- Monday, March 28, 2016 (Day 1)
- Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (Day 2)
- Wednesday, March 30 2016 (Day 3)

*Selected Talks

Monday, March 28, 2016 (Day 1)

 Registration

9:00 - 9:50
In front of the Auditorium, 1st floor of CDB Building C

 Welcoming Address

9:50 - 10:00

RIKEN President, Hiroshi Matsumoto

 Session 1: Organ Size and Shape Control 1

Chair: Shinji Takada

10:00 - 10:30
S1-1
Coordination of directional outgrowth and patterning by Wnt5a and Fgf signaling interaction

Yingzi Yang (National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA)

10:30 - 11:00
S1-2
Regulation of muscle cell size

Mary Baylies (Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)

11:00 - 11:20
S1-3*
Coordinated regulation of long bone growth through the integration of intrinsic and extrinsic cues

Alberto Rosello-Diez (Sloan Kettering Institute, USA)

11:20 - 11:50
Coffee Break

 Session 1 (continued): Organ Size and Shape Control 2

Chair: Shinji Takada

11:50 - 12:20
S1-4
Genetic and physical mechanisms behind tube geometry and size control

Shigeo Hayashi (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

12:20 - 12:50
S1-5
Mammalian tracheal tubulogenesis

Mitsuru Morimoto (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

12:50 - 13:10
S1-6*
Sculpting organ shape by extracellular matrix stiffening

Justin Crest (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

 Lunch

13:10 - 14:00

 Poster Session 1

14:00 - 15:30
14:00 - 14:45 Presenters of Odd-numbered Posters
14:45 - 15:30 Presenters of Even-numbered posters

 Session 1: Organ Size and Shape Control 3

Chair: Shoen Kume

15:30 - 16:00
S1-7
Self-organized formation of complex tissues from stem cells

Mototsugu Eiraku (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

16:00 - 16:30
S1-8
Human pluripotent stem cell-derived tissues as new models to study development and disease of the digestive tract

James Wells (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, USA)

16:30 - 17:00
S1-9
Morphogenetic mechanisms regulating jaw size evolution

Richard A. Schneider (University of California at San Francisco, USA)

17:00 - 17:20
Coffee Break

 Session 2: Growth Control 1

Chair: Shoen Kume

17:20 - 17:50
S2-1
Role of Hippo signaling and its regulation in preimplantation mouse embryos

Hiroshi Sasaki (Osaka University, Japan)

17:50 - 18:10
S2-2*
A molecular basis of mammalian cell size control

Kazuo Yamamoto (Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan)

18:10 - 18:40
S2-3
Role of YAP/TAZ in cancer: Hippo signaling and beyond

Stefano Piccolo (University of Padua Medical School, Italy)

 Reception at CDB Salon

18:40 - 20:40


Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (Day 2)

 Session 2: (continued): Growth Conrol 2

Chair: Yu-Chiun Wang

9:30 - 10:00
S2-4
YAP is essential for tissue tension to ensure vertebrate 3D body shape

Makoto Furutani-Seiki (University of Bath, UK)

10:00 - 10:30
S2-5
The Hippo pathway in organ growth control and regeneration

Georg Halder (VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, and KU Leuven Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Belgium)

10:30 - 10:50
S2-6*
Differential modification defines discrete nano-scale clusters of heparan sulfate and coordinates gradient formation and signal reception of Wnt in Xenopus embryo

Yusuke Mii (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break

 Session 2 (continued): Growth Control 3

Chair: Yu-Chiun Wang

11:20 - 11:50
S2-7
Genetic regulation of developmental and regenerative growth

Iswar K. Hariharan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

11:50 - 12:20
S2-8
A Novel Link between Hippo and Toll Receptor Signaling

Duojia Pan (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)

12:20 - 12:40
S2-9*
Shaping and scaling mechanisms in facial chondrocranium during mouse embryonic development

Igor Adameyko (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

 Lunch

12:40 - 13:30

 Poster Session 2

13:30 - 15:30
13:30 - 14:30 Presenters of posters with category "A"
14:30 - 15:30 Presenters of posters with category "B"

 Session 3: Scaling and Morphogenetic Control 1

Chair: Tatsuo Shibata

15:30 - 16:00
S3-1
Scaling of dorsal-ventral patterning by embryo size

Hidehiko Inomata (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

16:00 - 16:20
S3-2*
The planarian Dugesia japonica as a new model animal to understand molecular mechanisms underlying stable body proportioning

Kazutaka Hosoda (Kyoto University, Japan)

16:20 - 16:40
S3-3*
Coordination of progenitor specification and growth in the developing spinal cord

Anna Kicheva (IST Austria, Austria)

16:40 - 17:00
Coffee Break

 Session 3 (continued): Scaling and Morphogenetic Control 2

Chair: Tatsuo Shibata

17:00 - 17:30
S3-4
Investigating size control mechanisms using Xenopus

Rebecca Heald (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

17:30 - 17:50
S3-5*
Large cytoplasmic size is linked to the error-prone nature of oocytes

Hirohisa Kyogoku (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

17:50 - 18:10
S3-6*
Multidimensional allometry of the Drosophila embryonic hindgut

Timothy E. Saunders (Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

 Invited speakers go to dinner

18:10 - 20:40


Wednesday, March 30, 2016 (Day 3)

 Session 3 (continued): Scaling and Morphogenetic Control 3

Chair: Shigehiro Kuraku

9:30 - 10:00
S3-7
Oscillating signaling pathways during mouse embryo development and segment scaling

Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

10:00 - 10:20
S3-8*
Somite scaling - wave vs gradient-

Kana Ishimatsu (Harvard Medical School, USA)

10:20 - 10:50
S3-9
Immune regulation of regeneration

Nadia Rosenthal (The Jackson Laboratory, USA and Imperial College London, UK)

10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break

 Session 4: Allometry in Evolution 1

Chair: Shigehiro Kuraku

11:20 - 11:50
S4-1
What ants teach us about mechanisms of size, growth, and allometry during development and evolution

Ehab Abouheif (McGill University, Canada)

11:50 - 12:10
S4-2*
Evolutionary and developmental underpinnings of insect polyphenisms

Toru Miura (Hokkaido University, Japan)

12:10 - 12:30
S4-3*
A genetic signature of flightlessness evolution in the Galapagos Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) revealed by predictive genomics

Alejandro Burga (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

 Lunch and Poster Session 3

12:30 - 13:30
Free discussion, all posters

 Session 4: Allometry in Evolution 2

Chair: Shigeru Kuratani

13:30 - 14:00
S4-4
Morphological evolution by switching cell division orientation in plants

Mitsuyasu Hasebe (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

14:00 - 14:30
S4-5
Fishing for the secrets of evolutionary change in vertebrates

David Kingsley (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, USA)

14:30 - 15:00
S4-6
Genetic mapping of complex traits in the domestic dog illuminates the sources of phenotypic variation

Elaine Ostrander (National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA)

 Closing Remarks

Stefano Piccolo (University of Padua Medical School, Italy)