16 Annual meeting Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, Hyytiälä Forestry Station

16 Annual meeting Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, Hyytiälä Forestry Station

16th Annual meeting
Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, Hyytiälä Forestry Station
31 Oct-1 Nov 2014
Friday 31st Oct 2014
12.00 – 13.00 Check in & lunch
13.00 – 13.05 Opening of the meeting (Seppo J. Vainio)
Session I – auditorium in institute building
Chair: Irma Thesleff
13.05 – 13.45 Mikko Frilander: (Univ. Hki, IB). Sulo Toivonen keynote lecture: The butterfly
genome project.
13.45 – 14.05 Audrey Desgrange (Silvia Cereghini lab). Function of the renal cysts and diabetes
gene Hnf1b during kidney morphogenesis: an integrated molecular and cellular approach.
14.05 – 14.15 Heikki Rasilainen (Nordic BioSite). What kind of Products can NBS offer to you
and where can you find them.
14.15 – 14.20 Annual picture of all participants (place will be announced).
14.20 - 14.45 Coffee/tea and sponsor’s exhibition
Session II – auditorium in institute building
Chair: Osamu Shimmi
14.45 – 15.05 Vera Shirokova (Marja Mikkola lab). Transcription factor Foxi3 regulates hair
follicle growth and renewal.
15.05 – 15.25 Aleksandra Rak-Raszewska (Seppo Vainio lab). Tissue engineering tool box to
target the mechanisms of kidney assembly ex vivo.
15.25 – 15.45 Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, auditorium in
institute building.
15.45 – 17.00 Outdoor activities –tug of war (football, Frisbee, mölkky, hiking)
17.00 – 19.00 Sauna with light snacks (ladies in large sauna, gentlemen in small sauna)
19.00 – 20.00 Poster session in the Old Dining Hall
20.00 – 20.30 Time to change into your fancy Halloween costumes
20.30 Dinner party in the Old Dining Hall:
Best Papers and Poster prizes
Evening program: Halloween Party (fancy dress)
Supported by:
Saturday 1st Nov. 2014
08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast
Session III – auditorium in institute building
Chair: Juha Partanen
09.00 – 09.20 Yujuan Gui (Satu Kuure/Mart Saarma lab). Gdnf as a regulator of urogenital
system.
09.20 – 09.40 Mona Christensen (Jukka Jernvall lab). Super-sizing teeth – developmental
mechanisms of evolutionary increase in molar size without a change in the shape.
09.40 – 10.00 Laura Lahti (Juha Partanen lab). Development of gabaergic neurons in the ventral
hindbrain.
10.00 – 10.20 Roland Zimm (Salazar-Ciudad lab). A computational approach to the evolution of
development under conservative selection.
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee/tea sponsors’ exhibition
Session IV – auditorium in institute building
Chair: Marja Mikkola
10.40 – 11.00 Arvydas Dapkunas (Hannu Sariola lab). Novel culture method for metaneprhic
mesenchyme maintenance in vitro.
11.00 – 11.20 Daniel Moore (Osamu Shimmi lab). Will be announced later.
11.20 – 11.40 Fabien Lafuma (Nicolas Di-Poï lab). Dental shape diversity and evolution in
squamate reptiles.
11.40 – 12.00 Elodie Renvoise (Jukka Jernvall lab). Jawbone mechanical constrain in tooth
morphogenesis and evolution.
12.00 – 12.10 Planning of the 17th meeting 2015 & close
12.10 – 13.00 Lunch, check out
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