Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2022
Regulatory Dynamics in Development and Evolution
21-23 September 2022 | Cambridge, UK and Online
Daily schedule
Day 1: Wednesday 21 September 2022
13:30-13:50 Arrivals and coffee
13:50-14:00 Opening remarks
14:00-15:00 Kerstin Kauffman (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Regulatory mechanisms controlling cellular differentiation in flower development
15:05-15:35 Erik Clark (University of Cambridge) Arthropod segmentation dynamics during development and evolution
15:40-16:10 Ting-Ying Wu (Temasek Life Science Laboratory) Expansion of gene regulatory network in plants upon environmental changes: what is kept and what is lost throughout the evolution
16:10-16:30 Tea break
16:30-17:00 Alexandre Marand (University of Georgia) An exploration of cis-regulatory diversity in plant single-cells
17:05-17:20 Eldad Afik (California Institute of Technology) Self-Organized Macroscopic Waves Reveal Intrinsic Rhythms in a Giant Single-Celled Organism Feeding on Light
17:25-17:55 Flash talks (pre-recorded)
18:00-19:45 Poster Session 1 and Dinner
19:00-19:45 Online poster session
Day 2: Thursday 22 September 2022
09:00-09:30 Coffee
09:30-10:00 Berta Verd (University of Oxford) On the role of cell rearrangements in pattern formation
10:05-10:35 Renske MA Vroomans (University of Cambridge) Evolution of spatial patterning in vascular plants
10:40-11:10 Suriya Murugesan (National University of Singapore) Gene-regulatory network governing the origin of butterfly eyespots- a novel complex traits
11:10-11:15 Group photo
11:15-11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:00 Yoan Coudert (ENS Lyon/CNRS) Evolution of plant architecture through changes in auxin movement control
12:05-12:20 Omer Karin (University of Cambridge) Epigenetic inheritance of gene-silencing is maintained by a self-tuning mechanism based on resource competition
12:25-12:55 Flash talks (pre-recorded)
12:55-15:00 Lunch and poster session
14:15-15:00 Online poster session
15:00-15:30 Kaisa Kajala (Utrecht University) Evolution of dynamic barrier cell types
15:35-16:05 Isaac Salazar Ciudad (Centre De Recerca Matematica) How to develop and evolve complex robust phenotypes?
16:10-16:25 Hugh Mulvey (Gregor Mendel Institute) Evolution of RHO cell polarity signalling in plants
16:25-16:45 Tea break
16:45-17:00 Hannah Morrow (Monash University) The molecular mechanisms regulating ovary development in response to nutrition in Drosophila melanogaster
17:05-17:35 Marcus Heisler (University of Sydney) Patterning lateral organ development in Arabidopsis
17:40-17:55 Margot E Smit (HHMI/Stanford University) Stomatal patterning during embryogenesis is gradual and is required for post-embryonic stomatal development
17:55-20:00 Curry/Barbecue Social Dinner
Day 3: Friday 23 September 2022
08:30-09:30 Early Career Researchers Breakfast with Invited Speakers
09:00-09:30 Coffee
09:30-10:00 Aman Husbands (University of Pennsylvania) HD-ZIPIII transcription factors are controlled by deeply conserved START domains
10:05-10:35 Annis Richardson (The University of Edinburgh) How do Grasses Grow?
10:40-10:55 Facundo Romani (University of Cambridge) Systematic analysis of the expression landscape of Marchantia transcription factors
11:00-11:15 Ruth Kristianingsih (John Innes Centre) Curve registration – an approach for comparing gene expression dynamics over different developmental timescales
11:15-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 James Sharpe (EMBL) 3D tissue morphogenesis from plants to animals? Same difference.
12:45 Closing remarks picnic lunches and access to Botanic Garden