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To celebrate the opening of the Developmental Biology and Genetics unit, there has been conferences presented by specialists in their fields including Nobel Prize winners.

Monday, October 13, 2008

  • Welcome addresses by Profs Pierre Corvol, Administrator of Collège de France, Claude Huriet, President of the INSTITUT CURIE, Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Director of the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Daniel Louvard, Director of the Research Center
  • Prof. Howard Green, Honorary President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut Curie, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
    “The Birth of Therapy with Cultured Cells”
  • Prof. Paul Nurse, President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut Curie,President of the Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
    “Cell form in fission yeast”

1st Session: Stem Cells

  • Nicole Le Douarin, Collège de France, Paris, Académie des Sciences, Paris
    “Developmental relationships between the neural crest and the brain”
  • Elaine Fuchs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
    “Skin development and stem cells”
  • Jean-René Huynh, Institut Curie, Paris
    “The origin of polarity: from germline stem cells to body axis patterning in Drosophila and Zebrafish”
  • Allan Spradling, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore (USA)
    “Regulation of stem cell behavior by tissue Niches”

2nd Session: Gene Regulation and Epigenetics

  • David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA)
    “Control of inflammation by NF-kB and MicroRNAs”
  • Edith Heard, Institut Curie, Paris
    “Developmental and epigenetic Dynamics of X-Chromosome Inactivation in the Mouse”
  • Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Institut Curie, Paris
    “Role of chromatin structure and remodeling in the patterning of the early mouse embryo”

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

3rd Session: Development and Evolution

  • Prof. Paul Nurse, President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut Curie,President of the Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
    “Cell form in fission yeast”
  • Walter Gehring, University of Bale (Switzerland)
    “The Evolution of Eyes and Vision”
  • Denis Duboule, University Sciences III, Genève / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
    “Large-Scale Gene Regulation During Vertebrate Development and Evolution”

4th Session: Morphogenesis and Oncogenesis

  • Joan S. Brugge, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
    “Modeling Morphogenesis and Oncognesis in 3 Dimensional Cultures”
  • Gerald M. Rubin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia (USA)
    “Developing Tools for Neuroanatomy and Neurogenetics in Drosophila”
  • Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie, Paris
    “Coordinating growth, morphogenesis and cellular organization of proliferating epithelial tissue”
  • Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Director of the Research Unit “Genetics and Developmental Biology”, Professor at the College de France, Paris, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
    “Notch signaling, proliferation and oncogenesis”

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