QMB Development Programme

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The meeting programme can be downloaded here (pdf file), and includes sessions focusing on Evolution and Development, Early Life Events and Epigenetics and Development. In addition to scheduled guest speakers, talks will be selected from submitted abstracts for each session as well as for the student session.

There will be prizes/awards for the best student speaker and poster presentation.

Abstracts must be submitted to Peter Dearden by 8th July 2011.

We look forward to seeing you at QMB Development.

Thursday 1 September
8.45am - 10.15am	Session 1: Evo Devo I Sue Brown, Kansas State University, USA : Tribolium pair-rule gene expression: stripes or waves? Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University, USA : Approaches to understanding the evolution of novelty in germ line specification.
10.15am - 10.45am	Morning Tea
10.45am - 11:15 pm	Session 1 continued: Evo Devo II Selected Talk Selected Talk
11.15am - 12.00pm	Session 2: Programming I Sebastian Bouret, University of Southern California : TBA
12.00pm - 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm - 3.00 pm	Session 2 continued: Programming II Rebecca Simmons, University of Pennsylvania, USA: Epigenetic landscape of the beta cell: hills and dales Daniel Nettle, University of Newcastle, UK : Dying young and living fast Selected Talk Selected Talk
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm - 5.45pm	Session 3: Shared Session: Epigenetics and Development Arthur Lander, University of California, USA :TBA 3.30pm - 4.15 pm Julio Licinio, John Curtin School of Medical Research: TBA 4.15pm - 5.00pm Andy Fienberg, Johns Hopkins: TBA 5.00 pm - 5.45pm TBA Bioinformatics Speaker TBA Epigenetics Speaker

6.30pm - 8.30pm	Posters and Mixer

Friday 2 September
8.45am - 9.45am	Session 4: Organogenesis I Victoria Prince, University of Chicago, USA : Zebrafish facial neuron migration requires a nuclear function of Prickle1b Runlin Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Breeding of RCN3 knockout mice, a novel model for infant respiration failure.
10.15am - 10.45am	Morning Tea
10.45am - 12.00pm	Session 5: Student Session
12.00pm - 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm - 3.00pm	Session 4 continued: Organogenesis II Anne Calof, University of California, USA:Feedback, proliferation, and fate in sensory epithelium development. Robert Ho, University of Chicago, USA :Cdx factors specify the vertebrate spinal cord by repression of the segmented, hindbrain developmental program. Selected Talk Selected Talk
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 4.15pm	Session 4 continues: Organogenesis III Alan Davidson, University of Auckland, N.Z.:Renal regeneration in Zebrafish
4:15 - 5:00pm	Session 6: TBA TBA Invited Speaker
	Satellite Meeting closes
	Quiz Night

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