16th Annual meeting Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, Hyytiälä Forestry Station 31 Oct-1 Nov 2014 Friday 31st Oct 2014 12.00 – 13.00 Check in & lunch 13.00 – 13.05 Opening of the meeting (Seppo J. Vainio) Session I – auditorium in institute building Chair: Irma Thesleff 13.05 – 13.45 Mikko Frilander: (Univ. Hki, IB). Sulo Toivonen keynote lecture: The butterfly genome project. 13.45 – 14.05 Audrey Desgrange (Silvia Cereghini lab). Function of the renal cysts and diabetes gene Hnf1b during kidney morphogenesis: an integrated molecular and cellular approach. 14.05 – 14.15 Heikki Rasilainen (Nordic BioSite). What kind of Products can NBS offer to you and where can you find them. 14.15 – 14.20 Annual picture of all participants (place will be announced). 14.20 - 14.45 Coffee/tea and sponsor’s exhibition Session II – auditorium in institute building Chair: Osamu Shimmi 14.45 – 15.05 Vera Shirokova (Marja Mikkola lab). Transcription factor Foxi3 regulates hair follicle growth and renewal. 15.05 – 15.25 Aleksandra Rak-Raszewska (Seppo Vainio lab). Tissue engineering tool box to target the mechanisms of kidney assembly ex vivo. 15.25 – 15.45 Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, auditorium in institute building. 15.45 – 17.00 Outdoor activities –tug of war (football, Frisbee, mölkky, hiking) 17.00 – 19.00 Sauna with light snacks (ladies in large sauna, gentlemen in small sauna) 19.00 – 20.00 Poster session in the Old Dining Hall 20.00 – 20.30 Time to change into your fancy Halloween costumes 20.30 Dinner party in the Old Dining Hall: Best Papers and Poster prizes Evening program: Halloween Party (fancy dress) Supported by: Saturday 1st Nov. 2014 08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast Session III – auditorium in institute building Chair: Juha Partanen 09.00 – 09.20 Yujuan Gui (Satu Kuure/Mart Saarma lab). Gdnf as a regulator of urogenital system. 09.20 – 09.40 Mona Christensen (Jukka Jernvall lab). Super-sizing teeth – developmental mechanisms of evolutionary increase in molar size without a change in the shape. 09.40 – 10.00 Laura Lahti (Juha Partanen lab). Development of gabaergic neurons in the ventral hindbrain. 10.00 – 10.20 Roland Zimm (Salazar-Ciudad lab). A computational approach to the evolution of development under conservative selection. 10.20 – 10.40 Coffee/tea sponsors’ exhibition Session IV – auditorium in institute building Chair: Marja Mikkola 10.40 – 11.00 Arvydas Dapkunas (Hannu Sariola lab). Novel culture method for metaneprhic mesenchyme maintenance in vitro. 11.00 – 11.20 Daniel Moore (Osamu Shimmi lab). Will be announced later. 11.20 – 11.40 Fabien Lafuma (Nicolas Di-Poï lab). Dental shape diversity and evolution in squamate reptiles. 11.40 – 12.00 Elodie Renvoise (Jukka Jernvall lab). Jawbone mechanical constrain in tooth morphogenesis and evolution. 12.00 – 12.10 Planning of the 17th meeting 2015 & close 12.10 – 13.00 Lunch, check out Supported by: