Rosenthal Pavilion
6:00pm - 8:00pm |
WELCOME RECEPTION |
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 EmbryogenesisChair: 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 BiologyChair: 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 GenomicsChair: 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 ImmunityChair: 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 |
Rosenthal Pavilion
8:15am - 9:15am |
BREAKFAST |
9:15am - 10:30am |
Session 5 - Nervous System Development and AnatomyChair: 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 SystemChair: 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 |
12:40pm - 2:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK (optional lunch box offered). |
2:00pm - 3:15pm |
Session 7 - Gene regulationChair: 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 DevelopmentChair: Nadine Peyriéras |
3:35pm - 4:00pm |
#22 Ulla-Maj Fiuza (EMBL).A Nodal and Ephrin signalling relay drives |
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 1All sessions, odd numbers |
Dinner on your own |
Rosenthal Pavilion
9:30am - 11:30am |
Session: career panel discussion |
EXCURSION |
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 |
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 2All sessions, even numbers. |
Dinner on your own |
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 larvaeChair: 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 DevelopmentChair: 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 regenerationChair: 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 OntologyChair: 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 discussionsDatabases - Patrick Lemaire Functional genomics methods & resources - Alberto Stolfi |
6:45pm - 7:00pm |
Closing remarks - Anna Di Gregorio and Lionel Christiaen |
7:00pm - 9:00pm (Rosenthal Pavilion) |
Farewell banquet |