Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology Symposium From Embryology to Disease Mechanisms

In Honor of Patrick Tam FRS
“60 Years & Still Gastrulating”

Date:
November 26–27, 2012
Venue:
HK Academy of Medicine
Enquiry:
Ms Irene Poon
Tel: +852-28199240
email: biochem@hku.hk
 
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Programme Schedule

Day 1: November 26, 2012

8:00 – 8:45
Registration
8:45 – 9:00
Opening
9:00 – 10:10
Session 1a - Gastrulation (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Kat Hadjantonakis
    (Title: Guts and gastrulation: cellular dynamics and the morphogenesis of the early mouse embryo)
  • Jamie Rivera
    (Title: Wnt signaling, mammalian gastrulation and vertebrate evolutionary implications)
10:10 – 10:40
Tea Break
10:40 – 11:50
Session 1b - Gastrulation (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Claudio Stern
    (Title: From cells to embryo and back again)
  • Hiroshi Hamada
    (Title: The origin of body axes in the mouse embryo)
11:50 – 12:00
Selected Poster Presentation (2 presentations; 8 min presenation plus 2 min Q&A each)
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch / Poster
14:00 – 16:20
Session 2a – Progenitor & Stem Cells & Cell Fate (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Andras Nagy
    (Title: Jailbreaking cell fate)
  • Hiroshi Sasaki
    (Title: Mechanisms of trophectoderm fate specification in preimplantation mouse embryos)
  • Marilyn Renfree
    (Title: The early marsupial blastocyst)
  • Andrea Streit
    (Title: Specification of sensory progenitors: towards a gene regulatory network)
16:20 – 16:50
Tea Break
16:50 – 19:10
Session 2b – Progenitor & Stem Cells & Cell Fate (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Robin Lovell-Badge
    (Title: The control of neural stem cell fate)
  • Shinichi Nishikawa
    (Title: Development of hematopoietic cells)
  • Richard Harvey
    (Title: Probing the cardiac gene regulatory network)
  • Janet Rossant
    (Title: Making a blastocyst- stem cells and signaling pathways)
17:10 – 19:30
Selected Poster Presentation (2 presentations; 8 min presenation plus 2 min Q&A each)

Day 2: November 27, 2012

8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:45
Session 3a – Organogenesis (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Carol Wicking
    (Title: Using mouse models to understand human ciliopathies)
  • Hisato Kondoh
    (Title: Region-specific mechanisms of neural plate development)
  • Phil Soriano
    (Title: Growth factor control of craniofacial development)
10:45 – 11:15
Tea Break
11:15 – 13:00
Session 3b – Organogenesis (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Peter Koopman
    (Title: Revisiting the Byskov & McLaren theories of germ cell sex determination)
  • Seong-Seng Tan
    (Title: The role of protein ubiquitination by the Nedd4 system in brain development and disease)
  • Richard Behringer
    (Title: Development, homeostasis and regeneration of female reproductive organs)
13:00 – 13:20
Selected Poster Presentation (2 presentations; 8 min presenation plus 2 min Q&A each)
13:20 – 15:00
Lunch / Poster
15:00 – 17:20
Session 4 – Development & Diseases (30 min presentation plus 5 min Q&A each)

  • Heiko Lickert
    (Title: Cilia in development & disease)
  • Kathryn Cheah
    (Title: Mechanistic insights into skeletal and inner ear defects in campomelic dysplasia)
  • Paul Trainor
    (Title: Specific craniofacial development and disease effects arising from disruptions in global processes)
  • Sally Dunwoodie
    (Title: A mechanism for gene-environment interaction in the etiology of vertebral defects)
17:20 – 17:40
Selected Poster Presentation (2 presentations; 8 min presenation plus 2 min Q&A each)
17:40 – 18:10
Tea Break
18:10 – 19:10
Plenary Lecture
Patrick Tam
(Title: Intersection of transcriptional and signaling activity in lineage differentiation and tissue morphogenesis)
19:10 – 19:20
Closing