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10:00 a.m.: Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Molecular Embryologu, The Rockefeller University, Welcome Remarks

10:05 a.m.: Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., professor of biology and bioengineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Sense, Antisense and Nonsense

10:30 a.m.: Mustafa Khoka, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and genetics, Yale University, What Richard Taught Me about Wnt Signaling, and How I'd Like to Return the Favor

10:45 a.m.: Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D., scientific director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Hox Targets: Finding Your Friends

11:15 a.m.: John Wallingford, Ph.D., professor, University of Texas, Austin, Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension: What We Got Right and What We Got Wrong

11:30 a.m.: Dale Frank, Ph.D., technion, Israel University of Technology, Signaling Pathway/Transcription Factor Interactions Regulating Early Cell Fate Decisions in the Developing Nervous System

11:45 a.m.: Karen Liu, Ph.D., professor, King's College London, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Cranial Crest

1:15 p.m.: Francesca Mariani, Ph.D., assistant professor, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Heal Thyself! From Stem Cells to Cartilage and Bone

1:30 p.m.: Aris Economides, Ph.D., executive director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, What Does Noggin Got to Do with Fibrodysplasia Ossifican Progressiva?

2:00 p.m.: Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Self Understanding of Self Organization: It's all Richard's Fault

2:25 p.m.; Marc Dionne, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Imperial College in London, How I learned to stop worrying and love metabolism and immunity.

3:10 p.m.: Benjamin Martin, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, Stony Brook University, Combinatorial Signaling Interactions Pattern Mesoderm by Controlling bHLH Transcription Factor Activity

3:25 p.m.: Anne-Helene Burq, Ph.D., professor, Institut Curie, Paris, Uncovering unconventional functions of a metabolic regulator in frog early development

3:50 p.m.: Michael Levine, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, Princeton University, Repression, Memory, and Suboptimization of Gene Activity in Animal Development

4:10 p.m.: Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Concluding Remarks

4:10 p.m.: Richard Harland, Ph.D., department co-chair and C.H. Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley, Concluding Remarks

Allison Frontier, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Rochester

Marija Vucelja, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physics, University of Virginia