Terminal Growth, Segmentation and the Evolution of Metazoan Body Plan Regionalization
Nigel Hughes (University of California, Riverside) and David Jacobs (University of California, Los Angeles); Contact: nigel.hughes@ucr.edu
| Friday 7th January 2005
8.00-8.30am: Rich Mooi (California Academy of Sciences), Bruno, D, and Wray, G. – Arrays in rays: terminal addition in echinoderms by the “Ocular Plate Rule” 8.30-9.00am: Olivier Pourqui� (Stowers Institute) – Segmental Patterning of the Vertebrate Axis 9.00-9.30am: Thom Kaufman (University of Indiana) – The Role of Gap and Pair Rule Genes in the Segmentation of the Germband of Oncopeltus 9.30-10.00am: Graham Budd (Uppsala University) – The evolution of terminal patterning in arthropods 10.00-10.30am: Wim Damen (K�ln University) – Terminal addition in arthropods: The molecular basis of segmentation in spiders and millipedes 10.30-11.00am: COFFEE. 11.00-11.30am: KEYNOTE. Alessandro Minelli (University of Padova) – A morphologist’s perspective on terminal growth and segmentation 11.30-12.00am: KEYNOTE. Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley) – The Evolution of Segmentation – Mechanisms of Terminal Addition LUNCH 1.00-1.30pm: Giuseppe Fusco (University of Padova) – Segment number and segmentation performances in arthropods 1.30-2.00pm: Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway) – Genetic, developmental and environmental aspects of variation in centipede segment numbers 2.00-2.30pm: Nigel Hughes (University of California, Riverside) – Historical experiments in terminal addition, segmentation and tagmosis 2.30-3.00pm: Dieter Waloszek (University of Ulm) – Evolutionary History of Crustacean Segmentation and Tagmosis: A Fossil-Based Perspective Saturday 8th January 2005 9.00-9.30am: David Weisblat (UC Berkeley), A.S. Rivera, F.C. Gonsalves, M.H. Song and S.O. Zhang – Segmentation in Helobdella robusta, a glossiphoniid leech 9.30-10.00am: Guillaume Balavoine (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette) R. De Rosa, B. Prud’Homme, A. Adoutte, – Posterior addition: the annelid way 10.00-10.30am: COFFEE 10.30-11.00am: Vicky Prince (University of Chicago) – Vertebrate axial patterning and the consequences of duplication events 11.00-11.30am: Jason Head (Smithsonian) – Ecological and phylogenetic variation in segmentation in snakes 11.30-12.00pm: David Jacobs (University of California, Los Angeles), Nigel Hughes, (UCR) and Chris Winchell (UCLA) – Terminal Addition and the Evolution of Bilaterian Form |
