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Pre-Meeting Trainee Workshop (Loeb G70)

Genetic Approaches in Lytechinus pictus
Moderators: Amro Hamdoun (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

14:30 – 15:30

Coffee Break
Methods in Image Analysis
Moderators: Brad Shuster (NMSU) and Vanessa Barone (Stanford)

16:00 – 17:00

Workshop attendance is limited. 

17:00 – 19:00

Dinner Break

Plenary Session 1: Introduction & Welcome to DBSUMI XXVIII

Chair: Zak Swartz
Clapp Auditorium, Lillie Building

19:00 - 19:10

Introduction & Welcome from the MBL

Yaniv Elkouby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, EMBO Young Investigator Lecture:

Illuminating unpredicted cellular machineries in germ cell production, gonad development, and reproduction. 

Cat Schrankel, San Diego State University, Early Investigator Lecture:

A novel role for host defense peptides in transducing bacterial cues for marine invertebrate metamorphosis via TLR signaling

19:10 - 20:10

20:10 - 21:10

Social Mixer
Meigs Room, Swope Center

20:10 - 23:00

FINAL PROGRAM

Keynote Speakers

Ed Munro

University of Chicago
Friday Keynote Lecture

Cat Schrankel

San Diego State University
Young Investigator Keynote

Yaniv Elkouby

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture

Ellen Rothenberg

Caltech
ISDB-C&D Lecture in Memory of Eric Davidson

Meet the Organizers of DBSUMI XXVIII

Headshots of scientists on the organizing committee

Jr-Kai Sky Yu

Academia Sinica

Headshots of scientists on the organizing committee

Smadar Ben Tabou de Leon

University of Haifa

Headshots of scientists on the organizing committee

Elaine Seaver

Whitney Marine Laboratory

Headshots of scientists on the organizing committee

Zak Swartz

Marine Biological Laboratory

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