Itinerary:
Monday, May 2
8:30 AM Opening Remarks
Michael Layden and Erin Davies, meeting co-organizers
Michelle Starz-Gaiano, Mid-Atlantic SDB Representative
Session 1: Developmental signaling across scale and systems
Moderators: Michael Boylan (NCI), Katharine Goodwin (Princeton University)
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM
Sarah Siegrist (UVA)
Time is Up! Regulation of neurogenesis during development
9:05 – 9:20 AM
Timothy Hufford (UMBC)
Metabolic Adaptation Through the Lens of the Anoxic Transcriptional Signature
9:20 – 9:35 AM
Mallika Bhattacharya (UMBC)
Steroid hormone signaling regulates protrusive activity and cell-cell adhesion
to time collective cell migration
9:35 – 9:50 AM
Jaeho Yoon (NCI)
The WERDS protein complex regulates apical constriction
9:50 – 10:05 AM
Nathan Lord (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) - VIRTUAL
Co-receptor expression shapes the pattern of Nodal morphogen signaling
10:05 – 10:20 AM Break
Session 2: Potency regulation, cell cycle control, and regeneration
Moderators: Kayla Titialii-Torres (NCI), Devin Shennard (Lehigh University)
10:20 – 10:45 AM
Timothy Dubuc (Swarthmore College)
Germ cell induction of the non-bilaterian stem cell model, Hydractinia.
10:45 – 11:00 AM
Akshay Patel (University of Maryland College Park)
Cytonemes are required to generate and maintain asymmetric signaling and cellular
organization in the Drosophila muscle progenitor niche
11:00 – 11:15 AM
Brian Stevens and Clover Stubbert (NCI)
Embryonic establishment of lifelong regenerative abilities in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
11:15 – 11:30 AM
Jia Song (University of Delaware)
Post-transcriptional regulation during mitosis
11:30 – 11:45 AM
Adriana Alexander (NIEHS) - VIRTUAL
Sex-specific regulatory networks prime primordial germ cell fate commitment
11:45 -12:30 PM Lunch break
Session 3: Stem cell biology and disease modeling in developmental systems
Moderators: Xiaofei Bai (NIDDK), Govind Kunduri (NCI)
12:30 – 12:55 PM
Nykia Walker (UMBC)
The Awakening of Dormant Breast Cancer Cells by Mesenchymal Stem Cell Stimulation
12:55 – 1:10 PM
Tunde Berecz (NIDCR)
Induced pluripotent stem cell-based modeling of neural crest defects in DiGeorge syndrome
1:10 – 1:25 PM
Kerry Larkin (NIDDK)
copa-1 mutants experience heightened endoplasmic reticulum stress sensitivity in a C. elegans COPA Syndrome model
1:25 – 1:40 PM
Katarzyna Hussey (Johns Hopkins University)
Foveolar cone subtype patterning in human retinal organoids
1:40 – 1:55 PM
Megan Ezeude (NICHD) - VIRTUAL
Dissecting the roles of Rock1 and Rock2 in zebrafish vascular integrity and development
1:55- 2:05 PM Break
2:05 – 3:00 PM
Education Session: Elena Hernandez-Ramon (NIH OITE) - VIRTUAL
Successful strategies for managing mentor-mentee relationships
3:00 – 3:20 PM
Anna Allen (Howard University)
Updates from the Developmental Systems Cluster at NSF
3:30 – 6:30 PM
Poster Session (in-person only)
Odd number presentations: 3:30 - 4:30, 5:30 - 6:00
Even number presentations: 4:30 - 5:30, 6:00 - 6:30
Tuesday, May 3
Session 4: Epigenetic regulation and gene regulatory networks in development
Moderators: Kalin Konrad (University of Delaware), Isaac Skromne (University of Richmond)
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM
Mark Zander (Rutgers University)
Transcription factor-mediated epigenome reprogramming in plant stress responses
8:55 – 9:10 AM
Miranda Marvel (NICHD)
Analyzing the roles of Kdm4ab as a novel epigenetic regulator of arterial specification and development in zebrafish
9:10 – 9:25 AM
Austen Barnett (DeSalle University)
Where Did Eye Go? Exploring the Developmental Basis of Eye Loss in the Eyeless Arachnid, Archegozetes longisetosus
9:25 – 9:40 AM
Katharine Goodwin (Princeton University)
An evolutionary toolbox for sculpting the vertebrate airways
9:40 – 9:55 AM
Dina Navon (Rutgers University) - VIRTUAL
Quantifying phenotypic plasticity in response to diet with zebrafish
9:55 – 10:10 AM Break
Session 5: Neural patterning, development, and behavior
Moderators: Marina Venero Galanternik (NICHD), Carolyn Remsburg (University of Delaware)
10:10 – 10:35 AM
Andrew Gordus (Johns Hopkins University)
Untangling the web of behaviors used in spider orb-weaving
10:35 – 10:50 AM
Jessica Sidisky (Lehigh University)
Genome-Wide analysis reveals novel regulators of synaptic maintenance
10:50 – 11:05 AM
Isaac Skromne (University of Richmond)
A signaling switch in zebrafish underlies the induction and maintenance of the spinal cord specification and patterning regulatory gene cdx4
11:05 – 11:20 AM
Dylan Faltine-Gonzalez (Lehigh University)
Bilaterian brain patterning mechanisms predate evolution of the bilaterian brain
11:20 – 11:35 AM
Christopher Arnold (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
The Hox gene Post2b controls organismal size in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
11:35 – 11:50 PM Break
11:50 – 12:45 PM
Keynote Address: Coleen Murphy (Princeton University)
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of learned pathogen avoidance
12:45 – 1:00 PM Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks
Please email the organizers Michael Layden (layden@lehigh.edu) or Erin Davies (erin.davies@nih.gov) with questions.