Signaling Hubs: Patterning Placodes in Development

Chair(s)

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  Tamara Franz-Odendaal

  Professor
  Biology
  Mount Saint Vincent University
  Mount Saint Vincent University
  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

If you don't know what placodes are? or perhaps what hairs, feathers, the eye lens, fingerprints, whiskers have in common, then please join our session. Early career researchers will be sharing their latest research in this area. This is a developmental biology session that will will shed light on some fascinating aspects of biology.

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM US PDT

  Placodal Signaling in Vivo and In Vitro
  

  Speaker: Casey Griffin, PhD – New York University College of Dentistry
• 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM US PDT

  Periodic Patterning of Cutaneous Placodes in Mammalian Skin
  

  Speaker: James D. Glover, PhD – The Roslin Institute / University of Edinburgh
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM US PDT

  Placodes in the Avian Embryonic Eye: Inducing Bone Formation
  

  Speaker: Aveeva Herold, M.Sc. – Mount Saint Vincent Univeristy
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US PDT

  The Transcription Factor ZMYM4 Is Expressed in Otic Neuronal Precursors and Spiral Ganglion Neurons
  

  Presenting Author: Karyn Jourdeuil, PhD