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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Monday, April 20, 2026
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM US MDT
    Comparative Craniofacial Platform
    Chair: Lorena Maili – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM US MDT
    Developmental Biology Award Symposium
    Chair: Kristin Artinger, Ph.D – University of Minnesota
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM US MDT
    Education Platform Session #3
    Chair: Victor Taylor – George Washington University
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM US MDT
    Guardians on the Edge: Glial Cells at the Crossroads of Neurotoxicity and Disease
    Chair: Smart I. Mbagwu, PhD – Nnamdi Azikiwe University
  • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM US MDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM US MDT
    Poster Session - Monday
  • 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM US MDT
    Lunch & Learn
    Chair: Aidan Ruth, PhD – Saint Louis University
    Chair: Adam Hartstone-Rose – North Carolina State University
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Beyond Reproduction: Representations of Sexual Function
    Chair: Brenda K. Anak Ganeng, M.S. – Indiana University School of Medicine
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Beyond Reproduction: Representations of Sexual Function in Anatomy Education
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Form-function Relationships Among the Cranial, Appendicular, and Axial Skeletons
    Chair: Chris Law, Ph.D – University of Washington
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Neurobiology Award Symposium
    Chair: Ralph Marcucio, Ph.D – UCSF
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Seeing is Understanding: Visual Communication Strategies
    Chair: Aidan Ruth, PhD – Saint Louis University
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM US MDT
    Seeing is Understanding: Visual Communication Strategies in the Anatomical Sciences
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM US MDT
    Development as a Continuum: Patterning and Post-patterning Events Driving Vertebrate Morphogenesis, Body Plan Evolution, and Disease
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM US MDT
    Development as a Continuum: Patterning and Post-patterning Events Driving Vertebrate Morphogenesis, Body Plan Evolution, and Disease
    Chair: Raul E. Diaz, Jr., MA, PhD – California State University Los Angeles
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM US MDT
    Education Platform Session #4
    Chair: Victoria A. Roach, Ph.D – University of Washington
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM US MDT
    Post-Transcriptional Regulation Shapes Anatomy
    Co-Chair: Soma Dash – University At Albany
    Co-Chair: Erica Hutchins, PhD – University of California at San Francisco
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM US MDT
    Closing Awards Ceremony and Reception