From Genes to Form: Celebrating 15 Years of Developmental Biology at Sloan Kettering Institute

Time

Events

9:00 am

Breakfast

9:30 am

Introductory remarks by Craig Thompson
President and CEO
Memorial Sloan Kettering

9:40 am

Mitochondrial Germline Inheritance and Selection
Ruth Lehmann
Chair, Department of Cell Biology
Director, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell Biology
New York University Langone Health

10:20 am

The Evolution of Dorsoventral Patterning in Insects
Siegfried Roth
Professor, Institute for Zoology Biocenter
University of Cologne

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Identifying Genetic and Environmental Factors Causing Developmental Defects in Humans and Mice
Sally Dunwoodie
Head, Embryology Laboratory
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

12:10 pm

How Developmental Biology Training Helps Us Measure Resilience to Infections
David Schneider
Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University

1:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Development of the Vertebrate Neural Tube: Pattern, Position, Precision and Proportion
James Briscoe
Group Leader, Developmental Dynamics Laboratory
The Francis Crick Institute

2:40 pm

Fishing for the Secrets of Vertebrate Evolution
David Kingsley
Professor, Developmental Biology
Stanford University

3:20 pm

Break

3:50 pm

Vertebrate Gastrulation: in vivo and in vitro
Lila Solnica-Krezel
Professor and Head, Developmental Biology
Washington University School of Medicine

4:30 pm

Genetics, Temperature Extremes and Developmental Transitions in Early Drosophila Embryos
Eric Wieschaus
Professor, Molecular Biology
Princeton University 

5:15 pm

Closing remarks

5:30 pm

Reception