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SUNDAY, May 20th
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
6:00pm Welcome Dinner and Registration Check-In
Encantada One

MONDAY, May 21st
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
8:00-8:55am BREAKFAST
Encantada Patio
8:55am Welcome and Agenda Review - Timothy Newman
Encantada 1
9:00-10:00am

Reverse-engineering morphogenesis: the forces that shape the embryo
Lance Davidson

Encantada 1
10:00-11:00am

Quantifying adhesive and tensile cell properties determining germ layer organization during gastrulation
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Encantada 1
11:00am-12:00pm Cooperation of polarized cell intercalations drives convergence and extension of presomitic mesoderm during zebrafish gastrulation
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Encantada 1
12:00-1:30pm LUNCH
Encantada 2
1:30-2:30pm Notch signaling and the somite segmentation clock: mathematical modeling and experimental validation
Julian Lewis
Encantada 1
2:30-3:30pm Dissecting the dynamics of a simple genetic oscillator
Nick Monk
Encantada 1
3:30-3:45pm BREAK
3:45-4:45pm Vertebrate segmentation: clocks and models
Olivier Pourquie
Encantada 1
4:45-5:30pm FREE TIME
5:30-6:00pm Cocktail reception
Encantada Patio
6:00-7:30pm DINNER
Encantada 2

TUESDAY, May 22nd
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
8:00-9:00am BREAKFAST
Encantada Patio
9:00-10:00am Shaping the embryo: Cellular dynamics in Drosophila development
Jennifer Zallen
Encantada 1
10:00-11:00am Mathematical models for spatial patterning in Drosophila melanogaster
Hans Othmer
Encantada 1
11:00am-12:00pm Geometrical methods for modeling
Mark Peterson
Encantada 1
12:00-1:30pm LUNCH
Encantada 2
1:30-2:30pm Chemotactic cell movement a key mechanism during development
Cornelis Weijer
Encantada 1
2:30-3:30pm Assembly of the face and peripheral nervous system: studying neural crest migration in the developing embryo
Paul Kulesa
Encantada 1
3:30-3:45pm BREAK
3:45-4:45pm Multi-cell modeling of biological development using the GGH model and Compucell3d– applications, technology, and open problems
James Glazier
Encantada 1
4:45-5:45pm Grid-free models of multicellular systems, and applications to primitive streak formation in the chick embryo
Timothy Newman
Encantada 1
5:45-6:30pm Cocktail reception
Encantada Patio
6:30pm BANQUET
Encantada 2

WEDNESDAY, May 23rd
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
8:00-9:00am BREAKFAST
Encantada Patio
9:00-10:00am Biomechanics across scales form the subcellular to the tissue level: implications for early development
Gabor Forgacs
Encantada 1
10:00-11:00am Cytomechanics of polarization and morphogenesis in early embryos
Edwin Munro
Encantada 1
11:00am-12:00pm Dynamical patterning modules: A “Pattern Language” for development and evolution of multicellular form
Stuart Newman
Encantada 1
12:00-1:30pm LUNCH
Encantada 2
1:30-4:30pm EXCURSION - Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ
Meet in Hotel Lobby
4:30-6:00pm FREE TIME
6:00pm DINNER ON YOUR OWN

THURSDAY, May 24th
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
8:00-9:00am BREAKFAST
Encantada Patio
9:00am-12:00pm CHECK-OUT
Hotel Lobby - Registration Desk