Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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Welcome and opening remarks

The generation and evolution of neural diversity

Young Investigator Award Talk: The mammalian G1/S transition is autonomously determined by a cell size homeostasis mechanism in vivo

Mechanical information processing in multicellular tissues

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Broken symmetries in living matter

Drosophila embryonic epithelium: Towards parameter-free models of tissue morphogenesis

Mechanical coupling between tissue layers during development

 Coffee Break!

A core mechanical defect underlies the age-related dampening of implantation potential

Emergent chirality in collective dynamics of multicellular systems

Physics of living matter: From molecule to embryo

Lunch

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Supracellular organization of morphogenesis: Epigenetics beyond the cell

Single-molecule imaging of hedgehog diffusion, and a new model for morphogen signaling in crowded tissues

Reengineering somite segmentation without the vertebrate segmentation clock

 Coffee Break!

Dynamic signaling gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration

Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking

Uncovering the origin of animal cell-cell communication with their unicellular relatives

Short Break!

Career Perspective Talk:

A cell biologist’s journey into the cell: Imaging subcellular organelle structure, dynamics, and interactions

Dinner!

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Scaffold-guided organoid development

A bioelectrical phase transition patterns the first vertebrate heartbeats

Role of a Fat2-based mechano-chemical feedback loop in initiating the rotational collective migration of the Drosophila follicle cells

Physiological roles of transcriptional fluctuations mediated by the base excision repair pathway

Genetic regulation of developmental and regenerative growth

Coffee Break!

Workshop: Sustainability in science

Lunch

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Pattern formation and regeneration in Stentor coeruleus

Mesenchymal state transitions keep time and determine lung epithelial branching program

Asymmetry of the basement membrane guides anterior-posterior body axis specification in mammals

Coffee Break!

Communication and fate decisions during functional tissue patterning in plants

Organ geometry constrains extracellular matrix fractures to pattern cell fate

How do cells count? Cell number control in a regenerating organ

Dinner!

Decoupling principles of embryonic body plan development

Decoding the metabolic requirements of vertebrate appendage regeneration

Toward a predictive understanding of epithelial cell death: From collective effects to single cell decisions

Coffee Break!

An alternative cell cycle coordinates multiciliated cell differentiation

Differentiation of stomatal precursors is triggered by cell size

Mechano-osmotic forces in intestinal development

Lunch

The wisdom of tissues: Perils, pitfalls, and potentialities of controlled cell proliferation

Control of modular tissue flows shaping the embryo in avian gastrulation

Toward a holistic and quantitative stem cell state landscape

Coffee Break!

Temperature scaling in the early embryonic cell cycle

Writing in stone: How cellular masons build topologically complex mineralized architectures in holothurians

Funding opportunities for developmental biology at the US National Science Foundation

Short Break!

Many-to-many networks: Multifunctional modules for multicellularity

Guts and gastrulation in mouse: From where to how, and why

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Interpreting the geometry and rhythm of early kidney formation for synthetic morphogenesis

pYtags enable robust measurements of endogenous receptor tyrosine activity in developing tissues

Reconstructing cell signaling history during fate transition via generalizable statistical inference

Coffee Break!

High resolution mapping of cell lineages during mammalian embryogenesis

Foundation models for cellular image analysis