2023 Fall Symposium

When: Monday evening – Tuesday afternoon, October 9 – 10, 2023

Where: Coverdell Center, 500 D. W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602

Keynote Speaker: Marc Freeman, Ph.D. is the Director and Senior Scientist at one of the nation’s leading neuroscience research institutes – the Vollum Institute at OHSU.  In 2022, he was recognized as one of six award winners with the “Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship” from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) an honor bestowed upon him by the trainees he mentored via nomination.
“How is the nervous system remodeled in complex metazoans?”

Invited Speaker: Tamara Caspary, Ph.D is a Professor of Human Genetics and the Scientific Director of the Mouse Transgenic and Gene Targeting Core at Emory University School of Medicine.  She is also the Editor of the Developmental Dynamics, GENETICS, J. of Cell Biology, and the Southeast Representative for the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB).
“Untangling ciliary and cellular signaling”

Invited Speaker: B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  She “is a developmental biologist with a passion for live-imaging embryos and regeneration. (“Duygu” is pronounced “Do-ee-goo”).”
“Germline Formation and Regeneration in the Annelid Platynereis dumerilii

Schedule

Our Fall Symposium seminars are open/accessible with no registration required for the talks.

As each of the meals requires RSVP to invited attendees only.

***We appreciate the financial support from the Office of Research.***

Monday, October 9, 2023

5:00 - 6:00 PMRegistration & Before Dinner Social in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda (Main Floor)
6:00 - 7:15 PMDinner by Trumps Catering in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda
Welcome Introduction & Keynote Seminar in Coverdell Center's Auditorium, S175
7:15 - 7:30 PMWelcome Introduction by Doug Menke, Director of Developmental Biology Alliance
7:30 - 8:30 PMKeynote Seminar by Marc Freeman, "How is the nervous system remodeled in complex metazoans? "

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

8:15 - 9:00 AMRegistration & Continental Breakfast in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda (Main Floor)
Seminars in Coverdell Center's Auditorium, S175
9:00 - 10:00 AMSeminar by Tamara Caspary, "Untangling ciliary and cellular signaling "
10:00 - 11:00 AMPoster Session with Coffee Break in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda
11:00 - 12:00 PMSeminar by B. Duygu Özpolat , "Germline Formation and Regeneration in the Annelid Platynereis dumerilii "
12:00 - 1:00 PMLunch from Barberitos in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda