Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits


Program at a glance DAY1 DAY2 DAY3 Poster Sessions
Session 5:
Chairs: Patrick Lemaire and Thurston Lacalli
9:00 - 9:35 S5-1 MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE CHARACTERS:CARTILAGE, SCLEROTOME AND PHARYNX
Hiroshi Wada(University of Tsukuba, Japan)
9:35 - 10:10 S5-2 FROM EMBRYOLOGY, TO FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS: ANALYSIS OF NEURAL TISSUE FORMATION IN THE ASCIDIAN, CIONA INTESTINALIS
Patrick Lemaire (LGPD/IBDM, France)
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break
Session 6:
Chairs: Patrick Lemaire and Thurston Lacalli
10:40 - 11:15 S6-1 GENE-REGULATORY INTERACTIONS IN NEURAL CREST EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Marianne Bronner-Fraser (California Institute of Technology, USA)
11:15 - 11:50 S6-2 BASIC FEATURES OF CHORDATE BRAIN ORGANIZATION - AN AMPHIOXUS PERSPECTIVE
Thurston Lacalli (University of Victoria, Canada)
11:50 - 12:50 Lunch Time
12:50 - 13:50
Poster Session 2
12:50-13:50 Even-numbered Posters
Session 7:
Chairs: James Hanken and Clare V. H. Baker
14:20 - 14:45 S7-1 RELEASE OF PLACODAL CELLS FROM NEUROGENIC PLACODES IN THE CHICK*
Jo Begbie (University of Oxford, UK)
14:45 - 15:20 S7-2 EVOLUTION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL PLAN FOR THE VERTEBRATE BRAIN
Yasunori Murakami (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France)
15:20 - 15:55 S7-3 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHARK SPIRACULAR ORGAN AND CHICK PARATYMPANIC ORGAN: PLACODAL ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS
Clare V. H. Baker (University of Cambridge, UK)
15:55 - 16:25 Coffee Break
Session 8:
Chairs: James Hanken and Clare V. H. Baker
16:25 - 17:00 S8-1 THE VERTEBRATE PARAHOX GENE CLUSTER
Peter W. H. Holland (University of Oxford, UK)
17:00 - 17:35 S8-2 MECHANISMS OF CRANIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION IN FROGS: THE ROLE OF THE NEURAL CREST
James Hanken (Harvard University, USA)
* Short talk selected from poster session
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