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| SUNDAY,
May 20th |
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| TIME |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
| 6:00pm | Welcome Dinner and Registration Check-In | Encantada
One |
| MONDAY,
May 21st |
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| 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 |
Encantada 1 |
| 10:00-11:00am | Quantifying adhesive and tensile cell properties determining germ layer organization during gastrulation |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| TIME |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
| 8:00-9:00am | BREAKFAST | Encantada Patio |
| 9:00am-12:00pm | CHECK-OUT | Hotel Lobby - Registration
Desk |