Developmental Biology Supergroup
12:30 p.m., 177 Life Sciences Addition (unless otherwise noted)



9/25/03
Sara Agee (Weisblat lab)

Ben Martin (Amacher/Harland labs)
"Functional analysis of a maternally expressed nanos-class gene in leech"

"lbx1 is involved in fish and frog hypaxial muscle development"
10/23/03
Carina Howell (Ngai lab)

Eric Lai (Rubin lab)
"Analysis of gene expression during development and regeneration of the olfactory system"

"My summer fun project: I cloned Tufted!"
11/13/03
Mike Sohaskey (Skarnes lab)
Vidya Chandrasekaran (Beckendorf lab)
"No bones about it: Osteopotentia is essential for mammalian skeletal integrity"
"Role of Tec29 in Drosophila embryonic salivary glands"
12/4/03
Russell Fletcher (Harland lab)
Matthias Gerberding (Patel lab)
"FGF8 alternate spliceforms have different activities"

"The gene runt in the beach hopper Parhyale highlights the nits and grids of crustacean segmentation"
1/22/04
Han Lu (Bilder lab)

2nd speaker rescheduled
"avalanche, a Drosophila Syntaxin in Epithelial Polarity and Proliferation"

2/19/04
Clarissa Henry (Amacher lab)
Michele Markstein (Patel lab)
"Segmentation and Muscle Patterning in Zebrafish"

"Computing the Egg: cis-regulatory analysis of early patterning in the Drosophila embryo"
3/18/04
Tim Grammer (Harland lab)
Matt Giorgianni (Patel lab)
"4 out of 5 dentists Recommend the Frog for Genetics"

"Patterning the insect head appendages...mmm tasty"
4/22/04
NOTE ROOM CHANGE: 101 LSA
Colleen Witt (Robey lab)


Foster Gonsalves (Weisblat lab)
"Real time analysis of cell migration in the developing thymus"

"Investigation of Early-Signalling in the unequal cleaving spiralian, Helobdella robusta"

5/13/04
Dave Daggett (Amacher lab)
Tina Lai (Garriga lab)
"Developmentally restricted actin regulation in the zebrafish embryo"
"The conserved kinase UNC-51 acts with VAB-8 and UNC-14 to regulate posteriorly directed axon outgrowth in C. elegans"