SYMPOSIUM

Cnidarian Axial Patterning 9:10 AM - 5:30 PM Jayhawk Room

Moderators: Ofer Mokady and Bernd Schierwater

9:10 AM – BETH OKAMURA: Orphan worms and homeless parasites confirm that myxozoans are not cnidarians.

9:35 AM – OFER MOKADY: Division of labor and the head region in marine hydroids.

10:00 AM – ROBERT STEELE: Building the aboral end of Hydra.

10:25 AM - Break.

10:40 AM – ANN GRENS: Evidence for independent systems for the communication of positional information in epithelial and interstitial cells in Hydra vulgaris.

11:05 AM – JOHN FINNERTY: Axial patterning in multiple contexts : Embryogenesis, regeneration and asexual reproduction of Nematostella .

11:30 AM – DIANE BRIDGE: Cnidarians and the vertebrate circulatory system: Expression of a VEGF homologue in Hydra magnipapillata.

11:55 PM - Lunch.

1:10 PM – MICHAEL SARRAS: The role of metalloproteinases in regeneration and pattern formation in Hydra.

1:35 PM – HANS BODE: The Wnt pathway controls head organizer formation in Hydra.

2:00 PM – DANIEL MARTINEZ: Comparison of polyp and medusa development in Podocoryna carnea.

2:25 PM – BERND SCHIERWATER: Hox gene inhibition and the formation of multiple body axes in a hydrozoan.

2:50 PM - Break.

3:30 PM – NEIL BLACKSTONE: The heart of the matter: Signaling at polyp-stolon junctions in colonial hydroids.

3:55 PM – JUAN SANCHEZ: Dynamics and evolution of branching colonial form in marine modular cnidarians: Gorgonian corals.

4:20 PM – CASEY DUNN: The development of siphonophore colonies.

4:45 PM - PAULYN CARTWRIGHT Patterning along a stolon: The regulation of colony form.