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Tuesday, May 28 - Joint lecture

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17:00Registration opensÌý
17:45WelcomeUiB Rector Margareth Hagen,ÌýProf. Fabian Rentzsch, and Michael Sars Centre DirectorÌýLionel Christiaen
18:15Keynote lecture by Michael LevineCionaÌýNeuralÌýCrestÌýandÌýDrosophilaÌýMeta- loops
19:15-20-30ReceptionÌý

Wednesday, May 29 - Michael Sars Symposium

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08:30Registration opensÌý
9:10Session opening, welcomeÌý
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Session 1: Neurophysiology
sponsored by Ortomedic

Chair: Noah Bruderer
9:15Sylvie RétauxDevelopmental evolution of the eye in blind Mexican cavefish: a matter of regulation
9:45Shona WoodEffects of photoperiod on early-life developmental trajectory in Siberian hamsters
10:15Jon Vidar HelvikNonvisual photoreception, the link between light environment and biological processes, in Atlantic salmon a species with life history transitions programmed to seasonal changes.
10:45Coffee breakÌý
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Session 2: Evo-devo of organ systems

Chair: Max Jordi Makem Pekouankouang
11:30Cristian CañestroWhen LESS is MORE: gene loss and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as an evolutionary knockout model in EvoDevo.
12:00David ParichyEndocrine regulation of vertebrate pigment and skin appendage patterns
12:30LunchÌý
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Session 3: Growth & stem cells

Chair: Anna Ferraioli
14:00Celina JulianoMechanisms of Regeneration and Development in Hydra
14:30Kathrin GarschallThe cellular basis of balancing growth and food supply in a sea anemone
15:00Coffee breakÌý
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Session 4: Neuroscience & motility

Chair: Ruth Styfhals
15:45Lora B. SweeneyDefining tetrapod motor circuits across frog metamorphosis and vertebrate evolution
16:15Kirsty WanMotility control in aneural organisms
16:45Robert PrevedelAdvanced optical methods to study marine organisms
17:15-17-30Closing notesÌý

Thursday, May 30Ìý- Nordic Societies MeetingÌý

ÌýÌýTitle
8:00-9:00RegistrationÌý
ÌýSession 1ÌýChair:ÌýUlrika Marklund
9:00Pekka KatajistoMetabolic cell fate regulation through selective segregation of organelles
9:30Virginia PanaraDeciphering the chromatin landscape and regulatory logic behind lymphatic endothelial cells using a multi-omic approach
9:45Enikő LázárSpatial Dynamics of the Developing Human Heart
10:00Emma AnderssonMapping embryonic development withÌýin uteroÌýnext generation single cell lineage tracing
10:30Coffee BreakÌý
ÌýSession 2Chair:ÌýKaska Koltowska
11:00Claudio FrancoEndothelial cell heterogeneity and vascular plasticity in health and disease
11:30Satu KuureCellular determinants of ureteric bud branching morphogenesis
11:45Andreas F. MathisenThe landscape of islet maturation and ageing is regulated by a signalling loop between Hnf1a and the immune system
12:00Anne Grapin-BottonFormation of complex ductal networks in the pancreas and pancreas organoids
12:30Lunch BreakÌý
ÌýSession 3Chair:ÌýSanna Vuoristo
14:00Sophie PetropoulosThe Guinea Pig:ÌýA New Model for Human Preimplantation Development
14:30Anna NordinThe Transcription Factor Binding Landscape of Mouse Development
14:45Madeleine Linneberg-AgerholmRegulative development in the preimplantation embryo: A role for OCT4 in plasticity maintenance in the mouse primitive endoderm
15:00Darío LupiañezEvolution of 3D chromatin organization in metazoan species
15:30Poster Flash talksÌý
15:45Poster session & refreshmentsÌý
ÌýSession 4Chairs:ÌýSara Wilson and Andreas Hörnblad
18:00Gabriela PoliacikovaThe Hox protein Antennapedia orchestrates Drosophila adult flight muscle development
18:15Margherita ZamboniOn astrocytes and neural stem cells: a study of reactive and canonical neurogenesis
18:30Andrea Brand -ÌýEMBO Keynote LectureTime to get up: Awakening stem cells in the brain
19:30-22:00Conference DinnerÌý

Friday, May 31 - Nordic Societies MeetingÌý

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ÌýSession 5ÌýChairs:ÌýMattias Mannervik
9:00Maximina Yun

Forever young? Axolotl insights into negligible senescence

9:30Ditte AndersenPvf1-PvR-mediated crosstalk between the trachea and the gut guides intestinal stem cell migration to promote gut regeneration
9:45Eudald PascualNutritional control of stem cell cycle dynamics of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
10:00Maximilian FuerthauerA novel function of an unconventional type 1 Myosin in zebrafish left-right asymmetry
10:30Coffee BreakÌý
ÌýSession 6Chair: Ruth Palmer
11:00Nathalie Jurisch-YaksiThe multifaceted roles of cilia in brain development
11:30Chiara CastelettiSystems eco-devo: towards using high-content image-based morphometrics to quantify the impacts of changing temperatures on developmental dynamics at single cell resolution
11:45

Huazhen Wang

The PR factor Hamlet controls heterotypic epithelial tissue assembly in the Drosophila reproductive system

12:00Anna Kicheva

Interpretation of morphogen signaling in the developing spinal cord

12:30Closing remarksÌý

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