10:00 a.m.:
Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Molecular Embryologu, The Rockefeller University, Welcome Remarks
10:05 a.m.:
Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., professor of biology and bioengineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Sense, Antisense and Nonsense
10:30 a.m.:
Mustafa Khoka, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and genetics, Yale University, What Richard Taught Me about Wnt Signaling, and How I'd Like to Return the Favor
10:45 a.m.:
Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D., scientific director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Hox Targets: Finding Your Friends
11:15 a.m.:
John Wallingford, Ph.D., professor, University of Texas, Austin, Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension: What We Got Right and What We Got Wrong
11:30 a.m.:
Dale Frank, Ph.D., technion, Israel University of Technology, Signaling Pathway/Transcription Factor Interactions Regulating Early Cell Fate Decisions in the Developing Nervous System
11:45 a.m.:
Karen Liu, Ph.D., professor, King's College London, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Cranial Crest
1:15 p.m.:
Francesca Mariani, Ph.D., assistant professor, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Heal Thyself! From Stem Cells to Cartilage and Bone
1:30 p.m.:
Aris Economides, Ph.D., executive director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, What Does Noggin Got to Do with Fibrodysplasia Ossifican Progressiva?
2:00 p.m.:
Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Self Understanding of Self Organization: It's all Richard's Fault
2:25 p.m.:
Marc Dionne, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Imperial College in London, How I learned to stop worrying and love metabolism and immunity.
3:10 p.m.:
Benjamin Martin, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, Stony Brook University, Combinatorial Signaling Interactions Pattern Mesoderm by Controlling bHLH Transcription Factor Activity
3:25 p.m.:
Anne-Helene Burq, Ph.D., professor, Institut Curie, Paris, Uncovering unconventional functions of a metabolic regulator in frog early development
3:50 p.m.:
Michael Levine, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, Princeton University, Repression, Memory, and Suboptimization of Gene Activity in Animal Development
4:10 p.m.:
Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Concluding Remarks
4:10 p.m.:
Richard Harland, Ph.D., department co-chair and C.H. Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley, Concluding Remarks