Cell-Cell Signaling Drives the Evolution of Complex Traits

SICB Annual Meeting 2009
January 3-7, 2009
Boston, MA

Symposium “Cell-Cell Signaling Drives the Evolution of Complex Traits”
Organized by: John S. Torday

The global concept of this symposium is that cell-cell signaling has ‘driven’ the vertical integration of vertebrate evolution. Among the principle vertebrate organs and systems there is a direct relationship between cell signaling and structure-function relationships in development, homeostasis, repair and aging. These mechanisms become progressively more derivative over evolutionary time, as the selection pressure becomes one for the interrelationships between organs- respiration and metabolism, metabolism and photoreception, respiration as Radical Oxygen Species and signal transduction. The speakers will address these hierarchical interrelationships in their models and mechanisms of choice.

List of Speakers

S5.1 Monday, Jan. 5, 08:00 TORDAY, John/S*; REHAN, Virender/K:

Cell-Cell Signaling Drives the Evolution of Complex Traits: Introduction- Lung Evo-Devo

S5.2 Monday, Jan. 5, 08:30 CROCKFORD, S.J.:

Thyroid hormones and iodine in the evolutionary history of cell-cell signalling

S5.3 Monday, Jan. 5, 09:00 LEYS, SP:

Evolution of animal body plans evidence for early sophistication in sponge physiology and morphology

S5.4 Monday, Jan. 5, 09:30 NICHOLS, Scott A.:

The ancestry of animal cell signaling genes

S5.5 Monday, Jan. 5, 10:30 MEZENTSEVA, Nadejda/V*; KUMARTILAKE, Jaliya; NEWMAN, Stuart:

Brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: an evolutionary road not taken

S5.6 Monday, Jan. 5, 11:00 ZHANG, GuangJun*; COHN, Martin/J.:

Molecular identification of a sclerotome in lampreys and sharks: implications for the origin of the vertebral column

S5.7 Monday, Jan. 5, 11:30 ABZHANOV, Arhat:

Pecking at the Origin of Vertebrate Diversity

S5.8 Monday, Jan. 5, 13:00 DAVIDSON, Brad*; SWEENEY, Sarah; ZHEN, Yisong; RAGKOUSI, Katerina:

Exploring the role of cell fate specification in chordate heart evolution.

S5.9 Monday, Jan. 5, 13:30 CANNON, J.P.*; LITMAN, G.W.:

Plasticity Of The Immunoglobulin Domain In The Evolution of Immunity

S5.10 Monday, Jan. 5, 14:00 OWERKOWICZ, T.*; HICKS, J.W.:

Evolution of the vertebrate cardiopulmonary system under varying atmospheric oxygen supply

S5.11 Monday, Jan. 5, 14:30 HICKS, J.W.:

How to Integrate Cell-Mol Evolution

 

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