Contributors (in alphabetical order) and preliminary title of
their talks
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Richard John Aldridge, Department of Geology,
University of Leicester, UK
http://www.le.ac.uk/geology/staff/ra12.html
Conodonts and the origin of the vertebrate skeleton.
Loriano Ballarin, Dept. of Biology, University of
Padova, Italy
Apoptosis and recognition of senescent cells in a compound
ascidian:
a comparison with vertebrates.
Paolo Burighel, Dept. of Biology, University of
Padova, Italy
The development and the evolution
of the stomodeum and neurohypophysis in ascidians: insight
into the origin of the olfactory and adenohypophysial
placodes of vertebrates
Patricio Dominguez,
Dept. Paleontología, Fac. CC. Geologicas, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
and
Richard Jefferies,
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
A cladogram for the Deuterostomia based on
molecular-biological and fossil evidence
Philip C. J. Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol, UK
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/admin/personnel/PCJD.html
and
Mark Purnell, Department of Geology, University of
Leicester, UK
http://www.le.ac.uk/gl/map2
Gen(om)e duplication and vertebrate origins: the problems
of stem vertebrates and the meaning of complexity
Jerzy Dzik, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warszawa,
Poland
http://www.paleo.pan.pl/people/Dzik/Dzik.htm
Earliest chordates in the fossil record.
Mikhail A. Fedonkin, Paleontological Institute,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
http://www.iugs.org/iugs/news/cv_fedonkin.pdf
and
Alberto Simonetta, Department of Animal Biology,
University of Florence, Italy
The main Metazoan Radiation: a Pre-Cambrian event.
Bernd Fritzsch, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences,
Creighton University, Omaha, USA
http://www.biomedsci.creighton.edu/faculty/fritzsch.html
Origin and evolution of the vertebrate eyes, ears and
brains: Major steps in the morphological evolution of these
three systems and the genetic innovations guiding those
steps.
Frietson Galis, Leiden University, The Netherlands
http://wwwbio.leidenuniv.nl/~galis/index.html
Convergence and divergence in early embryologic stages of
vertebrates and invertebrates
Fabio Gasparini, Dept. Biology, University of Padova,
Italy
Vascular regeneration in a tunicate recalls vertebrate
angiogenesis
Neil J. Gostling, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol, UK
Origin of the centralized Chordate nervous system.
Richard Jefferies, Department of Palaeontology, Natural
History Museum, London, UK
and
Patricio Dominguez, Dept. Paleontología, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Hatschek's work continues -
fossils confirm that L-R asymmetry was important in chordate
origins.
Zbynek Kozmik, Institute of Molecular Genetics,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech
Republic
http://www.img.cas.cz/tr/
Characterization of Eyes absent and sine oculis
genes in amphioxus.
Shigeru Kuratani,
Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology, Center for
Developmental Biology, Riken, Kobe, Japan
http://www.cdb.riken.go.jp/emo/index.html
What does it take to be a
jawed vertebrate?
Bertrand Lefebvre, UMR Biogéosciences, Université de
Bourgogne, Dijon, France
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/BIOGEOSCIENCE/LefebvreCVT.html
and
Oldrich Fatka, Institute of
Geology and Palaeontology, Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic
http://www.natur.cuni.cz/IGP/staff/fatka.html
Stylophorans ("calcichordates"): not the ancestry of
vertebrates.
John G. Maisey,
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
http://www.amnh.org/science/divisions/paleo/bio.php?scientist=maisey
Early Gnathostomes: Morphotypes or Stereotypes?
Jon Mallatt, Washington
State University, Pullman, USA
http://www.sci.wsu.edu/sbs/faculty.php3?pageID=6&id=59&groupID=1
http://www.wsu.edu/~jmallatt/
Amphioxus, Cambrian fossil animal, Haikouella,
and the origin of the vertebrates.
Lucia Manni, Department of Biology, University of
Padova, Italy
Hair cells in ascidians and vertebrates: homology or
convergent evolution?
Francoise Mazet, University of Oxford, Department
of Zoology, Oxford, UK
Molecular evidence from Ciona intestinalis for the
evolutionary origin of vertebrate sensory placodes.
Moya Meredith Smith, MRC Center for Developmental
Neurobiology, King's College London, United Kingdom
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/dentistry/research/moyaart.html
http://myprofile.cos.com/moyasmith
Getting a grip on the bare bones of skeletal origins
Axel Meyer, Department of Biology, University of
Konstanz, Germany
www.evolutionsbiologie.uni-konstanz.de
The evolution of the chordate genome.
Lennart Olsson,
Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit
Phyletischen Museum,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
http://www.zoo.uni-jena.de/lolsson/
The development and evolution of cranial muscles in
amphibians: selected case studies.
Gerhard Schlosser, Brain Research Institute,
University of Bremen, Germany
Hatschek's pit and the evolution of vertebrate placodes.
Degan Shu,
NW Univ Xian, Early Life
Inst, Xian, Peoples R China
Selected papers by D. Shu
Phylogeny of early deuterostomes and origin of vertebrates.
Dr Shu
kindly offered a possibility to bring his
Chengjiang
fossils, such as Haikouichthys, Haikouella,
vetulicolians, Vetulocystis, and Cheungkongella, for
a temporary display during the symposium.
Karl
Wotton,
Department of Zoology,
University of Oxford,
UK
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball1988/
Fox gene
duplication in vertebrate evolution.
GuangJun Zhang, Department of Zoology, University of
Florida, Gainesville, USA
Developmental basis for the origin of the vertebrate
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