Program

Program at a Glance

Time	1^st day (3/28)	2^nd day (3/29)	3^rd day (3/30)	4^th day (3/31)
08:00~08:30		Registration	Registration	Registration
08:30~09:10		Keynote Lecture Olivier Pourquié	Keynote lecture Erich Jarvis	Keynote lecture Michèle Tixier-Boichard
09:10~09:50		Keynote lecture Claudio Stern	Keynote lecture Wen-Hsiung Li	Keynote lecture Dave Burt
09:50~10:20		Coffee Break/Group Photo	Coffee Break	Business Meeting/ Coffee Break
10:20~12:00		Session 1 Developmental Biology (1)	Session 4 Genetic/Genomic analysis	Session 6 Avian Physiology
12:00~12:20		Lunch		Session 6 Avian Physiology
12:20~12:25				Lunch
12:25~13:00			Trip: National Palace Museum	Lunch
13:00~13:40		Keynote lecture Scott Fraser		Session 7 Avian Stem Cell & Transgenesis-related Techniques
13:40~15:00		Session 2 Developmental Biology (2)		Session 7 Avian Stem Cell & Transgenesis-related Techniques
15:00~15:05		Session 2 Developmental Biology (2)
15:05~15:35		Coffee Break/Poster Session-1
15:35~16:20		Session 3 Developmental Biology (3)
16:20~17:00
17:00~17:30	Registration
17:30~17:40	Taiwan Tapas Reception
17:40~18:30	Taiwan Tapas Reception		Dinner/ Poster Session-2
18:30~18:40	Opening remarks Chih-Feng Chen Overview Lecture Cheng-Ming Chuong	Reception Dinner	Dinner/ Poster Session-2
18:40~18:45			Session 5 Avian Behavior
18:45~19:10
19:10~19:50	Keynote lecture Xing Xu
19:50~20:30	Keynote lecture Hsiao-Wei Yuan
20:30~20:40

Program

1st day (3/28)

Time	Sessions/Topics/Speakers
17:00~17:30	Registration
17:30~18:30	Taiwan Tapas Reception
18:30~19:10	Opening remarks Chih-Feng Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Overview Lecture Cheng-Ming Chuong, University of Southern California, US
19:10~19:50	Keynote Lecture 1 Chair: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chuong
19:10~19:50	Keynote speaker: Dr. Xing Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China The origin and early evolution of feathers
19:50~20:30	Keynote Lecture 2 Chair: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chuong
19:50~20:30	Keynote speaker: Dr. Hsiao-Wei Yuan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Bird fauna and studies in Taiwan

2nd day (3/29)

Time	Sessions/Topics/Speakers
08:00~08:30	Registration
08:30~09:10	Keynote lecture 3 Chair: Dr. Jun-An Chen
08:30~09:10	Keynote speaker: Dr. Olivier Pourquié, Harvard Medical School, US Warburg-like metabolism coordinates FGF and Wnt signaling in the developing embryo
09:10~09:50	Keynote lecture 4 Chair: Dr. Y. Henry Sun
09:10~09:50	Keynote speaker: Dr. Claudio Stern, University College London, UK A hunt for new 'organizers' uncovers the endoderm of the AIP as an organizer of the heart
09:50~10:20	Coffee Break
10:20~12:00	Session 1 Developmental Biology (1) Chair: Dr. Rusty Lansford; Co-chair: Dr. Ping Wu
10:20~10:40 Rusty Lansford, University of Southern California, US S1-1 Visualizing Complex Cell Dynamics in the Embryo 10:40~11:00 Hisato Kondoh, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan S1-2 Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying lens transdifferentiation from embryonic neural retina 11:00~11:25 Harukazu Nakamura, Tohoku University, Japan S1-3 Fate determination of mesencephalon and metencephalon by Fgf8 signaling 11:25~11:45 Guojun Sheng, Kumamoto University, Japan S1-4 Gastrulation EMT as a model for understanding cancer EMT 11:45~12:00 Martin Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China S1-5 Coordinated action of Nedd9 and Dlc1 in neural crest motility
12:00~13:00	Lunch
13:00~13:40	Keynote lecture 5 Chair: Dr. Shyh-Jye Lee
13:00~13:40	Scott Fraser, University of Southern California, US Multiplex Imaging and Sensing the Molecules that Pattern Development
13:40~15:05	Session 2 Developmental Biology (2) Chair: Dr. Claudio Stern; Co-chair: Dr. Randall Widelitz
13:40~14:00 Zhicao Yue, Fuzhou University, China S2-1 Periodic feather branching and its application in medical research 14:00~14:20 Ping Wu, University of Southern California, US S2-2 Hierarchical specification of skin regions revealed by feather super-enhancer analyses 14:20~14:35 Chao-Yuan Yeh, University of Southern California, US S2-3 Interfacial epidermal-dermal coupling as a driving force for periodic pattern formation 14:35~14:50 Joana Esteves de Lima, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, France S2-4 Muscle contraction maintains the muscle progenitor pool via YAP and NOTCH signalling during foetal myogenesis 14:50~15:05 Sonya Nassari, UM7622 IBPS, France S2-5 Involvement of the CXCL12/CXCR7 axis in connective tissue-mediated limb muscle morphogenesis
15:05~15:35	Coffee Break/ Poster Session-1
15:35~18:30	Session 3 Developmental Biology (3) Chair: Dr. Koji Tamura; Co-chair: Dr. Hsu-Chen Cheng
15:35~15:55 Koji Tamura, Tohoku University, Japan S3-1 Developmental and genomic aspects of macroevolution in vertebrates 15:55~16:15 Mikiko Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan *S3-2 Cux2 refines forelimb field by controlling Raldh2* and Hox expression 16:15~16:35 Takayuki Suzuki, Nagoya University, Japan S3-3 Quantitative approach to understand whole organ deformation dynamics in the chick limb 16:35~16:50 Zuzana Vavrušová, UCSF/University Paris-Sud, France/US S3-4 Role of Neural Crest and its Meningeal Derivatives in an Avian Valproateinduced Model of Autism 16:50~17:00 short break 17:00~17:15 Jerome Gros, Institut Pasteur, France S3-5 Cell Division Drives Epithelial Cell Rearrangements during Gastrulation in Chick 17:15~17:30 Donald Newgreen, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia S3-6 Differential clonal expansion in enteric neural crest cells: what’s luck got to do with it? 17:30~17:45 Hiroki Nagai, Kumamoto University, Japan S3-7 Cellular and morphological analysis of EGK stage avian embryos 17:45~18:00 Thanh-Lan Gluckman, Collège de France, France S3-8 Estrildid finches as a developmental system 18:00~18:15 Francois Friocourt, Fondation Voire et Entendre, France S3-9 3D analysis of axonal tract development in bird embryos 18:15~18:30 Shiro Egawa, Tohoku university, Japan S3-10 The inference about transition of hip joint morphogenesis in the dinosaurian lineage**
18:30~21:00	Reception Dinner: Restaurant "Chingye-Shinleyuan" http://www.aoba.com.tw/shinleyuan/ Taiwanese cuisine will be served. There will be buses ready to take you to the restaurant.

3rd day (3/30)

Time	Sessions/Topics/Speakers
08:00~08:30	Registration
08:30~09:10	Keynote lecture 6 Chair: Dr. Shen-Ju Chou
08:30~09:10	Erich Jarvis, Duke University, US Using whole genomes to resolve the tree of life of birds and evolution of complex traits
09:10~09:50	Keynote lecture 7 Chair: Dr. Chen Siang Ng
09:10~09:50	Wen-Hsiung Li, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Genetic basis of feather diversity in birds
09:50~10:20	Coffee Break
10:20~12:25	Session 4 Genetic/Genomic analysis Chair: Dr. Dave Burt; Co-chair: Dr. John Foley
10:20~10:40 Scott Edwards, Harvard University, US S4-1 Convergent regulatory evolution and the origin of flightlessness in palaeognathous birds 10:40~11:00 Michael Shapiro, University of Utah, US S4-2 More than skin deep: Limb identity and the origins of feathered feet in domestic pigeons 11:00~11:15 Doreen Schwochow-Thalmann, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden S4-3 The barred beauty- how a tumour suppressor locus can delight your eyes 11:15~11:35 Chen Siang Ng, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan S4-4 Genome-wide transcriptome analyses of regenerating adult feathers in chicken by RNA sequencing 11:35~11:55 Erich Jarvis, Duke University, US S4-5 Generating an comparative avian genomes resource for all extant 10,000 plus species 11:55~12:10 David Bottjer, University of Southern California, US S4-6 Paleogenomics and bird evolution 12:10~12:25 Meng-Ching Ko, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany S4-7 Sex-specific transcriptomes of a singing related brain area
12:25~17:40	Trip: National Palace Museum, http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/ There will be buses ready to take you to the museum.
17:40~18:40	Dinner/Poster Session-2
18:40~20:40	Session 5 Avian Behavior Chair: Dr. David Clayton; Co-chair: Dr. Sarah Bottjer
18:40~19:00 David Clayton, Queen Mary, University of London, UK S5-1 Acute isolation leads to a shift in neurogenomic state across the songbird forebrain 19:00~19:20 Sarah Bottjer, University of Southern California, US S5-2 Neural representations of current and goal behaviors during sensitive-period learning 19:20~19:40 Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki, Kitasato University, Japan S5-3 Imprint learning modulates activity of the visual Wulst cells in chicks 19:40~20:00 Christopher Balakrishnan, East Carolina University, US S5-4 Divergence and degradation of a sex chromosome-like supergene 20:00~20:20 Melissa Bateson, Newcastle University, UK S5-5 Developmental telomere attrition predicts adult foraging behaviour in European starlings 20:20~20:40 Sheng-Feng Shen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan S5-6 A Sequential Collective Action Game and its Applications to Cooperative Parental Care in Yuhina brunneiceps

4th day (3/31)

Time	Sessions/Topics/Speakers
08:00~08:30	Registration
08:30~09:10	Keynote lecture 8 Chair: Dr. Chih-Feng Chen
08:30~09:10	Michèle Tixier-Boichard, AgroParisTech, INRA, France Genetic determinism of feather colour: how to fill the puzzle?
09:10~09:50	Keynote lecture 9 Chair: Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li
	Dave Burt, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK The Chicken and other Avian Genomes: new insights and opportunities for all from high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics
09:50~10:20	Business Meeting/Coffee Break
10:20~12:20	Session 6 Avian Physiology Chair: Dr. Yen-Pai Lee ; Co-chair: Dr. Pin-Chi Tang
10:20~10:40 Yen-Pai Lee, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan S6-1 Genetic improvement of economic traits change chicken’s behaviours 10:40~11:00 Craig Smith, Monash University, Australia S6-2 Sexual differentiation in the chicken; direct genetic and hormonal mechanisms 11:00~11:20 Takashi Yoshimura, Nagoya University, Japan S6-3 Towards understanding the mechanism of seasonal time measurement in vertebrates 11:20~11:40 Shu-Yin Wang, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan S6-4 Designed Thermoregulation during Incubation Alters the Sex Ratio of Taiwan Country Chickens 11:40~12:00 Mike Skinner, Imperial College London, UK S6-5 Avian host range restriction and innate antiviral responses 12:00~12:20 Shuen-Ei Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan S6-6 Obesity-related cardiac pathogenesis using chickens as a model
12:20~13:00	Lunch
13:00~15:00	Session 7 Avian Stem Cell & Transgenesis-related Techniques Chair: Dr. Bertrand Pain; Co-chair: Dr. Helen Sang
13:00~13:20 Bertrand Pain, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, INRA, France S7-1 Physiology and biotechnology of avian stem cells 13:20~13:40 Helen Sang, Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh, UK S7-2 Genome engineering in the chicken: advances and opportunities 13:40~14:00 Jae Yong Han, Seoul National University, Korea S7-3 Transgenesis and targeted genome modification in avian species 14:00~14:20 Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan S7-4 Chemogenetic control of neuronal activity in songbirds 14:20~14:40 Dalit Sela-Donenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel S7-5 A new role of hindbrain boundaries as pools of neural stem/progenitor cells Regulated by Sox2 14:40~14:55 Kwaku Dad Abu-Bonsrah, University of Melbourne, Australia S7-6 Efficient genome editing in chicken by CRISPR-targeted homologous recombination