Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Innovations in Tissue Engineering Strategies for the Craniomaxillofacial Complex
Discussion Leader: Justine Lee (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Tara Aghaloo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Stem-Cell Based Therapies for Ailing Dental Implants"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Kristi Anseth (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Biomaterials as Synthetic Extracellular Matrices: Designer Materials for Tissue Engineering"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Gene Networks and Epigenetics in Craniofacial Development
Discussion Leader: Gage Crump (University of Southern California, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Brad Amendt (The University of Iowa, USA)
"New MicroRNA Technology Identifies Craniofacial/Tooth Developmental Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:00 am
Axel Visel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Distant-Acting Enhancers in Craniofacial Development"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:55 am
Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:15 am
Late-Breaking Topic
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:50 am
James Nichols (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA)
"Buffering Craniofacial Variation"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Mildred Embree (Columbia University Medical Center, USA) and Janina Kueper (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Clinical Genetics of Craniofacial Development and Disease
Discussion Leader: Andrew Wilkie (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Janice Lee (National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, USA)
"Multi-Modality Phenotyping for Human Craniofacial Morphology"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Azeez Butali (University of Iowa, USA)
"Spectrum of Approaches to Unravel the Genetics and Genomics Etiology of Orofacial Clefts in an Ancestral Population"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Craniofacial Stem Cells
Discussion Leader: Michael Longaker (Stanford University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Songtao Shi (South China Center for Craniofacial Stem Cell Research, China)
"Stem Cell-Associated Apoptotic Metabolism"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:00 am
Nancy Manley (University of Georgia, USA)
"Using Cellular Reprogramming to Understand Thymic Epithelial Cell Development and Function"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Jian-Fu Chen (University of Southern California (USC), USA)
"Human iPSC-Derived Suture Stem Cells for Tissue Regeneration and Treating Craniosynostosis"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Late-Breaking Topic
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Craniofacial Tissue Interactions and Morphogenesis
Discussion Leader: Yang Chai (University of Southern California, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
D'Juan Farmer (University of Southern California, USA)
"Tracing the Developmental Origins of Cranial Sutures"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Juhee Jeong (New York University College of Dentistry, USA)
"Role of Lmx1b in Patterning of the Embryonic Head Mesenchyme"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm
Joan Richtsmeier (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Participation of Embryonic Cartilage and Dermal Bone in Skull Development"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Strategies for Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration
Discussion Leader: Mildred Embree (Columbia University Medical Center, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Maria Troulis (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Minimally Invasive Maxillofacial Surgery: Bench to Bedside, Bedside to Bench"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:00 am
Sang Jin Lee (Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA)
"Recent Advances in 3D Bioprinting Technologies for Craniofacial Reconstruction"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
David Dean (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Point of Care Manufacturing of Regenerative Devices for Reconstructive Craniofacial Surgery"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 12:00 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanical and Bioelectrical Forces in CMF Tissue Development and Regeneration
Discussion Leader: Mehran Moazen (University College London, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Susan Herring (University of Washington, USA)
"Mechanical Enhancement of Craniofacial Growth—When Does it Work?"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Michael Levin (Tufts University, USA)
"Bioelectric Networks as Targets for Regenerative Medicine: The Future of Electroceuticals"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Evolution and Comparative Biology of the Craniofacial Complex
Discussion Leader: Craig Albertson (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Liran Carmel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Using DNA Methylation Maps of Ancient Humans to Study Evolutionary Adaptations"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:00 am
Christopher Martin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Developing a Novel System for Craniofacial Genetics: The Evolution of Scale-Biting in Caribbean Pupfishes"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
Daniel Medeiros (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Head Development in Modern Jawless Chordates Points to Early Events in Vertebrate Craniofacial Evolution"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 12:00 pm
Kory Evans (Rice University, USA)
"Evolutionary Mosaics and The Interplay Between Innovation and Integration in the Vertebrate Skull"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Sense Organs and Cranial Neural Crest
Discussion Leader: Samantha Brugmann (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Marcos Simeos-Costa (Cornell University, USA)
"Signals, Circuits and Cis-Regulatory Elements Driving Cranial Neural Crest Formation"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Joanna Wysocka (Stanford University, USA)
"Making Faces: Transcriptional Enhancers and Emergence of Form and Function During Human Development and Evolution"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure