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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 |
Lunch and Poster Session Presenters of Odd numbered posters should be by their poster panels for discussion at 13:00-13:50. |
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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 |
Reception and Poster Session (Free discussion)
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