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The 7th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology 27 July - 1 August 2004, Boca Raton Florida, USA
Symposium on Evolutionary Origin of Neural Crest and Placodes
Organizers: Dr. Gerhard Schlosser (Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Germany; gschloss@uni-bremen.de)
Dr. Clare V. H. Baker (Dept. of Anatomy, Cambridge University, UK; cvhb1@cam.ac.uk)
Confirmed speakers:
Dr. R. Glenn Northcutt (Dept. Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, USA; rgnorthcutt@ucsd.edu): The New Head hypothesis revisited
Dr. Daniel Meulemans (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; dm@its.caltech.edu): The central role of genetic cooption during neural crest evolution
Dr. Linda Z. Holland (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA; lzholland@ucsd.edu): Amphioxus and the evolution of neural crest and placodes
Dr. Lucia Manni (University of Padova, Italy; lmanni@bio.unipd.it): Placodal structures in tunicates
Dr. Sebastian Shimeld (University of Reading, UK; s.m.shimeld@reading.ac.uk): Development of putative placode homologs in Ciona intestinalis
Dr. Gerhard Schlosser (Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Germany; gschloss@uni-bremen.de): Development and evolution of placodes from a common precursor?
Additional information on ICVM7 can be found at http://www.iconferences.org/icvm7/.
Note: the deadline for all abstract submissions is 01 October 2003.
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