Conference Program

13th International Xenopus Conference Program (example)

Sunday, September 12, 2010
12:00 - 16:00 Check-in/Registration (Alpine Gallery, Mt. Temple Wing)
16:00 - 18:00 Welcome Reception (Lakeview Terrace)
18:00 - 20:00 DINNER (Victoria)
20:00 - 21:00 Keynote Lecture (Mt. Temple AB)
Nancy Papalopulu (University of Manchester, UK)
Studying the development of the (neuro)-ectoderm from blastula to metamorphosis
21:00 - 21:59 MIXER (Heritage Hall)
Sponsored by Nasco
Monday, September 13, 2010
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST (Victoria)
Session 1 Early Development 1 - Chair: Andrew Chalmers (Mt. Temple AB)
8:45 - 9:00 Herbert Steinbeisser (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Regulation of Rho-signaling during Xenopus gastrulation
9:00 - 9:15 Mary Dasso (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Regulation and Function of Xenopus laevis SUMO Proteases
9:15 - 9:30 Jin-Kwan Han (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
March2 regulates the Wnt signaling pathways by targeting Dishevelled for proteasomal degradation
9:30 - 9:45 Gert Veenstra (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Ontogeny of histone modifications
9:45 - 10:00 Susannah Rankin (Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA)
Analysis of cohesion establishment using Xenopus egg extracts
10:00 - 10:15 Esther Pearl (Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Canada)
RFX6: novel neonatal diabetes candidate gene
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
Session 2 Organogenesis 1 - Chair: Yumi Izutsu (Mt. Temple AB)
10:45 - 11:00 Tom Drysdale (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Patterning the Xenopus lateral plate mesoderm
11:00 - 11:15 Branko Latinkic (Cardiff University, UK)
Molecular dissection of cardiogenic activities of GATA4
11:15 - 11:30 Michael Kühl (Ulm University, Germany)
Wnt signaling during cardiac development in Xenopus laevis
11:30 - 11:45 Michael Zuber (Upstate Medical University Syracuse, USA)
An inducible, reversible model of retinal degeneration in Xenopus laevis
11:45 - 12:00 Kris Vleminckx (VIB-Ghent University, Belgium)
Wnt signaling and caspase activation during primitive blood formation
12:00 - 12:15 Aldo Ciau-Uitz (University of Oxford, UK)
Genetic regulatory networks programming haematopoietic stem cell emergence
12:15 - 12:30 Kathryn Moore (University of Utah, USA)
Sbt1 is required downstream of proneural bHLH factors for neurogenesis in the Xenopus retina
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH (Victoria)
Roundtable lunch discussion - "Moving from postdoc to PI"
A discussion for Postdoctoral fellows looking for a job Brian Mitchell, Ann Miller, Mustafa Khokha, and Karen Liu
Session 3 Early Development 2 - Chair: Igor Dawid (Mt. Temple AB)
14:00 - 14:15 Matt Guille (University of Portsmouth, UK)
A-form DNA structure based promoter elements – identification and analysis in the Xenopus genome
14:15 - 14:30 Joseph Gall (Carnegie Institution, USA)
Nuclear bodies in the Xenopus oocyte nucleus
14:30 - 14:45 Jean Gautier (Columbia University, USA)
Non-productive resection of DNA double-strand breaks in M-phase
14:45 - 15:00 Todd Stukenburg (University of Virginia, USA)
Gradients of Aurora B dependent phosphoactivity pattern intracellular space to define the cytokinetic furrow
15:00 - 15:15 Andrew Chalmers (University of Bath, UK)
RASSF7 regulates the microtubule cytoskeleton during mitosis
15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
Session 4 Early Development 3 - Chair: Brian Mitchell (Mt. Temple AB)
15:45 - 16:00 Ray Keller (University of Virginia, USA)
Dynamic regulation of the axis of mediolateral intercalation behavior (MIB) by anterior-posterior positional identity
16:00 - 16:15 Xi He (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Regulation of Wnt signaling and Wnt morphogen
16:15 - 16:30 Anna Philpott (University of Cambridge, UK)
Controlling the balance between proliferation and differentiation during neurogenesis
16:30 - 16:45 Makoto Mochii (University of Hyogo, Japan)
Developmental change of motility in primordial germ cells
16:45 - 17:00 Jing Yang (Ohio State University, USA)
A genome-wide screen for potential regulators of the maternal-to-zygotic transition
17:00 - 17:15 Kristen Kroll (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Geminin cooperates with Polycomb to restrain multi-lineage commitment in the early embryo
17:15 - 17:30 Laurent Kodjabachian (CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée, France)
Control of vertebrate multiciliogenesis by miR-449 through repression of the Notch ligand Delta-like 1
17:30 - 17:45 Gerald Thomsen (Stony Brook University, USA)
A large GTPase in body patterning and TGF-beta signaling
18:00 - 20:00 DINNER (Victoria)
20:00 - 20:35 Long talk #1 – Naoto Ueno (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
Tissue-tissue interaction-triggered mechanical stress in the regulation of early embryogenesis
20:35 - 21:05 Long talk #2 – Christof Niehrs (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
Regulation of Wnt/LRP6 signalling during early development
21:10 - 23:00 POSTER SESSION #1 (Pipestone/Larch Lounge)
Sponsored by Multichannel Systems
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST (Victoria)
Session 5 Early Development 4 - Chair: Yixian Zheng (Mt. Temple AB)
8:45 - 9:00 Rudy Winklbauer (University of Toronto, Canada)
Tissue separation at the ectoderm-mesoderm boundary in the Xenopus gastrula
9:00 - 9:15 Brian Mitchell (Northwestern University, USA)
The role of cytoskeletal dynamics in orienting motile cilia
9:15 - 9:30 Mary Lou King (University of Miami, USA)
Germline nanos is translationally repressed in oocytes by a novel RNA structure based mechanism
9:30 - 9:45 John Gurdon (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK)
Linker histone replacement during nuclear reprogramming
9:45 - 10:00 Christine Field (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Spatial organizing principles of early embryos recapitulated in Xenopus egg extract
10:00 - 10:15 Joanne Harding (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK)
Genome-wide sequencing of small RNAs in Xenopus tropicalis reveals novel regulators of early development
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
10:45 - 11:00 Xenbase Update Jeff Bowes
11:00 - 11:15 Xenopus Resource Center Rob Grainger and Matt Guille
11:15 - 11:30 Xenopus Genome Resources at NCBI Terry Murphy
Session 6 Regeneration - Chair: Makoto Asashima (Mt. Temple AB)
11:30 - 11:45 Caroline Beck (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Identification of genes and pathways involved in cornea to lens transdifferentiation
11:45 - 12:00 Kelly McLaughlin (Tufts University, USA)
Mechanisms of Pronephric Restoration Following Injury
12:00 - 12:15 Jonathan Slack (Stem Cell Institute, USA)
Regeneration competence of Xenopus limb cells
12:15 - 12:30 Mike Levin (Tufts University, USA)
Endogenous bioelectric signals as regulators of pattern in development, regeneration, and neoplasm
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH (Victoria)
FREE AFTERNOON
14:00 - 15:00 Transgenic Workshop (Mt Temple AB)
Dan Weeks, Matt Guille, Daniel Bucholz, Mustafa Khokha and Kris Vleminckx
18:00 - 20:00 DINNER (Victoria)
20:00 - 20:35 Long talk #3 – Richard Harland (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
The Xenopus genome and alternative splicing
20:35 - 21:05 Long talk #4 – Carole Labonne (Northwestern University, USA)
Transcriptional regulation of the neural crest gene regulatory network
21:10 - 23:00 POSTER SESSION #2 (Pipestone/Larch Lounge)
Sponsored by Aquaneering
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST (Victoria)
Session 7 Early Development 5 - Chair: Mary Dasso (Mt. Temple AB)
8:45 - 9:00 Aryeh Warmflash (The Rockefeller University, USA)
Dynamics of TGF-beta signaling during early Xenopus development
9:00 - 9:15 Masanori Taira (University of Tokyo, Japan)
ChIP-sequence analysis of the Spemann-Mangold organizer
9:15 - 9:30 Mike Jones (Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore)
Nodal and Activin: Similar Activities That Induce Distinct Target Genes in Xenopus Blastulae and Gastrulae
9:30 - 9:45 John Wallingford (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
The PCP effector Fritz acts via septins to control convergent extension and ciliogenesis
9:45 - 10:00 Ralph Rupp (Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Germany)
Stage-specific Histone Modification Profiles Reveal Developmental Maturation of the Xenopus Embryonic Epigenome
10:00 - 10:15 Nanette Nascone-Yoder (North Carolina State University, USA)
Heterotaxin: a novel TGF-beta signaling inhibitor identified in a multi- phenotype profiling screen in Xenopus embryos
10:15 - 10:30 Malcolm Whitman (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Studying lineage specific histone methylation in the early embryo
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
Session 8 Organogenesis 2 - Chair: Orson Moritz (Mt. Temple AB)
11:00 - 11:15 Hollis Cline (Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Building Brain Circuits: In vivo imaging of the developing visual system
11:15 - 11:30 Yumi Izutsu (Niigata University, Japan)
A role of the immune system in the tadpole tail degeneration during Xenopus metamorphosis
11:30 - 11:45 Grant Wheeler (University of East Anglia, UK)
Small molecule screens in Xenopus identify inhibitors of pigment cell development, neural crest development and melanoma growth
11:45 - 12:00 Elizabeth Jones (Warwick University, UK)
Bioactive lipids play an important role in vertebrate kidney development
12:00 - 12:15 Ken Cho (University of California Irvine, USA)
An evolutionarily conserved mechanism mediated by Schnurri zinc finger transcription factors in mediating BMP responsiveness
12:15 - 12:30 Karel Dorey (University of Manchester, UK)
Regulation of axonal branching during Xenopus development
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH (Victoria)
Roundtable lunch discussion: "Developing a lab and tenure portfolio"
A discussion for young PIs John Wallingford, Anna Philpott, Carole Labonne
Session 9 Early Development 6 - Chair: Sally Kornbluth (Mt. Temple AB)
14:00 - 14:15 Hironori Funakabi (The Rockefeller University, USA)
Opposing Chromatin-Induced Signals That Coordinate Mitosis in Xenopus Egg Extracts
14:15 - 14:30 Bill Bement (University of Wisconsin, USA)
A candidate screen identifies a dual GEF-GAP as a novel regulator of Rho GTPase cross talk
14:30 - 14:45 Yixian Zheng (Carnegie Institution, USA)
From mitotic spindle to Spindle Matrix, A Journey from Cell Division to Development
14:45 - 15:00 Doris Wedlich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Prohibitin1 sorts foxD3/snail2/Twist from snail1/AP-2 by repressing the transcription factor E2F1
15:00 - 15:15 Jeremy GreenM (Kings College London, UK)
PAR-1 controls neurogenesis, asymmetrical cell divisions, spindle orientation and tissue thickness
15:15 - 15:30 Jacob Souopgui (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
The RNA-binding protein XSeb4R is a positive regulator of Sox3 translation during primary ectoderm formation in Xenopus
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
Session 10 Organogenesis 3 - Chair: Gerald Thomsen (Mt. Temple AB)
16:00 - 16:15 Marko Horb (Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Canada)
BrunoL1 regulates endoderm proliferation through translational enhancement of cyclin A2 mRNA
16:15 - 16:30 Yun-Bo Shi (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Molecular and genetic studies of histone-modifying complexes in thyroid hormone action during Xenopus development
16:30 - 16:45 Aaron Zorn (University of Cincinnati, USA)
BMP signaling dynamics in foregut organ development
16:45 - 17:00 Frank Conlon (University of North Carolina, USA)
CASTOR functions to control vascular integrity through the direct transcriptional regulation of Egfl7 and miR-126
17:00 - 17:15 Odile Bronchain (Institut de Neurobiologie A. Fessard, France)
Thyroid hormone receptor beta activity during early embryogenesis affects cranial neural crest cells formation
17:15 - 17:30 Orson Moritz (University of British Columbia, Canada)
The role of rhodopsin stability in light-exacerbated retinal degeneration - insight from transgenic X. laevis models
17:30 - 18:00 Special retrospective talk - Donald Brown (Carnegie Institution, USA)
Some biological features of metamorphosis in Xenopus laevis
18:00 - 21:00 BANQUET DINNER (Victoria)
Sponsored by IRCM and Aqua Schwartz
21:00 - 1:00 BANQUET DINNER (Victoria)
Band: Burning the Ground
Thursday, September 16, 2010
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST (Victoria)
Session 11 Early Development 7 - Chair: Elizabeth Jones (Mt. Temple AB)
8:45 - 9:00 Sarah Woolner (University of Manchester, UK)
A novel dimension of mitotic spindle positioning requires a dynamic balance between actin and microtubule forces
9:00 - 9:15 Edgar Pera (Lund University, Sweden)
Integration of Hedgehog and Wnt signalling by the dual regulator Suppressor-of-Fused in early neural development
9:15 - 9:30 Julie Baker (Stanford University, USA)
Nodal Signaling network identifies TCF HLH proteins as co-factors
9:30 - 9:45 Johné Liu (Ottawa Hospital research institute, Canada)
Function of Aurora B in vertebrate oocyte meiosis
9:45 - 10:00 Anne-Hélène Monsoro-Burq (Centre Universitaire, France)
Initiating the neural crest gene regulatory network
10:00 - 10:15 Sally Kornbluth (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)
Reconstitution of links between metabolism and apoptosis in Xenopus egg extracts
10:15 - 10:30 Sang-Wook Cha (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Oocyte polarity and the patterning of zygotic gene expression are regulated by maternal PCP genes
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (Heritage Hall)
Session 12 Tropicalis - Chair: Mustafa Khokha (Mt. Temple AB)
11:00 - 11:15 Rob Grainger (University of Virginia, USA)
Mechanisms leading to determination of the embryonic eye
11:15 - 11:30 Derek Stemple (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
High-throughput sequencing for Mutation discovery in Xenopus tropicalis
11:30 - 11:45 Betsy Pownall (University of York, UK)
Sonic hedgehog mediated patterning of the ventral neural tube requires the heparan sulphate modifying enzyme XtSulf1
11:45 - 12:00 Mustafa Khokha (Yale University, USA)
Advances in Xenopus genetics: mutants that affect cardiac development
12:00 - 12:15 Lyle Zimmerman (National Institute for Medical Research, UK)
cyd vicious and regulation of transcriptional elongation
12:15 - 12:30 Takuya Nakayama (University of Virginia, USA)
A novel mutant, no privacy, in Xenopus tropicalis: a potential tool for study of organogenesis.
13:00 - 15:00 LUNCH (Victoria)
13:00 - 15:00 Xenopus Resource Development PI's Meeing