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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



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