Japan-Toronto Morphogenesis Symposium
Robert B. Salter Auditorium
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
The Hospital for Sick Children
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Monday, July 16, 2018
12:30-12:45 REGISTRATION – Second floor lobby
12:45 Opening Remarks – Sevan Hopyan
12:50 Introduction to 3D Morphologic – Shigeru Kondo
Session I – 1:00-3:00 PM
Chair: TBD
1:00-1:30 Shizue Ohsawa – Kyoto University
3D morphogenesis of adult appendages from the Folded Epithelial Sheets in Drosophila
1:30-2:00 Shigeru Kondo – Osaka University
The reversed ORIGAMI mechanism that determines the 3D shape of the exoskeleton
2:00-2:20 Dorothea Godt, U of T
Regulation of actomyosin activity by Protein Kinase C delta during collective cell migration
2:20-2:40 Ulrich Tepass, U of T
Integration of polarity, adhesion, cytoskeletal dynamics and vesicle trafficking during epithelial cell ingression
2:40-3:00 Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, U of T
Oxidative stress orchestrates cell polarity during embryonic wound repair
3:00-3:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session II – 3:30-5:10 PM
Chair: TBD
3:30-4:00 Takeo Matsumoto – Nagoya University
Biomechanical approaches toward elucidation of mechanical environment in Xenopus laevis embryos
4:00-4:20 Yu Sun, U of T
Tools for measuring physical properties in vivo
4:20-4:50 Guy Tanentzapf, University of British Columbia
Analysis of Cell-ECM Adhesion During Morphogenesis & Tissue Maintenance in Flies & Mice
4:50-5:10 Rudolf Winklbauer, U of T
Cell-cell attachment mechanisms and the range of adhesion strengths
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Session III – 9:00-10:20 AM
Chair: TBD
9:00-9:15 Toru Kawanishi – University of Tokyo
Coordinated tissue elongation in the zebrafish posterior body
9:15-9:30 Yue Tong – University of Tokyo
Rotational cell migration: a new logic behind 3D somite morphogenesis
9:30-9:50 Sevan Hopyan, U of T
Mesenchymal cell rearrangements that shape tissue in the mouse embryo
9:50-10:20 Naoto Ueno – National Institute for Basic Biology
Calcium dynamics and tissue mechanics of vertebrate neural tube closure
10:20-10:50 COFFEE BREAK
Session IV – 10:50 AM-12:20 PM
Chair: TBD
10:50-11:20 Kenji Matsuno. – Osaka University
Cell chirality drives left-right asymmetric morphogenesis
11:20-11:40 Julie Brill, U of T
Regulation of cell adhesion by the lipid phosphatase Sac I
11:40-12:00 Julie Lefebvre, U of T
Molecular and dynamic cellular determinants of dendrite morphogenesis
12:00-12:20 Ran Kafri, U of T
Size sensing mechanisms in animal cells
12:20-1:30 LUNCH – PGCRL Gallery
Session V – 1:30-3:30 PM
Chair: TBD
1:30-2:00 Masakazu Akiyama – Hokkaido University
A mathematical model of collective cell migration based on cell polarity
2:00-2:30 Matthias Merkel, Syracuse University
Physical multi-scale approaches to study the mechanics of 3D biological tissues
2:30-3:00 Yasuhiro Inoue – Kyoto University
Computational simulation on multiple cell dynamics in tissue deformation
3:00-3:30 Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University
Buckling without bending: A new paradigm in morphogenesis
3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session VI – 4:00-5:30 PM
Chair: TBD
4:00-4:20 Sid Goyal, U of T
Can Single-Cell Transcriptional Profiling shed light on morphogenesis?
4:20-4:40 Brian Ciruna, U of T
Understanding the causes of idiopathic scoliosis: a twisted ‘tail’ of cilia and CSF flow defect
4:40-5:00 Penney Gilbert, U of T
3D culture models of human skeletal muscle to uncover new biology
5:00-5:30 Hisashi Haga – Hokkaido University
Collective movement and 3D morphogenesis of epithelial cells responding to viscoelastic substrates
5:30-6:30 FAREWELL RECEPTION (Cash Bar)
PGCRL Gallery