Schedule

The Seventh Bangalore Benny Shilo Course in Developmental Biology

Schedule

Venue: All lectures and Journal Clubs at Malgova, Southern Lab Complex

 

Monday 12/01/15

8:30-9:00

 

Registration

9:00-11:00

Benny Shilo

Life’s blueprint: The science and art of embryo

creation (general introduction)

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Benny Shilo

DV patterning in Drosophila oogenesis

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Amos Arieli

Frontiers in Brain Research: A journey into Sensory Perception

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-6:00

 

Journal Club Preparation

6:00-7:30

Benny Shilo

Amos Arieli

Q&A: Similarities and differences between development and brain function

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Tuesday 13/01/15

9:00-11:00

Benny Shilo

DV patterning in the embryo: Spz/Toll signaling

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Amos Arieli

Active sensing: The interface between sensory perception and decision making

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Benny Shilo

DV patterning in the embryo: Dpp signaling

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

5:30-7:30

Benny Shilo

Journal Club I:

 

A ventrally localized protease in the Drosophila egg controls embryo dorsoventral polarity.

 

Cho YS, Stevens LM, Sieverman KJ, Nguyen J, Stein D. Curr Biol.2012 Jun 5;22(11):1013-8.

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Wednesday 14/01/15

09:00-11:00

Eyal Schejter

The cytoskeleton and establishment of asymmetry during Drosophila  oogenesis
 

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-01:00

Ze’ev Paroush

Generating the anteroposterior axis of the Drosophila embryo

01:00-02:00

 

Lunch

02:00-04:00

Eyal Schejter

Involvement of actin-based structures in the formation and maturation of Drosophila flight- muscle myofibers

04:00-04:15

 

Tea/Coffee

04:15-6:00

 

Journal Club Preparation

06:00-07:30

Eyal Schejter

Ze’ev Paroush

Q&A

07:30-08:30

 

Dinner

Thursday 15/01/15

9:00-11:00

Ze’ev Paroush

Interpreting a morphogen gradient into positional information and cell specification

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Eyal Schejter

Content release from secretory vesicles is mediated by a dynamic acto-myosin network

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Ze’ev Paroush

Negative transcriptional regulation is prominent in development

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

5:30-7:30

Eyal Schejter

Ze’ev Paroush

Journal Club II:

 

Antagonistic action of Bicoid and the repressor Capicua determines the spatial limits of Drosophila head gene expression domains

 

Löhr U, Chung HR, Beller M, Jäckle H. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Dec 22;106(51):21695-700.

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Friday 16/01/15

09:00-11:00

Eli Keshet

Organogenesis of the cardiovascular system

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Shigeo Hayashi

Epithelia: architecture and mechanics
 

 01:00-02:00    Lunch
 02:00-03:00

Eli Keshet

Organogenesis of the cardiovascular system (continued)
 

3:00-4:00

Illana Keshet

Epigenetics in development
 

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation
 

5:30-7:30

Shigeo Hayashi

Journal Club III:

 

Pulsed contractions of an actin-myosin network drive apical constriction

 

Martin AC, Kaschube M, Wieschaus EF. (2009). Nature. 2009 Jan

 

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner
 

Saturday 17/01/15

9:00-11:00

Shigeo Hayashi

Tube: patterning, geometry and plasticity

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Eli Keshet

Adult stem cell niches

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Shigeo Hayashi

Appendage: shaping a sheet into an organ

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

5:30-7:30

Shigeo Hayashi

Journal Club IV:

 

Dll+ secretory progenitor cells revert to stem cells upon crypt damage.

 

van Es JH, Sato T, van de Wetering M, Lyubimova A, Nee AN, Gregorieff A, Sasaki N, Zeinstra L, van den Born M, Korving J, Martens AC, Barker N, van Oudenaarden A, Clevers H. Nat Cell Biol. 2012 Oct;14(10):1099-104.

 

Useful review- Plasticity within stem cell hierarchies in mammalian epithelia. Tetteh PW, Farin HF, Clevers H. Trends Cell Biol. 2014 Oct 9.

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Sun 18/01/15 free

Monday 19/01/15

9:00-11:00

Erez Raz

Germ-cell specification and fate maintenance

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Erez Raz

Cell motility

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Talila Volk

Gastrulation of the Drosophila embryo

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

6:00-7:30

Erez Raz

Talila Volk

Q&A

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Tuesday 20/01/15

9:00-11:00

Talila Volk

Neurogenesis and asymmetric cell division

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Erez Raz

Directed germ cell migration

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Talila Volk

The biology of muscle nuclei

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

5:30-7:30

Erez Raz

Talila Volk

Journal Club V:

Generation and dynamics of an endogenous, self- generated signaling gradient across a migrating tissue.

 

Venkiteswaran G, Lewellis SW, Wang J, Reynolds E, Nicholson C, Knaut H. Cell. 2013 Oct 24;155(3):674-87.

 

Journal Club VI:

Directional tissue migration through a self- generated chemokine gradient.

 

Donà E, Barry JD, Valentin G, Quirin C, Khmelinskii A, Kunze A, Durdu S, Newton LR, Fernandez-Minan A, Huber W, Knop M, Gilmour D. Nature. 2013 Nov 14;503(7475):285-9.

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Wednesday 21/01/15

9:00-11:00

Beni Podbilewicz

C. elegans vulva development: a paradigm for organogenesis

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Eli Zelzer

Limb Development

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Beni Podbilewicz

Mechanisms of cell-cell fusion in eukaryotes:

 

  1. Cell fusion sculpts organs

 

  1. Shaping of dendritic trees

 

  1. Mechanisms of plasma membrane fusion

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-6:00

 

Journal Club Preparation

6:00-7:30

Beni Podbilewicz

Eli Zelzer

Q&A

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Thursday 22/01/15

9:00-11:00

Eli Zelzer

Skeletogenesis

11:00-11:30

 

Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00

Beni Podbilewicz

Mechanisms of neuronal tree generation and regeneration

1:00-2:00

 

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Eli Zelzer

Musculoskeletal assembly

4:00-4:15

 

Tea/Coffee

4:15-5:30

 

Journal Club Preparation

6:00-7:30

Beni Podbilewicz

Eli Zelzer

Journal Club VII:

 

Skin-Derived Cues Control Arborization of Sensory Dendrites in

Caenorhabditis elegans.

 

Salzberg, Y., Diaz-Balzac, C.A., Ramirez-Suarez, N.J., Attreed, M., Tecle, E.,Desbois, M., Kaprielian, Z., and Bulow, H.E. (2013). Cell. 2013 Oct 10;155(2):308-20.

 

Shrestha, B.R., and Grueber, W.B. Neuronal Morphogenesis: Worms Get an EFF in Dendritic Arborization. Curr Biol. 2010 Aug 24;20(16):R673- 5.

 

Ziegenfuss, J.S., and Grueber, W.B. SAX-7 and menorin light the path for dendrite morphogenesis. Cell. 2013 Oct 10;155(2):269-71.

7:30-8:30

 

Dinner

Friday 23/01/15

9:00-12:00

Krishanu Ray

Stem cell division and transit amplification regulation: Evidences from Drosophila testis

12:00-1:00

 

Lunch