18th International Xenopus Conference
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The 18th International Xenopus Conference was held virtually August 15-19, 2021.
Content for registrants will be available until Friday, September 17, 2021.
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Many thanks to the organizers, speakers, presenters, and participants!
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Congratulations to Helen Willsey and Alice Godden named John Gurdon outstanding speaker award winners!
Conference Programme
Sunday, 15 August 2021
Session 1 - Chair: Christof Niehrs
PL01 - Aaron Zorn
The CLEAR consortium: discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects
O01 - Clayton Gordy
One-Eared Frogs: Insights into Brainstem Sensorimotor Plasticity
O02 - Jennifer Landino
Changes in neighbor cell contractility alter the speed and success of epithelial cytokinesis
S01 - Jin-Kwan Han
Ripply2.2 induces VegT degradation in head organizer
S02 - Laurent Kodjabachian
Centriole synthesis in multiciliated cells
O03 - Seongmin Yun
Development of deep-learning-based high-throughput phenotype screening platform of Xenopus laevis embryos
O04 - Gerhard Schlosser
The role of Eya1 for otic neurogenesis in Xenopus laevis
Session 2 - Chair: Gerhard Schlosser
S03 - Roberto Mayor
Interplay between chemical and mechanical cues during neural crest migration
S04 - Stefan Hoppler
Wnt target genes in Xenopus development
S05 - Vaibhav Pai
Biophysical Control of Organogenesis: How Membrane Voltage Patterns Regulate Embryonic Neural Patterning and Regeneration
S06 - Robert Huebener
Mechanical heterogeneity along single cell-cell junctions is driven by lateral clustering of cadherins during vertebrate axis elongation
Session 3 - Chair: John Wallingford
S07 - Jerome Julien
Editing the sperm epigenome
S08 - Soeren Lienkamp
Models of kidney disease and ciliopathies
S09 - Rachel Miller
The Wnt/PCP formin, Daam1, drives cell-cell adhesion during nephron development
S10 - Lance Davidson
Mechanical discordance and jamming during neurulation. Or, What can we learn just by watching?
Sit down & chat - “All Sorts of People make Great Scientists; how do they do it?”
Monday, 16 August 2021
Live poster sessions + networking
Xenbase workshop 1 - GEO data
Explore RNA/ChIP-Seq data from GEO and Differentially Expressed Genes (DEG) on Xenbase
Session 1 - Chair: Steffan Hoppler
PL02: IXB - Young PI Andrea Wills
Decoding the metabolic requirements for regeneration
O05 - Hyo Jung Sim
Study on the functions of ERAD pathway in cartilage formation and osteoarthritis
O06 - Eva Pillai
Mechanical control of chemical signalling in the developing Xenopus brain
S11 - Naota Ueno
Force-dependent remodeling of a tight junction protein ZO-1 is regulated by phase-separation
S12 - Eva Hormandser
O07 - Karel Dorey
Identification of the molecular switch regulating the transition from proliferation to differentiation during spinal cord regeneration
O08 - Marcus Maerker
Bicc1 regulates left-right patterning through post-transcriptional control of the Nodal-inhibitor Dand5
Session 2 - Chair: Muriel Perron
S13 - Anne-H Monsoro-Burq
Spatio-temporal coordination of BMP and Wnt signaling by the scaffolding protein FHL3, a novel enhancer of BMP signaling, controls several steps of neural crest early development
S14 - Matt Good
Cell Size and Cell Cycle Dependent Mechanisms of Zygotic Genome Activation
S15- Carole LaBonne
S16- Coral Zhou
Mechanisms of mitotic chromosome scaling in Xenopus laevis
Session 3 - Chair: Marko Horb
S17 - Hazel Sive
The Extreme Anterior Domain: a Target for Microcephaly
S18 - Philipp Vick
Regulation of FGF signaling by the endosomal compartment - deep and superficial insights from the mesoderm
S19 - Orson Moritz
Modeling CRISPR-based gene therapies for retinitis pigmentosa in X. laevis
S20 - Leonid Peshkin
Xenopus proteomics Atlas
Poster session
Sit down & chat - career transitions
Xenbase workshop 1 - GEO data Repeat
Explore RNA/ChIP-Seq data from GEO and Differentially Expressed Genes (DEG) on Xenbase
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Live poster sessions + networking
Xenbase Workshop 2 - Phenotypes
Explore Xenopus phenotypes effecting anatomy, biological processes, changes in gene expression and models of human disease
Session 1 - Chair: Roberto Mayor
PL03 - Jim Smith
From frogs to humans—just as we’d hoped
O09 - Ken Cho
Patterning the chromatin state along the germ layer axis in Xenopus
O10 - Marjolein Carron
Functional characterization of a Xenopus tropicalis knockout and a human cellular model of RCBTB1-associated inherited retinal disease shows involvement of RCBTB1 in the cellular response to oxidative stress
S21 - Makoto Nakamura
The AP-1 transcription factor JunB and TGF-β1 ligand are critical components of the early injury response leading to cell proliferation in Xenopus tadpole tail regeneration
S22 - Jenny Gallop
Intervening in membrane-triggered actin assembly
O11- Alexia Tasca
Multiciliated cells can undergo direct fate conversion through Notch signaling
O12 - Aparna Baxi
Time-resolved proteomic analysis of inner ear development in Xenopus laevis
Session 2 - Chair: Anne Monsoro-Burq
S23- Bill Bement
Further adventures in cortical excitability
S24 - Laura-Ann Lowery
Investigating the role of the CoREST repressor complex in melanoma metastasis in vivo
S25 - Lora Sweeney
Defining tetrapod motor circuit diversity across frog metamorphosis and vertebrate evolution
S26 - Enrique Amaya
Metabolic reprogramming during early embryonic development and appendage regeneration
Session 3 - Chair: Robert Grainger
S27 - Frank Conlon
The Evolution of the X-Chromosome and Cardiac Sex Disparities
S28 - Peter Walentek
Using Xenopus to understand mucociliary epithelial development, remodeling and diseases
S29 - Sally Moody
Human SIX1 mutations cause gene expression and morphological changes in craniofacial structures
S30 - Rudi Winklbauer
Cell adhesion in the Xenopus gastrula
Poster session
Sit down & chat - Xenopus Heath & Care
Xenbase Workshop 2 - Phenotypes repeat
Explore Xenopus phenotypes effecting anatomy, biological processes, changes in gene expression and models of human disease
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Live poster sessions
13.00 - 16.00 Session 1: Chair: Gert Veenstra
PL04 - Karen Liu
Pathological missense variants in CTNND1 predict tissue specific protein functions
O13 - Thomas Naert
XenoVision: Deep learning for embryonic disease modeling
O14 - Alice Godden
Investigating the role of microRNAs in the development of Xenopus neual crest with CRISPR-Cas9
S31 - Yuuri Yasuoka
Comparing fluctuation of gene expression profiles in embryos to dissect diversification of Xenopus tropicalis strains
S32 - Gert Veenstra
From histone modifications to gene regulation
O15 - Podrowsky
Cell proliferation in Xenopus embryos antagonizes the accumulation of repressive histone marks by replicational dilution
O16 - Banerjee
A Xenopus laevis epilepsy model to test alternative therapy for Intractable Epilepsy
16.20 - 18.10 Session 2 - Chair: Sally Moody
S33 - Christof Niehrs
Novel mechanisms of R-spondins during early Xenopus development
S34 - Helen Willsey
Using frogs to identify convergent biology underlying complex genetic disorders including autism
S35 - Kristian Franze
The chemomechanical guidance of neuronal axons in the developing Xenopus brain
S36 - Mustafa Khokha
The nuclear transport of beta-catenin
Session 3 - Chair: Amy Sater
S37 - Muriel Perron
Xenopus retina regeneration: linking inflammation and stem cell reactivation
S38 - Peter Nemes
In vivo Subcellular Mass Spectrometry for Functional Cell/Developmental Biology
S39 - Richard Harland
Chromosome evolution in frogs
S40 - John Gurdon
A long transcription factor dwell time stabilizes cell differentiation
Poster Session
Thursday, 19 August 2021
Chair: Hazel Sive
PL05 - Marc Kirschner
S41 - Hajime Ogino
Morphological and behavioral characteristics of Xenopus tropicalis inbred strains in NBRP
S42 - Dom Alfandari
Production and Characterization of Monoclonal antibodies to Xenopus proteins
S43 - Esther Pearl
The Experimental Design Assistant: helping you design more rigorous in vivo experiments
S44 - Marko Horb
Xenopus Mutant Resource
S45 - Jacques Robert
Xenopus laevis Research Resource for Immunobiology (XLRRI): update and preparation for competing renewal in 2022
S46 - Matthew Guille
The EXRC: successful changes and unexpected challenges
Closing session & prize giving
Last Updated: 2021-09-10