Developmental and Organismal Biology Symposium

Breakfast in Chen Lobby: 8:30 am
Talks: 9 am – 4 pm 
Reception following
Chen 100

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9am 
Trevor Nolan, Duke University
"Unveiling spatiotemporal control of Arabidopsis root growth and development"

10 am 
Heather Bruce, University of Chicago MBL
"Arthropod appendages: homology and novelty over half a billion years"

11 am
Aissam Ikmi, European Molecular Biology Lab
"Design Principles of Early Animals: Insights from Cnidaria"

1pm 
Kailin Mesa, NYU School of Medicine
"From Regeneration to Aging: Understanding niche-specific tissue dynamics in 4D"

2pm
Yelena Bernadskaya, NYU School of Medicine
"Understanding emergent collective cell behavior in animal development: insights from the cardiogenic lineage of Ciona robusta"

3pm 
Yuchuan Miao, Harvard Medical School
"Decoding human body plan development with stem cells"