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SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting 2002
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| Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| 9:00 - 12:30 |
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Education Workshop for local teachers |
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Ida Chow, John Doctor, Scott Gilbert and Karen Crawford |
| 12:45 -1:45 |
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Registration |
| 1:45 - 2:00 |
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WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS |
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Maxine Singer President, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2:00 - 3:30 |
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Plenary Symposium Model Systems and Medicine |
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chair: Marnie Halpern |
| 2:00 - 2:30 |
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John Gearhart Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD |
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Human embryonic stem cells - the end of the beginning |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
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Denise Montell Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD |
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Genetic analysis of invasive cell behavior: Drosophila border cell migration as a model for tumor metastasis |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
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Maximilian Muenke National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Holoprosencephaly, the most common developmental forebrain anomaly in humans |
| 3:30 - 4:00 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:00 - 6:00 |
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Session I Genetic and Genomic Developmental Analyses |
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chair: Erika Matunis |
| 4:00 - 4:20 |
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Erika Matunis Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD |
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Stem cells and spermatogenesis in Drosophila |
| 4:20 - 4:35 |
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Tetsuya Tanaka National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD |
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Gene expression profiles of embryonic stem cells and trophoblast stem cells. |
| 4:35 - 4:55 |
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Scott Poethig University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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Regulation of organ polarity in Arabidopsis |
| 4:55 - 5:15 |
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Wendy Hanna-Rose Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA |
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Vulval development in C. elegans |
| 5:15 - 5:30 |
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Hui Chen University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD |
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NKX-3.1 interacts with prostate derived Ets factor and regulates the activity of the PSA promoter |
| 5:30 - 5:45 |
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Vera Voronina West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV & NCI, Frederick |
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Conditional Inactivation of the Rx Homeobox Gene Results in Viable Anophthalmic Animals |
| 5:45 - 6:05 |
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Eric Baehrecke Univ. of Maryland Biotech. Instit., College Park, MD |
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Regulation of programmed cell death in Drosophila |
| 6:10 - 9:00 |
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Reception |
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Poster Presentations/Exhibit Viewing |
| Saturday, April 20, 2002 |
| 8:00 - 8:30 |
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 8:30 - 10:30 |
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Session II Morphogenesis and Cell Biology |
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chair: Mark Van Doren |
| 8:30 - 8:50 |
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Mark Van Doren Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
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Sexually dimorphic development of the Drosophila gonad |
| 8:50 - 9:05 |
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Daniela Drummond-Barbosa Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Baltimore, MD |
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Nutritional regulation of stem cells and their progeny in the fly ovary |
| 9:05 - 9:25 |
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Nancy Jenkins National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, MD |
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A molecular genetic approach to the study of vesicle transport in the mouse |
| 9:25 - 9:40 |
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Raymond Habas NICHD/NIH |
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Daam1 couples Wnt signaling to the planar cell polarity pathway. |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
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Douglas DeSimone University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
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Cell behaviors, integrins and Xenopus embryogenesis |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
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Michael Kuehn NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Mutation of Senp1 reveals an essential role for SUMO-1 deconjugation in mouse development |
| 10:20 - 10:45 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 - 12:30 |
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Session III Neural Development |
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chair: Sally Moody |
| 10:45 - 11:05 |
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Sally Moody George Washington University, Washington, DC |
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foxD5 gene function in the neural plate of Xenopus |
| 11:05 - 11:20 |
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Thomas Brody NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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A search for targets of the Drosophila neuroblast temporal network |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
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Ajay Chitnis NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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The role of hdl and tcf3b in determining the shape of a Wnt/b catenin activity gradient in the neurectoderm |
| 11:40 -11:55 |
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Joshua Gamse Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD |
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Establishing left-right asymmetry in the zebrafish diencephalon |
| 11:55 - 12:10 |
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Barbara Lom Davidson College, Davidson, NC |
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Location, location, location: Retinal and tectal BDNF exert opposing effects on retinal ganglion cell dendritic arborization in vivo |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
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Brian Howell NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Genetic control of neuronal migration during brain development. |
| 12:30 -2:30 |
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LUNCH (and poster/exhibit viewing) |
| 2:30 - 5:30 |
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Session IV Pattern Formation and Evolution |
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chair: Dan Kessler |
| 2:30 - 2:45 |
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Jason Pellettieri Johns Hopkins Medical Inst., Baltimore, MD |
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pom-1 is required for anterior/posterior polarity in the C. elegans embryo and is related to a regulator of cell polarity in S. pombe |
| 2:45 - 3:05 |
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Dan Kessler University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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A double negative: FoxD3 regulation of Nodal in Xenopus mesoderm formation |
| 3:05 - 3:25 |
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Zhongchi Liu University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
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A regulatory mechanism for specifying domain-specific floral homeotic gene expression in Arabidopsis |
| 3:25 - 3:40 |
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Alex Schreiber Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD |
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Epithelial-mesenchyme interactions during Xenopus metamorphosis |
| 3:40 - 4:00 |
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Rick Elinson Duquesne Univ., Pittsburgh, PA |
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Amphibian diversity and egg evolution |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
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Coffee Break |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
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Keynote Address |
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Christopher Wright Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, TN |
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Plasticity of pancreatic development |
