Session 1 - Gene Regulation
Chair: TBA

Keynote lecture I
In Vivo Studies of Human Genome Function
Len Pennacchio - DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA

HoxA13 and HoxD13 function as pioneer factors in the developing limb
Marie Kmita - McGill University, Canada

Robustness versus Evolvability: Transcriptional Control of the BMP Antagonist Grem1 during Vertebrate Limb Development
Aimée Zuniga - University of Basel, Switzerland

Coffee break

Long-range gene regulation at the HoxD locus during Limb development
Denis Duboule - University of Geneva, Switzerland

LIMB-NET an online simulation tool for the limb development community
James Sharpe - EMBL Barcelona, Spain

Two Lmx1b-associated cis-regulatory modules (LARM1/2) mediate Lmx1b auto-amplification during limb dorsalization and their disruption can cause a limb-specific form of Nail-Patella syndrome
Kerby Oberg - Loma Linda University, USA

Timing in chick limb development
Matthew Towers - The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Early Shh function and the late determination of digit identity:  temporal integration by multiple signals
Susan Mackem - National Cancer Institute, USA

Meis transcription factors interpret FGF signaling gradient to convey positional information along the limb bud proximo-distal axis
Irene Delgado - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain

Differential response of the developing limb neuromuscular system to an altered autopod pattern
Maëva Luxey - University of Basel, Switzerland

SP8-dependent regulatory network in the limb ectoderm
Marian Ros - CSIC, University of Cantabria, Spain

Title TBA
Malcolm Logan - King's College London, United Kingdom

Reprogramming non-limb fibroblasts into limb bud progenitor-like cells
Yuji Atsuta - Harvard Medical School, USA

Molecular Mechanism of segmentation of limb cartilage
Amitabha Bandyopadhyay - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Lunch

Session 3 - Patterning & Regeneration
Chair: TBA

Title TBA
Joshua Currie - University of Toronto, Canada

Overcoming regenerative restrictions in mammals
Ken Muneoka - Texas A&M University, USA

How do axolotls memorize and regulate the patterning information in limb regeneration
Akane Kawaguchi - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria

Single-cell profiling of the regenerating axolotl limb
Nicholas D Leigh - Harvard University, USA

Coffee break

Maintenance of genomic integrity in proliferating blastema cells of regenerating axolotl limbs
Jessica Whited - Harvard Medical School, USA

EGFR activation promotes regenerative capacity in mouse digit tissue
Caroline Dealy - UConn Health, USA

Poster Session I

Quantitative and comparative analysis of tissue deformation dynamics during chick and Xenopus limb development
Yoshihiro Morishita - RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan

Biophysical approaches to morphogenesis in the mouse embryo
Sevan Hopyan - University of Toronto, Canada

Appropriate spatial restriction of cell signalling in the developing limb: integration of mechanical cues
Paula Murphy - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Development of the pelvic girdle requires apical ectodermal ridge FGFs
Christian Louis Bonatto Paese - National Cancer Institute, USA

A new role of GDF5 in regulating cell and nuclear morphology during chondrocyte differentiation
Sarah Rubin - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Lunch

Session 5 - Growth
Chair: TBA

Title TBA
Megan Davey - The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Different insults to long bone growth lead to distinct scaling effects in developing mice
Alberto Roselló-Díez - Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Australia

3D Visualisation of the Role of Cell Activities in Joint Morphogenesis
Yuming Huang - Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Pectoral fin morphogenesis: from a monolayer to a 3D structure
Hahn Nguyen - CNRS USR3695 BioEmergences, France

Coffee break

ECM collagens in the prenatal skeletal rudiment: how do they develop and are they mechanoregulated?
Niamh Nowlan - Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Thalidomide-induced limb differences: the role of the blood vessels
Neil Vargesson - University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Shh mediated Fgf-signaling is compartmentalized in the mesenchyme and controls limb size during salamander development
Sruthi Purushothaman - University of Kentucky, USA

Developmental basis of mammalian limb variation
Karen E. Sears - University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Title TBA
Kimberly Cooper - UCSD, USA

Developmental Basis of limb heterochrony in the wing of the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
John Young - Harvard Medical School, USA

A developmental mechanism for metapterygial bending during the evolution of the tetrapod limb
Joost Woltering - University of Konstanz, Germany

Left-right asymmetric reduction of skeletal elements in emu wings
Mikiko Tanaka - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Working material for appendage variation: potential to form limb-like skeletal structures in zebrafish by activation of a latent patterning mechanism
Brent Hawkins - Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, USA

Dissecting the cis-regulatory robustness of Ptch1 in limb development and evolution
Virginie Tissières - Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, CSIC, Spain

Keynote lecture III
Deneen M. Wellik - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA