| SUNDAY JUNE 4 |
| 2:00 - 11:00 |
Arrival and Registration |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Opening Session |
|
Seymour Benzer (session chair) - Cal Tech |
| 7:30 |
Utpal Bannerjee - University of California, Los Angeles
"Combinatorial signaling in the specification of unique cell fates" |
| 8:00 |
Kwang Choi - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX
"Peripodial signaling for patterning the eye disc" |
| 8:30 |
Don Ready - Purdue
"Mighty Morphin' Photoreceptors: Mechanisms of Drosophila Rhabdomere Morphogenesis" |
| 9:00 |
Justin Kumar - Emory University
"Egfr and Notch in eye specification and furrow initiation" |
| MONDAY JUNE 5 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
EYE SPECIFICATION GENES I |
| 9:00 |
Guillermo Oliver (session chair) - St. Judes, Memphis, TN
"Six3 function in mouse eye development" |
| 9:30 |
Pam Raymond - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"How to make eyes: the role of Rx homeobox genes" |
| 10:00 |
COFFEE |
| 10:30 |
GROUP PHOTO |
| 11:00 |
Graeme Mardon - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX
"Early Retinal Cell Fate Determination in Drosophila" |
| 11:30 |
Veronica van Heyningen - Edinburgh, UK
"Lessons on the role of PAX6 from human and mouse mutants" |
| 12:00 |
Rob Grainger - University of Virginia
"New strategies for studying the genetic regulation of vertebrate eye development" |
| 12:30 pm |
LUNCH |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm |
POSTER SESSION I
Alphabetically, posters with presenters from Ashery-Padan to Pignoni |
| 6:00 pm |
DINNER |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
CELL BIOLOGY |
| 7:30 |
Nansi Colley (session chair) - University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Chacterization of a potassium-dependent sodium/calcium exchanger in Drosophila" |
| 8:00 |
Bruce Hay -
"The Drosophila caspase inhibitor DIAP1 is essential for cell survival and is negatively regulated by HID" |
| 8:30 |
Sarah Bray - Cambridge, UK
"Notch signalling and polarity" |
| 9:00 |
Ilaria Rebay - MIT
"Drosophila eyes absent mediates cross-talk between a network of retinal determination genes and the RTK/Ras/MAPK pathway" |
| TUESDAY JUNE 6 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
SIGNALING AND EARLY EYE DEVELOPMENT I |
| 9:00 |
Nick Baker (session chair) - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Regulation of eye cell number by the EGF receptor" |
| 9:30 |
Iswar Hariharan - Harvard/MGH
"Genes that restrict cell growth and proliferation during eye development" |
| 10:00 |
COFFEE & BUSINESS MEETING |
| 10:30 |
Matthew Freeman - MRC/LMB/Cambridge
"Control of EGF receptor signalling in ommatidial development" |
| 11:00 |
Henry Sun - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
"Antagonism between eyeless and homothorax in eye determination in Drosophila" |
| 11:30 |
Andrew Jarman - Edinburgh, UK
"Signalling during R8 photoreceptor specification" |
| 12:00 |
Maria Dominguez - Cambridge/LMB, UK
"Compartments and organising boundaries in the Drosophila eye: the roles of signalling and eye specification genes" |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH |
| 6:00 pm |
DINNER |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
SIGNALING AND EARLY EYE DEVELOPMENT II |
| 7:30 |
Tom Reh (session chair) - University of Washington
"Inductive interactions that pattern the vertebrate eye and retina" |
| 8:00 |
Volker Hartenstein - UCLA
"Dpp and Hh signaling in the Drosophila embryonic eyefield: Similarities and differences in early visual system development of flies and vertebrates" |
| 8:30 |
John Dowling - Harvard
"Visual System Mutations and Development in Zebrafish" |
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| 9:00 |
James M. Fadool - Florida State University
"Mutation analysis of cell differentiation in the zebrafish retina" |
| WEDNESDAY JUNE 7 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
RETINAL CELL TYPE SPECIFICATION: INTRINSIC FACTORS I |
| 9:00 |
Marek Mlozdik (session chair) - Mt. Sinai, New York
"Frizzled signaling pathways in epithelial planar polarity determination" |
| 9:30 |
Tanya Wolff - Washington. University, St. Louis
"Trends in Polarity: A Cross-Eyed View of Development" |
| 10:00 |
COFFEE |
| 10:30 |
Andrew Tomlinson - Columbia
"Photoreceptor specification in the developing eye" |
| 11:00 |
Zhi-Chun Lai - Penn State
"Molecular Analysis of the Inhibitory Role of Tramtrack69 in Neural Differentiation" |
| 11:30 |
Richard Carthew - Pittsburgh University
"Overlapping activators and repressors delimit transcriptional response to Sev and DER signals" |
| 12:00 |
Jarema Malicki - Harvard/Mass Eye & Ear
"Analysis of Retinal Neurogenesis using Forward and Reverse Genetic Approaches in Zebrafish" |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm |
POSTER SESSION II
Alphabetically, posters with presenters from Purcell to Zhao |
| 6:00 pm |
DINNER |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm |
RETINAL CELL TYPE SPECIFICATION: INTRINSIC FACTORS II |
| 7:30 |
Claude Desplan (session chair) - NYU
"A genetic approach to patterning the fly retina for color vision" |
| 8:00 |
Nadine Brown - Northwestern
"Math5 is required for retinal neuron and optic nerve formation" |
| 8:30 |
Monica Vetter - University of Utah
"A role for frizzleds in regulating eye development in Xenopus" |
| 9:00 |
Rachel Wong - Washington University
"Mechanisms regulating retinal ganglion cell dendritic growth and remodeling" |
| THURSDAY JUNE 8 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
RETINAL CELL TYPE SPECIFICATION: INTERACTIONS |
| 9:00 |
Jessica Treismanr (session chair) - NYU
"Identification of novel genes controlling retinal differentiation" |
| 9:30 |
Mark Fortini - University of Pennsylvania
"Receptor trafficking and activation in the Drosophila retina" |
| 10:00 |
COFFEE |
| 10:30 |
Ross Cagan - Washington. University, St. Louis
"Death" |
| 11:00 |
Ulrike Gaul - Rockefeller University
"Glial cell behavior and function in the developing Drosophila eye" |
| 11:30 |
William Klien - MD Anderson Cancer Center
"POU domain transcription factor Brn-3b and the differentiation of retinal ganglion cells" |
| 12:00 |
Steve Easter - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Morphogenesis of the zebrafish eye, with attention to death, movements, and regulated proliferation of cells" |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH |
| 6:00 pm |
DINNER |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
CELL CYCLE |
|
Connie Cepko (session chair) - Harvard School of Medicine |
| 7:30 |
Mike Dyer - Harvard School of Medicine
"Cyclin Kinase Inhibitors Play Diverse Roles in the Vertebrate Retina" |
| 8:00 |
Rod McInnes - Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
"The CHX10 homeobox gene in eye development: human mutations, downstream targets, and mouse and fly homologues" |
| 8:30 |
Barbara Thomas - NCI/NIH
"Roughex regulates G1 arrest through a physical association with Cyclin A" |
| 9:00 |
Tom Glaser - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Regulation of PAX6 expression: insights from human alleles" |