Starting on Friday at 1pm (sharp!) with a welcome keynote by Freeman Hrabowski, the meeting will feature two scientific keynotes and 29 talks in addition to two poster sessions. You can download the abstract book here and a posters at a glance list with presenter instructions here. The program, schedule, and location (see the meeting map) of all the events for the two-day meeting is detailed below.
Friday, May 19th |
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11:00-1:00 |
Registration |
UC Ballroom lounge |
1:00-1:45 |
Welcome Keynote, Freeman Hrabowski (UMBC) |
UC Ballroom |
1:45-2:00 |
Introductory remarks from MA-SDB organizers |
UC Ballroom |
2:00-3:30 |
Session 1: All Brain and Brawn |
UC Ballroom Chair: Maraki Negesse* |
| 1. Jessica Neville* (Dwyer lab, U Virginia): p53 deletion rescues brain size in a novel model of microcephaly | ||
| 2. Lisa Taneyhill (U Maryland): Cadherin-6B proteolytic fragments promote cranial neural crest cell EMT and delamination | ||
| 3. Bradley Davidson (Swarthmore): Mitotic coordination of membrane trafficking in Ciona intestinalis heart development | ||
| 4. Katharine Goodwin* (Nelson lab, Princeton): Smooth muscle differentiation shapes domain branches in the developing mouse lung | ||
| 5. Matthew Anderson (Lewandoski lab, NIH/NCI): FGF-Notch Interactions in Somite and Vertebral Formation | ||
3:30-4:00 |
Break |
UC Ballroom lounge and UC 310 |
4:00-5:15 |
Session 2: Developing the Next Generation |
UC Ballroom Chair: Afsoon Saadin* |
| 6. Michael Summers (UMBC): The IMSD Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program: Developing Inclusive Excellence in Doctoral STEM Training | ||
| 7. Dara Ruiz-Whalen (O’Reilly research group, Fox Chase): Immersion Science Program: Inclusion of High School Students in Novel Laboratory Research | ||
| 8. Valerie Olmo (George Mason U): The “mixed-bag”- a yearlong approach for undergraduate research | ||
| 9. Steven Farber (Carnegie Institution): Project BioEYES: K-12 Student-driven science using a live developing zebrafish | ||
5:15-5:45 |
Break |
UC Ballroom lounge and UC 310 |
5:45-6:45 |
Keynote, Nipam Patel (Berkeley) |
ITE 104 Introduction: M. Bhattacharya* |
| Evolution and Development: Insights from Emerging Model Systems | ||
6:45-8:00 |
Dinner |
UC Ballroom |
8:00-9:30 |
Session 3: At the Very Beginning |
ITE 104 Chair: Margarita Correa* |
| 10. Eyleen O’Rourke (U Virginia): The microbiota, and not its host, defines the capacity of a toxic compound to impair development and reproduction in C. elegans | ||
| 11. Tiffaney Tran** (Matunis lab, JHMI): Regulation of hub cell quiescence in the Drosophila testis stem cell niche | ||
| 12. Ruby Boateng* (Allen lab, Howard U): Novel functions for the RNA-binding protein ETR-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans reproduction and engulfment of germline apoptotic cell corpses | ||
| 13. Raghav Goyal* (Van Doren lab, Johns Hopkins U): Understanding the cis- and trans-regulation of Sex lethal in the Drosophila melanogaster germline | ||
| 14. Eric Lee (O’Reilly lab, Fox Chase): Stem cell communication regulated by hedgehog signaling in Drosophila | ||
9:30-11:00 |
Posters odd |
UC 310 and UC 312 |
Saturday, May 20th |
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8:00-9:00 |
Light breakfast |
UC Ballroom |
9:00-10:30 |
Session 4: Building Parts |
ITE 104 Chair: Jose Ortega* |
| 15. Kimberly Gallagher (U Penn): Symplastic signals regulate cellular patterning and cell fate decisions in the root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana | ||
| 16. Naden Krogan (American U): The Auxin Response Factor MONOPTEROS Controls Meristem Function and Organogenesis through Direct Regulation of PIN Genes | ||
| 17. Tapan Shah* (Rogers lab, Rutgers U): Characterization of New Bone Morphogenetic Protein (Bmp)-2 Regulatory Alleles | ||
| 18. Anna Trofka (Mackem lab, NIH/NCI): 5’Hoxd genes and Gli3 control dominance of primary limb axis polarity | ||
| 19. Mark Reibeiz (U Pittsburgh): Changes in a Hox gene and its downstream network drive microevolutionary changes in phenotype | ||
10:30-11:00 |
Break |
UC Ballroom |
11:00-12:30 |
Session 5: From Here to There |
ITE 104 Chair: Ikenna Okafor* |
| 20. Stanislav Shvartsman (Princeton U): Collective growth in a small cell network | ||
| 21. Jesus Torrez-Vazquez (NYU): Sculpture lessons: How the zebrafish forms its vessels | ||
| 22. Daniel Grimes (Burdine lab, Princeton U): Microscopic fluid flows in development and disease: cilia, polarity, and scoliosis | ||
| 23. Neil Neumann* (Ewald lab, JHMI): Coordination of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and interfacial tension dynamics drive radial intercalation and tube elongation | ||
| 24. Michelle Starz-Gaiano (UMBC): As the cells turn: emergent behaviors in collective cell migration through complex tissues | ||
12:30-2:00 |
Lunch |
UC Ballroom |
1:30-3:00 |
Posters even |
UC 310 and UC 312 |
3:00-4:00 |
Keynote, Guo-Li Ming |
ITE 104 Introduction: Jong Park* |
| Modeling human brain development and developmental diseases using hiPSCs | ||
4:00-5:30 |
Session 6: Brainstorming |
ITE 104 Chair: Sharlene Brown* |
| 25. Ann Sutherland (U Virginia): Distinct roles for Vangl proteins in regulating neural convergent extension | ||
| 26. Kaela Singleton* (Silva-Casey lab, Georgetown U): Pairing Your Sox: Cross Species Function of Sox11 in Neural Development | ||
| 27. Sudip Paudel* (Saha lab, William and Mary): Role of calcium during early neural development | ||
| 28. Hannah Edelman* (Parsons lab, JHMI): Serotonergic Signaling to the Pancreas Affects beta Cell Proliferation | ||
| 29. Marina Venero Galanternik (Weinstein lab, NIH/NICHD): A Novel Perivascular Cell Population in the Zebrafish Brain | ||
5:30-6:00 |
Awards and Closing Remarks |
ITE 104 |
Poster Presentations
There will be two poster sessions, one on each day. Session assignments (even or odd poster number) can be found in the posters at a glance list, which includes all instructions for presenters.