Program

Sunday, July 16th

Rosenthal Pavilion

6:00pm - 8:00pm
WELCOME RECEPTION
Monday, July 17th

Rosenthal Pavilion

8:15am - 9am
BREAKFAST
9:00am - 9:15am Opening remarks - Anna Di Gregorio and Lionel Christiaen
9:15am - 10:55am
Session 1 - Beginning of Embryogenesis

Chair: Hiroki Nishida

9:15am - 9:40am
#1 Silvia Caballero-Mancebo (IST Austria).

Actin driven ooplasmic segregation in ascidian oocytes

9:40am - 10:05am
#2 Benoit Godard (IST Austria).

Cleavage plane positioning in early ascidian embryos

10:05am - 10:30am
#3 Rémi Dumollard (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, CNRS).

Apical cell shape drives the invariant cleavage pattern of early ascidian embryos and relies on intrinsic and extrinsic cell deformations

10:30am - 10:55am
#4 Ute Rothbächer (University of Innsbruck).

Repression through Wnt signaling effectors

10:55am - 11:15am
COFFEE BREAK
11:15am - 12:30pm
Session 2 - Developmental Cell Biology

Chair: Michael Veeman

11:15am - 11:40am
#5 Takefumi Negishi (Tohoku University).

Membrane invagination mediated posterior ciliary positioning is involved in the neurula rotation in Ciona intestinalis

11:40am - 12:05pm
#6 Christina Cota (Swarthmore College).

Mitotic progression choreographs FGF receptor redistribution during differential heart progenitor induction

12:05pm - 12:30pm
#7 Yelena Bernadskaya (New York University).

Dual function of the collagen receptor DDR in specifying cell identity and regulating cell adhesion during cardiopharyngeal precursor migration

12:30pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH BREAK (optional lunch box offered).
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Session 3 - From Development to Genomics

Chair: Patrick Lemaire

2:00pm - 2:25pm
#8 Michael Veeman (Kansas State University).

Shaping the ascidian notochord

2:25pm - 2:50pm
#9 Robert Zeller (San Diego State Univeristy).

Genome and transcriptome assemblies for two Ascidia species

2:50pm - 3:15pm
#10 Megan Wilson (University of Otago).

Tunicate evolution: Insights from recently sequenced genomes

3:15pm - 3:45pm
GROUP PHOTO (Rosenthal Pavilion or Washington Square Park)
3:45pm - 4:05pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:05pm - 5:20pm
Session 4 - Allorecognition and Immunity

Chair: Tony De Tomaso

4:05pm - 4:30pm
#11 Marie Nydam (Centre College).

Balancing selection on allorecognition genes in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

4:30pm - 4:55pm
#12 Loriano Ballarin (University of Padova).

Amyloid and allorecognition in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

4:55pm - 5:20pm
#13 Ayelet Voskoboynik (Stanford University).

BHF mediates induction and loss of tolerance in Botryllus schlosseri chimeras

Dinner on your own
Tuesday, July 18th

Rosenthal Pavilion

8:15am - 9:15am
BREAKFAST
9:15am - 10:30am
Session 5 - Nervous System Development and Anatomy

Chair: Ian Meinertzhagen

9:15am - 9:40am
#14 Kerrianne Ryan (Dalhousie University).

Interpreting the connectome of a Ciona intestinalis (L.) larva

9:40am - 10:05am
#15 Alberto Stolfi (NYU/Georgia Institute of Technology).

A conserved RNA switch for Acetylcholine receptor clustering at the neuromuscular junction

10:05am - 10:30am
#16 Kouhei Oonuma (Konan University).

The cell lineage and the patterns of cell division for photoreceptor cells of the left right asymmetric ocelli in the Ciona intestinalis larva

10:30am - 10:50am
COFFEE BREAK
10:50am - 12:40pm
Session 6 - Development and Evolution of the Nervous System

Chair: Takehiro Kusakabe

10:50am - 11:15am
#17 Adeline Rausch (Bioemergences - CNRS).

Putative neural crest-like cells in Tunicates, behavior, identity and fate of A10.64

11:15am - 11:40pm
#18 Takeo Horie (University of Tsukuba/Princeton University).

Neural crest and cranial placodes share a common evolutionary origin

11:40am - 12:40pm
KEYNOTE: Marianne Bronner (California Institute of Technology)

Evolutionary origin of vertebrate enteric neurons
Chair: Lionel Christiaen

12:40pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH BREAK (optional lunch box offered).
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Session 7 - Gene regulation

Chair: Kenneth Hastings

2:00pm - 2:25pm
#19 Wei Wang (New York University).

A single cell transcriptional roadmap for cardiopharyngeal fate diversification

2:25pm - 2:50pm
#20 Claudia Racioppi (New York University).

Chromatin accessibility underlying cardiac vs. pharyngeal muscle specification in Ciona

2:50pm - 3:15pm
#21 Emma Farley (UC San Diego).

Regulatory grammar governing enhancer specificity

3:15pm - 3:35pm
COFFEE BREAK
3:35pm - 5:15pm
Session 8 - Imaging Ascidian Development

Chair: Nadine Peyriéras

3:35pm - 4:00pm
#22 Ulla-Maj Fiuza (EMBL).

A Nodal and Ephrin signalling relay drives
the transition between apical constriction and apico-basal shortening during ascidian endoderm invagination

4:00pm - 4:25pm
#23 Ed Munro (University of Chicago).

Spatiotemporal control of actomyosin contractility during zippering and neural tube closure in a simple chordate

4:25pm - 4:50pm
#24 Taichi Akahoshi (Keio University).

Comprehensive characterization of Ca2+ transients in early Ascidian development

4:50pm - 5:15pm
#25 Emmanuel Faure (CNRS)

4D Clouds Embryos

5:15pm - 7:15pm
POSTER SESSION 1

All sessions, odd numbers

Dinner on your own
Wednesday, July 19th

Rosenthal Pavilion

9:30am - 11:30am
Session: career panel discussion
EXCURSION
Thursday, July 20th

Rosenthal Pavilion

8:15am - 9:15am
BREAKFAST
9:15am - 10:30am
Session 9 - Systematics and Evolution (1)

Chair: Billie Swalla

9:15am - 9:40am
#26 Billie Swalla (Washington University).

Molgulid tales

9:40am - 10:05am
#27 Cristian Cañestro (University of Barcelona).

Gains N’ Losses during the evolution of RA and Wnt developmental pathways in Oikopleura dioica and ascidian species

10:05am - 10:30am
#28 Dorothee Huchon (Tel-Aviv University).

Insights from complete mitochondrial sequences on the phylogenetic relationships of Aplousobranchia

10:30am - 10:50am
COFFEE BREAK
10:50am - 12:40pm
Session 10 - Systematics and Evolution (2)

Chair: Billie Swalla

10:50am - 11:15am
#29 Fabio Gasparini (University of Padova).

Disentangling a species complex: the case of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

11:15am - 11:40pm
#30 Rosana Rocha (Universidade Federal do Paraná).

Is Styela canopus a complex of species?

11:40pm - 12:40pm
KEYNOTE: Gretchen Lambert (Washington University).

The continuing saga of a sea squirt detective: fouling ascidians in the Galapagos on artificial surfaces
Chair: Anna Di Gregorio

12:40pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH BREAK (optional lunch box offered).
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Session 11 - Ecology (1)

Chair: Noa Shenkar

2:00pm - 2:25pm
#31 Shady Amin (NYU Abu Dhabi).

Algal-bacterial interactions: Mutualism, antagonism and chemical signaling

2:25pm - 2:50pm
#32 Mey-Tal Gewing (Tel-Aviv University).

Med vs. Red: temperature sensitivity of the non-indigenous ascidian Herdmania momus in the Mediterranean Sea

2:50pm - 3:15pm
#33 Steve Irvine (University of Rhode Island).

Connecting water temperature to reproductive physiology and molecular signals in C. intestinalis

3:15pm - 3:35pm
COFFEE BREAK
3:35pm - 5:15pm
Session 12 - Ecology (2)

Chair: Shigeki Fujiwara

3:35pm - 4:00pm
#34 Susanna Lopez-Gentil (University of North Carolina Wilmington).

Introduced and native ascidian microbiomes from artificial versus natural habitats

4:00pm - 4:25pm
#35 Lauren Stefaniak (Georgia Southern University).

Moving to the reef: historical and present observations of the worldwide introduced species Styela plicata in the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf

4:25pm - 4:50pm
#36 Khashayar Razghandi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Structure-Function Analysis of the Filter-House of the Appendicularian Oikopleura dioica

4:50pm - 5:15pm
#37 Laurel Hiebert (Universidade de São Paulo).

How ecological factors influence growth patterns of colonial and solitary ascidians

5:15pm - 7:15pm
POSTER SESSION 2

All sessions, even numbers.

Dinner on your own
Friday, July 21st

Rosenthal Pavilion

Functional genomics methods & resources - Alberto Stolfi#52 Wei Deng

8:15am - 9:15am
BREAKFAST
9:15am - 10:30am
Session 13 - Late embryos and early larvae

Chair: Filomena Ristoratore

9:15am - 9:40am
#38 Antonio Palladino (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn).

Gsx in Ascidian Central Nervous System Development

9:40am - 10:05am
#39 Ugo Coppola (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn).

Klhl21: a new player for pigmentation from Ciona robusta

10:05am - 10:30am
#40 Brad Davidson (Swarthmore College).

Laterally asymmetric morphogenesis of the heart and gut in Ciona intestinalis

10:30am - 10:50am
COFFEE BREAK
10:50am - 12:30pm
Session 14 - Post-embryonic Development

Chair: Thomas Stach

10:50am - 11:15am
#41 Gabriel Krasovec (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, IBPS, CNRS).

Morphogenetic function of apoptosis during tail regression at the metamorphosis stage of Ciona intestinalis

11:15am - 11:40pm
#42 Hiroki Nishida (Osaka University).

Patterning and morphogenesis of the intricate but stereotyped Oikoplastic epidermis of the appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica

11:40pm - 12:05pm
#43 Jiankai Wei (Ocean University of China).

Molecular composition and architecture of extracellular matrix in ascidian embryogenesis and larval metamorphosis

12:05pm - 12:30pm
#44 Anthony De Tomaso (UC Santa Barbara).

In vivo manipulation of the extracellular matrix induces vascular regression in a basal chordate

12:30pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH BREAK (optional lunch box offered).
2:00pm - 3:40pm
Session 15 - asexual reproduction and regeneration

Chair: Federico Brown

2:00pm - 2:25pm
#45 Maria Mandela Prünster (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, CNRS).

Detour to make muscles? Myogenesis in the budding process of a colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri

2:25pm - 2:50pm
#46 Stefano Tiozzo (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, CNRS).

Asexual reproduction in Styelidae (Ascidiacea): and evo-devo approach

2:50pm - 3:15pm
#47 Tal Gordon (Tel-Aviv University).

When One becomes Two - unique regeneration abilities of the solitary ascidians Polycarpa mytiligera

3:15pm - 3:40pm
#48 William Jeffery (University of Maryland).

Partial Body Regeneration, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Aging in Ciona

3:40pm - 4:00pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:50pm
Session 16 - Anatomical Ontology

Chair: Patrick Lemaire

4:00pm - 4:25pm
#49 Kohja Hotta (Keio University).

The ontology of larval and metamorphosis stages in Ciona. I. Development

4:25pm - 4:50pm
#50 Lucia Manni (University of Padova).

The ontology of larval and metamorphosis stages in Ciona. II. Anatomy

5:00pm - 6:45pm (Room KC914)
Round table discussions

Databases - Patrick Lemaire
#51 Justine Dardaillon / Matija Brozovic
#52 Marc Rius

Functional genomics methods & resources - Alberto Stolfi
#53 Wei Deng

6:45pm - 7:00pm
Closing remarks - Anna Di Gregorio and Lionel Christiaen
7:00pm - 9:00pm (Rosenthal Pavilion)
Farewell banquet
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