Mini Symposium/ Resgistration 2012
The Mini-Symposium will last one day (Wednesday 11th January 2012) and it will be open to all Chilean and Latin American developmental biologists, previous registration.
It will start with a lecture by Eric Wesichaus in the morning. Lunch will be provided. The final
program will be posted here soon.
Registration: Please send an e-mail to [email protected], with your name and affiliation, indicating “Quintay-Symposium” in the subject of the e-mail
Deadline for registration: 12th December 2011
Fees: free
Developmental
Biology Symposium-Quintay 2012
11th January 2012, CIMARQ-Quintay-Chile
LASDB-UNAB
7s I’m.
| 10.30-10.50 | Registration |
| 10.50-11.00: | Welcome address. R. Mayor
(UCL, UK) |
| 11.00-11.50: | Plenary Lecture: Eric Wieschaus (U. Princeton, USA) The Mechanics of Cell Shape Change during Drosophila Gastrulation |
| 11.50-12.15: | Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado (HHMI,
Stowers Institute, USA) |
| 12.15-12.40: | Juan Larraín (P. Universidad Catolica, Chile) Spinal cord regeneration in Xenopus |
| 12.40-14.00: | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.25: | Miguel Allende (U. Chile) Characterization of the regeneration process in the zebrafish mechanosensory system |
| 14.25-14.50 | Kathleen Whitlock (U. Valparaiso, Chile) Environmental effects on gene expression and cell migration during early development |
| 14.50-15.15: | John Ewer (U. Valparaiso, Chile) Genetic analysis of Drosophila behaviour |
| 15.15-15.40: | Claudia Linker (King’s College London, UK) Role of Notch signalling in Neural Crest migration |
| 15.40-16.10 | Coffee break |
| 16.10-16.35: | Miguel Concha (U. Chile) TBA |
| 16.35-17.00: | Roberto Mayor (UCL, UK) Can individual mesenchymal cells migrate as a collective? |
| 17.00-17.50: | Plenary lecture: John Gurdon (Gurdon Institute, UK) Nuclear reprogramming by eggs and oocytes, and the |
