Nordic Developmental Biology Societies & Michael Sars Symposium Joint Meeting
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Program
16.05.2024
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Melanie Burford
Tuesday, May 28 - Joint lecture
| 17:00 | Registration opens | |
| 17:45 | Welcome | UiB Rector Margareth Hagen, Prof. Fabian Rentzsch, and Michael Sars Centre Director Lionel Christiaen |
| 18:15 | Keynote lecture by Michael Levine | Ciona Neural Crest and Drosophila Meta- loops |
| 19:15-20-30 | Reception |
Wednesday, May 29 - Michael Sars Symposium
| 08:30 | Registration opens | |
| 9:10 | Session opening, welcome | |
Session 1: Neurophysiology | Chair: Noah Bruderer | |
| 9:15 | Sylvie Rétaux | Developmental evolution of the eye in blind Mexican cavefish: a matter of regulation |
| 9:45 | Shona Wood | Effects of photoperiod on early-life developmental trajectory in Siberian hamsters |
| 10:15 | Jon Vidar Helvik | Nonvisual photoreception, the link between light environment and biological processes, in Atlantic salmon a species with life history transitions programmed to seasonal changes. |
| 10:45 | Coffee break | |
Session 2: Evo-devo of organ systems | Chair: Max Pekouankouang | |
| 11:30 | Cristian Cañestro | When LESS is MORE: gene loss and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as an evolutionary knockout model in EvoDevo. |
| 12:00 | David Parichy | Endocrine regulation of vertebrate pigment and skin appendage patterns |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
Session 3: Growth & stem cells | Chair: Anna Ferraioli | |
| 14:00 | Celina Juliano | Mechanisms of Regeneration and Development in Hydra |
| 14:30 | Kathrin Garschall | The cellular basis of balancing growth and food supply in a sea anemone |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
Session 4: Neuroscience & motility | Chair: Ruth Styfhals | |
| 15:45 | Lora Sweeney | Defining tetrapod motor circuits across frog metamorphosis and vertebrate evolution |
| 16:15 | Kirsty Wan | Motility control in aneural organisms |
| 16:45 | Robert Prevedel | Advanced optical methods to study marine organisms |
| 17:15-17-30 | Closing notes |
Thursday, May 30 - Nordic Societies Meeting
| Title | ||
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 9:00 | Pekka Katajisto | Metabolic cell fate regulation through selective segregation of organelles |
| 9:30 | Virginia Panara | Deciphering the chromatin landscape and regulatory logic behind lymphatic endothelial cells using a multi-omic approach |
| 9:45 | Enikő Lázár | Spatial Dynamics of the Developing Human Heart |
| 10:00 | Emma Andersson | Mapping embryonic development with in utero next generation single cell lineage tracing |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:00 | Claudio Franco | Endothelial cell heterogeneity and vascular plasticity in health and disease |
| 11:30 | Satu Kuure | Cellular determinants of ureteric bud branching morphogenesis |
| 11:45 | Andreas F. Mathisen | The landscape of islet maturation and ageing is regulated by a signalling loop between Hnf1a and the immune system |
| 12:00 | Anne Grapin-Botton | Formation of complex ductal networks in the pancreas and pancreas organoids |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 14:00 | Sophie Petropoulos | The Guinea Pig: A New Model for Human Preimplantation Development |
| 14:30 | Anna Nordin | The Transcription Factor Binding Landscape of Mouse Development |
| 14:45 | Madeleine Linneberg-Agerholm | Regulative development in the preimplantation embryo: A role for OCT4 in plasticity maintenance in the mouse primitive endoderm |
| 15:00 | Darío Lupiañez | Evolution of 3D chromatin organization in metazoan species |
| 15:30 | Poster Flash talks | |
| 15:45 | Poster session & refreshments | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 18:00 | Huazhen Wang | The PR factor Hamlet controls heterotypic epithelial tissue assembly in the Drosophila reproductive system |
| 18:15 | Margherita Zamboni | On astrocytes and neural stem cells: a study of reactive and canonical neurogenesis |
| 18:30 | Andrea Brand - EMBO Keynote Lecture | Time to get up: Awakening stem cells in the brain |
| 19:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner and poster awards |
Friday, May 31 - Nordic Societies Meeting
| Title | ||
| Session 5 | ||
| 9:00 | Maximina Yun | Forever young? Axolotl insights into negligible senescence |
| 9:30 | Ditte Andersen | Pvf1-PvR-mediated crosstalk between the trachea and the gut guides intestinal stem cell migration to promote gut regeneration |
| 9:45 | Eudald Pascual | Nutritional control of stem cell cycle dynamics of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis |
| 10:00 | Maximilian Fuerthauer | A novel function of an unconventional type 1 Myosin in zebrafish left-right asymmetry |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 6 | ||
| 11:00 | Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi | The multifaceted roles of cilia in brain development |
| 11:30 | Chiara Casteletti | Systems eco-devo: towards using high-content image-based morphometrics to quantify the impacts of changing temperatures on developmental dynamics at single cell resolution |
| 11:45 | Gabriela Poliacikova | The Hox protein Antennapedia orchestrates Drosophila adult flight muscle development |
| 12:00 | Anna Kicheva | Interpretation of morphogen signaling in the developing spinal cord |
| 12:30 | Closing remarks |