Program
Highlights
A
meeting timeline can be found on the
'Meeting Schedule'
page.
All
meeting activities, including meals and entertainment, will
be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta
(404-712-6000).
EDUCATION SESSION KEYNOTE
Bill Wood Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado
Transformation of undergraduate biology teaching at large research universities
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS I
Nipam Patel
Integrative Biology and Molecular Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans: Insights from Arthropods and Molluscs
Victor Corces Biology, Emory University
Insulators and nuclear organization: A role in cell differentiation?
SESSION TOPICS & PLATFORM TALKS
Session 1: Differentiation
Bradley Hersh Biological Sciences, Clemson University
Organization and evolution of Hox-responsive cis-regulatory sequences
Session 2: Signaling Pathways in Development
Wolfgang Lukowitz Plant Biology, University of Georgia
The GATA factor "HANABA TARANU" is required to position the proembryo boundary in Arabidopsis
Session 3: Morphogenesis
Joshua Gamse Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Building an asymmetric brain in zebrafish
Session 4: Organogenesis
Ping Chen Cell Biology, Emory University
Planar cell polarity regulation in inner ear development
Session 5: Stem Cells and Reproduction
Judith Yanowitz Embryology, Carnegie Institution
Gak-1: An autosome-specific factor required for X chromosome recombination
POSTER SESSIONS & COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS
There will be two poster sessions featuring presentations from submitted abstracts.
Commercial exhibits will feature representatives from Aquatic Habitats, Hunt Optix, Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss, VWR, and Beckman.