Schedule

9:00-9:30   Registration and Continental Breakfast, Hiebert Lounge, 14th floor

9:30-9:35   Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Talk Session I

  9:35-10:05 Invited Speaker: Summer Thyme

10:05-10:20 Brent Hawkins "Mutant models reveal ancestral developmental potential in the vertebrate skeleton"

10:20-10:35 Eric Surette "Shh in the embryonic fin fold determines regional proliferation rates, imprinting adult caudal fin shape"

 10:35-11:00   Break

Talks Session II

11:00-11:30 Invited Speaker: Len Zon

11:30-11:45 Ellie Meader "Bnip3lb-associated mitophagy regulates ROS-mediated depletion of the embryonic hematopoietic stem cell pool"

11:45-12:00 Zewde Ingram "Dissecting the functional requirement of the fetal blood stem cell niche using a novel zebrafish model”

12:00-12:05 Sponsor Talk: TECNIPLAST

12:05-12:45 Lunch

12:45-1:00 Community Meeting

Talks Session III

1:00-1:30 Invited Speaker: MengMeng Huang

1:30-1:45 Ji Cheng "From Transcriptome to Projectome: Defining the Habenulo-Interpeduncular Nucleus Map"

1:45-2:00 Ray Poirier "The Study of dmrt1 in Zebrafish and How it Impacts Sex Determination"

 2:00-2:15   Break

Talks Session IV

2:15-2:30 Stephanie Tsai "Elucidating injury-site specific regenerative programs to rebuild the tendon"

2:30-2:45 Chinyere Kemet "Chemokine-induced immunosuppression and disease aggression in neuroblastoma" 

2:45-3:00 Juanma Gonzalez-Rosa "Genetic modifiers of myocardial regeneration and fibrosis in zebrafish"

 Posters and Reception

3:00-3:45 Posters, Odd numbers

3:45-4:30 Posters, Even numbers

4:30-5:00 Awards Ceremony