyes are not created equal
3:45	Break
4:15	Andrew Tomlinson	Long-range signaling in the developing Drosophila eye
4:40	Michael Rebagliati	Cyclops encodes the Nodal-related peptide growth factor, Ndr2
5:05	Hisato Kondoh	Genetic mechanism of lens differentiation

	*Symposium 9, Medicine and Development*
2:30	Gary Ruvkun (Chair)	Neuroendocrine control of C. elegans development and metabolism
2:55	Helen Blau	Regulation of EGF receptor dimerization monitored in live cells
3:20	Simon John	Developmental biology of glaucoma
3:45	Break
4:15	Matthew Scott	Regulation of cell growth by patched tumor suppressor gene
4:40	Myung Shin	Fates of endothelin-B receptor (Ednbr) expressing cells in mouse neural crest development
5:05	Mark Peifer	Cell adhesion, signal transduction and cancer: the Armadillo connection

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6:00-7:00 pm	*Dinner*

7:30 pm on	Concurrent Special Interest Sessions 1-2

	*Special Interest Session 1, Imaging and Computers in Developmental Biology Research* Steven Klein (Chair)
7:30	David Soll	A new computer-assisted system for reconstructing and motion analyzing in dynamic 3D the surface, nucleus and pseudopods of living, crawling cells
8:00	Russel Jacobs	MicroMagnetic resonance imaging in developmental biology
8:30	Kersti Linask	Doppler echocardiography (Echo) of abnormal embryonic mouse heart function
9:00	Kent Thornburg	3-D reconstruction of developing human heart
9:30	Martin Ringwald	Gene expression information resource for mouse development: Current status and future goals

	*Special Interest Session 2, Human Cloning: Scientific, Legal and Ethical Concerns* Peter Okkema (Chair)
7:30	David Cox	Cloning human beings: science, ethics and social policy
8:05	Lori Andrews	Mom, Dad, Clone: Why we shouldn't create families through human cloning
8:40	John Robertson	Procreative liberty and human cloning
9:15	Kevin FitzGerald	Human cloning: Science raises the ante on ethics

7:30 pm on	*Poster Session II*, continues (posters not necessarily attended by presenters)


WEDNESDAY JUNE 24
8:00 am-5:00 pm	*Registration*

8:30 am-12:00 noon	*Plenary Session 4, Cell Guidance Systems* Six 25 min talks, each with 5 min for questions, and a 30 min break
8:30	Brigid Hogan (Chair)	BMP4 and lens induction in the mouse
9:00	Paul Primakoff	The function of ADAMs and the mechanism of sperm-egg fusion in fertilization
9:30	Mark Krasnow	Making a complex organ: How an FGF patterns branching of the Drosophila airways
10:00	Break
10:30	George Minowada	Characterization of vertebrate homologs of Drosophila sprouty
11:00	Joshua Kaplan	Sensory signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans
11:30	Jeffrey Golden	DM-GRASP is necessary for non-radial cell migration molecules in the normal diencephalon morphogenesis

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12:00-2:30 pm	*Poster Session II*, continues With lunch options and exhibits.

2:30-5:30 pm	Concurrent Symposia 10-12 Six 20 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions, with a 30 minute break

	*Symposium 10, Morphogenesis and Movement*
2:30	Corey Goodman (Chair)	Wiring up the brain: A genetic perspective
2:55	Mark Selleck	Patterning the neural crest cell lineage
3:20	Marc Tessier-Lavigne	Axon guidance by netrins and their receptors
3:45	Break
4:15	Ruth Lehmann	Germ cell development and migration in Drosophila
4:40	Cheng-Ming Chuong	Periodic pattern formation in feather morphogenesis
5:05	Sergei Sokol	Signal transduction by frizzled during anteroposterior axis determination in Xenopus

	*Symposium 11, Homeobox Functions and Evolution*
2:30	Robb Krumlauf (Chair)	Patterning the vertebrate hindbrain
2:55	Paul Sternberg	Vulval development—lessons from evolution
3:20	Kathy Barton	Understanding the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem
3:45	Break
4:15	Nina Brooke	The Hox gene cluster and its extended family: insights from amphioxus
4:40	Cynthia Kenyon	Neuronal cell migration in C.elegans: regulation of Hox gene expression and cell position
5:05	Suzanne Bradshaw	Hox gene expression and its relation to the cluster organization

	*Symposium 12, Organogenesis II*
2:30	Scott Poethig (Chair)	Turning over a new leaf: genetic and temporal regulation of leaf identity in plants
2:55	Mary Alleman	Cis and trans control of imprinting at the maize r locus during seed development
3:20	Fiona Watt	Role of adhesion molecules in regulating keratinocyte differentiation
3:45	Break
4:15	Olivier Pourquié	A molecular clock underlying vertebrate segmentation
4:40	Deborah Andrew	Organogenesis in Drosophila: Regulation and formation of the larval salivary gland
5:05	Leonard Zon	Hematopoetic stem cell induction: new genes and pathways


	7:30 pm on	*Closing Reception, Banquet and Awards Ceremony*
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	THURSDAY JUNE 25
		*Departure*

	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	*Sponsors*:	Amgen, Biogen, Carl Zeiss (Best poster competition), PharMingen (Student travel awards), Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Genetech (Plenary Session 3, Neural Development and Patterning), Upstate Biotechnology (Symposium Session 3, Cell Biology of Development), Merck Research Laboratory
	*Funding:*	National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

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