| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | ASYMMETRY AND POLARITY |
| Discussion Leader: Ruth Lehmann (Skirball, NYU) |
| 7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Richard Losick (Harvard)
"Stochasticity and cell fate in bacteria" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Thomas Lecuit (LBDM Marseille)
"Regulation of cell surface mechanics underlying tissue morphogenesis" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Yan Zhou (Yale)
"The Mammalian Golgi Regulates Numb Signaling in Asymmetric Cell Division by Releasing ACBD3 during Mitosis" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Oliver Hobert (Columbia)
"Left/rightaAsymmetry in the nervous system of C. elegans" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Susan Mango (Utah)
"Making and Shaping the Foregut" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STEM CELLS AND REGENERATION |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Robertson (Oxford) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Janet Rossant (Lunenfeld, Toronto)
"Mouse embryonic stem cells" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:45 am | Kevin Eggan (Harvard)
"Developmental reprogramming after chromosome transfer in mitosis" |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Hernan Lopez-Schier (CRG Barcelona)
"Regeneration of epithelial architecture in the zebrafish lateral-line sensory organ" |
| 10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Ting Xie (Stowers)
"Interactions between Germline Stem Cells and Their Niche in the Drosophila Ovary" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Peter Reddien (MIT)
"RNAi screening identifies regeneration and stem cell regulators in planarians" |
| 11:20 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
| 11:25 am - 11:45 am | Ruth Lehmann (Skirball, NYU)
"RNA regulation in germ line stem cells" |
| 11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Judith Kimble (Wisconsin)
"Germ-line stem cells in C. elegans" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Guojun Sheng (Riken CDB)
"A xylosyltransferase in the node: what can it do?" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | AXIS FORMATION |
| Discussion Leader: Lila Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Alex Schier (Harvard)
"Nodal signaling and microRNAs" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Janet Heasman (Cincinnati)
"Germ layer formation in Xenopus" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Emmanuel Farge (Inst. Curie, Paris)
"Mechanical Cues in Development" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 8:55 pm | Eddy DeRobertis (UCLA)
"GSK3/Wnt regulates the duration of the Smad/BMP signal in Drosophila and vertebrates" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Liz Robertson (Oxford)
"Axis formation in the mouse" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GROWTH AND PATTERNING |
| Discussion Leader: Debbie Yelon (Skirball, NYU) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Laura Johnston (Columbia)
"Winners and losers during Drosophila wing growth" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:45 am | D.J. Pan (Johns Hopkins)
"Hippo signaling in organ size control" |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Raj Ladher (CDB Kobe)
"The role of FGF signalling in the invagination of the inner ear" |
| 10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Jussi Taipale (Helsinki)
"Systems Biology of Growth Control" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Nick Baker (Albert Einstein)
"Cell competition uses engulfment to kill and replace neighboring cells" |
| 11:10 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:25 am | Baolin Wang (Cornell)
"The balance between the Gli3 activator and repressor determines vertebrate limb digit patterning" |
| 11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Matthew Freeman (MIT)
"Rhomboids and EGF receptor signalling" |
| 11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 11:55 am - 12:15 pm | Stephen Cohen (EMBL/TLL)
"MicroRNA functions" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Marianne Bronner-Fraser (CalTech) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Detlev Arendt (EMBL)
"Evo-devo of the animal CNS" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Nipam Patel (UC Berkeley)
"The Evolution of Embryonic Pattern Formation: Insights from the Crustacean, Parhyale" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Cliff Tabin (Harvard)
"Regressive morphological evolution" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | David Kingsley (Stanford)
"Fishing for the secrets of vertebrate evolution" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Claude Desplan (NYU)
"Of wasps and flies: Evolution of axis formation" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MORPHOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Janet Heasman (Cincinnati) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Asako Sugimoto (CDB Kobe)
"Cellular dynamics in early C. elegans embryos" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:45 am | Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt)
"Regulation of cell adhesion during zebrafish gastrulation" |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Katja Roeper (Cambridge UK)
"The fly reticulon is enriched in a specialized germline ER that associates with RNP granules" |
| 10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Pernille Rorth (EMBL/TLL)
"Guidance of collective cell migration" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Marianne Bronner-Fraser (CalTech)
"Neural crest migration" |
| 11:10 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Scott Fraser (CalTech)
"Imaging morphogenesis in vertebrates" |
| 11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Sergei Sokol (Mount Sinai)
"Regulation of neuronal progenitor differentiation by the polarity proteins aPKC and PAR-1" |
| 11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 11:55 am - 12:15 pm | Chris Wylie (Cincinnati)
"Cortical actin and the control of tissue shape" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SIGNALING |
| Discussion Leader: Judith Kimble (Madison) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Suzanne Eaton (MPI Dresden)
"Lipoproteins in the Hedgehog pathway" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Naama Barkai (Weizmann)
"Robustness and evolvability of embryonic patterning by BMP gradients" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Roel Nusse (Stanford)
"Wnt proteins as self-renewing stem cell factors" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Daria Siekhaus (NYU Medical Center)
"RhoL mediates invasive hemocyte migration" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Norbert Perrimon (Harvard)
"A comprehensive approach to muscle growth" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Janet Rossant (Lunenfeld) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Liqun Luo (Stanford)
"Assembly of a neural circuit" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:45 am | Olivier Pourquie (Stowers)
"Segmentation in vertebrates" |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Josh Gamse (Vanderbilt)
"Building the asymmetric pineal complex in zebrafish" |
| 10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Debbie Yelon (Skirball, NYU)
"Heart development in zebrafish" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Martin Garcia Castro (Yale)
"Origin and differentiation potential of neural crest cells" |
| 11:10 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Rebecca Burdine (Princeton)
"Patterning, Placement, and Polarity: roles for cilia in zebrafish" |
| 11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | John Wallingford (U. Texas)
"Developmental regulation of core cytokinesis mechanisms in vertebrate embryos" |
| 11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 11:55 am - 12:15 pm | Andy McMahon (Harvard)
"From precursor to product: organogenesis and repair of the mammalian kidney" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| Leaders: Stephen Cohen (EMBL); Alex Schier (Harvard) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | REGULATORY NETWORKS |
| Discussion Leader: Norbert Perrimon (Harvard) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Eric Davidson (CalTech)
"Genetic circuitry of embryogenesis in Sea Urchin" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Eileen Furlong (EMBL)
"Transcriptional network during mesoderm development: Dissecting the logic" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Aurelio Teleman (DKFZ)
"Functional Genomics Analysis of Insulin Signaling" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 8:55 pm | Steve Tapscott (FHCRC)
"A Myod-mediated feed-forward mechanism regulating skeletal muscle gene expression" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeannie Lee (MGH)
"X-chromosome inactivation: Sex, heterochromatin, pairing, and more" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |