Day Time Event

Module 1: Microscopy,Tunicates and Echinoderms (June 3rd-June11)

Saturday June 3rd

7:00 pm Reception & Dinner – 2nd Floor Loeb (room #256)

Carole Labonne, Northwestern; Athula Wikramanayake, Univ. of Miami
Welcome and Course overview
Bring your posters

Sunday June 4th

130th Anniversary Symposium

Monday June 5th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Light and confocal microscopy: Lisa Cameron, (Duke University), Michelle Itano, (UNC), Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard) & Abhishek Kumar (MBL)

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Light and confocal microscopy: Lisa Cameron, (Duke University), Michelle Itano, (UNC), Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard) & Abhishek Kumar (MBL)

Tuesday June 6th

Morning lecture (12pm)

Athula and Carole Intro to Embryology Course and metazoan body plans

Afternoon lab (1:30pm)

Image analysis, exporting movies, image manipulation etc.
Harry Choi Molecular Instruments

Evening lab (7:00pm)

Jon Henry, MBL, tool making, Continue light and confocal microscopy

Wednesday June 7th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Athula Wikramanayake, Univ. of Miami, Introduction to Echinoderms and evolution of embryonic polarity

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Echinoderms

Thursday June 8th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Bob Zeller, San Diego State Univ, Introduction to ascidian development: from cell lineages to molecular mechanisms
Ed Munro, University of Chicago, Dynamics of Tissue Morphogenesis in Ascidians

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Ascidians

Friday June 9th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Zak Swartz, MBL, A sea star is born: germ cells, oocytes and early embryos

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Echinoderms and ascidians

Saturday June 10th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Billie Swalla, Univ. Washington, Evolution and development of the chordates

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Echinoderms and ascidians

Sunday June 11th

Morning

Free time

Ethics discussion-authorship (2:00-3:30pm, Speck)

Athula Wikramanayake and Carole LaBonne

4:00pm Scavenger Hunt then Course Dinner

Things to do this week: T-shirt design for class, softball t-shirt, parade committee

Module 2: Nematodes, Tardigrades, Planaria, Acoels(June 12-18)

Monday June 12th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Dave Sherwood, Duke, C. elegans introduction & cell-matrix interactions

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

C. elegans

Tuesday June 13th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Dan Dickinson UT Austin, Establishment of cell polarity by transportation of protein clusters
Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins/ HHMI, Polarization of P granules: biology meets physics

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

C. elegans

Wednesday June 14th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Bob Goldstein, UNC Chapel Hill, Tardigrades: Emerging Models for Studying How Animal Body Plans Evolve and How Life Can Survive Extremes

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

C. elegans & tardigrades

Thursday June 15th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Stowers Inst., Dissecting the Biological Complexity of Animal Regeneration

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) lab

planaria & tardigrades

Friday June 16th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Mansi Srivastava, Harvard, Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cells: mechanistic and evolutionary insights from acoelomorphs

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) and evening (7pm) lab

acoels & planaria

Saturday June 17th

Morning concepts discussion (9-11am)

Carole and Athula

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

C. elegans, acoels, planaria, tardigrades

Class presentations (9 pm
Fishbowl)

Show ‘n Tell 1 / lab clean up

Sunday June 18th

Whale watching in Hyannis

Module 3: Arthropods & Spiralians June 19-June 25)

Monday June 19th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Ruth Lehmann, MIT/WHI Katsuma Dan Lecture (Physiology hosting), Observing Translation in Germ Granules

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

flies, arthropods

Tuesday June 20th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Nipam Patel, Univ. of Chicago/MBL, Insights from Emerging Research Organisms: from Crustacean Appendage Patterning to Structural Coloration in Butterflies

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

flies, arthropods

Wednesday June 21st

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Sally Horne-Badovinac, Univ. of Chicago
Oogenesis in Drosophila

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

flies, arthropods

Thursday June 22nd

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Jon Henry, MBL, The Developmental Biology of Spiralians;
Dede Lyons,UC San Diego, Nudibranchs as models for neurogenesis, regeneration, and sequestration

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Spiralians

Friday June 23rd

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Melanie Worley,UVA, Mechanisms of growth regulation during development and regeneration in Drosophila

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

flies, arthropods spiralians

Saturday June 24th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Claude Desplan NYU (Rafferty Lecture)
“The Generation of Neuronal Diversity and its Evolution”

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Flies, arthropods spiralians

Sunday June 25th

Morning, Afternoon

Free Time

Evening lecture (9pm)

Zebrafish orientation

Module 4: Zebrafish Skates and Cephalopods (June 26-July 2)

Monday June 26th

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

Zebrafish

Afternoon lecture (1:30-3:30pm)

Tatjana Piotrowski, Stowers Inst., Sensory hair cell development and regeneration in zebrafish

Even. Lab intro (7:30-8:30pm) (Fishbowl)

zebrafish

Tuesday June 27th

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

zebrafish

Afternoon lectures (1:30-3:30pm)

Karen Crawford, St Mary’s College/MBL, An introduction to cephalopod development, Part I
Carrie Albertin, MBL, An introduction to cephalopod development, Part II

Evening lab (7pm)

cephalopod

Wednesday June 28th

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

zebrafish, cephalopod

Afternoon lecture (1:30-3:30pm)

Elke Ober, Univ. of Copenhagen, Endoderm development and organogenesis

Evening lab (7pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish

Thursday June 29th

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish

Afternoon lecture
(1:30-3:30pm)

Otger Campás, UC Santa Barbara
Mechanics of zebrafish development

Evening lab (7pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish

Friday June 30th

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

zebrafish cephalopods

Afternoon lecture (1:30-3:30pm)

Andrew Gillis, MBL, Embryology of sharks and skates, and evolution of the vertebrate body plan

Evening lab (7pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish

Saturday July 1st

Morning lab (9am-12pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish Skates

Afternoon concepts discussion
(1:30-3:30pm)

Carole and Athula

Evening lab (7pm)

cephalopods, zebrafish, skates

Class presentations (9pm fishbowl)

Show ‘n Tell 2 / lab clean up

Sunday, July 2nd

Free time

Module 5: Frogs & Chicks (July 3-July 9)

Monday July 3rd

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Carole LaBonne, Northwestern, Intro to Xenopus development

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Xenopus

Tuesday July 4th

July 4th Parade

 

Afternoon Lecture (1:30-3:30pm)

Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Univ. of Oxford, Introduction to chick development

Wednesday July 5th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Peter Lwigale, Rice University, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of ocular Development
Mike Piacentino, Johns Hopkins, Plasma membrane lipids in shaping neural crest behavior

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

xenopus and chicks

Thursday July 6th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Chenbei Chang, Univ Alabama, Morphogenesis: Xenopus gastrulation
Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh, Xenopus: a killer app for exploring mechanical forces in development

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Xenopus and chicks

Friday July 7th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Crystal Rogers UC Davis, Genes and the environment: shaping the cells that make the face
John Young Simmons Univ, Limb initiation and development across tetrapods

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Xenopus, chick,

Saturday July 8th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Andrea Wills, Univ. Washington, Decoding the metabolic and transcriptional requirements for vertebrate appendage regeneration (Rose Lecture)
Chris Lowe, Stanford Hopkins Marine Lab, Embracing body plan and life history diversity for a better understanding of the evolution of developmental mechanisms

Afternoon labs (1:30pm)

Xenopus, chick,

Evening (5pm)

Softball Game vs Physiology & joint dinner

Sunday July 9th

Free time

Module 6: Mice, Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Annelids, (July 10-July18)

Monday July 10th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Ondine Cleaver, UT Southwestern (Saunders Lecture)
Building and maintaining biological tubules

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Mouse

Tuesday July 11th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Leslie Babonis, Cornell University, Cnidarians and the evolution of new cell types
Celina Juliano UC Davis, Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

ctenophores

Wednesday July 12th

Morning lectures (9-12pm)

Neva Meyer, Clark University, Spiralian evo devo: themes from annelids

Duygu Ozpolat Wash U, Germ cell development and regeneration in annelids

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

annelids & ctenophores

Thursday July 13th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Tom Carroll, UT Southwestern, Formation of the urogenital system

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

mouse, hydra, annelids & ctenophores

Friday July 14th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Bill Browne, Univ. Miami., (Kessel Lecture) Characterizing innate immunity in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

 

Afternoon (1:30pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Hydra, Nematostella, Ctenophores, annelids,

Saturday July 15th

Morning lecture (9-12pm)

Cassandra Extavour, Harvard, (SDB Lecture), Null hypotheses in comparative developmental biology: establishing our expectations for evolutionary change

Afternoon labs (1:30pm)

Hydra, Nematostella, Ctenophores, annelids,

Class presentations (9pm fishbowl)

show ‘n Tell 3

Sunday July 16th

Morning discussion (9-12pm)

Athula Wikramanayake, Univ. Miami; Carole Labonne, Northwestern

Afternoon lab (1:30-3:30pm)

lab clean-up

Evening (7:30pm)

course banquet and award ceremony

Monday July 17th

Morning (by 10am)

check-out and departure