PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Southwest and Gulf Regional Society for
Developmental Biology Meeting
October 1-3, 2004
Venue: UT Southwestern Medical Center
6000 Harry Hines Blvd.
North Campus 2nd Floor
Dallas, TX 75390-9133
Hotel: Renaissance Dallas Hotel
2222 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75207
214-631-2222
All lectures will be held in the UT Southwestern, North Campus – 2nd Floor Auditorium
Friday, October 1:
Noon-5:00 PM Registration-UT Southwestern, North Campus - 2nd Floor Atrium
5:30 Opening Remarks
Keynote Speaker:Mario Capecchi, University
of Utah
“Role of Hox Genes in Generating the Mammalian Body Plan.”
6:30-10 PM Poster Session (Posters to remain on display throughout the meeting)
6:30 Mixer: 2nd Floor Atrium UT Southwestern North Campus
7:30 Dinner: 2nd Floor Atrium UT Southwestern North Campus
Transportation: Shuttle service to Renaissance Hotel
Saturday, October 2:
Transportation: Shuttle service to UTSWMC
8:15 Breakfast - Continental – 2nd Floor Atrium UT Southwestern North Campus
9:30 Platform I
Induction and Patterning:
9:30 Gabrielle Kardon, University of Utah , Session Chair
“Patterning the vertebrate limb musculature”
Saturday, October 2 (continued):
10:00 Jae Myoung Suh, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Forward mutagenesis of the Drosophila melanogaster fat body”
10:30 Alan Rawls, Arizona State University
“Muscle patterning and morphogenesis”
11:00 Refreshment Break/Posters - Atrium
11:15 Session Plenary Gerard Karsenty, Baylor College of Medicine
“Genetic Control of Osteoblast Differentiation”
12:00 Lunch 2nd Floor Atrium UT Southwestern North Campus
1:30 Platform II
Organogenesis and Morphogenesis:
1:30 Susan
Mango, University of Utah , Session Chair
“Making and shaping the digestive tract”
2:00 Chris Dravis, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
“Reverse signaling through ephrin-B2 controls urorectal development and axon pathfinding but not early vascular development”
2:30 Jon Scales, Midwestern State University
“The juxtamembrane domain of cadherin and the PDZ motif of XephA4 mediate interaction of Eph RTKs and Adherins Junctions for regulation of cell adhesion”
Saturday, October 2 (continued):
3:00 Session Plenary Eric Olson , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Transcriptional control of cardiovascular development”
3:45 Refreshment Break/Posters - Atrium
4:00 Platform III
Neural Development and Patterning:
4:00 Hugo Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine , Session Chair
“Determination of neuronal sensory organs in fruit flies”
4:30 Kristin Artinger, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
“Zebrafish prdm1/narrowminded is required for neural crest and sensory neuron specification.”
5:00 John Wallingford, University of Texas at Austin
5:30 Session Plenary Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine
“Mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases reveals the function of genes essential for normal neurodevelopment”
6:15 Reception - Renaissance Hotel
7:15 Dinner - Renaissance Hotel
Sunday, October 3:
8:15 Breakfast - Continental – 2nd Floor Atrium UT Southwestern North Campus
9:00 Platform IV
Stem Cells to Disease
9:00 Dr. Michael Kyba, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ,
Session Chair
“Hematopoeitic Differentiation from Embryonic Stem Cells”
9:30 Scott Cameron, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:00 Sarah Bondos, Rice University
“Integrating information: Hox proteins physically and genetically interact with proteins from an array of cellular systems”
10:30 Refreshment Break/Posters - Atrium
10:45 Matthew Porteus , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
11:15 Session PlenaryLuis Parada, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Insulin Signaling in Male Sexual Development”
12:00 Closing Comments
Noon- Box Lunches will be available in the 2nd Floor Atrium
