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Program

Monday, April 13 (Day 1)
Tuesday, April 14 (Day 2)
Wednesday, April 15 (Day 3)

Poster Presentation

Monday, April 13 (Day 1)
9:20 am Welcome Address by Raj Ladher

Session 1
Chair: Gerhard Schlosser


9:30 am
Sensory Cells in Sea Sponges: Insights into the Origin of the Nervous System
Bernard Degnan

10:00 am Ancient Cell Types in Modern Brains
Kristin Tessmar-Raible


10:30 am Coffee Break

Session 2
Chair: Clare V. H. Baker


10:50 am Neural Crest, Placodes, and Evolution of the Vertebrate Head
Shigeru Kuratani


11:20 am Origin and Migration of the Earliest Detectable Receptors of the Peripheral Nervous System in Amphioxus Embryos: Insights into Dorsoventral Inversion of the Body Axis during Chordate Evolution
Nicholas D. Holland


11:50 am How to Make Sense out of Skin: Development and Evolution of Vertebrate Cranial Placodes
Gerhard Schlosser


12:20 pm Lunch and Poster Session 1

Session 3
Chair: Nicolas Daudet


2:20 pm Cell Fate Specification during Sensory Placode Development
Andrea Streit


2:50 pm Transcriptional Regulation of Otic Placode Induction
Andrew K. Groves


3:20 pm Cellular and Molecular Interactions during Inner Ear Development
Raj Ladher


3:50 pm Coffee Break

Session 4
Chair: Tanya T. Whitfield


4:10 pm FGF Signaling in Otic Placode Induction and Morphogenesis
Suzanne L. Mansour


4:40 pm Development of the Chick Paratympanic Organ
Paul O'Neill


5:00 pm FGF Signaling Drives Prosensory Domain Determination and Segmentation in the Zebrafish Lateral Line
Alex Nechiporuk


5:20 pm Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Regulates Cell Migration, Proliferation and Differentiation in Lateral Line Development
Tatjana Piotrowski


Tuesday, April 14 (Day 2)
Session 5
Chair: Alex Nechiporuk


9:00 am Molecular Determinants of Ophthalmic Trigeminal Placode Development
Michael R. Stark


9:20 am Sequential Requirements for Neural Tube Derived Wnt and FGF Signaling in the Formation and Maintenance of the Trigeminal Ganglion
Claire A. Canning


9:40 am Development of the Trigeminal Placodes: the Role of Pax3 in Sensory Neurogenesis
Clare V. H. Baker


10:10 am Coffee Break

Session 6
Chair: Berta Alsina


10:20 am Sprouty Gene Function is Required for Development of the Sensory Cranial Ganglia
Albert Basson


10:40 am Early Development of the Epibranchial Ganglia
Jo Begbie


11:10 am Lunch and Poster Session 2

Session 7
Chair: Shinichi Nakagawa


12:40 pm Environment Dependent Morphology and Spatio-temporal Patterns in an Oscillatory Cell of Plasmodial Slime Mold
Atsuko Takamatsu


1:10 pm Stereopsis: 3-D Visual World Viewed with Two Eyes and Two Cortical Pathways
Ichiro Fujita


1:40 pm Coffee Break

1:50 pm Analysis of Social Interactions Using Adult Medaka Fish
Hideaki Takeuchi


2:20 pm The Fly Compound Eye : a Model Sensory System In the Service of Behavior
Nicolas Franceschini


2:50 pm Coffee Break

Session 8
Chair: Andrew K. Groves


3:00 pm Axial Specification of the Vertebrate Inner Ear
Doris K. Wu


3:30 pm Convergence of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Signals in the Regulation of Otic Progenitors
Fernando Giraldez


4:00 pm The Molecular Basis of Neurosensory Development of the Mammalian Ear
Bernd Fritzsch


4:30 pm Coffee Break

Session 9
Chair: Tatjana Piotrowski


4:50 pm Roles of Notch Signalling in Inner Ear Development and Regeneration
Nicolas Daudet


5:20 pm Development and Regeneration of the Mammalian Inner Ear
Neil Segil


5:50 pm Regulation of Neurogenesis and Sensory Patch Spacing in the Zebrafish Otic Vesicle
Tanya T. Whitfield


6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Reception at CDB Salon


Wednesday, April 15 (Day 3)
Session 10
Chair: Takahisa Furukawa


9:00 am Embryonic Taste Progenitors are Lineage Restricted and Contribute Only Transiently to Adult Taste Buds
Linda. A. Barlow


9:30 am Tsukushi is a Frizzled4 Ligand that, in Competition with Wnt2b, Regulates the Proliferation of Retinal Stem/Progenitor Cells
Kunimasa Ohta


10:00 am Stem Cells and Progenitor Cells in the Retina- Two Distinct Cell Types Regulated by Different Hes Family Genes
Shinichi Nakagawa


10:30 am Coffee Break

Session 11
Chair: Kunimasa Ohta


10:50 am Retinal Ganglion Cell Development, Progenitor Cells, and Gene Regulatory Networks
William H. Klein


11:20 am Functional Development of Retinal Bipolar Cells
Takahisa Furukawa


11:40 am Evolution of Vertebrate Vision: Rods and Cones
Yoshinori Shichida


12:10 pm Lunch

Session 12
Chair: Linda. A. Barlow


1:00 pm Specification of Sensory Neurons from Zebrafish Neural Crest
David W. Raible


1:30 pm Maintenance of Rohon-Beard Sensory Neuron Progenitor Fate by Zebrafish prdm1a
Kristin B. Artinger


1:50 pm Roles of Six Family Genes in Differentiation and Evolution of Primary Sensory Neurons
Kiyoshi Kawakami


2:10 pm Coffee Break

Session 13
Chair: Filippo M. Rijli
2:30 pm Characterization of Two Runx1-dependent Nociceptor Differentiation Programs Controlling Inflammatory Versus Neuropathic Pain
Qiufu Ma


3:00 pm Intracellular Fgfs: Novel Regulators of Neuronal Excitability
David M. Ornitz


3:30 pm Development of Sensory Innervation in the Zebrafish Lateral Line System
Alain Ghysen


4:00 pm Coffee Break

Session 14
Chair: Alain Ghysen

4:20 pm Wiring the Cochlea: A Genetic Dissection of Spiral Ganglion Development
Lisa Goodrich


4:50 pm Specific Axon Arborization Patterns of Trpa1 Sensory Neurons in Zebrafish
Yuchin A. Pan


5:10 pm Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Whisker-to-Barrel Topographic Map Formation in the Mouse Trigeminal Brainstem
Filippo M. Rijli


5:40 pm Closing Remarks by Clare V. H. Baker
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