Symposium Schedule

Sunday, June 4, 2023
All lectures take place in the Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, Lillie Building

8:00 AM – 8:30 AMÌę∙ Refreshments, Lillie Lobby

8:30 AM ∙ Opening Remarks
Nipam Patel, PhD, Director, Marine Biological Laboratory
Course Director, 2007 – 2011

Welcome and Introductions
Carole LaBonne, PhD, Northwestern University
Course Director, 2021 – 2023

Athula H. Wikramanayake, PhD, University of Miami
Course Director, 2023

8:45 AM – 9:45 AM ∙ Keynote
Pattern and Self Organization in the Drosophila Embryo without Maternal Cues
Eric Wieschaus, PhD, Princeton University
Class of 1969

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Embryology adventures with the jellyfish Clytia
Evelyn Houliston, PhD, Sorbonne Université
Class of 1986

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Mechanical control of neural crest development: from induction to migration and differentiation
Roberto Mayor, PhD, University College London
Class of 1988

10:45 AM – 11:10 AMÌę∙ Coffee Break, Lillie Lobby

11:10 AM – 11:40 AM
Cell lineage variation: from the pier to the orchard
Marie-Anne Félix, PhD, Institut Jacques Monod
Class of 1992

11:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Gene Regulatory Networks in zebrafish mesendoderm formation
Fiona Wardle, PhD, Kings College London
Class of 1996

12:15 PM – 1:30 PMÌę∙ Lunch, Swope Center

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Renewal, regionalization and repair in oral and gastrointestinal epithelia
Ophir Klein, PhD, MD, University of California, San Francisco
Class of 2004

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Spatial control of the epigenome during avian gastrulation
Marcos SimÔes-Costa, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Class of 2006

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Leveraging Marine Invertebrates to Understand the Interplay between Regulatory Networks and 3D Genome Architecture
Heather Marlow, PhD, University of Chicago
Class of 2007

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Eco-Evo-Devo in the blind Mexican cavefish
Misty Riddle, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno
Class of 2013

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Odd-Paired and Ocelliless dynamics regulate the timing of embryonic head development
Theodora Koromila, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington
Class of 2015

4:00 PM – 4:20 PMÌę∙ Coffee Break, Lillie Lobby

4:20 PM – 4:50 PM
How (and why) the jerboa got its long feet
Kimberly Cooper, PhD, University of California San Diego
Class of 2001

4:50 PM – 5:50 PMÌę∙ Keynote
The transfating sequence that replaces missing micromeres in the sea urchin embryo
David R. McClay, Jr., PhD, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
Course Director, 1992 – 1996

6:00 PM – 6:45 PM ∙ Poster Session, Swope Second Floor