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| Welcome Address |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
| Masatoshi Takeichi (Director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan) |
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| Session 1: The Legacy of Haeckel (Chair: Denis Duboule) |
| 9:50-10:30 |
| S1-1 |
| Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates” – a Restrospective |
| Nicholas D. Holland (University of California at San Diego, USA) |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
| S1-2 |
| What the Hourglass tells us about Vertebrate Development and Evolution |
| Naoki Irie (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan) |
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| 11:00-11:20 |
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| 11:20-12:00 |
| S1-3 |
| Origin, Evolution and Development of the Chordates (Tentative) |
| Billie J. Swalla (University of Washington, USA) |
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| 12:00-12:15 |
| S1-4* |
| Deep Conservation of Deuterostome ‘Cranial’ Mesoderm Patterning |
| Stephen Green (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
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| 12:15-12:30 |
| S1-5* |
| The Annelid Head Sensory System Reveals the Origins of the Vertebrate Cranial Placodes |
| Maria Antonietta Tosches (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) |
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| 12:30-13:50 |
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| Session 2 : From Urbilaterians to Chordate (Chair: Shigeru Kuratani) |
| 13:50-14:30 |
| S2-1 |
| Evolutionary Origin of Somites and Notochord |
| Detlev Arendt (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany) |
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| 14:30-15:10 |
| S2-2 |
| The Beginning of the Road to the Vertebrates: An Invertebrate Perspective |
| Andreas Hejnol (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Norway) |
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| 15:10-15:30 |
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| 15:30-16:10 |
| S2-3 |
| Early Deuterostome Origins of the Vertebrate Developmental Program; Insights from Hemichordates |
| Christopher Lowe (Stanford University, USA) |
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| 16:10-16:25 |
| S2-4* |
| Hemichordate Neurulation and the Origin of the Chordate Body Plan |
| Norio Miyamoto (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan) |
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| 16:25-16:40 |
| S2-5* |
| The Making of a Chordate Notochord Tube |
| Bo Dong (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan) |
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| 16:40-16:55 |
| S2-6* |
| The Ancient Syntenic Roots of the Vertebrate Genomes |
| Manuel Irimia (University of Toronto, Canada) |
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| 16:55-17:15 |
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| Session 3: Pluripotency (Chair: Edward M. De Robertis) |
| 17:15-17:45 |
| S3-1 |
| Evolution of Pluripotency-associated Transcription Factor Network |
| Hitoshi Niwa (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan) |
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| 17:45-18:25 |
| S3-2 |
| Conservation and Divergence of Mammalian Embryonic Pluripotency |
| Miguel Manzanares (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain) |
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| 18:25-18:40 |
| S3-3* |
| Lactic Acid Bacteria Convert Human Fibroblasts to Multipotent Cells |
| Kunimasa Ohta (Kumamoto University, Japan) |
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| 18:40-19:00 |
| S3-4* |
| Expression of the Pluripotency Reprogramming Gene Network during Regeneration in a Hemichordate |
| Tom Humphreys (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) |
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| 19:00-21:30 |
