Developmental Control of Sex, Growth and Cellular Fate
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
October 11 – October 15, 2011
Abstract Deadline: August 12, 2011

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Arranged by:
Ting Xie,Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Takashi Shinohara,Kyoto University, Japan
Weimin Zhong,Yale University, USA

We are pleased to announce the 1st Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Developmental Biology which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7.30pm on the evening of Tuesday October 11th, and will conclude after lunch on Saturday October 15th, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in developmental biology research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Topics:
- Sexual dimorphic development
- Germ cell Development
- Stem Cells
- Pattern formation
- Growth control
- Cell migration
- Cell fate determination
- organ formation

Keynote Speakers:
Margaret Fuller, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Patrick Tam, Children's Medical Research Institute, Australia

Invited Speakers:
Thomas Bosch, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, GERMANY
Dahua Chen, Institute of Zoology, CAS, CHINA
Shinichiro Chuma, Inst. for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto Univ., JAPAN
Thomas Cline, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Lixin Feng, Jiaotong University School of Medicine, CHINA
Jin Jiang, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA
Hisato Kondoh, Osaka University, JAPAN
Xinhua Lin, Institute of Zoology, CAS, CHINA
Yasuhisa Matsui, Tohoku University, JAPAN
Guo-li Ming, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Toru Miyazaki, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Yoshitake Nagahama, Ehime University, JAPAN
Satoshi Namekawa, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Brian Oliver, National Institutes of Health, USA
Yumiko Saga, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Nori Satoh, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, JAPAN
Henry Sun, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN
Tadashi Uemura, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Mark Van Doren, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Hongyan Wang, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, SINGAPORE
Rongwen Xi, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
Bo Xiao, Sichuan University/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, CHINA / USA
Hong Zhang, National Institute of Biological Sciences, CHINA
Yong-Lian Zhang, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, CHINA

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October 2011.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

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Please kindly note:

1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.
For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.
For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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