Schedule

Sunday

9:50-10:00

Welcome and Introduction to pre-conference

10-11:30

Session 1 – Neural and Brain Regeneration (Chair: Giulia Casal)

1. Functional Recovery of Spinal Circuits During Axolotl Tail Regeneration – Carina Seidl, Postdoc, Austria
2. Investigating regeneration of motor axons in axolotl – Stephan Raiders, Postdoc, Austria
3. Unraveling the genetics of spinal cord regeneration in the Medaka-Inbred-Kiyosu-Karlsruhe (MIKK) panel – Jana Fuss, PhD student, Germany
4. The BNB in health and following injury (mouse peripheral nerve) – Giulia Casal, Postdoc, UK
5. Severance of neural communication disrupts regeneration of camera-type eyes in the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata – Carlos Barradas Chacón, PhD student, USA
6. Developmental constraints of neuron type regeneration in the salamander Pleurodeles waltl – Alonso Ortega Gurrola, PhD student, USA
7. A single-cell atlas of whole-brain regeneration in Schmidtea mediterranea – Kate Randall, PhD student, USA
8. lmo1/3-1 and app-L1 ensure the regeneration of specific neurons in the planarian brain – Kendall Clay, PhD student, USA

11:30-12

Faculty Talk: Journey through science

Elly Tanaka
Scientific Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
President, International Society for Regenerative Biology

12-1

Lunch

1-3

Session 2 – Limb, Organ, and Whole-Body Regeneration (Chair, Matt Cherubino)

1. Correlation, but not sufficiency, of cell cycle reactivation in the induction of regenerative competency in axolotl salamander limbs – Matt Cherubino, PhD student, USA
2. Uncovering the Role of Novel miRNAs in Salamander Limb Regeneration – Jesús Sanchez-Pardo, PhD student, Sweden
3. Phased ERK function on muscle stem cell plasticity in axolotl – Chao Yi, Postdoc, China
4. Activin signaling from muscle controls axis patterning and blastema growth in Hofstenia – Riley Popp, PhD student, USA
5. Injury-induced Neuregulin-ErbB signaling from muscle mobilizes stem cells for whole-body regeneration in Acoels – Brian Stevens, PhD student, USA
6. Gut Regeneration via Tissue Remodeling in a Freshwater Annelid – Jasmine Sun, Undergraduate, USA
7. Regeneration programs buffer defects in development – Kazunori Ando, Postdoc, USA
8. Live visualization of ECM dynamics during development and regeneration in zebrafish – Jingwen Shen, USA
9. High-resolution Tracking of Planarian Feeding Behavior as a Platform for Studying Regeneration – Isabel Delo, PhD student, USA
10. Deciphering the embryonic origin of neoblasts in S. polychroa – Joris Dieng, Postdoc, USA

3-3:30

Faculty Talk: Journey through science

Phil Newmark
Burnell Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research
President-elect, International Society for Regenerative Biology

3:30-4

Coffee Break

4-5

Session 3 – Stem Cells, Metabolism, and Translational Models (Chair, Jackson Griffiths)

1. A whole-animal transcriptomic atlas for the highly regenerative flatworm Macrostomum lignano – Samantha Hoge, Undergraduate, USA
2. Defining the metabolic regulation of immune cells during tadpole tail regeneration – Beatrice Milnes, PhD student, USA
3. Autofluorescence Lifetime Imaging Identifies Metabolic Subtypes of Human Cardiac Fibroblasts – Harmehak Kaur, PhD student, USA
4. Visualizing the dynamics of unit-level regeneration and growth in zebrafish kidney – Taisuke Furusho, Postdoc, USA
5. Development of genetic tools for studying the evolution of regeneration across species – Victor Plascencia-Perez, PhD student, USA

5-7

Career workshop: Strategies for effective mentoring and building mentor/mentee relationships

Janet Branchaw
Director, Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement (WISCIENCE)
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

7

Dinner Reception and Networking

Monday

10-3

Tanaka Birthday symposium (includes lunch)