Sunday, February 17Lecture hall C1 | ||
| Registration opens | |
| 16:00 | Opening remarks by Uli Technau | |
| 16:10 | Developmental Cell biology (Chair Peleg Hasson) | |
| 16:10 | Benjamin Podbilewicz Evolution of developmental cell fusion | |
| 16:35 | Jiri Friml | |
| 17:00 | Felix Gunawan Uncovering the development and maturation of vertebrate heart valves at single cell resolution | |
| 17:15 | Tom Schultheiss A novel hedgehog-regulated molecular module that shapes epithelial cell and tissue morphogenesis to position the ventral embryonic midline | |
| 17:30 | coffee break | |
| 18:00 | Frank Schnorrer Measuring molecular tension at developing muscle attachment sites | |
| 18:25 | Dorothee Bornhorst Intra-organ communication within the developing zebrafish heart involves mechanical coupling of myocardium and endocardium | |
| 18:40 | Alina Kolpakova The two mitofusin genes are functionally interchangeable, but both are required for the full fusion of the Drosophila spermatid mitochondria | |
| 18:55 | keynote: Benny Shilo (Chair David Sprinzak) Dynamics of morphogen shuttling in the Drosophila embryo | |
| 19:45 | Welcome reception | |
Monday, February 18Lecture hall C1 | ||
| 09:00 - 11:50 | Neural Development (Chair Thomas Hummel) | |
| 09:00 | Keynote: Andrea Brand Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain | |
| 09:35 | Christian Klämbt Development of the Drosophila blood-brain barrier | |
| 10:00 | Anna Kicheva Coordination of progenitor specification and growth in the developing spinal cord | |
| 10:25 | Wolfgang Driever Dynamic control of stemness and neurogenesis in neural proliferation zones of the larval zebrafish brain | |
| 10:40 | coffee break | |
| 11:10 | Dalit Sela-Donenfeld Hindbrain Boundaries- New Sites of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells During Embryonic Development | |
| 11:25 | Chaya Kalcheim The dynamics of dorsal neural tube development: from Neural Crest to definitive Roof Plate. | |
| 11:50 | Stem cells, organoids and disease (chair: Lazaro Centanin) | |
| 11:50 | Jürgen Knoblich Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture | |
| 12:15 | Prisca Liberali Self-organization and symmetry breaking in intestinal organoid development | |
| 12:40 | Erika Tsingos Taking turns: Quiescent and active stem cells coexist in homeostatic growth of the retinal pigment epithelium of medaka | |
| 12:55 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | Single Cell approaches (Chair Elly Tanaka) Lecture hall C1 | Biophysics of development (Chair Patrick Müller) Lecture hall C2 |
| 14:30 | Barbara Treutlein Dissecting human and chimpanzee cerebral organoids using single-cell transcriptomics | Naama Barkai Designing a robust biological timer |
| 14:55 | Naomi Habib From single cells to landscapes of brain regeneration and degeneration | Stephan Grill Integrin-mediated attachment of the blastoderm to the vitelline envelope impacts gastrulation in Tribolium castaneum |
| 15:20 | Omri Wurtzel A foxF regulatory program specifies planarian muscle formation revealed by single cell analysis | Albert Thommen Physiological basis of metabolic rate scaling in planarian flatworms |
| 15:35 | Alison Cole Development and Homeostasis in a sea anemone: a multi-faceted approach to characterize Cnidarian stem cells | Adi Salzberg Alteration in ECM composition affects sensory organ mechanics and function |
| 15:50 | coffee break | |
| 16:20 | Poster Session I (even numbers) around the big lecture hall | New techniques Session (Chair Alexander Klimovich) Lecture hall C2 |
| 16:20 | Florian Raible A combined, versatile depigmentation and Clearing method (DEEP-C) for studying animal nervous Systems across scales | |
| 16:30 | Wouter Masselnik Broad applicability of a streamlined Ethyl Cinnamate-based clearing prodedure | |
| 16:40 | Tinatini Tavhelidse Efficient single-copy HDR by 5' modified Long dsDNA donors | |
| 16:50 | ||
| 18:30 | IsSDB prize talk Howard Cedar (chair: Chaya Kalcheim) DNA methylation and uneding process of development) | |
| 19:15 | dinner on your own / invited speakers dinner | |
Tuesday, February 19Lecture hall C1 | ||
| Genomic approaches to development (Chair Oleg Simakov) | ||
| 09:00 | Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski New insights into the causes of egg aneuploidy at advanced maternal age | |
| 09:25 | Enrico Coen Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis | |
| 09:50 | Stephan Mundlos 3D chromatin conformation of Pitx1 locus defines forelimb vs hind limb identiy | |
| 10:15 | Anna Kögler Light-controlled perturbation of transcription factor function during embryogenesis | |
| 10:30 | Michael Borg Paternal resetting of H3K27me3-silenced states primes early plant development | |
| 10:45 | coffee break | |
| 11:15 | Regeneration (Chair: Monika Hassel) | |
| 11:15 | Kerstin Bartscherer Regeneration initiation – from planarians to African spiny mice | |
| 11:40 | Eldad Tzahor Signaling Mechanisms in Heart Regeneration | |
| 12:05 | Christian Lange Thyroid hormone signaling controls adult brain regeneration in zebrafish | |
| 12:20 | Prayag Murawala Single-cell analysis uncovers convergence of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration | |
| 12:35 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Society Meeting GfE | |
| 14:15 | PhD GfE Prize Award | |
| 14:30 | Polarity and axis formation (Chair Urs Schmidt-Ott) Lecture hall C1 | Germline / early cleavages (Chair Tamar Lotan) Lecture hall C2 |
| 14:30 | Elisabeth Knust Crosstalk between the Drosophila Crumbs polarity complex and the apical cytocortex orchestrates epithelial polarity | Hila Toledano Draper isoforms in cyst cells regulate phagocytosis and aging of germ cell debris |
| 14:55 | Marja Timmermans Pattern formation by mobile morphogen-like small RNA signals | Maria Torres Padilla Epigenetic mechanisms in early mammalian development: impact of heterochromatin dynamics |
| 15:20 | Gregor Bucher Double abdomen in a short germ insect: Zygotic control of axis formation revealed in the beetle Tribolium castaneum | Roland Dosch Functional Equivalence of the Zebrafish Germ Plasm Organizer Bucky ball with the Unrelated Drosophila Oskar |
| 15:45 | Jörg Grosshans The emergence of the subapical domain depends on polarization of cortical actin | Andrea Pauli Bouncer and SPACA4 - small proteins with big roles |
| 16:00 | coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Poster session II (odd numbers) area around the big lecture hall | |
| 18:30 | GfE Klaus Sander Prize talk Herbert Jäckle (chair Uli Technau) From Gradients to desease, from fly to man | |
| 19:15 | Conference Dinner at the City Hall | |
Wednesday, February 20Lecture hall C1 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | Organogenesis (chair: Andrea Vortkamp) | |
| 09:00 | Keynote: Olivier Pourquié Deconstructing the human segmentation clock in vitro | |
| 09:35 | Ruth Ashery-Padan Investigating the transitions from multipotent precursors to stably differentiated cell types of the eye | |
| 10:00 | Miltos Tsiantis The genetic basis for diversification of leaf form: from understanding to reconstructing | |
| 10:25 | Wiebke Herzog Wnt7ß-catenin signaling regulates VE-cadherin-mediated anastomosis of brain capillaries by counteracting S1pr1 signaling | |
| 10:40 | coffee break | |
| 11:10 | EvoDevo and emerging models (Chair Smadar Ben Tabou de Leon) | |
| 11:10 | Kai Rathje Bacteria interactions cause tumorigenesis in Hydra | |
| 11:25 | Stefan Schulte-Merker Different ways to make a spine - notochord sheath cells, but not the sclerotome, drive axial spine metamerisation in zebrafish | |
| 11:40 | Matt Gibson Functional interrogation of an axial Hox code in the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis | |
| 12:05 | Sabine Zachgo Marchantia polymorpha: Insight into land plant evolution form a liverwort perspective | |
| 12:30 | Poster Prize and concluding remarks | |
| 13:00 | End of Meeting. Do not Forget your posters! | |