Symposium Schedule
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m
245 Li Ka Shing Center
9:00 Opening remarks by Rebecca Heald
Session I Chair: Rebecca Heald
9:10-9:50 Pat O’Farrell, University of California, San Francisco
“Constraints that guide developmental growth of animals”
9:50-10:30 Amanda Amodeo, Princeton University
“Cell size in developmental transitions: How do cells measure their nuclear to
cytoplasmic ratio to time the mid-blastula transition?”
10:30-10:50 Break (2nd floor lobby of LKS)
Session II Chair: David Bilder
10:50-11:30 Matt Gibson, Stowers Institute
“Coordinating growth and morphogenesis in proliferating epithelia"
11:30-12:10 Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis
“Carbon flux through lipid synthesis dictates the capacity of the cell envelope and
couples cell size to nutrient availability in a model bacterium"
12:10-1:30 Lunch (not provided)
Session III Chair: David Wake
1:30-2:10 Fernando Camargo, Harvard University & Children's Hospital Boston
"Clonal analysis of stem cell and progenitor compartment size in mammals"
2:10-2:50 Rachel Mueller. Colorado State University
"Salamander cells are big on transposable elements"
2:50-3:30 Marino Zerial, Max Planck Institute, Dresden
"Principles of liver tissue organization"
3:30-3:50 Break (2nd floor lobby of LKS)
Session IV Chair: Iswar Hariharan
3:50 – 4:30 L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
"Simple physical views on biological size and shape: from organelles to organs”
4:30-5:10 Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco
"How cells control size and proportion"
5:10 Closing remarks by Iswar Hariharan
Reception (2nd floor lobby of LKS)