• Professor Billie Swalla - University of Washington, Seattle
  A tale of notochord loss in ascidians

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?