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Program Information

The conference opens Wednesday evening with the Whiteley lecture, presented by Professor Billie Swalla from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Five Invited Speakers will lead platform sessions on Thursday and Friday focusing on "Development of Form and Function."

The organizers will choose 25 speakers from the submitted Abstracts.

The Schedule of Events includes poster sessions each evening and a free afternoon to explore the island.

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Invited Speakers

Whiteley Lecturer:

Invited Speakers:

  • Siobhan Brady - University of California, Davis
    Arabidopsis root spatiotemporal gene regulatory networks 
    


  • 
Kurt Haas
 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver

    
Direct  
in vivo 
imaging of developmental brain plasticity within the awake  
Xenopus laevis
tadpole
 

    


  • 
Kristin Scott
 - University of California, Berkeley

    
Taste recognition in Drosophila 

    


  • 
Henk Roelink
 - University of California, Berkeley 

    
Signaling in the absence of primary cilia and  
Ptch1

    



Education Speaker: 

  • 
David Ng
 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver

    
Can Developmental Biologists Save the World? 

    



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Preliminary Schedule of Events
















Wednesday March 14 









15:00-20:00
Registration and poster set-up




18:30-19:45
Dinner




19:45
Welcome by Conference Organizers and NW SDB representative




20:00-21:15
Arthur Whiteley Lecture: 





Dr. Billie Swalla, University of Washington





"A tale of notochord loss in ascidians"




21:30-23:00
Poster Session and Mixer




















Thursday March 15 









07:30-08:30
Breakfast




08:35-10:20
Platform Session I:





Dr. Kristin Scott, University of California, Berkeley 





"Taste recognition in Drosophila"  (45 minutes)





Four 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




10:20-10:50
Coffee break




10:50-12:30
Platform Session II, Education Session: 





Dr. David Ng, University of British Columbia





"Can developmental biologists save the world?"  (45 minutes)





Four 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




12:30-13:30
Lunch




13:30-18:30
Free time to explore the island and talk with colleagues




18:30-19:45
Dinner




20:00-23:00
Poster Session and Mixer




















Friday March 16 









07:30-08:30
Breakfast




08:35-10:05
Platform Session III: 





Dr. Henk Roelink, University of California, Berkeley





"Signaling in the absence of primary cilia and Ptch1" (45 minutes)





Three 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




10:05-10:35
Coffee break




10:35-12:30
Platform Session IV: 





Dr. Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis





"Arabidopsis root spatiotemporal gene regulatory networks" (45 minutes)





Four 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




12:30-13:30
Lunch




13:45-15:30
Platform Session V: 





Dr. Kurt Haas, University of British Columbia 





"Direct in vivo imaging of developmental brain plasticity within the awake Xenopus laevis tadpole" (45 minutes)





Four 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




15:30-16:00
Coffee Break




16:00-17:30
Platform Session VI: 





Six 15-minute talks selected from the abstracts.




18:30-19:30
Dinner




20:00-22:30
Poster Session and Mixer




22:30-23:00
Presentation of Student and Postdoctoral fellow awards




















Saturday March 17 









07:30-08:30 AM
Breakfast and Departures











Download a pdf version of the 
Preliminary Schedule of Events

Awards


The organizers will deputize judges who will evaluate the platform and poster presentations of undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows (faculty and staff are not eligible for awards).  The best presenters in each category will receive a monetary award.  To qualify for these awards, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students 
must  
be SDB members in good standing at the time they submit their abstract to the regional meeting.  


Grand Prize 
: One graduate student and one postdoctoral fellow will receive $1000 to defray travel and meeting expenses associated with presenting their work at the
SDB 71st Annual Meeting
, in Montreal, Canada, July 19-23, 2012.  Grand prize winners should also submit their abstracts to the national meeting by March 15, 2012.  Organizers of the national meeting will automatically consider the postdoctoral winner's abstract for one of the eight 15-minute slots at the special Postdoctoral Symposium.



Exhibitors