Schedule
2019 Midwest Zebrafish Meeting Program
| Friday, June 7 | |
|---|---|
| 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Registration Poster and Exhibitor setup |
| 6:00 – 6:15 p.m. | Welcoming remarks, Dr. Jakub Famulski |
| 6:15 – 7:15 p.m. | Keynote lecture 1: Dr. Marnie Halpern, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science “Identity, connectivity and activity: deciphering left-right asymmetry in the zebrafish brain” |
| 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. | Poster Session 1 and reception |
| Saturday, June 8 | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration and breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Talk session 1: Cardiovascular system I Moderators: Warlen Pereira Piedade and Caroline Smith |
| 8:30 a.m. |
“The SH2 domain-containing adaptor protein She promotes Abl kinase signaling to regulate blood vessel lumen maintenance” Jennifer Schumacher, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 8:52 a.m. |
“Pbx4 restricts heart size by partitioning second heart field progenitors and restricting proliferation” Andrew Holowiecki, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 9:14 a.m. |
“A Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 4A3 (PRL-3)/Wnt signaling axis as a novel target in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia relapse” Meghan Haney, University of Kentucky |
| 9:36 a.m. |
“E-cigarette vaping liquids and a flavoring chemical perturb bone, cartilage and vascular development in zebrafish embryos” Beas Bhattacharya, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:15 - 11:45 a.m. |
Talk session 2: Evolution, development, and regeneration I Moderators: Kayla Titialii and Rebecca Petersen |
| 10:15 a.m. |
“Evolution of vertebrate gill covers through ancient shifts in an ultra-conserved Pou3f3 enhancer” Lindsey Barske, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 10:37 a.m. |
“Zebrafish Genetic Screens Identify Ethanol Susceptibility Loci Necessary for Palate Development” Ben Lovely, University of Louisville |
| 10:59 a.m. |
“Cell state transitions in zebrafish caudal fin regeneration” Yiran Hou, Washington University, St. Louis |
| 11:21 a.m. |
“Development and Functional Morphology of the Cement Gland of the Giant Danio, Devario malabaricus” Pascal Lafontant, DePauw University |
| 11:45 – 12:45 p.m. | Announcements and Lunch |
| 12:45- - 2:30 p.m. | Poster session 2 Tours of Arts & Sciences Imaging Center |
| 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. |
Talk session 3: Nervous system Moderators: Rebecca Norcross and Meghan Haney |
| 2:30 p.m. |
“Somatosensory response requires specific neuronal and glial cell populations” Michelle Wang, University of Notre Dame |
| 2:52 p.m. |
“AZBA: A Digital Adult Zebrafish Brain Atlas” Justin Kenney, Wayne State University |
| 3:14 p.m. |
“Mutations in protocadherins impact neural circuit assembly” Sarah Light, The Ohio State University |
| 3:36 p.m. |
“A novel role for Glypican-3 in pre-target topographic axon sorting in the visual system” Fabienne Poulain, University of South Carolina |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Talk session 4: Cardiovascular system II Moderators: Kristyn Van Der Meulen and Min Wei |
| 4:00 p.m. |
“Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of embryonic vasculogenesis identifies novel cell fates of vascular progenitors” Satish Casie Chetty, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 4:20 p.m. |
“Pax2 Positively Regulates Angiogenesis In Order to Initiate Optic Fissure Fusion” Megan Weaver, University of Kentucky |
| 4:40 p.m. |
“Nr2f1a is required to repress sinoatrial node identity within atrial cardiomyocytes in zebrafish” Kendall Martin, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Transport to Kentucky Horse Park |
| 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. | Social and dinner at the Kentucky Horse Park |
| Sunday, June 9 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Keynote lecture 2: Dr. Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin at Madison “Zebrafish light sheet microscopy for you and me” |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:15 – 11:45 a.m. |
Talk session 5: Evolution, development, and regeneration II Moderators: Cagney Coomer and Laura Krueger |
| 10:15 a.m |
“Midkine-a deficiency causes cell cycle arrest of intrinsic stem cells and gliotic remodeling in zebrafish retina” Mikiko Nagashima, University of Michigan |
| 10:37 a.m. |
“A novel model to uncover the function of scaffold Shoc2 mediated ERK1/2 signaling in early zebrafish development” Rebecca Norcross, University of Kentucky |
| 10:59 a.m. |
“Does Pnrc2 promote oscillatory mRNA decay independent of translational regulation of oscillatory protein?” Monica Mannings, The Ohio State University |
| 11:21 a.m. |
“Embryonic hyperglycemia is linked to a reduction in photoreceptor cells and increase in oxidative stress in the retina” Kayla Titialii, University of Kentucky |
| 11:45 a.m. | Concluding remarks, awards, and farewell |
