The UCSF Developmental Biology Program retreat will be held from Tomales Bay at the Marconi Conference Center. A unit of the California State Park System, Marconi offers modern facilities located in a beautiful, secluded environment and is surrounded by areas of natural and historical interest. The center is located about 1 1/2 hours north of San Francisco on Highway One. The Developmental Biology Retreat is one of the major program activities of the year.
The retreat provides an opportunity for program members to
meet together in a casual and focused setting to interact and discuss their
current work. There will be a general overview and one research talk from each
lab, given by faculty and postdocs.
In addition, there will be a Friday evening keynote presented by Susan McConnell from the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, followed by a poster
session and social time. Dr. McConnell's talk is entitled "Assembling a neural circuit: wiring up the brain during development."
For questions, please contact the Retreat Coordinator, Caroline Murphy at caroline.murphy@ucsf.edu or (415) 476-2699.
Registration Information:
The Program in Developmental Biology retreat is open to faculty, students and postdocs from Program labs as well as first year PIBS and BMS students. Registration materials have been sent directly to Program faculty. Participants should sign-up for the retreat (through their PI) by November 15 . The form can be downloaded here (Basic Reg Form Download).
First year PIBS and BMS students are not charged and therefore have a different form. It can downloaded here (1st year Student Reg Form Download).
Non-program members may attend the retreat on a space available basis and should sign-up by the November 15 deadline.
The retreat cost will be approximately $135 per person, and will be recharged to the account and fund provided on the registration form.The cost will be determined by dividing the total cost of the retreat by the total number of people attending.
Marconi Conference Center Directions and Information:
Directions and other information about the Marconi Conference Center is available at their website www.MarconiConference.org. Download and print out the Marconi Center's Conferee information, including the Guest Guide, a site map and other Marconi information.
Schedule information for the Dec 1-2, 2006 retreat is still pending but the retreat start and end time are about right. A list of speakers is below.
Schedule: Start time will be 2:15 Friday and will end by 1pm on Saturday. Download schedule pending.
Session Chairs: A faculty chair will be assigned to each session. The session Chair should announce the start of the session, keep the talks on schedule, introduce the speakers and moderate the discussion. We will have a timer available.
Speaker Guidelines: Each lab will be allowed 30 minutes total for it's presentation and most lab's presentation should be in two parts. First, the PI will present a short overview of the work going on in the lab. Second, a PI, postdoc, or student will give a talk on a specific research project. The most common allowance for each part is: 10 minutes for the overview, 15 minutes for the specific research project and 5 minutes for questions. However, you can divide up the time anyway you like, or even have a single speaker and research topic, as long as you stay within your allotted time slot. If the PI is unable to attend, the time slot will be reduced to 20 minutes.
An LCD projector for Powerpoint presentations will be provided for speakers. Other AV equipment (VCR, laptop, overhead projector, slide projector) will NOT be available unless specifically requested.
Here is the list of speakers
| Lab/Speakers | Title | |
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Herwig Baier – Lab overview |
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| Blelloch | Robert Blelloch – Silenicing embryonic stem cell self-renewal |
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| Black | Brian Black – Transcriptional control of neural crest development |
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| Bruneau | Benoit Bruneau – Chromatin remodeling complexes in heart development | |
| Davis | Grae Davis – title pending | |
| Gao | Fen-Bia Gao – Understanding Neurodevelopmental Disorders | |
| Jan | Yuh Nung Jan – Control of dendrite development | |
| Martin | Francesca Mariani – Fgf signaling during limb development | |
| Pleasure | Sam Pleasure – Lab overview |
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| Ramalho-Santos | Miguel Ramalho-Santos – Transcriptional regulation of embryonic stem cells |
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| Reichardt | Ainara Vallejo – FAK deletion in neural crest cells causes abnormalities resembling congenital heart diseases | |
| Rubenstein | Greg Potter – Dlx transcription factors repress oligodendrocyte formation in the forebrain | |
| Schneider | Rich Schneider – The role of neural crest mesenchyme during craniofacial development and evolution | |
| Srivastava | Kathy Ivey — Using microRNAs to direct embryonic stem cell differentiation | |
| Stainier | Didier Stainier – Lab overview Chantilly Munson – It’s Par-D time |
Poster Session: The following people are signed up to present posters:
Sapna Puri (Hebrok lab)
Sara Cervantes (Hebrok lab)
Brad Pawlikowski (Kramer lab)
Yasuo Ishii (Mikawa lab)
Izumi Oda (Mikawa lab)
Rob Garriock (Mikawa lab)
Kelley Rosborough (Mikawa lab)
Alicia Navetta (Mikawa lab)
Kevin Davis (Martin lab)
Kostas Zarbalis (Pleasure lab)
Yanling Wang (Rubenstein lab)
Renne Hoch (Rubenstein lab)
Ryan Anderson (Stainier lab)
For posters, the room is equipped with corkboard and thumbtacks for participants
to tack up their posters.
Ride Sharing:
Need Rides
Miguel Ramalho-Santos (Ramalho-Santos lab)
Marica Grskovic (Ramalho-Santos lab) mgrskovic@diabetes.ucsf.edu
Alexandre Maia (Ramalho-Santos lab) agmaia@diabetes.ucsf.edu
Yvan Chanthery (1st year BMS) yvan.chanthery@ucsf.edu
David Pincus (1st year Tetrad) david.pincus@ucsf.edu
Neil Sheehy (1st year Tetrad) neil.sheehy@ucsf.edu
Scott Hansen(1st year Tetrad) shansen@ucsf.edu
Nick Lyons (1st year Tetrad) nicholas.lyons@ucsf.edu
Have room
Janet Lau (Hebrok lab) maybe jlau@diabetes.ucsf.edu
Bellos Hadijvassiliou (1st year Tetrad) hhadijvassiliou@yahoo.com
Site last updated November 21, 2006.