Symposium Schedule
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, Chan Shun Auditorium
REGENERATION IN DIVERSE ORGANISMS
9:00-9:10 OPENING REMARKS (Iswar Hariharan)
9:10-10:00 JONATHAN SLACK, University of Minnesota
"A new approach to inducing limb regeneration"
10:00-10:40 BRIGITTE GALLIOT, University of Geneva
"Apoptosis or no apoptosis to launch head regeneration in Hydra"
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-11:40 PETER REDDIEN, Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Genetic control of planarian regeneration"
11:40-12:20 GEROLD SCHUBIGER, University of Washington
"Regeneration and transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs - a stem cell connection?"
12:20-1:30 Break (Lunch not included)
LIMB AND ORGAN REGENERATION IN VERTEBRATES
1:30-1:40 OPENING REMARKS (David Weisblat)
1:40-2:30 ELLY TANAKA, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden
"What are the boundary conditions for vertebrate regeneration?"
2:30-3:10 KATIA DEL RIO-TSONIS, Miami University
"How to regenerate a retina"
3:10-3:30 Break
3:30-4:10 KENNETH POSS, Duke University
"Cardiac regenerative capacity and mechanisms in zebrafish"
4:10-4:50 DEEPAK SRIVASTAVA, University of California, San Francisco
"Reprogramming approaches for cardiovascular disease"
4:50-5:00 CLOSING REMARKS (Richard Harland)
5:00-6:00 Reception