In addition to normal contributed paper sessions, the CMD section sponsored two satellite symposia. Each included one distinguished speaker to give the opening presentation (30 min.) and three or four 15-min. presentations.
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Student Satellite Symposium
Skeletal Differentiation Across the Vertebrates
Keynote speaker:
Arkhat Abzhanov, (Harvard)
Regulation of skeletogenic differentiation in cranial dermal bone
(abstract)
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Additional speakers:
Matthew Vickaryous (Calgary)
Skeletal development and regeneration: Tails from lizards
(abstract)
Rebecca Shearman (Wesleyan)
Investigating the lateral somitic frontier in the mouse and chick pectoral girdle
(abstract)
Nathan Bird (George Washington)
Skeletal development of the Weberian Apparatus in Cypriniform fishes
(abstract)
Ryan Kerney (Dalhousie)
Diverse pathways towards skeletal differentiation in amphibians
(abstract)
Student Organizer: Ryan Kerney (Dalhousie)
Local Satellite Symposium
Post-Embryonic Development in Zebrafish
Frank Smith (Dalhousie)
Autonomic control of buoyancy and blood flow in the zebrafish: Development, anatomy, and physiology
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Oliver Braubach (Dalhousie)
Starting to smell: Olfactory development in zebrafish
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Michael Jonz (Ottawa)
Oxygen sensing in developing zebrafish
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Marie-Andree Akimenko (Ottawa Civic Hospital)
The zebrafish fin as a model system to study dermal bone regeneration
(abstract)
Organizer: Roger Croll (Dalhousie)
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