2001 Society for Developmental Biology Regional Meetings

Northwest Regional Meeting, March 8-10, 2001 *Best Talks & Poster Awards*

Northeast Regional Meeting, April 27-29, 2001 *Best Poster Awards*

West Coast Regional Meeting, May 11-13, 2001 *Best Talks & Poster Awards*

Midwest Regional Meeting and Singer Symposium, May 19-22, 2001 *Best Talks & Poster Awards*

Southeast Regional Meeting, May 23-25, 2001 *Best Poster Awards*

Southwest-Gulf Regional Meeting, held September 21-23, 2001 in New Orleans, LA.

Northwest Regional Meeting, held March 8-10, 2001 at the Friday Harbor Laboratory in Washington State.

Organized by: Barbara Taylor [email protected] and Carol Rivin [email protected]

Program

Best Talks

Birth order and GMC specification in the NB7-3 lineage of Drosophila melanogaster. Rachel Karcavich* and Chris Q. Doe. Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403.

Insulin-likeGrowth Factors promote somite myogenesis in the avian embryo. Julie Kiefer*, Asta Pirskanen and Steve Hauschka. Biochemistry Department. University of Washington. Box 357350 Seattle WA 98195.

Best Posters

The zona limitans intrathalamica as a signaling center in forebrain development. Michelle Braun and Henk Roelink. Neurobiology and Behavior Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.

lzr/hox dependent specification of cranial motor neuron fates in the anterior zebrafish hindbrain. Kimberly Cooper and Cecilia Moens. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. Seattle WA.

Northeast Regional Meeting, April 27-29, 2001 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Organized by Elizabeth Gavis ([email protected]) and Malcolm Whitman ([email protected]); meeting's Web site.

Best Posters

First Prize: Carolyn Rodriguez, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, "Using FLP recombinase to fate map neurons of the precerebellar system."

Second Prize: James Culverwell, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, "The zebrafish belladonna mutation specifically affects axon guidance in the ventral forebrain."

Runner up: Rachel Darken, Dept. of Cell Biology, Cornell University Medical College, "Dorsal inductive competence and the Wnt pathway."

Runner up: Yoichi Kato, Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, "GRASS is a specific co-activator for Nodal/Activin signaling."

West Coast Developmental Biology Conference, May 11-13, 2001, at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center

Keynote speakers: Eddy DeRobertis & Matthew Scott Other speakers: Raffi Aroian, Kavita Arora, Utpal Banerjee, Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Jau-Nian Chen, Sioux Christensen, Joe Ecker, Scott Fraser, Minx Fuller, Karen Lyons, Bill McGinnis, Jim Posakony, Joel Rothman, Paul Sternberg, Rahul Warrior, Steve Wasserman. In this highly interactive weekend meeting, research at the forefront of molecular, genetic and cellular development wase presented in the beautiful mountain setting of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Meeting website: http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/WCRDB Conference organizers: Judith Lengyel ([email protected]) and Rick Firtel ([email protected]); Meeting Program; Meeting Poster (187K jpg file)

Best Talk by Graduate Student/Postdoc:

Andrew J. Ewald, Graduate Student

Volumetric Studies of the Interactions Between Migrating Neural Crest Cells and Their Environment, by Andrew J. Ewald, Helen McBride, Scott E. Fraser, Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Best Poster:

Lisa M Galli, Research Technician (recent undergrad in same lab)

Analysis of the role of Frzb-1 in modulating Wnt-3a activity, by Lisa M. Galli, Steve C. Wang, Shinji Takada, Laura W. Burrus, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA

Best Poster (Honorable Mention):

Joshua Johnson, Graduate Student

The notch signaling pathway is implicated in mammalian ovarian follicle development, by Joshua Johnson, Tamata Espinoza, Robert W. McGaughey, Alan Rawls, and Jeanne Wilson-Rawls, Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Midwest Regional Meeting and Singer Symposium, May 19-22, 2001, at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri.

Meeting's Web site; Organized by Catherine Krull ([email protected])

Outstanding oral presentations (grad student or postdoc):

Analysis of tangential neuronal migration in the zebrafish hindbrain. Stephanie Bingham and Anand Chandrasekhar, University of Missouri-Columbia, Biological Sciences, Columbia, MO 65211.

The RB pathway in Chlamydomonas: a key for understanding the role of cell cycle control in the developmental evolution of colonial algae. James G. Umen and Ursula W. Goodenough, Dept of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130.

Outstanding undergraduate student poster presentation:

Mosaic analysis of beta 3-tubulin somatic clones in the Drosophila melanogaster visual system. Li C. Wong, H.D. Hoyle, F.R. Turner, E.C. Raff, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

Effect of ethanol on the development of the Zebrafish, Danio rerio. Matt Larson and Paul Z. Myers, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN 56267

Outstanding poster presentation (grad student or postdoc):

Neurotrophic efects by live sheath cells and arterial cells and their substrates on bag cell neurons of Aplysia. Bina H. Vanmali, Maria C. Messner, Mark D. Kirk, University of Missouri-Columbia, Biological Sciences, Columbia, MO 65211

Phylogenetic analyses alone will never distinguish between one or more whole-genome duplications during early vertebrate evolution. Amy C. Horton, Ilya Ruvinsky, Jeremy J. Gibson-Brown, Dept of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130

Identification of the molecular mechanisms associated with fibroblast growth factor 8b and 10-mediated dysmorphogenesis of the chick inner ear. John V. Brigande, D. Biesemeier, Donna M. Fekete, Dept of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Experimental analysis of the "branching and segmentation" model of tetrapod limb development. Randall D. Dahn and John F. Fallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

Southeast Regional Meeting, May 23-25, 2001, at the Montreat Conference Center near Asheville, North Carolina

This three-day event featured a keynote address by Dr. Robb Krumlauf, workshops, poster sessions, and floor sessions on the topics of Evolution in Development, Induction and Cell Lineage Specification, and Organogenesis and Morphogenesis. Speakers included Bruce Appel (Vanderbilt), David Greenstein (Vanderbilt),Greg Gibson (NCSU), Ray Keller (UVA), Peggy Kirby (MCGA), Erik Meyers (DUMC), Terry Magnuson (UNC), Guillermo Oliver (St. Jude's), Larysa Pevny (UNC), Margaret Saha (William and Mary), Michael Scanlon (UGA), and Greg Wray (DUMC). Meeting web site (http://www.2001-se-meeting-db.bigstep.com/homepage.html); meeting organizers were Blanche Capel ([email protected]) and Terry Magnuson ([email protected]).

Best Posters

First Prize Winner:

ANALYSIS OF MIDLINE CELL FATE IN ZEBRAFISH

Andrew Latimer, Autumn Jackson, Xinhong Dong, Paul Marasco, J.J. Westmoreland, Megan Emery and Bruce Appel

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235

Two Second Prize Winners:

MICE WITH DYSFUNCTIONAL EGOs; MICROMANIPULATIONS OF EED MUTANT EMBRYOS

Jesse Mager and Terry Magnuson

Dept of Genetics, University of NC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

ROLES OF MEIOTIC GERM CELLS IN SEX DETERMINATION OF MAMMALIAN GONADS

Humphrey Yao and Blanche Capel

Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710