Poster Session I

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	Poster Session I
	Sunday, June 21 and Monday, June 22, 12 noon - 2:30 PM Presenting authors of odd number boards at posters for first 2 hours on 1st day of session. Presenting authors of even number boards at posters for first 2 hours on 2nd day of session.

	Themes:	Education, Gene Expression, Cell Lineage and Cell Fate, Patterning, Plant Development, Visual System, Neural Development, Medicine and Development, Late Breaking Research

	Education
	B1 How to create a poster that graphically communicates your message. K.W. Tosney.

	Gene Expression		Top of page
	B2 Multiple mechanisms regulate imprinting of the distal chromosome 7 gene cluster. T. Caspary, M.A. Cleary, C.C. Baker, X.-J. Guan and S.M. Tilghman. B3 Enhancer competition on mouse chromosome 7: how does H19 gain its advantage on the maternal chromosome? A.T. Hark, C.J. Schoenherr, R.S. Ingram and S.M. Tilgham. B4 Genetic control of the nodal locus D. Norris and E. Robertson. B5 High-mobility group proteins 14 and 17 are required for normal temporal progression of early mouse embryogenesis. O.A. Mohamed, M. Bustin and H.J. Clarke. B6 Regulation of gene expression by specific retinoic acid receptors during mouse development. D. Allan and D. Lohnes. B7 Characterization of novel genes expressed in the murine embryonic cardiovascular system. G.E. Lyons, B.J. Swanson, B. Micales, Y. Lee. B8 Molecular cloning and chromosomal mapping of elf3, a 200-kD beta-spectrin in mouse liver development. T. Cai, P. Yu, S.P.S. Monga, B. Mishra, L. Mishra. B9 in vivo functions of liver-specific TGF-beta superfamily members. A.L. Lau, Q. Guo, J. Bonadio and M.M. Matzuk. B10 Tissue specific expression of the murine Tlx3 during embryonic development. S.H. Cheng, R. Mo and C.-c. Hui. B11 B- and Z-DNA in the embryonic mouse lens fibers. C. Gagna, M. Robinson, H. Kou and W. Lambert. B12 Identification of chondrocyte-specific regulatory elements in the Hoxc-8 promoter. S. Cormier-Regard, C.H. Rundle and C. Kappen. B13 Obtaining and characterizing the full-length cDNA of a gene up-regulated during the programmed cell death (PCD) of developing sympathetic rat neurons. M.R. Quail and A.J. DiBenedetto. B14 A novel TFIID component regulates stage and tissue specific expression of spermatid differentiation. M.A. Hiller, T.-Y. Lin, H. White-Cooper, S. Marino, A. MacQueen, B.T. Wakimoto, M.T. Fuller. B15 Identification of the functional promoter of Sry gene. M. Xian, J. Zhang and Y. Chris Lau. B16 The murine Hoxb1 3' RAIDR_5 enhancer contains multiple regulatory elements. J.R. Thompson, D.Y. Huang and L.J. Gudas. B17 Distinct but overlapping transcriptional mechanisms regulate MyoD gene activation in myotomal and limb skeletal muscle lineages D.J. Goldhamer, C.M. Love and K.L. Kucharczuk. B18 Pax3 blocks the repressor activity and biological actions of MSX1. A. Bendall, G. Hu, M.M. Shen and C. Abate-Shen. B19 Regulation of the neural bHLH transcription factor, MATH1. A.W. Helms and J.E. Johnson. B20 Transcriptional regulation of the neural-specific gene GAP-43 by basic helix-loop-helix proteins during neuronal development. M.N. Uittenbogaard and A. Chiaramello. B21 Molecular cloning and regulation of avian fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) gene expression during skeletal muscle development. S. Patel, P.E. Funk and J.X. DiMario. B22 ZNF 6, a quail zinc finger gene expressed in ectoderm and ectoderm derived tissues. M. Barembaum and M. Bronner-Fraser. B23 Cloning and expression of avian Smad1, a cytoplasmic BMP signalling mediator, during chick embryonic development. A.H. Monsoro-Burq and N. Le Douarin. B24 Expression of stem-loop binding protein in murine oocytes and embryos. M. Champigny, Z. Wang, W. Marzluff and H. Clarke. B25 c-mos and cdc2 cooperate in the translational activation of fibroblast growth factor-1 during Xenopus oocyte maturation. P.A. Culp and T.J. Musci. B26 Xenopus RVP is an animally expressed gene that encodes a transmembrane receptor. B. Brizuela, O. Wessely, D. Giessert, E.M. De Robertis. B27 Functional knockout of the Spemann organizer specific gene XLIM-1 using a dominant interfering construct. A. Karavanov, L. Kodjabachian, T. Aoki, H. Hikasa, M. Taira and I. Dawid. B28 Xenopus nuclear factor 7 (XNF7) function is required for expression of specific genes in the mid-blastula embryo. H.M. El-Hodiri and L.D. Etkin. B29 Identification of a new family TGF-beta antagonists. D.R. Hsu, A.N. Economides, X. Wang, P.M. Eimon and R.M. Harland. B30 Molecular and functional characterization of XFLIP, a maternal member of the forkhead/winged helix family with mesoderm-inducing ability. S.A. Sullivan, M. Jamrich and S.A. Moody. B31 Molecular dissection of vascular development in Xenopus laevis. W.L. Ribeiro, A.M. Kraemer, B. Kuppusami, L.E. Park and M.S. Saha. B32 Tisssue-specific in vivo protein-DNA interactions at the promoter region of the 63kd keratin gene during metamorphosis. D. Warshawsky and L. Miller. B33 Identification of early response genes during Urodele limb regeneration R. Kittappa and H. Simon. B34 Expression of three zebrafish Rx genes in the developing eye. J.C. Chuang, P.H. Mathers and P.A. Raymond. B35 Silurana (xenopus) tropicalis: a new amphibian model for vertebrate developmental genetics. Z.L. Shook, D. Hirsch, N. Offield, M. Curran, K. Keller, R. Grainger. B36 Organisation of the gene Spfkh1. E.S. David, N.H. Luke and B.T. Livingston. B37 Examining gene function in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using RNA interference. C.A. Shelton and B. Bowerman. B38 grauzone: a Drosophila gene essential for the completion of female meiosis and translational regulation of bicoid mRNA. B. Chen, E. Harms, J. Peter Gergen, S. Strickland. B39 Accumulation of coactivator p300 results in transcriptional repression of undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma cells. M. Ota, K. Eto, Y. Ninomiya and M.A. Ikeda. B40 Characterization of a novel murine gene that is related to human E1A C-terminal binding protein. J. Shambaugh, B.J. Swanson, G. E, Lyons. B41 A retroviral vector system containing a tet-inducible marker allows rapid selection of cells displaying tet-responsive human growth hormone expression. A.M. Kringstein, F.M.V. Rossi and H.M. Blau. B42 Functional analyses untranslated regions of mammalian mRNAs using tetracyline regulatable retroviruses. A. Spicher, O.M. Guicherit, N.G. Turner, L. Duret and H.M. Blau. B43 A large scale in situ hybridization system using an equalized cDNA library: an approach to identify cDNAs whose mRNAs are differentially expressed in intestinal tissues T. Komiya, Y. Tanigawa and S. Hirohashi. B44 Gene expression information resource for mouse development. D. Begley, R. Baldock, J. Bard, D. Davidson, G. Davis, J.T. Eppig, K.S. Frazer, P.S. Johnson, J. Kadin, M. Kaufman, M. Mangan, R. Palazola, J. Richardson, L. Trepanier and M. Ringwald.

	Cell Lineage and Cell Fate		Top of page
	B45 Anterior/posterior fate decisions in C. elegans embryos. R.J. Hill, R. Lin, J.R. Priess. B46 Repression of the endodermal cell fate during C. elegans embryogenesis. K. Mickey and J. Priess. B47 Mosaic analysis reveals a lineage relationship among specialized follicle cells of the Drosophila ovary. M. Tworoger. Z. Bryant, M. Keller Larkin and H. Ruohola-Baker. B48 hopscotch Janus kinase signaling and maintenance of germ line stem cell self-renewal. A.A. Kiger and M.T. Fuller. B49 The role of signaling in the maintenance of the anterior-posterior lineage compartment boundary in the developing wing of Drosophila. S. Blair and A. Ralston. B50 Characterization of adirondack (adk), a modifier of the Notch signaling pathway. E.M. Verheyen and S. Artavanis-Tsakonas. B51 Sea urchin twist -mesodermal specification and more? W. Weng, J. Cheetham, J. Hardin and J.M. Venuti. B52 Developmental regulation of catecholamine levels during sea urchin embryogenesis. K. Anitole and K. Brown. B53 Analysis of micromere cell lineages in leech. F.Z. Huang and D.A. Weisblat. B54 Functional analyses of two germ plasm specific RNAs in Xenopus. M.L. King, D. Houston, H. MacArthur and I. Pfeifer. B55 Intermixing of cortical and deep cytoplasm affects dorsal fate of cleavage stage blastomeres in Xenopus. S. Huang and H.Z.P.Wang. B56 Elucidating the origins of the vascular system. K. Rael Mills and M.S. Saha. B57 BMPs play an inhibitory role early in the cardiac myogenesis pathway in the avian embryo. A.N. Ladd, T.A. Yatskievych and P.B. Antin. B58 Cell-cell contact increases apoptosis of a neurogenic subpopulation of avian neural crest cells. T. Maynard and J. Weston. B59 Signaling pathways involved in neural crest cell fate manipulation. L. Mohammad-Zadeh, N. Slawny, Y. Evrard and B. Holton. B60 Molecular characterization of neural crest cell related malformations in the patch mutant mouse. E.D. Dickman and S.J. Conway. B61 Control of neural crest cell fate by the Wnt signaling pathway. R.I. Dorsky, J. Yang-Snyder, R.T. Moon and D.W. Raible. B62 nacre, a gene required for melanophore development in zebrafish. J.A. Lister, C. Robertson, T. Lepage, J. Ungos and D.W. Raible. B63 Cell death differentially regulates neural stem cell behaviour in the mammalian adult versus embryonic nervous systems. C.M. Morshead, V. Tropepe and D. van der Kooy. B64 FGF2-responsive neural stem cells are lineage precursors of EGF-responsive neural stem cells during forebrain development. V. Tropepe, B.G. Ciruna, J.Rossant and D. der Kooy. B65 Ventrally emigrating neural tube cells give rise to muscle, cartilage and epithelial cells in craniofacial region. G.S. Sohal. B66 Contribution of foregut endoderm to tooth initiation in rat embryos. G.H. Imai, K. Aoto, T. Iimura, M. Ikeda and K. Eto. B67 Increased pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation in HES-1 null mutant mice causes severe pancreatic hypoplasia. J. Jensen, P. Galante, P. Serup, M. Ishibashi, R. Kagayama, O.D.Madsen. B68 Sertoli cells of the mouse testis originate from the coelomic epithelium. J. Karl and B. Capel. B69 Fate mapping of cells expressing wnt-1 in the mouse embryo using a Cre-LoxP driven cell marking system. S.K. Michael, D.H. Rowitch, A.P. McMahon and E.J. Robertson. B70 Chimeric analysis of epidermal growth factor receptor null cells during embryogenesis. K.E. Strunk and D.W. Threadgill. B71 Commitment and differentiation of keratin 15 (K15) positive epidermal progenitors from epidermal stem cells in vitro. K. Turksen and T-C. Troy

	Patterning		Top of page
	B72 Kinetic theory of pattern formation applied to plants and animals: a few examples. L.G. Harrison. B73 Algal morphogenesis: modelling interspecific variation in Micrasterias with reaction-diffusion patterned catalysis of cell surface growth. D.M. Holloway and L.G. Harrison. B74 Regulation of cell fusion in C. elegans. S. Alper and C. Kenyon. B75 PCK-dependent positioning of septin-like filaments during regeneration in a ciliate Paraurostyla weissei. M. Jerka-Dziadosz, W. Krawczynska and K. Muszynska. B76 Calcium-modulated contraction of a microfilament network in the animal hemisphere cortex may drive ooplasmic segregation in zebrafish zygotes. C.F. Leung, S.E. Webb and A.L. Miller. B77 Roles of retinoid metabolism during development. E.C. Swindell, C. Thaller, M. Petkovich, S. Sockanathan, T.M. Jessell and G. Eichele. B78 Wnt signaling is required for gastrulation and aboral ectoderm formation in the sea urchin embryo. A.H. Wikramanayake, L. Huang, S. Dayal and W. Klein. B79 XIP3-5, a novel gene that may function in the differentiation of the ectoderm. C. Wu, H. Nakamura, A.P. Chan, T. Cao and L.D. Etkin. B80 Molecular dissection of the omb regulatory region. R. Sivasankaran and Konrad Basler. B81 Proteolytic activation of BMP-4 by furin and PC6 in vivo. Y. Cui, F. Jean, G. Thomas and J.L. Christian. B82 Cloning and characterization of a novel axin-related gene. T. Zhang, L. Zeng, F. Fagotto. B83 Generation of deletions of wnt and wnt-pathway genes in zebrafish. A.C. Lekven, K.A. Helde, R. Rooke, C. Winkler and R.T. Moon. B84 Antagonist-mediated inactivation strategy for determining endothelin type A receptor functions in the chick embryo. H. Kempf, P. Corval and J.M. Gasc. B85 PROX1 function is required during murine cellular differentiation. G. Oliver, J. Wigle, P. Gruss and B. Sosa-Pineda. B86 Analysis of Indian hedgehog expression during early mouse embryonic development. P. Maye, S. Becker, L. Lock, T. Zanders, S. Shah and L. Grabel. B87 Redundant functions of BMP 5 and BMP 7 during early mouse development. M.J. Solloway, A.T. Dudley, and E.J. Robertson. B88 The mouse cerberus-like gene family: expression and BMP inhibition. J.J.H. Pearce and J. Rossant. B89 Tissue specific gene inactivation of bone morphogenetic protein 4 in mice. H. Kulessa, M. Weaver, A. Davis, J. Marth and B. Hogan. B90 Evidence for positional signaling by BMP-2 in the chick limb bud. J. Revelli, C. Thaller and G. EicheleY. B91 Developmental interactions between the ectodermal-defect limb mutations eudiplopodia and limbless in the chicken embryo. J.M. Pisenti and U.K. Abbott. B92 Universality of combined morphogen action for the limb axes formation in vertebrates and insects. S. Papageorgiou and Y. Almirantis. B93 Balance of hedgehog and patched required for proper limb patterning. L. Milenkovic, L.V. Goodrich and M.P. Scott. B94 Targeted disruption of lmx1b reveals its multiple functions in limb and mid-hindbrain development. H. Chen, Y. Lun, D. Ovchinnikov, L. Gan, J.A. GoldenY and R.L. Johnson. B95 Wnts antagonize shh-mediated ventralization in neural plate explants. C. Robertson and H. Roelink. B96 Reduction of sonic hedgehog signaling results in cell death in the neural tube and branchial arches S.C. Ahlgren, M. Bronner-Fraser. B97 Hoxa-2 restricts the chondrogenic domain and inhibits bone formation during development of the branchial area. M. Mallo, B. Kanzler, Y. Liu and S.J. Kuschert. B98 Regulation of cartilage differentiation by homeobox gene Hoxc-8. D.P. Gardner, Y. Gloria Yueh, C. Kappen. B99 A role for chordin in skeletogenesis. S. Fisher, V. MilleruBertoglio and M. Halpern. B100 Molecular consequences of a Hoxa13 mutation in Hypodactyly mice. L.C. Post and J.W. Innis. B101 Ectopic expression of cdx-4 in chimeric mice. D.M. Boucher, M.L. Flannery, J.J. Meneses and R.A. Pedersen. B102 Epithelial/mesenchymal interactions in the development of the vertebrate hindgut, role of Hoxd13 in large intestinal epithelial differentiation. D.J. Roberts, D. Smith, D. Goff, and C. Tabin. B103 Tissue patterning of the tail bud mesenchyme. D.C. Goldman , G.R. Martin and P.P.L. Tam B104 Developmental patterning in the C. elegans tail: a genetic pathway involving the Pax gene egl-38. H.M. Chamberlin and J.H. Thomas. B105 swirl, snailhouse and somitabun function in the BMP pathway of genes to establish ventral positional information in the zebrafish embryo. B. Schmid, V.H. Nguyen, J. Trout, S.A. Connors, D.S. Wagner and M.C. Mullins. B106 Characterization of the zebrafish gastrula organizer. Leonor Saude, Wolfgang Driever and Derek L. Stemple. B107 Induction of secondary body axes by lowering cAMP in the ventral region of Xenopus embryo. M. Kim and J. Han. B108 A novel family of retrotransposon-like elements in Xenopus laevis with a ventralization activity. S. Shim, S. Lee and J. Han. B109 The roles of the bHLH proteins, ESR-5 and Thylacine 1, in the segmentation of the paraxial mesoderm in Xenopus embryos. W.-C. Jen, D. Sparrow, T. Mohun and C. Kintner. B110 lunatic fringe is an essential mediator of somite segmentation and patterning. Y.A. Evrard and R.L. Johnson. B111 Dynamic lunatic fringe expression in the avian segmental plate. A. Aulehla and R.L. Johnson. B112 swirl, somitabun, and snailhouse specify ventral and lateral regions, including the neural crest progenitors, of the zebrafish embryo. V.H. Nguyen and M.C. Mullins. B113 The role of neural crest cells in specification of fiber type heterogeneity in developing craniofacial skeletal muscles. R.S. Marcucio and D.M. Noden. B114 Cell lineage establishment fast and slow muscle fiber distribution in developing skeletal muscle in chimeric embryos. W. Nikovits, Jr., G. Cann and F.E. Stockdale. B115 The novel signal peptides pedibin/Hym-346 lower positional value thereby enhancing foot formation in hydra. A. Grens, H. Shimizu, S. Hoffmeister, H. Bode and T. Fujisawa.

	Plant Development		Top of page
	B116 Tip and diffuse growth in adult Acetabularia acetabulum. M. von Dassow, G. Odell and D.F. Mandoli. B117 Diffusible morphogens with ecological significance in mosses. M.L. Christianson. B118 Cell ancestry and the development of photosynthesis in leaves. J. Croxdale and K. Omasa.

	Visual System		Top of page
	B119 Expression of the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor, Mitf in the developing mouse eye. M.T. Nguyen and H. Arnheiter. B120 Math5 encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor specifically expressed in the developing mouse retina. Nadean L. Brown, Monica L. Vetter, Priscilla K. Tucker, Shami Kanekar, Debi L. Gemza and Tom M. Glaser. B121 Rhodopsin expression regulation in the adult Drosophila eye: a paradigm for cell-cell communication. P. Beaufils, D. Papatsenko, A. Tahayato, C. Desplan. B122 Role of POU-domain brn-3b gene retinal ganglion cell development. L. Gan, S. Wang and W.H. Klein. B123 Characterization of the role of ephrins in visual system development in mammals. D. Feldheim, M. Hanson, P. Vanderhaeghan and J. Flanagan. B124 A role for Bcl-2 family members and caspases in nuclear degeneration during chick lens fibre differentiation. M.A. Wride, E. Parker and E.J. Sanders. B125 The role of lmx1b in the development of the anterior segment of the eye. C.L. Pressman and R.L. Johnson. B126 Nitric oxide and cGMP regulate Drosophila visual development: in vitro and in vivo analysis of guanylate cyclase mutants. S.M. Gibbs and J.W. Truman.

	Neural Development		Top of page
	B127 Serotonin and early sea urchin embryogenesis: induction of serotonergic neurons. K. Brown and K. Anitole. B128 Identification of allatostatic neuropeptide and immunodetection of allatostatin-producing neurons in Bombxy mori. C. Park, S. Jeon and B.H. Lee. B129 Isoform-specific developmental expression of fasciclin II and its role in the migration of cells of the embryonic enteric nervous system of Manduca sexta. J. Wright, M. Snyder and P.F. Copenhaver. B130 daf-19 regulates the formation of ciliated endings of sensory neurons in C. elegans. P. Swoboda and J.H. Thomas. B131 Molecular genetic analysis of the tapered gene in Drosophila melanogaster. R.D. Bien-Willner and W.W. Doane. B132 Peripheral nerve connections influence the appearance of fmrfamide-like material in the neural sheath of the fly gaglion. P. Sivasubramanian. B133 Regulation of neuronal migration by heterotrimeric G proteins and calcium. P.F. Copenhaver, A.M. Horgan, M. Synder and K. Schwinof. B134 The OTX homeodomain promotes cell adhesion in the zebrafish embryo. E.S. Weinberg, G. Bellipanni, T. Murakami and O.G. Doerre. B135 A zebrafish deltaA mutation disrupts specification of spinal cord neurons and floorplate. B. Appel, A. Fritz, M. Westerfield, D.J. Grunwald, J.S. Eisen and B. Riley. B136 Segmentation in the leech central nervous system. Daniel H. Shain and David A. Weisblat. B137 Mutations affecting the development of catecholaminergic neurons in zebrafish. S. Guo, W. Driever and A. Rosenthal. B138 Morphogenesis of the neural tube in Xenopus laevis. L.A. Davidson, M. Shah, A. Edlund and R.E. Keller. B139 The role of XlPOU2 in early neurogenesis. M. Matsuo-Takasaki and S.M. Sato. B140 Conversion of ectoderm into neurons by XBF, Xenopus brain factor. F. Mariani and R. Harland. B141 Plasticity and determination of the anterior-posterior neural axis in Xenopus. R.W. Jackson and M.S. Saha. B142 Cloning and embryonic expression patterns of alpha2-adrenergic and a histamine H1-like receptors in Xenopus laevis. C.M. Brown and M.S. Saha. B143 FGF and its receptor can facilitate the invariant growth cone response to Schwann cell contact. L.C. Foa, K.J. Balazovich and K.W. Tosney. B144 An avian model to test neuroectodermal potency, patterning and morphogenesis. D. Darnell and G. Schoenwolf. B145 Roles for FGFs during chick neural development. J. Walshe, H. Shamim, C. Irving, R. Mahmood, G. Grasso and A.I. Mason. B146 Expression of hand gene products may be sufficient for the differentiation of neural crest-derived cells into catecholaminergic neurons in avians. M.J. Howard and P. Cserjesi. B147 Misexpression of sonic hedgehog affects pattern formation of the eye and the rostral brain. X. Yang, X. Zhang and E. Lin. B148 Proliferation of progenitor cells in the vertebrate CNS is regulated by Sonic hedgehog. D.H. Rowitch, B. St.-Jacques, J. Flax, S.M.K. Lee and A.P. McMahon. B149 Sonic hedgehog regulates proliferation of granule cell precursors in the developing cerebellum. R.J. Wechsler-Reya, J. Roosa and M.P. Scott. B150 The homeobox gene Nkx6.1 is required for the development of subsets of motor neurons in the mouse spinal cord. M. Sander, S. Paydar, M.S. German, J.L.R. Rubenstein. B151 The flat-top mutant mouse lacks a telencephalon. K. Hentges and A. Peterson. B152 Impaired hippocampal development in Lhx5 deficient mice. Y. Zhao, H.Z. Sheng, A. Grinberg, E.J. Lee, S.P. Huang and H. Westphal. B153 Hypoxia-induced apoptosis is required for proper embryonic development. E.Y. Chen, M. Fujinaga and A.J. Giaccia. B154 Persistence of neural crest stem cells during the development of the peripheral nervous system. S.J. Morrison, C. Zock, D.J. Anderson. B155 Targeted mutation of the Dlx-5 gene causes abnormal development of the olfactory bulb. J.E. Long, M. Depew, J.K. Liu, J.J. Meneses, R.A. Pedersen and J.L.R. Rubenstein. B156 Systematic characterization by in situ hybridization of the embryonic expression patterns of murine cDNAs homologous to Drosophila mutant genes (DRES, Drosophila-related expressed sequence). A. Bulfone, C. Gattuso, S. Banfi, G. Borsani and A. Ballabio. B157 The induction of programmed cell death genes within the model of the rat. T.A. Ladrigan, R.M. Gardener and A. DiBenedetto. B158 Overexpression of dHAND in P19 cells activates a cascade of bHLH transcription factors and promotes the formation and differentiation of sympathetic neurons. Y. Dai and P. Cserjesi. B159 Early regional patterning of the embryonic mouse hippocampus. S. Tole and E.A. Grove. B160 Expression of Kv1.1, a shaker-like potassium channel, is temporally regulated in embryonic neurons and glia. J.L. Hallows and B.L. Tempel.

	Medicine and Development		Top of page
	B161 A mouse model of in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. T. Wacharaprechanont, M.T. Firpo, J.D. Goldberg and R.A. Pedersen. B162 Myoblast-mediated gene delivery of constitutively expressed VEGF results in uncontrolled endothelial cell hyperplasia and hemangioma formation. M.L. Springer, A.S.-Y. Chen, P.E. Kraft and H.M. Blau. B163 Towards development of an in vitro model of human BCC formation. A.E. Oro, H. Fan, P.A. Khavari and M.P. Scott. B164 Tout velu, a Drosophila homolog of the putative tumor suppressor gene Ext-1, is required for the diffusion of Hedgehog. I. The, Y. Bellaiche, N. Perrimon. B165 Migration of neural crest cells is blocked in mouse embryos exposed in utero to sodium valproate S.W. Chen and L.J. Gudas.

	Late Breaking Research		Top of page
	B166 Regulatory mutations affecting human PAX6 expression. James D. Lauderdale, Jonathan S. Wilensky, David S. Walton and Tom Glaser. B167 A zebrafish model for hepatoerythropoietic porphyria. Han Wang, Qiaoming Long, Scott D. Marty, Shigeru Sassa and Shuo Lin. B168 The Arabidopsis HOBBIT gene is involved in root meristem formation. Saskia Folmer, Viola Willemsen, Geert de Vrieze, Harold Wolkenfelt and Ben Scheres. B169 The eye-specification genes sine oculis and eyes absent control multiple steps in Drosophila eye development. Francesca Pignoni, B. Hu, K. Zavitz, J. Xiao and S.L. Zipursky. B170 Expression of CnOtx, an orthodenticle--related gene, in develooping buds of Hydra vulgaris. Kerry M. Smith and Hans R. Bode. B171 Neural tube expression of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) and receptor: potential role in patterning and neurogenesis. James A. Waschek, Robert A. Casillas, Thinh B. Nguyen, Emanuel M. DiCicco-Bloom, Ellen M. Carpenter and William I. Rdriguez. LB10 B172 Region-specific enhencers regulate Mash1 expression in the developing central nervous system. S. Verma-Kurvari, T. Savage, D. Smith, A. Abney and J.E. Johnson. B173 Development of mu opioid receptor mRNA in fetal monkey brain. J.M. Moore, B. Naylor, L. Chai and O.K. Ronnekleiv. B174 Hroth, the ascidian homolog of orthodenticle/otx, is responsible for specification of vegetal cell fates and formation of anterior neuroectoderm. Shuichi Wada and Hidetoshi Saiga. B175 Novel genes expressed in the mouse gonad at the time of sex-determination. Nobuyoshi Takasaki, Robert McIsaac and Jurrien Dean. B176 Analysis of the Brachyury promoter using transgenic Xenopus embryos. Walter Lerchner, Branko V. Latinkic and Jim C. Smith. B177 Analysis of multiple Pax-6 transcripts in Xenopus laevis. Brian M. Sander, Michael P. Pape and Gail D. Burd. B178 Frizzled's and their roles in chick limb development. Christine Hartmann, Mineko Kengaku and Clifford Tabin. B179 A signal peptide trap screen for signaling molecules involved in limb patterning. Ronen Schweitzer and Clifford Tabin. B180 Mouse mab-21 homolog expression pattern in mouse embryos reveals its potential role in craniofacial and limb development. K.Lung Chan and King L. Chow. B181 The LIM domain binding protein Ldb1 is a transcription cofactor required for head formation and mesoderm patterning. Alan D. Agulnick, Tsuyoshi Yamashita, Joseph J. Breen, Isobel A. Wadman, Masanori Taira, Susan E. Baldwin, Sing-Ping Huang, Alexander Grinberg, Terence H. Rabbitts, Igor B. Dawid and Heiner Westphal. B182 Functional investigation of GCN5 and P/CAF acetyltransferases in mammalian development. Wanting Xu, Diane Edmondson, Maki Wakamiya, Richard Behringer and Sharon Y. Roth. B183 Eomesodermion can trigger neural differentiation. Kenneth Ryan and J.G. Gurdon. B184 A nuclear lamin is required for organizing cell polarity in Drosophila. Karen Guillemin, Tyler Williams and Mark Krasnow.
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