Program. 

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Friday December 9

 

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM                Reception

 

Dinner on your own              

 

Saturday December 10

 

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM               Chris Lowe: Regional and morphological homology in hemichordate evodevo. 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM             Kuni Tagawa: P. flava work for the past quatery-century 

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM           Dan Rohksar : TBA

 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM           Break

 

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM           Elena Silva : Induction and maintenance of neural progenitors

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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM           Sebastien Darras: The role of Wnt in establishing the A/P axis in S. kowalevskii. 

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM           Yann Le Petillon: Involvement of Wnt and BMP signaling pathways in apical plate patterning. 

 

12.30 – 1.30                         Lunch

 

01.30 PM – 1.50 PM              Jens Fritzenwanker: Untangling posterior growth and segmentation; axis elongation in hemichordates

01.50 PM – 2.10 PM              Jessica Gray: Establishing Saccoglossus kowalevskii as a model for miRNA evolution in development

02.10 PM – 2.40 PM              Ryan Range: Evolution of Anterior-Posterior Axis Specification and Patterning: Insights from the Ambulacrarians

02.40 PM – 4.45 PM              Poster Session and break.

04.45 PM – 5.30 PM              Nori Satoh. Hemichordates: a key animal group to understand deuterostome evolution and chordate origins. 

                                               

Dinner on your own.

 

Sunday December 11

 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM             Marc Kirschner: TBA

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM           Paul Gonzalez:The Adult Body Plan of Indirect Developing Hemichordates Develops by Adding a Hox-

                                            Patterned Trunk to an Anterior Larval Territory

10:20 AM – 10.50 AM          Break

 

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM           Ken Halanych: Phylogeny and evolution of Hemichordata

11:20 AM – 11.40 PM           Joie Cannon: Molecular perspective on biodiversity of Hemichordata

11.40 AM – 12.10 PM           Hiroshi Wada: What is the acorn worm pygochord? 

 

12.10  - 1.10 pm                     Lunch

 

1.10 PM – 1.30 PM               Michael Tassia: Hemichordates inform the evolution of deuterostome Toll-like receptor pathways

1:30 PM – 1.50 PM               Stephen Green: Deep conservation of a deuterostome gene regulatory circuit controlling ‘cranial’ mesoderm

                                             development. 

1.50 PM – 2.20 PM               Billie Swalla: Getting A Head with Hemichordate Regeneration

 2.20 PM – 2.50 PM              Chris Cameron: An ambulation through Ambulacrarian evolution:Echinoderm ossicles and pterobranch tubes are  

                                                                       enteropneust innovations. 

2.50 PM – 3.20 PM              Break. 

 

3.20 PM – 3.50 PM               Yi-Hsien Su: Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms Patterning Ambulacrarian Body Plans. 

3.50 PM – 4.35 PM               John Gerhart - Keynote: Does Saccoglossus have a vertebrate organizer?

4.35 PM – 5.30 PM               Roundtable Discussion

 

6.00 PM - 9:00 PM                Banquet

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