2025 DevBio Fall Symposium
When: Wednesday – Thursday, November 12th – 13th, 2025
Where: Coverdell Center, 500 D. W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602
Parking: S15 Carlton Street Parking Deck, South Campus, “Pay-per-Hour” lot Mon-Thurs, after 1:00 PM.
For Wednesday, after 1 PM, to park in S15 Carlton Street Parking Deck, you will need either: DP pass, pay the kiosk (as you will need your license plate # – kiosks are near the elevators on the bottom and 1st floors), pay via the ParkMobile app which has in-app transaction fees, or a paid daily pass via UGAMart. All of these are paid on your own.
For Thursday morning – lunch, it is best is to carpool with someone who has a DP pass, walk to Coverdell, park near Coverdell (i.e., South Deck near the Georgia Center Hotel). Reminder you can’t park in the Carlton Street Parking Deck until after 1 PM.
Keynote Speaker: Paul Trainor, Ph.D is a developmental biologist and an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. He joined the Institute in 2001, and is a leader in the fields of craniofacial, neural crest cell, and developmental biology, and works with research organisms such as mouse, zebrafish, and chameleons.
“Global processes have tissue specific effects in development and disease”
Invited Speaker: David Sherwood, Ph.D is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Biology at Duke University. The Sherwood lab explores the diverse functions and dynamic properties of specialized extracellular matrices, basement membranes. These include how cells invade though basement membranes, how basement membranes regulate stem cell niche formation and function, how their components move dynamically within the matrix to rapidly convey information, how tissue-specific basement membranes are constructed and remodeled, and how they connect tissues together.
“Basement Membranes and Organelle Inheritance”
Invited Speaker: Jennifer Zallen, Ph.D is a developmental biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is also Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator since 2015. Her lab focuses on the generation of tissue structure through the collective action of cell populations using Drosophila embryos.
“Forces and cell state transitions in epithelial morphogenesis”
Schedule – RSVP Catering due date: Wednesday, 11/05 by noon.
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, The CCRC/CMM, and the Departments of Cellular Biology and Genetics.***
Wednesday, |
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| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Registration & Before Dinner Social in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda (Main Floor) |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Dinner by Trumps Catering in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda |
| Welcome Introduction & Keynote Seminar in Coverdell Center's Auditorium, S175 | |
| 7:00 - 7:05 PM | Welcome Introduction by Doug Menke, Director of Developmental Biology Alliance |
| 7:05 - 8:05 PM | Keynote Seminar by Paul Trainor, "Global processes have tissue specific effects in development and disease" |
Thursday, |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda (Main Floor) |
| Seminars in Coverdell Center's Auditorium, S175 | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | Seminar by David Sherwood, "Basement membranes and Organelle Inheritance" |
| 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Poster Session with Coffee Break in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda |
| 11:00 - 12:00 PM | Seminar by Jennifer Zallen, "Forces and cell state transitions in epithelial morphogenesis" |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch from Barberitos in Coverdell Center's Lobby and Rotunda |