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Program

 

Day 1: March 4 (Mon)

Welcome Address
9:30 - 9:50
Masatoshi Takeichi (Director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
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)
10:30-11:00
S1-2
What the Hourglass tells us about Vertebrate Development and Evolution
Naoki Irie (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
11:00-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-12:00
S1-3
Origin, Evolution and Development of the Chordates (Tentative)
Billie J. Swalla (University of Washington, USA)
12:00-12:15
S1-4*
Deep Conservation of Deuterostome ‘Cranial’ Mesoderm Patterning
Stephen Green (California Institute of Technology, USA)
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)
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.
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)
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)
15:10-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:10
S2-3
Early Deuterostome Origins of the Vertebrate Developmental Program; Insights from Hemichordates
Christopher Lowe (Stanford University, USA)
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)
16:25-16:40
S2-5*
The Making of a Chordate Notochord Tube
Bo Dong (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
16:40-16:55
S2-6*
The Ancient Syntenic Roots of the Vertebrate Genomes
Manuel Irimia (University of Toronto, Canada)
16:55-17:15
Coffee Break
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)
17:45-18:25
S3-2
Conservation and Divergence of Mammalian Embryonic Pluripotency
Miguel Manzanares (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain)
18:25-18:40
S3-3*
Lactic Acid Bacteria Convert Human Fibroblasts to Multipotent Cells 
Kunimasa Ohta (Kumamoto University, Japan)
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)
19:00-21:30
Reception and Poster Session (Free discussion)

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