Venue:
Terrace
Monash University Prato Centre
Via Pugliesi 26
29100 Prato
| DAY 1: Monday, Oct. 22nd – WELCOME & COCKTAIL RECEPTION | ||
| 17:30 to 19:00 | ||
| Registration & Welcome Cocktails | ||
| DAY 2: Tuesday, Oct. 23rd – SKELETAL SYSTEM & SOFT TISSUE DEVELOPMENT | ||
| 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | ||
| 9.00 – 9.45 | Richard Dearden | Nothing but the tooth? A total evidence approach to the elasmobranch tree of life. |
| 9.45 – 10.30 | Gareth Fraser | Dental and Cranial diversity in chondrichthyan fishes: new jaws and odd faces |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | ||
| MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Michael Palmer | The genetic basis of a permanent cartilagenous skeleton |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Catherine Boisvert (via zoom) | Imaging the complexity of the chimaeroid pelvic muscle morphology and development |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Frank Tukenko | Evolution and vertebrate appendicular muscle patterning systems and implications |
| 13:00 – 14:00 p.m. | ||
| LUNCH | ||
| 14.00 – 14.45 | Martin Cohn / Cohn lab | TBA |
| 14.45 – 15.15 | Rebecca Dale | Brood Colony Management and Embryo Staging Guide of the Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) |
| 15.15 – 16.00 p.m. | ||
| AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Benoit Haerlingen | Off The Beaten Tracks: Exploring Heart Regeneration In Sharks |
| 16.30 – 17.15 | Peter Currie | Evolution of a specific stem cell niche cell drives distinct muscle growth strategies in the vertebrate lineage. |
| 19.00 – 22.00 p.m. | ||
| DINNER | ||
| DAY 3: Wednesday, Oct. 24th – GENOMICS | ||
| 9.00 – 10.30a.m. | ||
| 9.00 – 9.45 | Tetsuya Nakamura | The little skate genome illuminates the evolutionary emergence of exceptionally wide paired fins |
| 9.45 – 10.30 | Gavin Naylor | Leveraging Shark Genome Data for Conservation |
| 10.30 – 11.00 a.m. | ||
| MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Shigehiro Kuraku | Developmental gene landscape in shark and ray genome sequences |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Shawn Burgess | Darwinian Genomics: Rapid advances in genome assembly can make any fish a model organism |
| 12.30 – 15.00 | ||
| LUNCH & POSTER SESSION | ||
| Virginia Panara | A molecular characterisation ofthe chondrichthyan vasculature | |
| Hannah Bryne | The evolution of Tesselated Calcified Cartilage (TCC) in chondrichthyans | |
| Nicolas Vidal-Vasquez | A single-nucleus RNA-sequencing atlas of the shark retina | |
| Anna Box | Diverse macroglia in the evolution of the vertebrate BBB | |
| Eva Candal | Expression of Hedgehog signalling genes in the juvenile shark retina suggests a role in postnatal neurogenesis | |
| 15.00 – 15.30p.m. | ||
| AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 15.30 – 16.15 | Melanie Debias-Thibaud | The sensory shark-phenotypic, genomic and transcriptomic data for the small spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula |
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Ana Verissimo | An Ancestral MHC Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC origin and evolution |
| 17.00 – 21.00 | ||
| WINE TASTING & DINNER | ||
| DAY 4: Tuesday, Oct. 25th – NERVOUS SYSTEM | ||
| 9.00 – 10.30a.m. | ||
| 9.00 – 9.45 | Mikiko Tanaka (via Zoom) | Evolution of paired appendage-specific motor innervation |
| 9.45 – 10.30 | Idoia Quintana Urzainqui | The castharkembryo as a model to study the origin and evolution of the vertebrate brain |
| 10.30 – 11.00a.m. | ||
| MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Jan Kaslin | Defining the evolutionary origin and diversity of macroglia in the vertebrate CNS |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | George Kafetzis | Unravelling the evolution of visual circuits through the eyes of sharks |
| 12.30 – 14.00p.m. | ||
| LUNCH | ||
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Corinne Houart & Dana Fakhreddine | The shark embryonic forebrain –An ancestral version of mammalian organisation |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | All | Community session |
| 17.00p.m. | ||
| CONFERENCE ENDS | ||