PROGRAM

Day 1 - WED, May 27

12:00-20:00: Registration
19:00 Opening Lecture: Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA)
20:00: Welcome reception

Day 2 - THU, May 28

9:00 HOX specificity, cofactors and early embryonic development (I)
         Deneen Wellik (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
         Moisés Mallo (IGC, Lisbon, Portugal).
         Anthony Durston (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

         Coffee break

         Licia Selleri (Cornell University, NY, USA).
         Marie Kmita (Institut de Recherches Cliniques, Montreal, Canada)

Short talks:
Vincenzo Zappavigna (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Matthew Koss (Cornell University, NY, USA)

Lunch + Posters

16:00 HOX specificity, cofactors and early embryonic development (II)
         Richard Mann (Columbia Universisty, NY, USA).
         Fernando Casares (CABD, Seville, Spain)
         Natalia Azpiazu (CBM, Madrid, Spain)

         Coffee break

         Yacine Graba (IBDML, Marseille, France)
         Adi Salzberg (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

Short talks:
James Castelli-Gair (CABD, Seville, Spain)
David Cribbs (Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse, Grance)
Samir Merabet (IBDML, Marseille, France)

Day 3 - FRI, May 29

9:00: HOX specificity, cofactors and early embryonic development (III)
         José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (CABD, Sevilla, Spain)
         Jacqueline Deschamps (Hubrecht Lab, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Short talks:
Renata Freitas (CABD, Sevilla, Spain)
Martina Scotti (IRCM/University of Montreal, Canada)

         Coffee break

HOX and TALE: hematopoietic system, leukemia and stem cells (I)
         Guy Sauvageau (IRIC, Montreal, Canada)
         Francesco Blasi (DIBIT, Milano, Italy)
         Bernhard Schiedlmeier (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)

         Lunch + posters

16:00 HOX and TALE: hematopoietic system, leukemia and stem cells (II)
         Miguel Torres (CNIC, Madrid, Spain)
         Massimo Crippa (S. Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

Short talks:
Francesca Ficara (Stanford, Stanford University, USA)
Glenda Joanne Dickson (CRC, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

         Coffee break

HOX and TALE: nervous system and neurological disease (I)
         Dorotea Schulte (Max-Planck-Institute F. Brain Research, Frankfurt, EU)
         Dale Frank (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Short talks:
Rene Reshohazy (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Dmitry Penkov (Fondazione Ifom, Italy)

Day 4 - 30 May

9:00: HOX and TALE: nervous system and neurological disease (II)
         Jeremy Dasen (NYU School of Medicine, NY, USA)
         Filippo  Rijli (CNRS/INSERM/Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, EU)

Short talks:
Daniel Felix (Nottingham, UK)
Yoni Gutkovich (Dept. Of Biochemistry, Rappaport Medical School, Technion, Israel)

         Coffee break

         Dirk Geerts (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
         Julianne Winkelmann (GSF, Munich, Germany)

         Concluding remarks and closing of the Workshop: F. Casares, M. Mallo, M. Torres

16:00 Meeting of the members (MC and WGs) of the COST ACTION “HOX and TALE transcription factors in Development and Disease”