Imaging Mouse Development

Overview

Conference Overview

This workshop will bring together and help establish an emerging community with the common goal of four dimensional reconstruction of mammalian development. A number of longstanding questions surrounding the early development of mammals have been inaccessible to molecular research due to technical limitations and poor physical accessibility of these processes. How is the body plan established in the early embryo? How is morphogenesis coordinated with lineage specification? The recent revolutions in advanced light microscopy and bioimage informatics have opened up completely new avenues to address these questions and make fundamental advances in our understanding of the developing mammalian embryo.

This meeting will provide a buzzing forum to exchange the latest ideas and techniques, foster new collaborations, and formulate strategies to address gaps in our knowledge and technical challenges. It will make an important contribution towards building an inclusive and open community among the fields of imaging technology and mammalian development, to promote the free exchange of resources and concepts, where different research groups can contribute and build off one another’s advances, and prevent the fragmentation and incompatibility of data resources and techniques.

Session Topics

• Early development
• Advanced microscopy and image analysis
• Post-implantation development
• Quantitative biology, modelling and experimental manipulation
• Organogenesis

Speakers

Alexander Aulehla

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Claire Chazaud

GReD

France

Mary Dickinson

Baylor College of Medicine

USA

Jan Ellenberg

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Dimitri Fabreges

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Scott Fraser

California Institute of Technology

USA

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Hiroshi Hamada

RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB)

Japan

Fred Hamprecht

University of Heidelberg

Germany

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Institute of Science and Technology

Austria

Ryoichiro Kageyama

Kyoto University

Japan

Philipp Keller

Janelia Research Campus

USA

Alfonso Martinez Arias

University of Cambridge

UK

Kate McDole

Janelia Research Campus

USA

Sigolène Meilhac

Institut Pasteur and Institut Imagine

France

Isabelle Migeotte

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Belgium

Lee Niswander

University of Colorado Boulder

USA

Robert Prevedel

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Elizabeth Robertson

University of Oxford

UK

Tristan Rodriguez

Imperial College London

UK

Giuliana Rossi

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

James Sharpe

EMBL Barcelona

Spain

Shankar Srinivas

University of Oxford

UK

Jared Toettcher

Princeton University

USA

Miguel Torres

Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research

Spain

Scientific Organisers

Jan Ellenberg

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Takashi Hiiragi

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Philipp Keller

Janelia Research Campus

USA

Kate McDole

Janelia Research Campus

USA

Shankar Srinivas

University of Oxford

UK

Conference Organisers

Lisa Trinh

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme