The
schedule for the 2008 Southeast Regional Society for
Developmental Biology meeting includes an educational
session with an education keynote address, two research keynote lectures, two poster sessions and
five platform sessions that will accommodate five 20 minute
talks by invited speakers and twenty-three 10 minute talks
chosen from submitted abstracts.
All meeting activities, including meals and entertainment,
will be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta (404-712-6000).
FRIDAY,
APRIL 11, 2008
REGISTRATION
(4:00 pm - 9:00 pm) Outside Emory Amphitheater
EDUCATION SESSION (Featuring Education Keynote) (2:30 pm - 5:00 pm) Emory Amphitheater
Bill Wood Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado
Transformation of undergraduate biology teaching at large research universities
DINNER (6 pm -7:30 pm) Restaurant
WELCOME (7:45 pm - 8:00 pm) Emory Amphitheater
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS (8:00 pm - 9:00 pm) Emory Amphitheater
Nipam Patel Integrative Biology and Molecular cell Biology University of California Berkeley
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans: Insights from Arthropods and Molluscs
POSTER SESSION I & VENDOR EXHIBITS (9:00 pm - 11:00 pm) Hickory and Mountain Laurel
SATURDAY,
APRIL 12, 2008
REGISTRATION
Outside Emory Amphitheater & BREAKFAST
(7 am - 8:30 am) Restaurant
SESSION
1: DIFFERENTIATION
(8:50 am - 10:25 am) Emory Amphitheater
9:00
am - 9:25 am Bradley Hersh, Ph.D. Clemson University
Organization and evolution of Hox-responsive cis-regulatory sequences
9:25 am - 9:40 am Belinda Sly Ph. D. Transylvania University
Putative neuropeptide genes reveal an extensive larval nervous system in the morphological simplified ectoderm of the direct-developing sea urchin, heliocidaris erthrygrama
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Lizhen Chen University of Georgia
Neofunctionalization of Hoxa3 gene in mouse
9:55
am - 10:10 am
Denise Zannino Vanderbilt University
Abducens motor neurons and oligodendrocytes share a common olig2+ origin, which potentially provides a positional cue for facial motor neuron migration
10:10
am - 10:25 am Pierre Le Pabic Ph.D. East Carolina University
Evolutionary developmental biology of teleostean pharyngeal arch specification
BREAK (10:25 am - 10:45 am)
SESSION
2: MORPHOGENESIS (10:45 am - 12:10:pm) Emory Amphitheater
10:45
am - 11:10 am
Joshua Gamse, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Building an asymmetric brain in zebrafish
11:10
am - 11:25 am
Jonah Cool
Duke University
Epithelial morphogenesis of testis cords requires endothelial migration via a novel mechanism of vascular remodeling
11:25
am - 11:40 am
Corey Williams University of Alabama
Functional redundancy of the B9 proteins and nephrocystins in c.elegans ciliogenesis
11:40
am - 11:55 am
Evan Zamir Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Time-lapse microscopy of epiblast cell sheet and sub-epiblastic ECM reveals correlated morphogenetic motion patterns during avian primitive streak formation
11:55
am - 12:10 pm Tony De Falco Ph.D. Duke University
Regulation of cell sorting by MAFB during mammalian testis morphogenesis
LUNCH Restaurant & VENDOR EXHIBITS (12:15 pm - 1:30 pm) Hickory and Mountain Laurel
SESSION
3: STEM CELLS & REPRODUCTION (1:30pm - 3:20 pm) Emory Amphitheater
1:30
pm - 1:55 pm
Judith Yanowitz, Ph.D. Carnegie
Gak-1: An autosome-specific factor required for X chromosome recombination
1:55
pm - 2:10 pm
Peggi Angel Ph.D. Emory University
The proteomics of early murine embryogenesis
2:10
pm - 2:35 pm
David Katz Ph.D. Emory University
Epigenetic Reprogramming by LSD1 contributes to germline immortality in c.elegans
2:35
pm - 2:50 pm
Carolyn Sargent Georgia Institute of Technology
Cardiomyogenic embryonic stem cell differentiation is modulated by hydrodynamic mixing conditions
2:50
pm - 3:05 pm Miriam Ratliff Emory University
The Mind bomb homolog spe-16 is required for sperm maturation and facilitates notch signaling during a cell fate decision in C. elegans.
3:05
pm - 3:20 pm Karolina Piotrowska-Nitsche Emory University
Assisted fertilization and embryonic axis formation in higher primates
POSTER
SESSION II & VENDOR EXHIBITS (3:20 pm - 5:15 pm)
Hickory and Mountain Laurel
SESSION
4 - Organogenesis (5:15 pm - 7:10pm) Emory Amphitheater
5:15
pm - 5:40 pm
Ping Chen, Ph.D.
Emory University
Planar cell polarity regulation in inner ear development
5:40
pm - 5:55 pm
Laura Barbosky Ph.D.
Duke University
Sonic hedgehog maintains progenitor proliferation within the second heart field and is essential for arterial pole formation
5:55
pm - 6:10 pm
Jean-Marie Delalande Ph.D. Emory University
A zebrafish model for Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome
6:10
pm - 6:30 pm
Nanette Nacone-Yoder Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Basolumenal endoderm intercalation: A geometrically unique execution of convergent extension during gut tube elongation
6:30
pm - 6:45 pm
Corey Snelson Vanderbilt University
TBX2B is required for the specification and migration of parapineal cells
6:45
pm - 7:10 pm Jonathan Sylvester Georgia Institute of Technology
Cichlid brain diversity develops at the boundaries
DINNER (7:10 pm - 8:30 pm) Restaurant
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS II (8:30 pm - 9:15 pm) Emory Amphitheater
Victor Corces Emory University
Insulators and nuclear organization: A role in cell differentiation?
ENTERTAINMENT (9:30 pm - ) Club Room (Conference Center Bar)
The BooHoo Ramblers
SUNDAY,
APRIL 13, 2008
BREAKFAST
(7:00 am - 9:30 am) Restaurant
SESSION
5: SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN DEVELOPMENT (9:45 am -11:30 am) Emory Amphitheater
9:45
am - 10:10 am Wolfgang Lukowitz, Ph.D. University of Georgia
The GATA factor "HANABA TARANU" is required to position the proembryo boundary in Arabidopsis
10:10
am - 10:25 am
Xiang Fan Ph.D.
University of Georgia
The Mga transcription factor is required in the extra-embryonic yolk syncytial layer to activate BMP signals during gastrulation in zebrafish
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Robert Beckstead Ph.D. University of Georgia
The genomic response to 20-hydroxyecdysone at the onset of drosophila metamorphosis
10:55 am - 11:10 am
Robert Esterberg Emory University
Tailbud-derived BMP4 drives proliferation and inhibits maturation of zebrafish chordamesoderm
11:10 am - 11:25 am Christine Larkins Emory University
Aberrant nodal expression in the lateral plate mesoderm of arl13bhnn/hnn mutant mice is not due to the function of ARL13B in cilia
11:25 am - 11:40 am Jianbo Wang Ph.D. University of Alabama
The planar cell polarity pathway mediated by the mouse dishevelled2 gene is specifically required in the secondary heart field for proper outflow tract morphogenesis
LUNCH
& AWARDS (11:40am- 1pm) Restaurant