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Workshop 7: Drosophila Development: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, June 8
Whole-Genome Analysis
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:50-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky, Hans Othmer and Mike Levine
9:00-9:45am Julia Zeitlinger: Evolution of the DV transcriptional regulatory network in closely related Drosophila species
9:45-10:30am Lior Pachter: Drosophila genome dynamics at the nucleotide level
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-11:30am Norbert Perrimon: Large scale analyses of signaling networks
11:30-12:15pm Eileen Furlong: Transcription factor binding reveals spatial and temporal aspects of developmental networks
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:45pm Tom Kornberg: Mechanisms of morphogen dispersion and action
2:45-3:30pm Manolis Kellis: Regulatory genomics of Drosophila tissue- and stage-specific gene expression patterns
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-4:30pm Alexander Stark: Comparative genomics of gene regulation in Drosophila
4:30-6:30pm Reception in the MBI Lounge
6:30pm Shuttle pick-up MBI
Tuesday, June 9
Basic Mechanisms
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Edwin Ferguson: Positive feedback underlies the spatial bistability of Dpp - receptor interactions during dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo
9:45-10:30am Haini Cai: The Drosophila SF1 chromatin boundary may regulate enhancer-promoter interactions by organizing dynamic chromatin loop domains
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Claude Desplan: Stochastic choices in the Drosophila eye
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Seth Blair: Crossveins and the extracellular regulation of BMP signaling
2:30-3:15pm David Arnosti: Mechanisms and regulatory grammar of short- and long-range repressors
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:15pm Arthur Lander: Constraints, tradeoffs and complexity in morphogen-mediated patterning
4:15-5:00pm David Umulis: Organism-scale modeling of early Drosophila patterning via Bone Morphogenetic Proteins
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, June 10
Modeling
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am John Reinitz: When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four: Modeling Non-Modular Enhancer Behavior in the eve Promoter
9:45-10:30am Ben Shilo: Robustness and scaling of morphogen patterning in Drosophila and Xenopus embryos
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Maria Samsonova: Variation and canalization of gene expression in the Drosophila blastoderm
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Reka Albert: Lessons from modeling Drosophila segment polarity: robustness of gene regulatory networks
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:30pm Hamid Bolouri: Reconstructing condition-specific gene regulatory interactions in the absence of perturbation data
4:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, June 11
Gene Networks in Development
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Stephen Small: Bicoid-dependent embryonic patterning in Drosophila
9:45-10:30am Angela Stathopoulos: Patterning a field of cells: a comparison of dorso-ventral patterning of the embryo and anterior-posterior patterning of the wing disc
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Stephen Crews: The Regulation of Drosophila CNS Midline Neuronal and Glial Development and Transcription
11:45-12:30pm Maria Leptin: From dorso-ventral patterning to cell shape changes
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:15pm Hans Othmer: Robustness of Pattern Formation in Development
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:15pm Stanislav Shvartsman: MAPK substrate competition in the Drosophila embryo
5:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Friday, June 12
Topology and Logic of Gene Networks
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Christine Rushlow: Zelda, a key activator of the early zygotic genome in Drosophila
9:45-10:30am Manfred Frasch: Transcriptional and signaling networks during mesodermal tissue development in Drosophila
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Mike Levine: Transcriptional precision in the Drosophila embryo
11:45-12:30pm Albert Erives: Gene regulatory evolution in an equivalence class of developmental enhancers
1:30pm Shuttle pick-up to hotel