The
schedule for the 2008 Southeast Regional Society for
Developmental Biology meeting includes an educational
session with an education keynote address, two research keynote lectures, two poster sessions and
five platform sessions that will accommodate five 20 minute
talks by invited speakers and twenty-three 10 minute talks
chosen from submitted abstracts.
All meeting activities, including meals and entertainment,
will be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta (404-712-6000).
FRIDAY,
APRIL 11, 2008
REGISTRATION
(2:30 pm - 6:00 pm)
EDUCATION SESSION (including Education Keynote) (2:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
Bill Wood Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado
Transformation of undergraduate biology teaching at large research universities
DINNER (6 pm -7:30 pm)
WELCOME (7:45 pm - 8:00 pm)
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS (8:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Nipam Patel Integrative Biology and Molecular cell Biology University of California Berkeley
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans: Insights from Arthropods and Molluscs
POSTER SESSION I & VENDOR EXHIBITS(9:00 pm - 11:00 pm)
SATURDAY,
APRIL 12, 2008
REGISTRATION
& BREAKFAST
(8 am - 8:30 am)
SESSION
1: DIFFERENTIATION
(8:50 am - 10:25 am)
9:00
am - 9:25 am Bradley Hersh, Ph.D. Clemson University
Organization and evolution of Hox-responsive cis-regulatory sequences
9:25 am - 9:40 am
TBA
TBA
9:40 am - 9:55 am
TBA
TBA
9:55
am - 10:10 am
TBA
TBA
10:10
am - 10:25 am TBA
TBA
BREAK (10:25 am - 10:45 am)
SESSION
2: SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN DEVELOPMENT(10:45 am - 12:10:pm)
10:45
am - 11:10 am
Wolfgang Lukowitz, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
The GATA factor "HANABA TARANU" is required to position the proembryo boundary in Arabidopsis
11:10
am - 11:25 am
TBA
TBA
11:25
am - 11:40 am
TBA
TBA
11:40
am - 11:55 am
TBA
TBA
11:55
am - 12:10 pm TBA
TBA
LUNCH & VENDOR EXHIBITS (12:15 pm - 1:30 pm)
SESSION
3: Morphogenesis (1:30pm - 3:20 pm)
1:30
pm - 1:55 pm
Joshua Gamse, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Building an asymmetric brain in zebrafish
1:55
pm - 2:10 pm
TBA
TBA
2:10
pm - 2:35 pm
TBA
TBA
2:35
pm - 2:50 pm
TBA
TBA
2:50
pm - 3:05 pm TBA
TBA
3:05
pm - 3:20 pm TBA
TBA
POSTER
SESSION II & VENDOR EXHIBITS (3:20 pm - 5:15 pm)
SESSION
4 - Organogenesis (5:15 pm - 7:10pm)
5:15
pm - 5:40 pm
Ping Chen, Ph.D.
Emory University
Planar cell polarity regulation in inner ear development
5:40
pm - 5:55 pm
TBA
TBA
5:55
pm - 6:10 pm
TBA
TBA
6:10
pm - 6:30 pm
TBA
TBA
6:30
pm - 6:45 pm
TBA
TBA
6:45
pm - 7:10 pm TBA
TBA
DINNER (7:10 pm - 9:30 pm)
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS II (8:30 pm - 9:15 pm)
Victor Corces Emory University
Insulators and nuclear organization: A role in cell differentiation?
ENTERTAINMENT (9:30 pm - )
The BooHoo Ramblers
SUNDAY,
APRIL 13, 2008
BREAKFAST
(9:00 am - 9:30 am)
SESSION
5: STEM CELLS & REPRODUCTION (9:45 am -11:30 am)
9:45
am - 10:10 am Judith Yanowitz, Ph.D. Carnegie
Gak-1: An autosome-specific factor required for X chromosome recombination
10:10
am - 10:25 am
TBA
TBA
10:25 am - 10:40 am
TBA
TBA
10:55 am - 11:10 am
TBA
TBA
11:10 am - 11:25 am TBA
TBA
11:25 am - 11:40 am TBA
TBA
LUNCH
& AWARDS (11:40am- 1pm)