Meeting Program

44^th ANNUAL MIDWEST DEVELOPENTAL BIOLOGY MEETING

AND SINGER SYMPOSIUM 2004

SATURDAY, JUNE 5^th

6:00-7:30p.m. Registration Lobby

7:30-7:45p.m. Welcome

Paul Trainor - Stowers Institute

7:45-8:45p.m. Plenary Presentation I Auditorium

Professor Sam Pfaff - Salk Institute

Genetic regulation of spinal motor neuron development

8:30-9:00p.m. Assistant Professor Kenro Kusumi - University of Pennsylvania

Functional genomic studies of notch signaling in somitogenesis

9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception Gallery-Level B1

SUNDAY, JUNE 6^th

8:00-9:00a.m. Registration Lobby

9:00-10:00a.m.            Plenary Presentation II Auditorium

Assistant Professor Sean Morrison - University of Michigan

The regulation of stem cell self-renewal.

10:00-10:30a.m.  Xi He BMP signaling inhibits intestinal stem cell self-renewal by antagonizing Wnt signaling

 Jeremy Traas Extra-embryonic stem cells from umbilical cord matrix are primitive Oct-4 expressing
                                                  cells capable of multipotential differentiation and repair

10:30-11:00a.m. Break

11:00-12:30p.m. Session I- Gene Regulation Auditorium

Vicky Prince Zebrafish Hox function: From gene to behavior

Gary Vanderlaan Zebrafish you-too mutations reveal differential requirements
                                                                        for Hedgehog effector Gli2 in hindbrain rhombomeres

Stefan Tumpel Conserved mechanisms regulating Hoxa2 expression in
the vertebrate hindbrain

Xiahui Wang Motif Viewer: a web tool for identification of conserved
regulatory elements by comparative genome analysis

Isaac Skromne Global analysis of Hox regulation by Cdx4 in zebrafish

12:30-2:00p.m. Lunch and Posters Session I Gallery-Level B1

1:30-2:30p.m. Education Session

Judith Heady How can ‘I’ support my students’ learning in the
                                    complex and extensive field of Developmental Biology?

Ida Chow Wise career choices

2:00-3:30p.m. Session II - Morphogenesis and development Auditorium

Kevin Campbell Dystroglycan and congenital muscular: new insights into
brain development

Jason Meyer The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of autosomal
                                    necessively inherited neurodegenerative disorders affecting the entire central nervous system

Jennifer Kasemeier Dynamic analysis reveals neural crest cell dynamics during
                                    DRG and SG formation

Afaq Shakir Functional Redundancy of CED-10 and MIG-2 RACs with
                                    UNC-34 enabled in C. elegans

Rachel E. Karcavich Xenopus brain and spinal cord culture a source for
neuronal stem (precursor) cells

4:00-4:30p.m. Break

4:30-6:00p.m. Session III - Cell signaling Auditorium

Mannie Liscum When gradients rule: plant phototropism and its
                                    dependence on gradients of signal perception, morphogens, gene expression,
                                    and cell elongation

Angelo Iulianella Cux2 is an integrator of BMP signaling and proliferation
control

Tadahiro Iimura A two-step mechanism is involved in the collinear
positioning of Hox gene boundaries along the vertebrate embryonic axis

Stacey Huppert What is the basis for the dominant-negative character of
a Notch1 processing deficient allele?

Younghua Pan Roles of Notch signaling in the AER of developing
mouse limb bud

7:30-11:30p.m. Conference Dinner Banquet & Reception

Madrid Theatre

3810 Main Street, Kansas City, MO

Three course meal including wine, beer and pop.

Entertainment provided by “The Swinging Axes”

MONDAY, JUNE 7^TH

9:00-10:00a.m.            Singer Symposium Lecture Auditorium

Professor Kathryn Anderson - Sloan Kettering Institute.

The cell biology of Sonic hedgehog signaling

10:00-10:30a.m. Professor Charles Little - Kansas University Medical Centre

Computational time-lapse imaging approaches to biological pattern formation.

10:30-11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m.-12:30p.m. Session IV- Organogenesis Auditorium

Simon Conway Genetic approaches to understanding Periostin function
during heart morphogenesis

Hanying Chen The role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) in
regulating cardiac growth at midgestation

Susan Kiefer Expression of a truncated Sall transcriptional repressor
is responsible for Townes-Brocks syndrome birth defects

Melinda Mackereth Zebrafish pax8 is required for otic placode induction and
plays a redundant role with pax2 genes in the maintenance of the otic placode

Nadira Ahmed Regulation of cell polarity during the establishment of
left-right asymmetry in the zebrafish

12:30-2:00p.m. Lunch Posters Session II Gallery-Level B1

2:00-3:30p.m. Session V - Cell fate specification Auditorium

Susan Abmayr Cell surface and intracellular events that mediate
myoblast fusion in Drosophila

                                  Ruth Entwistle Intracellular interactors of kirre, a protein required for
muscle fusion

Theresa Zucchero A variant in interferon regulatory factor 6(IRF6)
associated with isolated cleft lip and palate may result in alternative splicing

Natalie Jones Characterising the mouse model of Treacher Collins
syndrome

Sara Ahlgren Regulation of Zic gene expression in the dorsal neural
tube

3:30-4:00p.m. Break

4:00-5:30p.m. Session VI – Pattern Formation Auditorium

Rebecca Hays Regulation of cell death in Drosophila retinal patterning

Claudia Garcia Conditional targeting of FGF receptors reveals the role
            of FGF signaling in lens development

Veronica Cantemir Membrane type 1 and 2 matrix metalloproteinases expression during
                                                                        stages of neurulation and neural crest cell formation in chicken embryos

Wensheng Li Controlling the level of the germline RNA helicase
    GLH-1 by KGB-1 is essential for meiotic progression and fertility

Inna Hughes Otolith agenesis and ectopic mineralization in the inner
           ear of Otopetrin1 deficient zebrafish

Evening Reception/Poster Session III Gallery-Level B1

TUESDAY, JUNE 8^TH

9:00-10:00a.m.            Plenary Presentation 3 Auditorium

Professor Raphael Kopan- Washington University

Notch signaling in Drosophila

10:00-10:30a.m. Xin Sun Genetics interactions between Fgfs and Shh in vertebrate
limb development

Leonard Dobens Cell fate boundary establishment during Drosophila
eggshell patterning

10:30a.m.-12:00p.m. Session VII- Neural Development Auditorium

Ben Novitch Regulatory circuits controlling the differentiation of
motor neuron progenitors

Kristin Kroll Neural cell fate determination upstream and downstream
of geminin

Ashley Bruce Regulation of early cell movements by the maternally
expressed zebrafish T-box gene, eomesodermin

Robert Cornell Touchtone regulates melanophore survival in zebrafish
embryos

12:00-12:15p.m. Selection of 2005/2006 Meeting Venue

Awards, Close of Meeting, Bon Voyage