Program

Tuesday, September 20

Tuesday, September 20

11:00
Registration opens
14:00Welcome (Stephan Dabbert, president of the University of Hohenheim; Martin Blum, GfE president)
14:15 - 15:10Catherina Becker, Dresden: "Repairing the spinal cord" (Chair: Michael Brand, Dresden)
15:10 - 15:20Quick break
15:20 - 16:40Session I: Regeneration (Chair: Andreas Kispert, Hannover)
15:20Yuval Rinkevich, Munich: "Novel perspectives in injury repair"
15:45Vanessa Disela, Utrecht: "The cellular landscape of the regenerating spiny mouse skin"
16:00Florian Raible, Vienna: "Dynamic microvilli orchestrate the sculpting of bristles at nanometric scale"
16:15Franziska Knopf, Dresden: "Compartmentalization and synergy of osteoblasts drive bone formation in the regenerating fin"
16:40 - 17:05Coffee break
17:05 - 18:25Session II: Quantifying and Modeling Development (Chair: Beate Brand-Saberi)
17:05Katharina Sonnen, Utrecht: "Signaling dynamics in the control of vertebrate mesoderm segmentation"
17:30Christian Sigloch, Freiburg: "In vivo imaging of Her6 Transcription Factor Oscillations and Characterization of Neural Stem Cells in the Thalamus"
17:45Christian Schröter, Dortmund: "Cell-cell communication promotes extraembryonic lineage
differentiation in embryo-like stem cell aggregates"
18:00Jeffrey Farrell, Bethesda: "Cell states and cell fates during zebrafish embryogenesis"
18:25Poster flash talks (Chair: Kerstin Feistel, Stuttgart)
18:35 - 23:00Welcome reception & poster session I (odd poster numbers)

Wednesday, September 21

Wednesday, September 21

9:00 - 9:55Hiroshi Hamada, Kobe: "Molecular and cellular basis of left-right asymmetry in vertebrates" (Chair: Martin Blum, Stuttgart)
9:55 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:50Session III: Tissue and Organ Formation (Chair: Lazaro Centanin, Heidelberg)
10:30Cristina Pujades, Barcelona: "How progenitor and neurogenic capacities are allocated during brain morphogenesis: towards a 4D-perspective"
10:55Fee Wielath, Stuttgart: "Hmmr modulates Wnt signaling to drive mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in the developing forebrain"
11:10Juan R. Martínez-Morales, Sevilla: "A Yap-dependent transcriptional program directs cell migration for embryo axis assembly"
11:25Mahendra Sonawane, Bombay: "Epithelial cell size regulation and mechanical properties of the developing zebrafish epidermis"
11:50 - 12:00Quick break
12:00 - 13:20Session IV: Stem Cell Systems and Functions (Chair: Josefine Bageritz, Heidelberg)
12:00Dalit Sela-Donenfeld, Rehovot: "The crosstalk between the extracellular matrix, FGF and Sox2 in the NPSC niche at hindbrain boundaries"
12:25Karen Groß, Heidelberg: "Metastatic organogenesis of post-embryonic neuromasts in
medaka"
12:40Juliane Hammer, Dresden: "Restoration of visual function - lessons from a blind fish"
12:55Jan Lohmann, Heidelberg: "From stem cells to morphogenesis - the role of cell size"
13:20 - 15:00Lunch break
15:00 - 16:00GfE Members council
16:00 - 17:20Session V: Developmental Models of Human Disease (Chair: Anja Bühler, Trento)
16:00Stefan Hans, Dresden: "Reactivation of the neurogenic niche in the adult zebrafish statoacoustic ganglion following a mechanical lesion"
16:25Thomas Naert, Zürich: "Phenotyping embryonic development and disease using deep
learning and mesoSPIM light-sheet microscopy"
16:40Kaisa Pakari, Heidelberg: "Studying glycosylation disorders in medaka fish using patient-based and conditional knock-down models"
16:55Miriam Schmidts, Freiburg: "(More than) ciliary traffic jam: Organ-specific consequences of intraflagellar transport dysfunction"
17:20 - 17:50Coffee break ||  DFG information event for ECRs, Katarina Timofeev, Bonn: "DFG - supporting early career scientists"
17:50 - 19:10Session VI: New Tools and Approaches to Study Development (Chair: Dennis Schifferl, Berlin)
17:50Mounia Lagha, Montpellier: "Gene expression dynamics during the awakening of the zygotic genome"
18:15Magdalena Brislinger-Engelhardt, Freiburg: "Temporal integration of Notch signaling in mucociliary pattern formation"
18:30Sebastian Arnold, Freiburg: "Tbx-factors instruct mesoderm and endoderm lineage specification by global enhancer remodeling"
18:45Sandra Iden, Homburg: "Lrig1 and Wnt dependent niches dictate segregation of resident immune cells and melanocytes in murine tail epidermis"
19:10 - 23:00Reception & Poster Session II (even poster numbers)

Thursday, September 22

Thursday, September 22

9:00 - 9:55Marja Timmermans, Tübingen: "How to make a flat leaf: Pre-patterns, small RNA morphogens, and Turing reactions" (Chair: Peter Walentek, Freiburg)
9:55 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:50Session VII: When Location Matters in Development and Disease (Chair: Steffen Scholpp, Exeter)
10:30Anne Classen, Freiburg: "Soma-germline affinity drives tissue self-organization during Drosophila oogenesis"
10:55Melanie Tingler, Stuttgart: "Novel insights into myosin1d function during laterality
determination in the frog Xenopus"
11:10Timon W. Matz, Potsdam: "Topological properties accurately predict cell division events and organization of Arabidopsis thaliana’s shoot apical meristem"
11:25Halyna Shcherbata, Hannover: "Stress-dependent regulation of the modular RNA-binding protein Rbfox1"
11:50 - 12:00Quick break
12:00 - 13:20Session VIII: Ecology, Nutrition and Metabolism in Development (Chair: Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg)
12:00Thorsten Pfirrmann, Potsdam: "The GID/CTLH Ubiquitin Ligase Complex: A Novel Cilia-Associated Regulator of Energy Homeostasis and Cilia Function"
12:25Tobias Reiff, Düsseldorf: "frazzled/DCC-directed protrusions guide enteroblast migration and integration to ensure adult Drosophila midgut epithelial homeostasis"
12:40Girish Kale, Heidelberg: "Elevated temperature fatally disrupts the orchestrated timing of
nuclear divisions in the early Drosophila embryo"
12:55Kristen Panfilio, Stuttgart: "Functional considerations across the lifetime of barrier epithelial tissues"
13:20 - 15:00Lunch break
15:00 - 16:20Session IX: Evolution of Development and Regeneration (Chair: Grigory Genikhovich)
15:00Jochen Rink, Göttingen: "Size sensing in planarian flatworms"
15:25Ulrich Technau, Vienna: "Germ layer specification in the diploblast Nematostella vectensis"
15:40Patrick R. H. Steinmetz, Bergen: "A post-larval stem-like cell population contributes to germline and somatic cell lineages in a sea anemone"
15:55Pawel Burkhardt, Bergen: "Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons"
16:20 - 16:50Coffee break
16:50 - 19:00Awards and Awards Lectures
16:50 - 17:00Poster Awards
17:00 - 17:05
Introduction PhD Awards
17:05 - 17:20PhD Awardee 1: Tinatini Tavhelidse-Suck, Heidelberg
17:20 - 17:35PhD Awardee 2: Dorothee Bornhorst, Harvard
17:35 - 17:40
Introduction Hilde Mangold Award of the GfE
17:40 - 18:00Hilde Mangold Awardee: Nicoletta Petridou, Heidelberg
18:00 - 18:10Quick break
18:10 - 18:20
Laudatio Klaus Sander Award of the GfE
18:20 - 19:00Klaus Sander Awardee 1: Gerd Jürgens, Tübingen
Klaus Sander Awardee 2: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
19:00Dinner & Party

Friday, September 23

Friday, September 23

9:00 - 9:55Jean-Paul Vincent, London: "Formation and robustness of morphogen gradients in epithelia" (Chair: Kerstin Bartscherer)
9:55 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:50Session X: Genomics and Epigenetics of Development (Chair: Wolfgang Driever, Freiburg)
10:30Eva Hörmanseder, Munich: "Erase and rewind: reprogramming cell fates"
10:55Natalia Soshnikova, Mainz: "Chromatin architecture defines the functional heterogeneity of
intestinal stem cells"
11:10Larry S. Sherman, Portland: "Dynamic Changes in the Extracellular Matrix Induce Oligodendrocyte Specification and Differentiation by Regulating the SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex"
11:25Emma Farley, San Diego: "Affinity optimizing enhancer variants disrupt development"
11:50 - 12:00Quick break
12:00 - 13:20Session XI: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis in Development and Disease (Chair: Annette Hammes, Berlin)
12:00Laurent Kodjabachian, Marseille: "Pattern formation by self-organized cell movement"
12:25Daniel Wehner, Erlangen: "Tissue mechanics-modulating small leucine-rich proteoglycans contribute to the differential regenerative capacity of mammalian and zebrafish central nervous system axons"
12:40Anna C. Kögler, Konstanz: "Regulation of Nodal signaling and ligand distribution by receptor
interactions"
12:55Rebecca Burdine, Princeton: "Mutations in Map4K4 cause a RASopathy-like phenotype in humans and zebrafish"
13:20Farewell
13:30Lunch option