3-4 December, 2015
UniSA
Adelaide
UniSA
Adelaide
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About our speakers
| Guillermo Oliver
During embryonic development, pattern formation is considered the process by which spatial and temporal patterns of cells activities are organized within the embryo in order to produce the correspondent tissues and organs. Alterations in any of these processes can lead to major developmental defects and pathological alterations. Our long-term objectives are to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling different aspects of normal and pathological organogenesis during embryogenesis using a variety of mouse models. Our areas of interest are the forebrain and visual system and the lymphatic vasculature. We use a combination of animal models and 3D organ culture systems, stem cells and iPS cells. |
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| Jeroen Bakkers
Jeroen Bakkers received his PhD in 2000 from Leiden University, The Netherlands. During this time he was introduced in the zebrafish system and used it to study the role of glycosyltransferases during early vertebrate development. He continued his work on zebrafish development as a postdoc in the lab of Matthias Hammerschmidt at the Max-Planck Institute for Immunbiology in Freiburg, Germany. Here he started his work on Bmp and Wnt signaling during zebrafish gastrulation and isolated p63 (a member of the p53 tumor suppressor family) as a direct target of Bmp signaling. In 2003 he was appointed at the Hubrecht Institute initially as a junior staff member and in 2008 as a senior staff member and initiated here his work on heart development using zebrafish. In 2008 he was awarded a VIDI career grant from the Dutch science organization NWO and in 2015 he was appointed as Professor of Molecular Cardiogenetics at the UMC Utrecht. |
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