YEN 2021 Programme
Tuesday May 4th
9:00-9:15 Registration
9:15-9:20 Welcome address
9:20-9:50 Matthias Lutolf (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) Self-organizing in vitro neural tube organoids mimic embryonic development
9:50-10:35 Selected Short Talks I
Nazmus Salehin (Children‘s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia) Mixl1 activation remodels chromatin at lineage specific enhancers to poise epiblast stem cells towards endoderm specification
Benjamin Swedlund (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Unravelling the chromatin landscape and enhancer logic mediating spatiotemporal patterning of early mouse cardiovascular progenitors
Meritxell Saez (The Francis Crick Institute, UK) Gene–free landscape models of development
10:35-11:00 Scientific Perspectives I: Ana Pombo (MDC Berlin, Germany)
11:00-11:45 Break – Poster session I – Networking
11:45-12:15 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) Glycolytic control of embryonic patterning and timing
12:15-13:00 Selected Short Talks II
Pranay Shah (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK) Embryonic germ cell development requires DNA translesion synthesis factors
Julia Pfanzelter (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany) The physics of life and death – a hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline
Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Ex utero development of mouse embryos from pre–gastrulation to advanced organogenesis
13:00–13:25 Scientific Perspectives II: Patrick P.L. Tam (Children‘s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia)
13:25-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Selected Short Talks III
Daisy Vinter (University of Manchester, UK) Dynamics of hunchback translation in real time and at single RNA resolution in the Drosophila embryo
Justina Yeung (The Francis Crick Institute, UK) The role of a short–range FGF signal in neurogenesis patterning and glial fate specification
Susannah McLaren (University of Cambridge, UK) Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation
Meng Zhu (University of Cambridge, UK) The timing and trigger of mouse embryo polarization and cell fate segregation
15:30-16:30 The Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany) Animal Beauty: Function and Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
16:30-17.15 Break – Poster session II – Networking
17:15-17:40 Scientific Perspectives III: Marianne Bronner (Caltech, US)
17:40-17:50 Talk and poster prizes, closing address
17:50-18:45 Networking