Morning Session 9:45-10:00 Introduction Barry Berkovitz 10:00-10:45 Morning plenary: Aquatic treasures of dental patterning. Jukka Jernvall 10:45-11:15 Genetic basis of evolutionary tooth shape variations: The role of the Notch signalling pathway. Thimios Mitsiadis 11:15-11:45 Tooth replacement: More teeth please. Abigail Tucker 11:45-12:15 Coffee Break 12:15-12:45 Conodont affinity: The ultimate parlour game Phil Donoghue 12:45-13:15 Gnathal plates, marginal jaw bones and shedding teeth: New thoughts on the origin of the osteichthyan dentition Per Ahlberg 13:15- 14:15 Lunch Afternoon Session 14:15-15:00 Afternoon plenary: New views on early sharks, dentitions, and primitive conditions. Mike Coates 15:00-15:30 Tooth-like structures on the rostra of sawfish and sawsharks: Teeth, denticles or neither? Charlie Underwood 15:30-16:00 Tooth initiation and patterning in the context of the ectoderm-endoderm border. Robert Cerny 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:00 The fish-tetrapod transition investigated via 3D virtual bone histology. Sophie Sanchez 17:00-17:30 Mechanical constraint of the jawbone during development shapes the evolution of rodent molars. Elodie Renvoisé 17:30-18:00 Biting out a Moya-inspired career: From trout teeth to stem cells. Gareth Fraser 18:00 Concluding remarks Evening From 18:00, drinks and nibbles in the Life Sciences Museum, Gordon Museum |