Program
The scientific program of the Workshop will start at 8:00 AM on Monday, 19 July. Therefore, please arrange to arrive on Sunday, 18 July. There will be buses prepared to bring participants from the Prague airport on 18 July (please see Getting here). The meeting will close on Friday, 23 July after lunch (we will again have buses to take you to Prague).
Registration counter will be open Sunday (4-10 PM) and Monday (8-10 AM).
Updated final program has been posted !
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
- Michael E Adams, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
- Andrew Andres, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NE, USA
- Rosa Barrio, CIC bioGUNE, Technology Park, DERIO, Bizkaia, Spain
- François Bonneton, IGFL, ENS Lyon, France
- Leonard Dobens, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Thomas Flatt, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
- Lilach Gilboa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Henry M Krause, University of Toronto, Canada
- Enrique Martín-Blanco, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spain
- Kim F Rewitz, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Lynn M Riddiford, Janelia Farm, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA
- Alex Shingleton, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- Michael Stern, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- James W Truman, Janelia Farm, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA
- Hitoshi Ueda, Okayama University, Japan
- Naoki Yamanaka, HHMI/University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
list of Session topics:
- Ecdysone biosynthesis and steroidogenic cells
- Neuroendocrine regulation
- Growth, insulin, and developmental timing
- Reproduction and physiology
- Nuclear receptor signaling
- JH-ecdysone interaction
- Non-insect steroids
- Development and metamorphosis