TUESDAY April 5th 2022

8:55 am

4. Paola Oliveri (UCL). Regeneration in Brittle Stars

9:20 am

5. José García Arrarás (U. Puerto Rico). Intestinal regeneration in adult sea cucumbers; cellular events and signaling pathway

9:45 AM 

Coffee Break

10:10 am

6. Veronica Hinman (Carnegie Mellon). Mechanisms of regeneration in sea star larvae

10:35 am

7. Kristen Koenig (Harvard University). Neurogenesis and notch signaling in the cephalopod retina

11:00 am

8. Billie Swalla (U. Washington). The tale of degenerate ascidian tails

1:30 pm

9. Gary Wessel (Brown). 

1:55 pm

10. Julia Morales (Station Biologique de Roscoff). Translation of eIF4B mRNA drives the dynamics of the first mitotic divisions triggered by fertilization in sea urchin embryos

2:20 pm

11. Mamiko Yajima (Brown). Dynamic metabolic regulation is essential for embryonic patterning in the sea urchin

2:45 pm

Coffee Break

3:10 pm

12. NIH Speaker. TBD

3:35 pm

13. Brad Shuster  (New Mexico State). Rho GTPases and the regulation of cellular mechanics during meiotic maturation

4:00 pm

14. Alex McDougall (Sorbonne Université). Ascidian invariant cleavage

4:25 pm

C1. Majed Layous (U. Haifa). The role of ROCK and physical properties in skeletogenesis

4:40 pm

C2. Margherita Perillo (Brown). Mechanisms of tube elongation and germ cell migration during development of the sea star embryo 

4:55 pm

C3. Carolyn Remsburg (U. Delaware). miR-31 regulates cytoskeletal dynamics to impact the formation of the mitotic spindle.

5:10 pm

C4. Alexandra T Lion (BU). Perturbation of the P-body component DDX6 reveals a potential connection between developmental timing and skeletal patterning

4:25 pm

C5. Phil Davidson (Duke): Cis-regulatory element evolution underlies gene network rewiring during rapid life-history divergence in sea urchins

4:40 pm

C6. Vanessa Barone (UCSD). Cell-cell contact formation and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in echinoderm embryos

4:55 pm

C7. Laurent Formery (Hopkins). Partial conservation of antero-posterior patterning system in pentaradial echinoderms gives new insights in the molecular bases of morphological novelties and echinoderm evolution

5:10 pm

C8. Nat Clarke (MIT). Evolution of retinoid signaling in deuterostomes: insights from Saccoglossus kowalevskii

8:30 am

15. Jonathan Rast (Emory). Development of the lamprey VLR system and the evolution of deuterostome immunity

8:55 AM

16. Andrea Bodnar (Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute). Expanding the impact of echinoderms as models for human disease with new molecular and cell culture tools

9:20 AM

17. Catherine Schrankel (UCSD). REMOTE.  Survival in a Changing World: Embryo defense systems against pathogens and pollutants

9:45 - 10.10am 

Coffee Break

1:30 pm

21. Greg Wray (Duke). What makes a GRN evolvable?

1:55 pm

22. Ken Halynch (Auburn)  

Title TBD

2:20 pm

23. Peter Vize (U. Calgary). Echinobase: leveraging an extant model organism database to build a knowledgebase supporting research on the genomics and biology of echinoderms

2:45pm-

3:10pm 

Coffee Break

3:10 pm

24. Christy Schnitzler  (UF Whitney). The genome of Hydractinia: an invertebrate animal model for regeneration, stem cell biology, and allorecognition

3:35 pm

25. Smadar Ben Tabou De Leon (Haifa U.). ROCK activity is essential for biomineral formation, skeletal elongation, branching and gene expression in the sea urchin embryo

4:00 pm

26. Jessica Gray (Harvard). Development at single-cell resolution :Saccoglossus and cell-type evolution of the deuterostome ancestor

4:25 pm

C9. Thomas M. Onorato (LaGuardia Community College). Democratically seq’ing cells: shifting the paradigm of community college students from consumers to authentic producers of knowledge

4:40 pm

C10. Saoirse Foley (CMU). Insights towards the origin of metazoan phyla from echinoderm genes

4:55 pm

C11. Sarah Tulin (Canisius College). Gene regulatory network connections predicted by machine learning from gene expression data alone

5:10 pm

C12. Zebib Abraha (NMSU) Cell cycle regulation and polarity reversal of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition during sea urchin gastrulation

4:25 pm

C13. TBD

4:40 pm

C14. Marian Y. Hu  (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel). Cellular pH regulatory systems underlying calcification in the sea urchin larva

4:55 pm

C15. William Chang (Kiel). Soluble adenylyl cyclase coordinates intracellular acid-base regulation relevant for calcification in the sea urchin larva

5:10 pm

C16. Jake Warner (UNC: Willmington) Conserved gene regulatory networks drive embryonic development of stony corals

7:30 pm

27. Christina Zakas (NC State). Maternal genetic effects shape developmental evolution

7:55 pm

28. Sebastian Fugmann (Chang Gung University). REMOTE The transcriptomes of coelomocytes and tissue-resident immune cells in adult Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

8:30 am

30. Dave McClay (Duke). ​​Genomics and mesodermal morphogenesis in the sea urchin

8:55 am

31. Charles Ettensohn (Carnegie Mellon). REMOTE Alx1 and the evolution of echinoderm biomineralization

9:20 am

32. Thierry  Lepage (U. Nice) (REMOTE). Shaping of the nodal expression domain by maternal factors

9:45 - 10.10am 

Coffee Break

10:10 am

33. Vivek Prakash (U. Miami) -

Title TBD

10:35 am

34. Matteo Rauzi (University Côte d'Azur). Mechanisms and mechanics driving epithelial tube formation during Paracentrotus lividus embryo gastrulation

11:00 am

35. Athula Wikramanayake (U. Miami) 

Title TBD

1:30 pm

36. Chris Lowe (Stanford). Hemichordate nervous system organization

1:55 pm

37. Jeni Croce (Sorbonne Université). The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus as a biological model to investigate echinoderm adult features

2:20 pm

38. Deirdre Lyons (UCSD).  Slow and steady gets in the race: the nudibranch Berghia stephanie is a new research organism for understanding the molluscan brain

2:45pm-

3:10pm 

Coffee Break

3:10 pm

39. Jia Song (U. Delaware). Regulatory roles of microRNAs in early development  

3:35 pm

40. Zak Schwartz (MIT). Cell division and developmental decisions in a changing world

4:00 pm

41. Ryan Range (Auburn). Evolution of anterior-posterior axis specification and patterning: insights from Ambulacrarians

4:25 pm

C17. Annie Meyer (CMU). What’s in a name? Using single nucleus transcriptomics to unravel cell type identity and evolution in echinoderms

4:40 pm

C18. Paul Bump (Stanford). The Two Body Problem: An investigation of development in adult and larval body plans of the indirect developing hemichordate Schizocardium californicum at a cellular resolution

4:55 pm

C19. Rossella Annunziata (Stazione Zoologica). Retinoic acid signaling function in echinoderm embryonic development

5:10 pm

C20. Periklis Paganos  (Stazione Zoologica). Animal evolution from a cell type perspective: Offerings from the sea urchin embryo and larva

4:25pm

C21. Jennifer Fenner (Auburn).​​The devil's in the details: Wnt and TGFß signaling meet at the crossroads to create the early embryonic axes in the sea urchin embryo

4:40pm

C22. Natsuko Emura (Brown). Evolutionary introduction of the micromere through modifications of the AGS protein

4:55pm

C23. Anne Rosfelte (Sorbonne). Centration of the ascidian sperm aster through cell cycle

5:10pm

C24. Sujan Gautam (Auburn). An evolutionarily conserved Wnt/Sp5 signaling cassette is essential for anterior-posterior axis specification and patterning in sea urchin embryos