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Gene Networks in Animal Development and Evolution
Organizers:  Eric Davidson and Michael Levine

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Session I: GENE NETWORKS IN EARLY EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT

Michael Levine (University of California, Berkeley) Introduction  

Eric Davidson (California Institute of Technology) Sea urchin endomesoderm gene network.

Michael Levine (University of California, Berkeley) Drosophila dorsal-ventral network.

Kaoru Imai (University of Kyoto) Ascidian mesoderm gene network.

Oliver Pourquié (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Gene networks for somitogenesis.

Andy McMahon (Harvard University) Hh gene network in mouse CNS.

Session II: GENE NETWORKS IN LATER DEVELOPMENT

Paul Sternberg (California Institute of Technology) C. elegans vulva gene network.

Eric Olson (Southwestern Medical Center) Mammalian heart gene network.

Ellen Rothenberg (California Institute of Technology) T-cell specification network.

Oliver Hobert (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) C.elegans neuronal gene network.

Session III: COMPLEX CIS-REGULATORY SYSTEMS

Gary Felsenfeld (National Institutes of Health) Long-range genomic control sequences.      

Frank Grosveld (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) Multigene globin locus.

Francois Spitz (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Regulatory organization of the hox gene complex. 

Margaret Buckingham (Institut Pasteur) Muscle genomic code. 

Steve Small (New York University)  The A/P patterning system.

Session IV: REGULATORY LOGIC AND EVOLUTION

Marianne Bronner-Fraser (California Institute of Technology) Regulatory origins of neural crest.  

Robert Krumlauf (Stowers Institute) Evolution of hox gene expression.

Patricia Simpson (Cambridge University) Evolution of terminal patterning.         

Cliff Tabin (Harvard University) Regulatory evolution of limb buds.  

 

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