Short Program:

Tuesday September 25, 2007, 1:30 pm-5:30 pm

Frank Gertler (MIT)
Regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics during nervous system development

Jean Schwarzbauer (Princeton)
Cell migration and control of gonad morphogenesis in C. elegans

Paul Kulesa (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
Catching neural crest cells in the act of migration

Eventing Banquet at the Weisman Art Museum at 6 pm

Jonathan Slack (University of Minnesota)
Stem cell research: applied developmental biology


Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 9:00 am-4:30 pm

Caroline Hill (London Research Institute)
Kinesin-mediated transport of Smad2 is required for signaling in response to TGF-ß ligands

Kathryn Anderson (Sloan-Kettering) 
Signaling in the mouse embryo: location, location, location

Poster Session and Lunch

Bob Goldstein (Univ. North Carolina)
Generating cell polarity in the C. elegans embryo

Laurie Smith (University of California - San Diego)
Asymmetric cell division in plants