Planar Cell Polarity
Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) is required for cell and tissue development in many contexts, and has been studied extensively in Drosophila. Its importance in vertebrate development became apparent only in the past decade, and it is now also being studied in mice, zebrafish, and humans. It is of increasing interest in the fields of stem cell biology and cancer, and defective PCP appears to play a role in the pathophysiology of several human disorders, including ciliopathies, cystic kidney disease, hydrocephalus, hearing loss, and nail dysmorphogenesis. A follow-up to the first meeting held in Italy in 2010, this conference brought together leaders in the PCP field working in various model systems to share recent experimental results, insights, and tools, and to establish connections for future discussions and collaborations.
Organizers
André Goffinet, University of Louvain
Jeremy Nathans, HHMI/Johns Hopkins University
Tony Wynshaw-Boris, University of Califoria, San Francisco
Yingzi Yang, National Institutes of Health
Jennifer Zallen, HHMI/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Invited Participants
Paul Adler, University of Virginia
Kathryn Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Jeff Axelrod, Stanford University
Seth Blair, University of Wisconsin
José Casal, University of Cambridge
Ping Chen, Emory University
Andrew Copp, University College London
Charlotte Dean, Medical Research Council, Harwell
Michael Deans, Johns Hopkins University
Danelle Devenport, Princeton University
Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Lisa Goodrich, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Irvine, HHMI/Rutgers University
Raymond Keller, University of Virginia
Diana Laird, University of California, San Francisco
Peter Lawrence, University of Cambridge
Xiaowei Lu, University of Virginia
Helen McNeill, Mount Sinai Hospital
Marek Mlodzik, Mount Sinai Hospital
Cecilia Moens, HHMI/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mireille Montcouquiol, Université de Bordeaux
Jennifer Murdoch, Royal Holloway, University of London
François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur
Michael Simon, Stanford University
Lila Solnica-Krezel, Washington University School of Medicine
Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford
Gary Struhl, HHMI/Columbia University
David Strutt, University of Sheffield
Ann Sutherland, University of Virginia
Masatoshi Takeichi, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Fadel Tissir, University of Louvain
Elena Torban, McGill University
John Wallingford, HHMI/University of Texas at Austin
Yimin Zou, University of Califoria, San Diego
