Wednesday, April 6 | Foege Auditorium | 10:00 - 5:30 | no registration required

Schedule

10:00 
Dr. Maitreya Dunham, welcome

10:00 – 10:40
Dr. Stephen Tapscott, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"MyoD and the Circuitry of a Master Switch"

10:50 – 11:30
Dr. Justin Meyer, UC San Diego
"Evolution of A Key Innovation and Speciation of Bacteriophage Lambda"

11:40 – 12:20
Dr. Natassia Vieira, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Harvard/Boston Children's Hospital
"Searching for novel genetic modifiers in dogs that escape the Muscular Dystrophy phenotype"

12:30 – 1:50
break for lunch

2:00 – 2:40
Dr. Rachel Brem, Buck Institute
"Genetic dissection of trait differences between long-diverged species"

2:50 – 3:30
Dr. Hernan Garcia, UC Berkeley
"How, when and where in pattern formation: Spying on embryonic development one molecule at a time"

3:40 – 4:00
coffee break

4:00 – 4:40
Dr. Michael Springer, Harvard University
"Physiological, mutational, and evolutionary landscape of the GAL pathway"

4:50 – 5:30
Dr. Rob Phillips, Cal Tech
"How Schrodinger’s Cat Became a Cat"

5:40 – 6:30
reception, Vista Cafe