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25th Head Group Meeting

Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health
   

Opening Lecture

Professor Cheryll Tickle

Getting ahead - the last 25 years
   

Closing Lecture

Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture

Professor Andrea Brand

Stem cells to synapses: Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system

Open Lecture
Everyone Welcome!!
   

The Head Group Meeting organised by Dr Patrizia Ferretti will take place on the 11th January 2013 at the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, UCL, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH.

As in previous years this will be a single day meeting with one paper from each contributing laboratory (preferably given by a postgrad/postdoc). The meeting will end with the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture (see below for background ) given by Prof. Andrea Brand from the University of Cambridge.

Speakers

If you wish to present your work (20 minutes slot, 15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion), please register your intention and the title of your presentation with Miss Lauren Browning (l.browning@ucl.ac.uk). Deadline for speakers to register is Thursday 22nd November 2012. Please remember that slots are on a"first come first serve basis", hence early registration is recommended. 

Contact details, affiliation and the talk titles for all speakers is required so please include this when registering speakers.

Please remember it is one speaker per laboratory.

Posters

There will also be a poster session at this meeting but as space is limited, these will be accepted on a ‘first come first serve basis’. 

For those interested in presenting a poster, they should

  1. send an email to Miss Lauren Browning (l.browning@ucl.ac.uk)
  2. by Thursday 22nd November 2012 
  3. with the full talk title, full affiliation and contact details

Please can it also be specified which laboratory is being represented too and that this expression of interest is for a poster presentation. Note: the poster board size is 100cm x 175cm (1m x 1.75m).

Registration

The registration fee for the meeting is £25 and this will cover the cost of coffee/tea/lunch/administration for the whole day. Payment will need to be made in advance either by cheque (made payable to 'University College London') by IDT (for UCL members only) or by credit/debit card. Please use the registration form for ALL payments and return to Miss Lauren Browning by the deadline (the form will soon be uploaded onto this page). Receipts of payments will be issued as usual (by email if a cheque is sent or by post for credit/debit card payments so please ensure your full address is on the form).

Payments can cover the contribution for all the participants from the same laboratory, but full names of all registrants must be provided. You are welcome to email Miss Lauren Browning expressing your interest in attending, but please note that registration is complete only upon payment. Deadline for registration: Tuesday 11th December 2012.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 2ND JANUARY 2013

IMPORTANT: From 20th Dec 2012 - It is preferred you pay by cheque for the meeting. Any credit card/debit card payments received until the 2nd January will be processed. However, from the 2nd January 2013 - please only pay by cheque.


Background

Following the 1987 BSDB Meeting on "Craniofacial Development" organized by Peter Thorogood and Cheryll Tickle, the organizers and other colleagues (Andrew Lumsden, Mark Ferguson, Gudrun Moore, Alisdair Ivens, Julian Lewis and Gillian Morriss-Kay) decided to start holding annual informal meetings to increase communication between laboratories working on various aspects of the development of the head, offer the opportunity to young scientists to present their work in a friendly and stimulating environment and promote collaborative research. The group has met annually since 1989, and the initial number of participants, about 20 people, rose very rapidly through word of mouth and more groups asking to be included in the mailing list. Over the last few years there have always been over one hundred people attending the Meeting.


2013 Programme:

Time
 Talks
9:00-9:45
 Registration
Chairperson Patrizia Ferretti and Ian McKay
9:45-10:15


OPENING LECTURE

Prof. Cheryll Tickle  University of Bath
Getting a head - the last 25 years
10:15-10:35 Alison May Department of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London
Fgf signalling in the control of cranial and tracheal gland development
10:35–10:55 Elena Dreosti Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Role of genetic and epigenetic factors in the formation of functional left-right asymmetries
10:55-11:15 Victoria Shone MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Your Inner Inner Fish: Analysis of Pharyngeal Segmentation in Vertebrates
11:15-11:40 COFFEE
Chairperson
 		Cynthia Andoniadou  UCL Institute of Child Health, London  
11:40-12:00
 Miguel Tillo Cell Biology Department, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
HSPGs are essential for the VEGF164-mediate migration of facial branchiomotor neurons
12:00-12:20 Ellen Robertshaw MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Competence and neuronal subtype specification in the thalamus
12:20-12:40
 Samintharaj Kumar Neural Development Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health
Putative genes downstream of FGFR2 contributing to coronal suture synostosis in a Crouzon syndrome murine model
12:40-1:00 Thomas Butts MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Evolving bigger brains: the proliferation of progenitors in the developing cerebellum
1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
Chairperson
 		Paula Alexandre   King's College London
2:00-2:20 Roberta Azzarelli Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research
Role of Plexin/Rnd signalling in cortical neruon migration
2:20-2:40
 Mark Hintze Craniofacial development and stem cell biology, King's College London
Dissecting the signalling cascade that includes placode progenitors
2:40-3:00 Cynthia Andoniadou Neural Development Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health
Involvement of Stem Cells in Pituitary Oncogenesis
3:00-3:20 Laura Ward  MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Live imaging of tissue polarisation during zebrafish neural tube morphogenesis
3:20-4:00 TEA and Poster session
Chairperson Sophie New UCL Institute of Child Health, London
4:00-4:20 Timothy Goodman Biomedical Research Centre, Sch. of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Evidence for a transient population of tanycytes in the early postnatal hypothalamus
4:20-4:40
 Ivana Poparic MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
The role of alpha2-chimaerin in development of the ocular motor system
4:40-5:00
 Anna Cariboni Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Robo signalling in the development of GnRH neurones
Chairperson
 Patrizia Ferretti  Developmental Biology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London
5:00-5:45


Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture

Prof. Andrea Brand
Stem cells to synapses: Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system

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