2Nd Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Development

2nd Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Development

January 31stFebruary 1st, 2004

The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA

This Conference is part of a new initiative in Developmental Biology.

It is part of a short summer semester course in Developmental Biology beginning in 2003 at UWA.

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This Conference was made possible by funding from

The University of Western Australia (UWA).

The Faculty of Life and Physical Science, UWA

STINT(the Swedish Foundation for International

Cooperation in Research and Higher Education)

Invited speakers

Manuel Selg University of Lund, Sweden
Michael Sixt University of Lund, Sweden
Rupert Hallmann University of Lund, Sweden
Ralph Ruebsam University of Erlangen, Germany
Sergey Parinov University of Singapore, Singapore
Patrick Tam University of Sydney, Australia
Pritinder Kaur Peter McCallum Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Vance Matthews (representing George Yeoh)UWA, Perth, Australia Arun (Dharma) Dharmarajan UWA, Perth, Australia

Conference organisers:

Miranda Grounds (School of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA)

Rupert Hallmann (Lund University, Sweden & Visiting Professor, UWA)

Lydia Sorokin (Lund University, Sweden & Visiting Professor, UWA)

The support and administrative assistance of

Ms Jenny Longley and Marilyn Davies are gratefully acknowledged.

Summer Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Development

January 31stFebruary 1st , 2004. The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA

Held in the Room SSLR1, SocialScienceBuilding, next to the Oak lawn (see map).

Day 1. Saturday 31st January Registration from 8.15am

Liver, Heart and Lung. Chair: Miranda Grounds

9:00 - 9:10Miranda Grounds Welcome and Introductory remarks:

9:10 - 9:40Vance Matthews (Perth) Liver regeneration: which cells and which cytokines are involved?

9:40 - 10:05Kaye Stenvers (Melbourne) Defective heart and liver development in type III TGF-beta receptor-deficient embryos.

10:05 - 10:30Tim Moss (Perth) Inflammation-induced alterations in fetal lung development

10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

Muscles and bones. Chair:Jason White

11:00 - 11:25Robert White (Perth) Do Pax genes play a role in arthropod muscle regeneration?

11:25 - 11:50Phil Runham(Perth) Epipubic bone osteogenesis and breathing related abdominal muscle activity in the bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

11:50 - 12:15Daniel Blashki(Melbourne) Osteochondral potential of clonogenic dermal progenitors from adult mouse dermis

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

Vasculature and basement membranes. Chair:Lydia Sorokin

1:30 - 2:00Rupert Hallmann (Lund, Sweden) Local, tissue-specific differentiation of blood vessel endothelium

2:00 - 2:30Manuel Selg(Lund, Sweden) The embryoid body as a model system for lymphangiogenesis

2:30 - 3.00Pritinder Kaur (Melbourne) The role of dermal cells and LAM-10/11 in promoting epidermal tissue formation

3.00-3:30 Afternoon Tea

T cell differentiation and apoptosis. Chair: Manuel Selg

3:30 - 4:00 Michael Sixt(Lund, Sweden) The role of antigen transport in thymic T-Cell education

4:00 - 4:30 David Izon(Perth) T cell development in a post-Notch world

4:30 - 5:00Arun Dharmarajan (Perth) Apoptosis: From Signalling Pathways to Therapeutic Tools

DAY 2. Sunday 1stFebruary

Patterning. Chair: Rupert Hallmann

9:00 - 9:40Patrick Tam (Sydney) The journey through the landscape of morphogenesis: Lineage allocation and tissue patterning

9: 40 - 10:10Ralph Ruebsam(Erlangen, Germany). On the origins of embryonic polarity in Drosophila

10:10 - 10:50Sergey Parinov (Singapore) Patterns of gene expression in live zebrafish embryo revealed by an enhancer trap transposable element

10:50 – 11:20 Morning Tea and sandwiches

Neuroscience. Chair:Jacqueline Phillips

11:20 - 11:50Piroska Rakoczy(Perth) The magic marrow: from stromal cells into photoreceptors

11:50 – 12:20Joanne Britto (Perth) Defining the role of neuregulin-2 in the nervous system using a knockout mouse model.

12:20 – 12:50Anke van Eekelen (Perth) Factor scl and brain development studied by conditional gene knockout analysis

12:50 – 1:20Marc Ruitenberg(Perth) CNS regeneration: guided by development?

Concluding remarks

End of conference