TENTATIVE SCHEDULE for 20th Anniversary MBL Zebrafish Course Symposium
8:25– 8:30 Welcome (Sharon Amacher, Corinne Houart, and Erez Raz)
8:30 – 8:45 MBL Zebrafish Course: History and Perspective Corinne Houart, Professor, Kings College London current course co-director and faculty (20 yrs, 1998-2017)
Session 1: Chair, David Raible (16 yrs as course faculty; co-director 2008-2012)
8:45 – 9:15 John Dowling, Professor, Harvard University; MBL Zebrafish Course co-founder and faculty (20 yrs, 1998-2017)
Zebrafish Reminiscences
9:15 – 9:30 Katie Drerup, Investigator, NICHD Course Alumnus, Class of 2006
Regulation of retrograde mitochondrial transport in axons
9:30 – 9:45 Miguel Concha, Professor, University of Chile Course Alumnus, Class of 1998
Extra-embryonic tissue spreading directs early embryo morphogenesis in annual killifish
9:45 – 10:00 Alvaro Sagasti, Associate Professor, UCLA Course Alumnus, Class of 2001
How to wrinkle a membrane: coordinating cytoskeletal elements to make skin cell microridges
10:00 – 10:30 Judith Eisen, Professor, University of Oregon; MBL Zebrafish Course faculty (6 yrs, 1998-2005)
Developmental interactions between the microbiome and the nervous system
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 2: Chair, Michael Granato (20 years as course faculty, co-director 2010-2014)
11:00 – 11:30 Marc Wolman, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Course Alumnus, Class of 2005
PAPP-AA promotes retinal synaptogenesis to mediate dark guided behavior
11:30 – 11:45 Ellen Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine; Course Alumnus, Class of 2011
Identifying convergent pathways in zebrafish mutants of autism risk genes
11:45 – 12:00 Gil Levkowitz, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science; Course Alumnus, Class of 2000
How a key interface between the brain’s neuro-hormonal and vascular systems is assembled
12:00 – 12:30 Joe Fetcho, Professor, Cornell University; MBL Zebrafish Course faculty (11 years, 1998-2010)
Zebrafish: from synapses to circuits and behavior in the best vertebrate model
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch on your own
Session 3: Chair, William Talbot (18 years as course faculty, co-director 2001-2004)
1:45 – 2:15 Andrea Pauli, Group Leader, IMP Vienna; Course Alumnus, Class of 2009
Small proteins with big roles
2:15 – 2:30 Alon Kahana, Associate Professor, University of Michigan; Course Alumnus, Class of 2008
Regulation of myocyte reprogramming in muscle regeneration
2:30 – 2:45 Jeff Mumm, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Course Alumnus, Class of 2001
Innate immune system regulation of neuronal regeneration
2:45 – 3:15 Alex Schier, Professor, Harvard University; MBL Zebrafish Course faculty (10 years, 2008-2017)
Nodal signaling: insights from zebrafish
3:15 – 3:45 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 4: Chair, Cecilia Moens (18 years as course faculty, co-director 2001-2006)
3:45 – 4:15 Mary Mullins, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; MBL Zebrafish Course faculty (20 years, 1998-2017)
Shaping of a BMP morphogen gradient
4:15 – 4:30 Qiong Yang, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan; Course Alumnus, Class of 2012
Incoherent inputs enhance robustness of biological oscillators
4:30 – 4:45 Katie Kindt, Investigator, NIDCD; Course Alumnus, Class of 2007
Sensory integration and synaptic silencing in the lateral line
4:45 – 5:15 Scott Fraser, Provost Professor, University of Southern California; MBL Zebrafish Course faculty (3 years, 1999-2001)
Analyzing form and function of intact systems with quantitative imaging
5:15 – 5:45 Nancy Hopkins, Professor Emeritus, MIT; MBL Zebrafish Course co-founder and faculty (7 years, 1998-2004)
Twenty years of zebrafish research: A reflection and perspective
5:45– 6:00 Closing Statements and Group Photo
6:00 – 7:30 Mixer and Posters
7:30 – 11:00 Banquet