Meeting Schedule

Friday, April 5th

1:00-1:10 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Sarah McMenamin and Marcos Simoes-Costa

1:10-1:20 Jeremy Nance, Northeast SDB Representative

Session I: Developmental Networks and Gene Regulation 1:20-4:25

Chair: Paolo Forni, University at Albany

1:20-1:40 Daniel Cifuentes, Assistant Professor, Boston University

miR-144/451 cluster: the Trojan horse of hematopoietic microRNAs

1:40-1:55 Adam Carte, Graduate Student, Harvard University

The role of positive feedback in Nodal signaling propagation

1:55-2:10 Arish Shah, Graduate Student, MIT

Establishing the function of specialized ribosomes during the maternal-zygotic transition

2:10-2:25 Alison Ramirez, Graduate Student, Harvard University

Re-establishment of the anterior-posterior axis during regeneration in the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia

2:25-2:45 Eftychia Apostolou, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell

Role of Transcription factors in 3D genomic reorganization during cell fate transitions

2:45-3:10 Coffee Break

Chair: Rhea Datta, Hamilton College

3:10-3:30 Scott Holley, Professor, Yale University

Balancing neural tube convergence and bilateral symmetry via inter-tissue adhesion

3:30-3:45 Sruti Patoori, Graduate Student, The City College of New York

Cis-regulatory control of Onecut1 in a fate-restricted retinal progenitor population

3:45-4:00 Megan Rothstein, Graduate Student, Cornell University

A Tfap2-mediated molecular switch for neural crest induction and specification

4:00-4:25 Fast Track Talks: Christian Cammarota, Scott Freeburg, Xuan He, Yinan Hu, Alexandra Magee and Fjodor Merkuri.

Education Session

4:25-5:10 Justin Harris, Program Manager, Hall of Human Life at Museum of Science

Designing activities for public engagement with science

5:10-5:30 Coffee Break

Keynote Address

5:30-6:30 Elaine Fuchs, Professor, HHMI, Rockefeller University

Stem Cells in Birth, Silence, Action and Stress

Dinner: 6:30-7:30

Poster Session I and Mixer: 8:00-10:00

Saturday, April 6th

Breakfast: 7:00-8:30

Session II: Differentiation and Morphogenesis 9:00-11:55

Chair: Mara Schvarzstein, Brooklyn College

9:00-9:20 B. Duygu Özpolat, Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory

Embryonic origins and cell cycling behavior of annelid stem cells

9:20-9:35 Emma Weir, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Effects of Lbh protein degradation on early embryonic development using Trim-Away

9:35-9:50 Olga Kashpur, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts Medical Center

Determining signaling pathways that control human and murine early placental vascular development

9:50-10:10 Alison DeLong, Associate Professor, Brown University

A Most Ingenious Paradox: Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulation of Ethylene Production

10:10-10:40 Coffee Break

Chair: Dominique Alfandari, University of Massachusetts Amherst

10:40-11:00 Katerina Ragkousi, Assistant Professor, Amherst College

Growth and order in sea anemone embryos

11:00-11:15 Evan Bardot, Graduate student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

NOTCH and WNT signaling interact in the cardiac mesoderm during mammalian heart development

11:15-11:35 Eszter Posfai, Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Expanding the fluorescent reporter toolkit in mouse using a novel CRISPR-mediated genome editing method

11:35-11:55 Jesse Mager, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Large Scale Analysis of Essential Genes Reveals Specific Constraints During Early Mammalian Development

Lunch: 12:00-1:30

Session III: Evolution of Developmental Systems 1:30-4:20

Chair: Jerry Thomsen, Stony Brook University

1:30-1:50 James Hanken, Professor, Harvard University

Developmental basis and consequences of a key innovation in lungless salamanders

1:50-2:05 Tyler Huycke, Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School

Genetic and mechanical regulation of intestinal smooth muscle development

2:05-2:20 Keith Sabin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory

AP-1^cFos/JunB/miR-200a regulates the pro-regenerative glial cell response to spinal cord injury in axolotl

2:20-2:40 Madelaine Bartlett, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Architecture Matters: Plant EvoDevo for Fun and Profit

2:40-3:00 Coffee Break

Chair: Jason Pellettieri, Keene State College

3:00-3:20 Mark Siegal, Associate Professor, New York University

Do phenotype buffers exist?

3:20-3:35 Rebecca Adikes, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stony Brook University

Cell cycle and cytoskeleton regulation of cell migration and differentiation of C. elegans sex myoblasts and zebrafish paraxial mesoderm

3:35-3:55 Celina Juliano, Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Stem cell differentiation trajectories in Hydra resolved at single cell resolution

3:55-4:20 Fast track talks: Catherine May, Emmanuela Oppong, Naoyuki Ota, Alexandra Scalici, Ed Zandro Taroc and Burcu Vitrinel

Historical Retrospective Talk

4:20-4:50 Jane Maienschein, Professor, Arizona State University/MBL

130 Years of Developmental Research at MBL

4:50-5:15 Coffee Break

Keynote Address

5:15-6:15 Cassandra Extavour, Professor, Harvard University

Can we use egg morphology to predict nuclear behavior during early insect development?

Dinner: 6:30-7:30

Poster Session II and Mixer: 8:00-10:00

Graveyard Tour of MBL: 10:00. Meet at Swope Hall

Sunday, April 7th

Breakfast: 7:00-8:30

Session IV: Organogenesis 9:00-11:15

Chair: William Anderson, Harvard University

9:00-9:20 Kristen Koenig, Fellow, Harvard University

The Development of the Cephalopod Lens and the Evolution of Visual System Complexity

9:20-9:35 Jennifer Lin, Graduate Student, University at Albany

Lack of Tfap2e (AP-2e) causes ambiguous neuronal identity and leads to ectopic innervation and activation in the accessory olfactory system.

9:35-9:50 Sylvain Bertho, Postdoctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Zebrafish dazl regulates cystogenesis upstream of the meiotic transition and independent of meiotic checkpoint regulators

9:50-10:10 Alicia Ebert, Associate Professor, University of Vermont

Mechanisms of Semaphorin6A/PlexinA2 signaling in zebrafish nervous system development

10:10-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:00 Philippe Soriano, Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Fgf signaling pathways in development

11:00-11:15 Rebecca Soto, Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School

Investigating the role of ezh1 in developmental hematopoiesis

Business Meeting: 11:15-11:30

Student and Postdoc Presentation Awards: 11:30-11:45

Boxed Lunch and departure: 12:00-1:30