Fachgruppe Entwicklungsbiologie

The 113th DZG Meeting will take place online from August 30 – September 3, 2021.

Please register for the main meeting and submit your work for short talks and posters!

You will find the the final schedule of our section symposium here in July.

Check the conference website and/or sign up for our mailing list to stay tuned.

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previous annual meetings:

DZG 2020 Virtual Section Meeting: Developmental Biology

Thursday, September 10, 2020 – 9-12 CEST

Zoom and login infos available here.

Program: 

Welcome                 

09:00 – 09:05     Natascha/Nico         

Session1 – Evo-Devo (Chairs: Natascha/Nico)                 

09:05 – 09:20    Matthias Janeschik (München)     

Expression of a dPax2 (shaven) homolog in the spider P. tepidariorum. 

09:20 – 09:35     Ting-Hsuan Lu (Göttingen)     

Eye size variation in Drosophila: From Transcriptomics to function 

09:35 – 09:50    Luxi Chen (Bonn)     

Differential expression patterns of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and  heat shock protein 70 throughout diapause in D. magna.  

Tea/Coffee Break + general discussion                 

09:50 – 10:00    Everyone          

Session2 – Evo-Devo (Chairs: Natascha/Nico)                 

10:00 – 10:15    Benjamin Naumann (Jena)     

The ghost of the tadpole – parallel evolution of direct development in frogs is  shaped by ancestral developmental constraints. 

10:15 – 10:30    Melanie Hellinger (Erlangen-Nürnberg)     

Formation of Supernumerary Segments in a Short Germ Insect Through  Restarting Its Segmentation Clocks. 

10:30 – 10:45    Gregor Bucher (Göttingen)     

Quantifying the blind area of insect genetic screens: What essential genes are  we missing when screening only one species?  

Tea/Coffee Break + general discussion                 

10:45 – 10:55    Everyone          

Session 2 – Evo-Devo and Gene Regulation (Chairs: Natascha/Nico)                 

10:55 – 11:10    Bharadwaj Sai Krishna Marella (München)     

Sense organ diversity on the Drosophila ovipositor: Using transcriptomics to  uncover developmental differences 

11:10 – 11:25    Yaqun Xin (München)     

Evolution of a novel enhancer through shared chromatin accessibility inputs.  

11:25 – 11:40    Mariam Museridze (München)     

Revisiting Enhancer Boundaries Using a Pigmentation Locus in Drosophila. 

11:40 – 11:55    Gavin Rice (Pittsburgh)     

Evolving a novel trait through co-option of the shavenbaby gene regulatory  network. 

 Open questions + general discussion                  

from 11:55           Everyone