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Reach AAA Attendees and Members Before, During and After the AAA 2018 Annual Meeting The Anatomy Voice is the AAA Annual Meeting’s exclusive daily newspa- per. By advertising in The Anatomy Voice, you will deliver your message to attendees and drive traffic to your booth. It’s a great way to tell readers about your location on the exhibit floor, extend invitations to your educa- tional session and make special product announcements. (Exhibiting at EB 2018 is not a requirement to advertise in The Anatomy Voice.) Academic institutions will find the The Anatomy Voice to be a great vehicle to promote education programs, fellowships and employment opportuni- ties, as you’ll reach a wide audience through the print and digital versions. New in 2018: AAA is adding two digital-only issues, a preview issue sent out in late March and a highlights issue distributed in early May. Please see page 3 for our budget friendly advertising rates. Attendees turn to The Anatomy Voice for conference updates, association news, attendee interviews and session recaps. Copies flew off the shelves at EB 2017 in Chicago! (Estimated print circulation: 1,000/issue.) In addition to onsite distribution, digital versions will be sent to 2,500+ daily via an email newsletter to AAA members and AAA attendees, and also posted to AAA’s social media channels and the website. (Emails sent during EB 2016 had a 37.9% open rate and 6.1% click-thru rate.) If you have any questions about this great opportunity, please contact Jenn Waters at 240/401-6779 or [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego! What is The Anatomy Voice? The official daily newspaper of the American Association of Anato- mists’ Annual Meeting. Five issues will be published in conjunction with EB 2018: a digital preview issue, three onsite print issues (Sunday through Tuesday) and a post-conference digital highlights is- sue. Each issue will feature previews and recaps of education sessions, association news, photos and attend- ee interviews How is it distributed? Digital issues will be distributed via email. Attendees will receive printed copies of The Anatomy Voice each morning as they enter the AAA meeting areas of the San Diego Convention Cewnter. Links to digital versions of onsite issues will also be shared via a daily email newsletter and AAA’s social media channels. Who can advertise? Companies exhibiting at EB 2018, AAA supporters, industry suppliers and academic institutions are in- vited to advertise in The Anatomy Voice. (Exhibiting at EB 2018 is not a requirement to advertise.) Can I promote a new product? Yes, by placing a listing in our New Product Showcase. Can we advertise faculty openings? Yes. Classified listings (100 words) are available in the digital issues ($150 per listing) and print issues ($200 per listing). Are there editorial opportunities for advertisers? Each advertisement placed in The Anatomy Voice includes the complimentary publication of one 300-word article. e Anatomy Voice April 21 – 24, 2018 San Diego, California e Official Daily Newspaper of the at Experimental Biology (EB) 2018 View The Anatomy Voice issues from EB 2017 Newspaper Email Inside This issue... Work-Life Balance...3 Virtual Microscopy Database...5 New Product Showcase..6 Don’t Miss... Anatomy Lounge Visit room 176C for networking, coffee, free wi-fi and afternoon snacks! Open daily, 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Snacks will be provided during the 3:30 p.m. session break. Continued on page 4 e Official Daily Newspaper of the at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017 7:30am – 8:30am First-Time Attendee Breakfast Room 178B (8:30am – 5:30pm Applied Anatomy- Human Development and Disease Mini-Meeting Room 176AB 10:30am – 12:00pm Sharing Resources for Integrated Education and Research-The Virtual Microscopy Database Room 178A 12:00pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch Room 178B (2:00pm – 3:30pm Progress of Human Brain Banking in China; Construction and Research Co-sponsored by the Chinese Society for Anatomical Sciences Room 175C 2:00pm – 3:30pm Student Debate on Modern Anatomical Pedagogies: Beyond the Literature Room 178A 4:00pm – 5:30pm Evolutionary Approaches to Medicine Room 175C 5:30pm – 6:30pm Undergraduate Poster Reception Sponsored by Anatomi- cal Sciences Education and Wiley Anatomy Foyer e Anatomy Voice Sunday, April 23, 2017 Attend Tonight’s Screening of First Patient Join us for a special 25-minute sneak peek screening of the docu- mentary First Patient. e screening begins at 6:30 pm in Room 175AB. e documentary fol- lows a first-year medical student class at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Light refreshments will be served and a Q&A session with the doc- umentary producers and AAA members Drs. Wojciech Paw- lina and Nirusha Lachman of Mayo will follow the screening. H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D., Recipient of the Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award Dr. Joe Yost is a Professor and the Richard L. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair within the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He also holds several other po- sitions within the university including Vice Chairmen for Basic Science Research in the Department of Pediatrics, As- sistant Director of the Univer- sity of Utah Molecular Med- icine Program, and Director of both the Developmental Biology Training Program, and the Cardiovascular De- velopment Research Center at the University of Utah. He also sits within the Editorial ranks of both our own journal Developmental Dynamics and Developmental Biology. Dr. Yost’s lab at the Uni- versity of Utah currently uses zebrafish, Xenopus, and mouse genetics, combined with bioin- formatics and human genetics. His long-term research goal is to understand the gene regu- latory pathways and develop- mental mechanisms that build different cell identities in func- tionally appropriate positions Introducing your Plenary Award Lecturers in the developing vertebrate embryo, and to utilize this knowledge for the advance- ment of human medicine. Dr. Yost believes in the importance of bringing the allure of biological sciences, the questions of how living or- ganisms are put together and how they work, to students early in their education. As Vice Chairman of Pediatrics, he and his colleagues have invested significant resources to start a BioEyes program in Salt Lake City. BioEyes brings zebrafish into elementary and secondary schools, and is de- Continued on page 7 H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D. Saturday session on work-life balance draws a full house. Turn to page 3 for a session recap. Beyond the Research: Look for Emotional Connections P resenting scientific re- search involves not only demonstrating your ex- pertise but also preparing to communicate to an audience who doesn’t share that expertise with you. Attendees at “Story- telling and the Art of Effective Communication, Part 1” on Saturday afternoon practiced applied improvisation commu- nication exercises designed to identify ways to better connect with an audience. Session chair Jason Organ, Ph.D., opened the session by introducing the concept of ap- plied improvisation and how it can be effectively used to ex- plain science. “It takes practice to become effective at communicating,” said Organ. “Misunderstand- ings and misconceptions are not solved with more detail. ey are solved with face-to- face conversations.” Jonathan Rossing and Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, the ses- sion’s co-presenters, took the audience through a number of exercises designed to help them better understand how to con- nect with their audience. “e goal is to think of your research as a story to tell,” said Hoffman-Longtin. “You al- ready have a lot of these tools The Anatomy Lounge is a great place to connect with your fellow attendees. Inside This issue... Top Tweets...2 3D Cultures...3 New Product Showcase...6 Teaching vs. Research...7 Don’t Miss... Continued on page 5 e Official Daily Newspaper of the at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017 e Anatomy Voice Monday, April 24, 2017 Anatomy Lounge Visit room 176C for networking, coffee, and free wi-fi! Open daily, 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Snacks provided during the 3:30 p.m. session break. S cientists must sometimes push the envelope in their pursuit of understand- ing human anatomy. Panelists during Sunday’s “EXTREME Anatomy: Living Beyond the Edge” presented comparisons between man and mammals as a means to prove there is a vast difference in structure and se- verity of size. Bigger is some- times better, however, it can prove harmful to other species as far as long term survival. Timothy Smith served as the session chair, opening with a discussion about how natural selection promotes risk taking, citing comparisons to the daily pet, i.e. dog. Kenneth Catania spoke about how the nose acts like a visual system in the star nose mole. He reported that the skin surface does not de- tect odor, and is covered with 22 appendages that are made up of sensory organs. As to appearance, it was formed in place, then reverses its orien- tation during the course of development. Catania also provided the audience a visual brain map, which carved out the brain into eleven subdivi- sions. e mole’s brain is, by Is Bigger Always Better? observation, disproportionate to the number of nerve and sensory organs of a man. Catania then elaborated upon the possible evolution of this curious creature, and made a reference to Darwin’s origin of species dated in 1866. Along with explaining how the mole began, he went on to examine possible reasons for their extinction. e habitat of the star nose mole is full of competitive species as it relates to food supply. Joy Reidenberg, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discussed adaptations that have enabled mammals to stay safe within water. Her pre- sentation focused on two types of whales – moustached and toothed. Reidenberg focused on the substantial size of their head, nose, larynx, and mouth. ese are some of the parts which provide the most pro- tection to this animal. Sizable strength in vocals and suction capability allow the animal to keep their prey at bay. Reiden- berg also brought up some qualities unique to this animal, such as it is the deepest diver C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy Dr. Florian Merkle of the University of Cambridge is our 2017 recipient of the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanat- omy. He will present his award lecture, “e Impact of Neuro- anatomy on My Career: From Adult Neurogenesis to in vi- tro Disease Modelling,” on Tuesday, at 8:30am in Room 175AB. On Tuesday night he will be presented with a plaque and honorarium for his con- tributions to the field of com- parative neuroanatomy at the Closing Awards Ceremony. Dr. Merkle received his B.S. in biology from the Califor- nia Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Cali- fornia, San Francisco (UCSF). He postdoced at Harvard University where he worked to develop efficient gene ed- iting tools for human embry- onic stem cells and assembled a collection of over 100 deeply sequenced and characterized human embryonic stem cells to facilitate disease modeling and transplantation studies. Introducing Young Investigator Award Symposium Speakers “As a teenager, I first became fascinated with the question of how something as complex as the brain could develop, and how different neurons regulate behaviors. When I discovered neuroanatomy and develop- mental neuroscience, I was hooked,” shared Dr. Merkle. Dr. Merkle’s laboratory is interested in dissecting the molecular and cellular mech- anisms by which hypothalam- ic human neurons regulate feeding behavior in health and disease. “We are focusing on the melanocortin pathway that is pivotally important for body weight regulation. Continued on page 4 Dr. Florian Merkle 8:30am – 5:30pm Vertebrate Paleontology Mini-Meeting Room 176AB 10:30am – 12:00pm Novel Function of Fibrinolysis in Tissue Repair Room 175AB 10:30am – 12:00pm Biomechanics of Multicellular Organization Room 175C 12:30pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch (Room 178B 2:00pm – 3:30pm Molecular Signals in Cardiovascular Biology Room 175C 2:00pm – 3:30pm Anatomy Education Roundtable Room 178A 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Reproducibility in Experimental and Preclinical Research Room 175AB 4:00pm – 5:30pm Novel Roles for Mesenchymal Cells in Cardiovascular Cell Fate Decisions and Patterning Room 175C 5:30pm – 6:30pm AAA Members Meeting (formerly called the Business Meeting) All AAA members are encouraged to attend. Room 176AB 6:15pm – 7:15pm Graduate Student/Post- doc Poster Reception Anatomy Foyer Visit the Selfie Station at the AAA Booth (#402) today from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Emily Caggiano, Ohio University, discussses her research during Sunday’s undergraduate poster reception. Inside This issue... New Product Showcase...2 Top Tweets...3 Stand up for Science...4 Don’t Miss... e Official Daily Newspaper of the at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017 Continued on page 4 e Anatomy Voice Tuesday, April 25, 2017 M onday’s Verte- brate Paleontolo- gy Mini-Meeting opened with “e Evolution of Vertebrate Form and Function” plenary session. e day’s pro- gram also included “Vertebrate Anatomy, Paleontology and Future of Life’s History” and the “Vertebrate Paleontology Platform Session.” Neil Shubin, University of Chicago, opened the plenary session with “Finding Your In- ner Fish.” Shubin shared an enlight- ening presentation focused on how fossil discovery can impact functional biology. He explained that it was his work in experimental paleontology that led him to working in oth- er fields. ere are many ad- vantages when you can lever- age work in one field for use in another field. He explained that a key career motivation was his re- search in the area of the transi- tion from fish to tetrapod. “It was a quest to find crit- ters that bridged the gap,” said Shubin. “To do that meant learning a lot about geology.” Shubin looked at the grad- ual transposition of the tik- taalik with multiple fins and have isolated bones. “We can remove the bones to see the structure of the elbow and shoulder,” he said. He shared a diagram of a tetrapod limb, showing that there are defined skeletal pat- terns: styloid, zeugopod and autopod. When discussing tetrapod limbs, Shubin said it comes down to asking “where did the developmental mechanisms come about? Are they present in fish fins? Are there equiva- lents to the wrist and digits?” e focus then moved on to fin development, including Hox13 genes. ese genes are involved in multiple regions of the body. Shubin explained that these act as motivators for the wrists and digits. He also discussed results of research that used a lin- eage tracing marker to ex- amine Hox genes. He said this research produced very surprising results. At six days Paleontology Plenary Speakers Discuss Fish Fins, Olfactory Receptor Genes 8:30am – 5:30pm Neurobiology Award Hybrid Symposium Room 175AB 8:30am – 5:30pm Developmental Biology Award Hybrid Symposium Room 176AB 10:30am – 12:00pm Cell Biology Award Hybrid Symposium Room 175C 10:30am – 12:00pm Morphological Sciences Award Hybrid Symposium Room 176AB 12:00pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch Room 178B (2:00pm – 3:30pm Developmental and Cell Biology Platform Session Room 175C 2:00pm – 3:30pm Stem Cells Platform Session Room 175AB 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Henry Gray Scientific Award Symposia- H. Joseph Yost Room 176AB 4:30pm – 5:00pm Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award Symposia- Wojciech Pawlina Room 176AB 5:30pm – 6:00pm A.J. Ladman Exemplary Service Award Symposia-Marion Gordon Room 176AB 6:30pm – 10:30pm Closing Awards Ceremony Reception and Dinner Continental Ballroom, Hilton Chicago M onday’s Anatomy Education Roundta- ble brought together more than 150 anatomy edu- cators and students to discuss active learning techniques. After meeting the attendees at their table, their first task was to develop a one-sentence definition for active learning. As each group entered their answer into the session’s Goo- gle document, they could see the replies from other tables. Common words in the defi- nitions from each group includ- ed references to engaging and interactive activities. Session co- chair Mike Pascoe, University of Colorado, then reviewed a com- monly accepted definition of active learning, where students are involved and engaged in the learning process. Pascoe pointed to data that showed active learning meth- ods reduce course failure rates by one-third. “I hope I don’t have to con- vince you that active learning helps,” he said, adding that a diverse approach which in- cludes, but isn’t entirely, active learning is the “sweet spot.” After establishing what active learning was, the re- mainder of the session was spent working on three group discussion activities centered around areas that would ben- efit from the usage of active learning techniques: • Review sessions; • Difficult lecture concepts; and • Simple but profound learning activities. e goal was to share ideas about either how attendees have incorporated active learn- ing into these lessons, or how they would go about develop- ing an active learning plan. Roundtable Looks at Ways to Incorporate Active Learning Techniques Attendees discuss active learning techniques. The Women in Anatomy Interest Group holds their first face-to-face meeting on Monday afternoon. 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Reach AAA Attendees and Members Before, During and After the AAA 2018 Annual MeetingThe Anatomy Voice is the AAA Annual Meeting’s exclusive daily newspa-per. By advertising in The Anatomy Voice, you will deliver your message to attendees and drive traffic to your booth. It’s a great way to tell readers about your location on the exhibit floor, extend invitations to your educa-tional session and make special product announcements. (Exhibiting at EB 2018 is not a requirement to advertise in The Anatomy Voice.)

Academic institutions will find the The Anatomy Voice to be a great vehicle to promote education programs, fellowships and employment opportuni-ties, as you’ll reach a wide audience through the print and digital versions. • New in 2018: AAA is adding two digital-only issues, a preview issue sent out in late March and a highlights issue distributed in early May. Please see page 3 for our budget friendly advertising rates. Attendees turn to The Anatomy Voice for conference updates, association news, attendee interviews and session recaps. Copies flew off the shelves at EB 2017 in Chicago! (Estimated print circulation: 1,000/issue.)

In addition to onsite distribution, digital versions will be sent to 2,500+ daily via an email newsletter to AAA members and AAA attendees, and also posted to AAA’s social media channels and the website. (Emails sent during EB 2016 had a 37.9% open rate and 6.1% click-thru rate.)

If you have any questions about this great opportunity, please contact Jenn Waters at 240/401-6779 or [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

What is The Anatomy Voice?The official daily newspaper of the American Association of Anato-mists’ Annual Meeting. Five issues will be published in conjunction with EB 2018: a digital preview issue, three onsite print issues (Sunday through Tuesday) and a post-conference digital highlights is-sue. Each issue will feature previews and recaps of education sessions, association news, photos and attend-ee interviews

How is it distributed?Digital issues will be distributed via email. Attendees will receive printed copies of The Anatomy Voice each morning as they enter the AAA meeting areas of the San Diego Convention Cewnter. Links to digital versions of onsite issues will also be shared via a daily email newsletter and AAA’s social media channels.

Who can advertise?Companies exhibiting at EB 2018, AAA supporters, industry suppliers and academic institutions are in-vited to advertise in The Anatomy Voice. (Exhibiting at EB 2018 is not a requirement to advertise.)

Can I promote a new product?Yes, by placing a listing in our New Product Showcase.

Can we advertise faculty openings?Yes. Classified listings (100 words) are available in the digital issues ($150 per listing) and print issues ($200 per listing).

Are there editorial opportunities for advertisers?Each advertisement placed in The Anatomy Voice includes the complimentary publication of one 300-word article.

The Anatomy VoiceApril 21 – 24, 2018

San Diego, California

The Official Daily Newspaper of the

at Experimental Biology (EB) 2018

View The Anatomy Voice issues from EB 2017

NewspaperEmail

Inside This issue...▪ Work-Life Balance...3 ▪ Virtual Microscopy Database...5 ▪ New Product Showcase..6

Don’t Miss...

Anatomy LoungeVisit room 176C for networking, coffee,

free wi-fi and afternoon snacks! Open daily, 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Snacks will be provided during the

3:30 p.m. session break.

Continued on page 4

The Official Daily Newspaper of the

at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017

7:30am – 8:30am First-Time Attendee

Breakfast Room 178B

(Advance registration required)

8:30am – 5:30pm Applied Anatomy-

Human Development and Disease Mini-Meeting

Room 176AB

10:30am – 12:00pm Sharing Resources for Integrated Education

and Research-The Virtual Microscopy Database

Room 178A

12:00pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch

Room 178B(Advance registration required)

2:00pm – 3:30pm Progress of Human Brain

Banking in China; Construction and Research

Co-sponsored by the Chinese Society for

Anatomical SciencesRoom 175C

2:00pm – 3:30pm Student Debate on

Modern Anatomical Pedagogies: Beyond the

LiteratureRoom 178A

4:00pm – 5:30pm Evolutionary Approaches

to MedicineRoom 175C

5:30pm – 6:30pm Undergraduate Poster

ReceptionSponsored by Anatomi-cal Sciences Education

and WileyAnatomy Foyer

The Anatomy VoiceSunday, April 23, 2017

Attend Tonight’s Screening of First Patient

Join us for a special 25-minute sneak peek screening of the docu-mentary First Patient. The screening begins at 6:30 pm in Room 175AB.

The documentary fol-lows a first-year medical student class at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Light refreshments will be served and a Q&A session with the doc-umentary producers and AAA members Drs. Wojciech Paw-lina and Nirusha Lachman of Mayo will follow the screening.

H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D., Recipient of the Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award

Dr. Joe Yost is a Professor and the Richard L. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair within the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He also holds several other po-sitions within the university including Vice Chairmen for Basic Science Research in the Department of Pediatrics, As-sistant Director of the Univer-sity of Utah Molecular Med-icine Program, and Director of both the Developmental Biology Training Program, and the Cardiovascular De-velopment Research Center at the University of Utah. He also sits within the Editorial ranks of both our own journal Developmental Dynamics and Developmental Biology.

Dr. Yost’s lab at the Uni-versity of Utah currently uses zebrafish, Xenopus, and mouse genetics, combined with bioin-formatics and human genetics. His long-term research goal is to understand the gene regu-latory pathways and develop-mental mechanisms that build different cell identities in func-tionally appropriate positions

Introducing your Plenary Award Lecturers

in the developing vertebrate embryo, and to utilize this knowledge for the advance-ment of human medicine.

Dr. Yost believes in the importance of bringing the allure of biological sciences, the questions of how living or-ganisms are put together and how they work, to students early in their education. As Vice Chairman of Pediatrics, he and his colleagues have invested significant resources to start a BioEyes program in Salt Lake City. BioEyes brings zebrafish into elementary and secondary schools, and is de-

Continued on page 7

H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D.

Saturday session on work-life balance draws a full house. Turn to page 3 for a session recap.

Beyond the Research: Look for Emotional Connections

Presenting scientific re-search involves not only demonstrating your ex-

pertise but also preparing to communicate to an audience who doesn’t share that expertise with you. Attendees at “Story-telling and the Art of Effective Communication, Part 1” on Saturday afternoon practiced applied improvisation commu-nication exercises designed to identify ways to better connect with an audience.

Session chair Jason Organ, Ph.D., opened the session by introducing the concept of ap-plied improvisation and how it can be effectively used to ex-plain science.

“It takes practice to become effective at communicating,” said Organ. “Misunderstand-ings and misconceptions are not solved with more detail. They are solved with face-to-face conversations.”

Jonathan Rossing and Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, the ses-sion’s co-presenters, took the audience through a number of exercises designed to help them better understand how to con-nect with their audience.

“The goal is to think of your research as a story to tell,” said Hoffman-Longtin. “You al-ready have a lot of these tools

The Anatomy Lounge is a great place to connect with your fellow attendees.

Inside This issue...▪ Top Tweets...2 ▪ 3D Cultures...3 ▪ New Product Showcase...6 ▪ Teaching vs. Research...7

Don’t Miss...

Continued on page 5

The Official Daily Newspaper of the

at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017

The Anatomy VoiceMonday, April 24, 2017

Anatomy LoungeVisit room 176C for

networking, coffee, and free wi-fi! Open daily, 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Snacks provided during the 3:30 p.m.

session break.

Scientists must sometimes push the envelope in their pursuit of understand-

ing human anatomy. Panelists during Sunday’s “EXTREME Anatomy: Living Beyond the Edge” presented comparisons between man and mammals as a means to prove there is a vast difference in structure and se-verity of size. Bigger is some-times better, however, it can prove harmful to other species as far as long term survival.

Timothy Smith served as the session chair, opening with a discussion about how natural selection promotes risk taking, citing comparisons to the daily pet, i.e. dog.

Kenneth Catania spoke about how the nose acts like a visual system in the star nose mole. He reported that the skin surface does not de-tect odor, and is covered with 22 appendages that are made up of sensory organs. As to appearance, it was formed in place, then reverses its orien-tation during the course of development. Catania also provided the audience a visual brain map, which carved out the brain into eleven subdivi-sions. The mole’s brain is, by

Is Bigger Always Better?observation, disproportionate to the number of nerve and sensory organs of a man.

Catania then elaborated upon the possible evolution of this curious creature, and made a reference to Darwin’s origin of species dated in 1866. Along with explaining how the mole began, he went on to examine possible reasons for their extinction. The habitat of the star nose mole is full of competitive species as it relates to food supply.

Joy Reidenberg, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discussed adaptations that have enabled mammals to stay safe within water. Her pre-sentation focused on two types of whales – moustached and toothed. Reidenberg focused on the substantial size of their head, nose, larynx, and mouth. These are some of the parts which provide the most pro-tection to this animal. Sizable strength in vocals and suction capability allow the animal to keep their prey at bay. Reiden-berg also brought up some qualities unique to this animal, such as it is the deepest diver

C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy

Dr. Florian Merkle of the University of Cambridge is our 2017 recipient of the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanat-omy. He will present his award lecture, “The Impact of Neuro-anatomy on My Career: From Adult Neurogenesis to in vi-tro Disease Modelling,” on Tuesday, at 8:30am in Room 175AB. On Tuesday night he will be presented with a plaque and honorarium for his con-tributions to the field of com-parative neuroanatomy at the Closing Awards Ceremony.

Dr. Merkle received his B.S. in biology from the Califor-nia Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Cali-fornia, San Francisco (UCSF). He postdoced at Harvard University where he worked to develop efficient gene ed-iting tools for human embry-onic stem cells and assembled a collection of over 100 deeply sequenced and characterized human embryonic stem cells to facilitate disease modeling and transplantation studies.

Introducing YoungInvestigator Award Symposium Speakers

“As a teenager, I first became fascinated with the question of how something as complex as the brain could develop, and how different neurons regulate behaviors. When I discovered neuroanatomy and develop-mental neuroscience, I was hooked,” shared Dr. Merkle.

Dr. Merkle’s laboratory is interested in dissecting the molecular and cellular mech-anisms by which hypothalam-ic human neurons regulate feeding behavior in health and disease. “We are focusing on the melanocortin pathway that is pivotally important for body weight regulation.

Continued on page 4

Dr. Florian Merkle

8:30am – 5:30pmVertebrate Paleontology

Mini-MeetingRoom 176AB

10:30am – 12:00pm Novel Function of

Fibrinolysis in Tissue Repair Room 175AB

10:30am – 12:00pm Biomechanics of

Multicellular OrganizationRoom 175C

12:30pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch

(Advance registration required)

Room 178B

2:00pm – 3:30pm Molecular Signals in

Cardiovascular BiologyRoom 175C

2:00pm – 3:30pm Anatomy Education

RoundtableRoom 178A

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Reproducibility in Experimental and

Preclinical ResearchRoom 175AB

4:00pm – 5:30pm Novel Roles for

Mesenchymal Cells in Cardiovascular Cell Fate Decisions and Patterning

Room 175C

5:30pm – 6:30pm AAA Members Meeting

(formerly called the Business Meeting)

All AAA members are encouraged to attend.

Room 176AB

6:15pm – 7:15pm Graduate Student/Post-

doc Poster ReceptionAnatomy Foyer

Visit the Selfie Station at the AAA Booth (#402) today from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm.

Emily Caggiano, Ohio University, discussses her research during Sunday’s undergraduate poster reception.

Inside This issue...▪ New Product Showcase...2 ▪ Top Tweets...3 ▪ Stand up for Science...4

Don’t Miss...

The Official Daily Newspaper of the

at Experimental Biology (EB) 2017

Continued on page 4

The Anatomy VoiceTuesday, April 25, 2017

Monday’s Verte-brate Paleontolo-gy Mini-Meeting

opened with “The Evolution of Vertebrate Form and Function” plenary session. The day’s pro-gram also included “Vertebrate Anatomy, Paleontology and Future of Life’s History” and the “Vertebrate Paleontology Platform Session.”

Neil Shubin, University of Chicago, opened the plenary session with “Finding Your In-ner Fish.”

Shubin shared an enlight-ening presentation focused on how fossil discovery can impact functional biology. He explained that it was his work in experimental paleontology that led him to working in oth-er fields. There are many ad-vantages when you can lever-age work in one field for use in another field.

He explained that a key career motivation was his re-search in the area of the transi-tion from fish to tetrapod.

“It was a quest to find crit-ters that bridged the gap,” said Shubin. “To do that meant learning a lot about geology.”

Shubin looked at the grad-ual transposition of the tik-taalik with multiple fins and have isolated bones. “We can remove the bones to see the structure of the elbow and shoulder,” he said.

He shared a diagram of a tetrapod limb, showing that there are defined skeletal pat-terns: styloid, zeugopod and autopod.

When discussing tetrapod limbs, Shubin said it comes down to asking “where did the developmental mechanisms come about? Are they present in fish fins? Are there equiva-lents to the wrist and digits?”

The focus then moved on to fin development, including Hox13 genes. These genes are involved in multiple regions of the body. Shubin explained that these act as motivators for the wrists and digits.

He also discussed results of research that used a lin-eage tracing marker to ex-amine Hox genes. He said this research produced very surprising results. At six days

Paleontology Plenary Speakers Discuss Fish Fins, Olfactory Receptor Genes

8:30am – 5:30pm Neurobiology Award

Hybrid SymposiumRoom 175AB

8:30am – 5:30pm Developmental Biology Award

Hybrid SymposiumRoom 176AB

10:30am – 12:00pm Cell Biology Award Hybrid Symposium

Room 175C

10:30am – 12:00pm Morphological

Sciences Award Hybrid Symposium

Room 176AB

12:00pm – 1:00pm Career Networking Lunch

Room 178B(Advance registration required)

2:00pm – 3:30pm Developmental and Cell Biology Platform Session

Room 175C

2:00pm – 3:30pm Stem Cells

Platform SessionRoom 175AB

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Henry Gray Scientific

Award Symposia-H. Joseph Yost

Room 176AB

4:30pm – 5:00pm Henry Gray

Distinguished Educator Award Symposia-Wojciech Pawlina

Room 176AB

5:30pm – 6:00pm A.J. Ladman Exemplary

Service Award Symposia-Marion

GordonRoom 176AB

6:30pm – 10:30pm Closing Awards

Ceremony Reception and Dinner

Continental Ballroom, Hilton Chicago

Monday’s Anatomy Education Roundta-ble brought together

more than 150 anatomy edu-cators and students to discuss active learning techniques.

After meeting the attendees at their table, their first task was to develop a one-sentence definition for active learning. As each group entered their answer into the session’s Goo-gle document, they could see the replies from other tables.

Common words in the defi-nitions from each group includ-ed references to engaging and interactive activities. Session co-chair Mike Pascoe, University of Colorado, then reviewed a com-monly accepted definition of active learning, where students are involved and engaged in the learning process.

Pascoe pointed to data that showed active learning meth-ods reduce course failure rates by one-third.

“I hope I don’t have to con-vince you that active learning helps,” he said, adding that a diverse approach which in-cludes, but isn’t entirely, active learning is the “sweet spot.”

After establishing what active learning was, the re-mainder of the session was spent working on three group discussion activities centered around areas that would ben-efit from the usage of active learning techniques:

• Review sessions;• Difficult lecture concepts; and• Simple but profound learning activities.The goal was to share ideas

about either how attendees have incorporated active learn-ing into these lessons, or how they would go about develop-ing an active learning plan.

Roundtable Looks at Ways to Incorporate Active Learning Techniques

Attendees discuss active learning techniques.

The Women in Anatomy Interest Group holds their first face-to-face meeting on Monday afternoon.

Amanda Meyer provides guidance to attendees during the education roundtable on active learning.

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