VERTEBRATE ORGANOGENESIS
April 27 - May 1, 2010
Abstract Deadline: February 5, 2010

Organizers:
Jonathan Epstein, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Brigid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center
Guillermo Oliver, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

outline program

We are pleased to announce the first Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Vertebrate Organogenesis, which will begin on Tuesday evening, April 27 and end at noon on Saturday, May 1, 2010. The specific goals of this conference are to bring together a diverse group of scientists studying various molecular, cellular and genetic aspects of organogenesis in vertebrate systems. This meeting is intended to provide a format for the exchange of ideas and information, to discuss the latest research findings and technical advances, and to facilitate the intellectual unification of research on vertebrate organogenesis and related disease states in diverse systems.

The Cold Spring Harbor meeting will promote interactions and discussions between leading scientists and physician-scientists working on different vertebrate model systems, different organs, and different pathological conditions including but not limited to:

Axis Formation and Ciliogenesis
Central Nervous System and Retina
Vascular Systems
Muscle/Skeleton
Heart/Lung
Digestive System
Kidney/Gonads

Invited Speakers:
Kathryn Anderson, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Margaret Buckingham, Pasteur Institute, France
Blanche Capel, Duke University Medical Center
Peter Carmeliet, University of Leuven, Belgium
Connie Cepko, Harvard Medical School
Hans Clevers, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands
Frank Costantini, Columbia University College of P & S
Anne Eichmann, Collège de France, France
Hiroshi Hamada, Osaka University, Japan
Matthias Hebrok, University of California, San Francisco
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, University of California, Los Angeles
Gerard Karsenty, Columbia University
Andy McMahon, Harvard University
Ross Metzger, HHMI/Stanford University School of Medicine
Samuel Pfaff, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Kenneth Poss, Duke University Medical Center
Olivier Pourquie, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Thomas Rando, Stanford University School of Medicine
Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Didier Stainier, University of California, San Francisco
Clifford Tabin, Harvard Medical School
John Wallingford, University of Texas at Austin
Steve Wilson, University College London, UK
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth Zaret, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Leonard Zon, Children's Hospital

The format of the meeting will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site (below) as soon as decisions have been made. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs.

We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor in April.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:
The Company of Biologists
March of Dimes
Genentech
National Institutes of Health
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.

The Society for Developmental Biology has agreed to provide a limited number of partial scholarships preferentially earmarked for SDB members whose abstracts are selected as talks or posters at the meeting. Please provide details of SDB membership in writing to meetings@cshl.edu.

CSHL has funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.