2022 Conference
Date:
September 4, 2022 – September 8, 2022
Grand Excelsior Hotel Malta
Valletta, Malta
The 20th International Conference was held in conjunction with The British Society for Developmental Biology on September 4-8, 2022, at the Grand Excelsior Hotel Malta, in Valletta, Malta.
Program Committee
 Joshua BrickmanProfessor of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Universities of Copenhagen and Edinburgh |
 Marianne BronnerDevelopmental Biology, California Institute of Technology |
 James BriscoeDevelopmental Biology, MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, England |
 Robb KrumlaufScientific Director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
 Elly TanakaDFG Research Center, Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden |
 Fiona WardleRandall Division of Cell & Molecular Biology, King's College London |
2022 Conference Program
Please note this programme is provisional and all times are shown in Central European Time (CET).
Sunday, 4th September
| 13:00 Onward |
Delegate Arrival and Registration |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | PL01: Jean Brachet LectureDr. Richard Harland (UC Berkely)Chair-Liz Robertson (University of Oxford) |
| 18:15 - 19:45 | Welcome Drinks Reception - Bastion Terrace |
Monday, 5th September
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1 - Potency & Plasticity 1Chair - Professor Peter Koopman (The University of Queensland) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | S01: Xenogeneic Barriers to Interspecies Chimera Formation Dr. Hiro Nakauchi (Stanford University Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | S02: Cellular Potency and Plasticity - Enhancers Regulation to Project Past and Future Fates Professor Josh Brickman (University of Copenhagen) |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | S03: Keeping up with the Neighbours: How do Local Cell Interactions Coordinate Differentiation of Pluripotent Cells Anne McLaren Award Lecture - Professor Sally Lowell (University Edinburgh) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Session 2 - Potency & Plasticity 2Chair - Dr. Peter Lwigale (Rice University) |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | S04: Mapping Cell Fate Control Mechanisms During State Transitions Professor Kim Jensen (University of Copenhagen) |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | S05: Torsion of the Heart Tube by Shortage of Progenitor Cells: Identification of Greb1l as a Genetic Determinant of Criss-Cross Heart in Mice Dr. Sigolene Meihac (Institut Imagine) |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | O01: Transcriptome Lineage Maps Underlying Neuronal Plasticity in the Ciona Larval Brain Dr. Laurence Lemaire (Princeton University) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | O02: Illuminating the (Uterine) Path: From Embryo Movement to Implantation Professor Ripla Arora (Michigan State University) |
| 12:20 - 12:45 | S06: Building the Hypothalamus: From diencephalic Progenitors to Neurons Professor Marysia Placzek (University of Sheffield) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Buffet Lunch in Foyer and Poster Session 1 |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 - Programming and re-programming Cell Identity 1Chair - Professor Ann Philpott (University of Cambridge) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | S07: Dissecting Cell Identity Via Network Inference and in Silico Gene Perturbation Dr. Samantha Morris (Washington University) |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | O03: Developmental Cell Fate Choice Employs Two Distinct Cis Regulatory Strategies Dr. Joaquina Delas (The Francis Crick Institute) |
| 14:40 - 14:55 | O04: ZIC3 Inhibition of Canonical WNT Signaling Controls Endoderm Formation to Ensure Left Right Heart Development Professor Ruth Arkell (Australian National University) |
| 14:55 - 15:20 | S08: Evolving Roles of Hox1 Proteins in Regulating the Balance Between Pluripotency and Differentiation Professor Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Session 4 - Programming and re-programming Cell Identity 2Chair - Professor Claudio Stern (University College London) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | S09: Barcode-Free Predictions of Cell Lineages from scRNA-seq Datasets Professor David Suter (EPFL) |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | O05: Transcriptional Heterogeneity and Cell Cycle Regulation as Central Determinants of Primitive Endoderm Priming Ms. Marta Perera (University of Copenhagen) |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | O06: SyNPL: Synthetic Notch Pluripotent Cell Lines to Monitor and Manipulate Cell Interactions in Vitro and in Vivo Dr. Mattias Malaguti (University of Edinburgh( |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | S11: Neuromesodermal Progenitor Origin of Trunk Neural Crest in Vivo Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford) |
| 18:00 Onward | Free Evening for Delegates |
Tuesday, 6th September
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 5 - Dynamics of Cellular Decision Making 1Chair - Professor Kim Dale (University of Dundee) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | S12: Spermatogenesis: A Paradigm of Stem Cell Regulation Professor Benjamin Simons (University of Cambridge) |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | O07: FOXL2 is Necessary for Ovarian Formation in the Chicken Dr. Gunes Taylor (The Francis Crick Institue) |
| 09:40 - 09:55 | O08: Cytoneme-Mediated Transport of Active Wnt5b/Ror2 Complexes in Zebrafish Gastrulation Dr. Steffen Scholpp (University of Exeter) |
| 09:55 - 10:20 | S13: Stem Cell Zoo Reveals Mechanisms for Species-Specific Developmental Time Dr. Miki Ebisuya (EMBL Barcelona) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Session 6 - Dynamics of Cellular Decision Making 2Chair - Dr. Rosa Uribe (Rice University) |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | S15: The Kinetic Landscape of Human Transcription Factors Dr. Timothee Lionnet (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | S28: Signal Coding and Decoding Governing the Decision to Differentiate Professor Jonathan Chubb (University College London) |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | S16: Heads or Tails? Establishing Regional Identity in the Nervous System Dr. Vicki Metzis (Imperial College London) |
| 13:00 Onwards | Free Afternoon for Sightseeing |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | International Buffet in Restaurant |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Poster Session 2 with Drinks - Ballroom |
Wednesday, 7th September
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 7 - Dynamics of Cellular Decision Making 3Chair - Dr. Richard Harland (UC Berkeley) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | S17: Dosage Compensation in the Drosophila Embryo at Single Cell Resolution Professor Hilary Ashe (University of Manchester) |
| 09:25 09:50 | S18: About Time: The Temporal Control of Cell Fate in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System Dr. James Briscoe (The Francis Crick Institute) |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | S19: Investigating Wound Healing and Cancer in Developmental Stages of Zebrafish and Drosophila Professor Paul Martin (University of Bristol) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Session 8 - Regulation and Misregulation Cell Identity and Function |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | S20: Tumour Blood Vessels: Old Roads New Ways Professor Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke (Barts Cancer Institute) |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | S21: Beta Cell Development and Regeneration Professor Heiko Lickert (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen GmbH) |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | O10: Visualising and Profiling Primitive Haematopoietic and Endothelial Lineage Divergence in Vivo Dr. Lucy Wheatley (University of Oxford) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | O11: GSk3 and Lpd Cooperate at the Lamellipodium to Promote Neural Crest Cell Migration in Mouse Dr. Karen Liu (King's College London) |
| 12:20 - 12:45 | S22: Cardiovascular Cell Lineage Specification and Early Heart Morphogenesis in the Mouse Embryo Dr. Miguel Torres (CNIC) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Buffet Lunch in Foyer and Poster Session 3 |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 9 - Dynamics of Cellular Patterning 1Chair Professor Sally Dunwoodie (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | S23: Self-Organizing Stem Cell Systems to Study Early Human Development Professor Aryeh Warmflash (Rice University) |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | O12: Using Mouse Models to Identify the Molecular Events that Contribute to Craniofacial Spliceosomopathies Professor Loydie Jerone-Majewska (McGill University) |
| 14:40 - 14:55 | O13: Cellular and Molecular Events Accompanying Changes in Epithelial Curvature During Zebrafish Inner Ear Development Mrs. Ana Jones (University of Sheffield) |
| 14:55 - 15:20 | S24: Yin-Yang Approach to Reprogramming Cell Fate Professor Ken Zaret (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Session 10 - Dynamics of Cellular Patterning 2Chair - Richard Behringer (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | S25: Pattern Emergence During the Elongation of the Zebrafish pre-somitic Mesoderm Dr. Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | S26: Growth and Patterning of the Developing Spinal Cord Dr. Anna Kincheva (ISTA) |
| 16:50 - 17:15 | S27: The Hidden Organisation of Neurogenesis; Emergency Properties of Coupling Single Cell Oscillations in a Tissue Environment Professor Nancy Papalopulu (University of Manchester) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | END OF CONFERENCE |
| 19:00 Onwards | Conference Dinner at The Mediterranean Conference Centre |