| Friday, May 30, 2003 |
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| 9:00 - 12:00 | Education Workshop for Science Teachers |
| | Jamie Schaefer (Thomas Jefferson University) |
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| 11:00 - 1:00 | Registration |
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| 1:00 - 1:15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| | Nancy Bonini and Daniel Kessler |
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| 1:15 - 2:50 | Session I: Germ Cells and Stem Cells |
| | Chair: Stephen DiNardo |
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| 1:15 - 1:35 | William Kelly (Emory University) |
| | A conserved chromatin status marks germline restriction in worms and flies |
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| 1:35 - 1:50 | Girish Deshpande (Princeton University) |
| | Hedgehog as a chemoattractant during germ cell migration |
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| 1:50 - 2:10 | Doris Wagner (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | Stem cell maintenance in the shoot apical meristem of Arabidopsis |
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| 2:10 - 2:35 | Larysa Pevny (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| | SOX2 functions to maintain neural progenitor identity |
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| 2:35 - 2:50 | Keith Latham (Temple University) |
| | Inefficient nuclear reprogramming and somatic cell-like features in cloned mouse embryos |
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| 2:50 - 3:20 | Coffee Break |
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| 3:20 - 5:15 | Session II: Embryonic Induction and Pattern Formation |
| | Chair: Mary Mullins |
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| 3:20 - 3:45 | Jessica Treisman (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center) |
| | Developmental functions of the Drosophila mediator complex |
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| 3:45 - 4:10 | Xuemei Chen (Waksman Institute, Rutgers University) |
| | Post-transcriptional processes in flower development in Arabidopsis |
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| 4:10 - 4:35 | Paul Mead (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) |
| | Transposon transgenesis and insertional mutagenesis in Xenopus |
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| 4:35 - 5:00 | Shannon Fisher (Johns Hopkins University) |
| | Regulation of Chordin by proteolytic cleavage in the zebrafish gastrula |
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| 5:00 - 5:15 | Terry Yamaguchi (National Cancer Institute, NIH) |
| | Wnt pathways and formation of the mammalian body plan |
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| 5:15 - 5:45 | Coffee Break |
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| 5:45 - 6:45 | Keynote Lecture |
| | Phil Beachy (Johns Hopkins University) |
| | Hedgehog signaling in development and disease |
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| 6:45 - 9:00 | Poster Session and Reception |
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| Saturday, May 31, 2003 |
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| 8:00 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 10:30 | Session III: Neural Development |
| | Chair: Doug Epstein |
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| 8:30 - 8:55 | Jonathan Eggenschwiler (Princeton University) |
| | Novel antagonists of Hedgehog signaling required for dorsal-ventral neural patterning |
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| 8:55 - 9:20 | Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | Control of neural crest formation along the AP axis by Sox9 and Sox10 |
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| 9:20 - 9:45 | Marnie Halpern (Carnegie Institution of Washington) |
| | Asymmetry in the zebrafish forebrain |
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| 9:45 - 10:05 | Thomas Brody (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH) |
| | A search for targets of the Drosophila neuroblast temporal network |
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| 10:05 - 10:30 | Michael Matise (UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) |
| | Gli gene function in Sonic Hedgehog signaling in the developing vertebrate spinal cord |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:40 | Session IV: Cell Migration and Cell Connections |
| | Chair: Michael Granato |
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| 11:00 - 11:25 | Greg Bashaw (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | To cross or not to cross: Axon guidance at the CNS midline in Drosophila |
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| 11:25 - 11:50 | Anirvan Ghosh (Johns Hopkins University) |
| | Calcium regulation of neuronal morphogenesis |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 | Lance Davidson (University of Virginia) |
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The role of matrix during convergence and extension in Xenopus gastrulation |
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| 12:10 - 12:25 | Elaine Maria Pinheiro (Johns Hopkins University) |
| | Identification of two PDZ-domain proteins, PAR-6 and Bazooka, that function in border cell migration |
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| 12:25 - 12:40 | ZaiFang Yu (University of Pennsylvania) |
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mig-15 acts downstream of ced-12 and racs, and upstream of JNK/p38 MAPK to control vulval cell migrations in C. elegans |
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| 12:40 - 3:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 | Keynote Lecture |
| | Virginia Papaioannou (Columbia University) |
| | Critical roles for T-Box genes in development |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 4:30 - 6:30 | Session V: Development and Disease |
| | Chair: Michael Pack |
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| 4:30 - 4:55 | Monica Driscoll (Waksman Institute, Rutgers University) |
| | Elaborating cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging in C. elegans: Lessons and themes from simple old animals |
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| 4:55 - 5:20 | Barbara Thomas (National Cancer Institute, NIH) |
| | The Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome regulates String/Cdc25 stability and G1 arrest during Drosophila eye development |
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| 5:20 - 5:45 | Steven Farber (Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University) |
| | A new modulator of lipid metabolism in vivo: Cholesterol transport is regulated by an Annexin II - Caveolin I lipid complex |
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| 5:45 - 6:00 | Myung Shin (Fox Chase Cancer Center) |
| | SOX10 regulates Endothelin Receptor-B during enteric neuron development in a dosage-dependent manner: A possible explanation for SOX10 haploinsufficiency in Hirschspung |
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| 6:00 - 6:15 | Aaron Gitler (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | Regulating heart development: New insights into the role of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene product |
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| 6:15 - 6:30 | Hideyuki Yoshitomi (Fox Chase Cancer Center) |
| | A dual role for endothelial cells in promoting pancreatic development |
