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Program

10:00 Opening remarks
10:05 Jim Smith (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Inst., UK)
XENOPUS: EMBRYOLOGY, CELL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS
11:00 Coffee Break (20 min.)
11:20 Gerald H. Thomsen (Stony Brook Univ., USA)
DISCOVERING DEVELOPMENTAL REGULATORS BY MINING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY DATA WITH XENOPUS
12:00 Lunch, Tour, Discussion
13:30 John Wallingford (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA)
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF NEURAL TUBE CLOSURE:
THE PCP EFFECTORS INTURNED AND FUZZY GOVERN PLANAR CELL POLARITY, CILIOGENESIS AND HEDGEHOG SIGNALING
14:10 Naoto Ueno (National Inst. for Basic Biology, Japan)
ESTABLISHMENT OF CELL POLARITY IN XENOPUS DEVELOPMENT
14:50 Akihito Yamamoto (RIKEN CDB, Japan)
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SHISA GENE FAMILY
15:30 Coffee Break (30 min.)
16:00 Mike Jones (Centre for Molecular Medicine, Singapore)
TEMPORAL AND GERM LAYER SPECIFIC MODULATION OF NODAL SIGNALING
16:40 Yoshiki Sasai (RIKEN CDB, Japan)
MOLECULAR REGULATION OF NEURAL INDUCTION AND EARLY PATTERNING
17:20 Closing remarks
 
13th CDB Meeting
Morphogenetic Signalling: The View from the Frog
February 21st, 2006
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB)
Contact: cdb-meeting@cdb.riken.jp
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