Amphioxus and Beyond 2026 Satellite Meeting was held at the University of Glasgow
Lecture Theatre (466), Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Monday 8 June
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Keynote - Maria Ina Arnone Cell type dynamics in sea urchin development: from a no-brain to an all-brain view | 45 min |
| 11:45 | Jr-Kai Sky Yu A 3D amphioxus brain atlas illuminates the blueprint of the ancestral chordate brain and highlights unique vertebrate innovations | 30 min |
| 12:15 | Alessandro Pennati Repressive roles of Erf and Elk in FGF-regulated neural development in Ciona intestinalis | 30 min |
| 12:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:45 | Tobias Gerber Dissecting amphioxus brain heterogeneity during metamorphosis by single-cell transcriptomics | 30 min |
| 14:15 | Yi-Hsien Su Development and evolution of the hemichordate larval nervous system | 30 min |
| 14:45 | Olga Zueva Simple nervous system, big insights: bidirectional mapping of sea urchin larval neurons | 15 min |
| 15:00 | Giacomo Gattoni An integrated molecular and morphogenetic map of the amphioxus neural tube | 15 min |
| 15:15 | Michael Schubert The apical organ of the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis: a window into the evolution of animal nervous systems | 15 min |
| 15:30 | Cintia Monteiro de Barros Identification of glial cells in the ascidian brain and their role in neuroregeneration | 15 min |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 | Keynote - Guang Li Regulatory rewiring of Dand5 drove left–right organizer heterotopy and organ asymmetry evolution in chordates Xiamen University, China | 45 min |
Tuesday 9 June
| 09:00 | Keynote - Cristian Cañestro New insights from Oikopleura dioica into the evolutionary history of chordate lifestyles | 45 min |
| 09:45 | Parastou Yaghoubi Functional organization of the tunicate gut | 30 min |
| 10:15 | Iryna Kozmikova Evolutionary history of vertebrate neural crest: an insight from the invertebrate chordate amphioxus | 30 min |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 | Rohin Sengupta Pre-bilaterian roots of the chordate body plan | 30 min |
| 11:45 | Giorgio Blumer Reproductive strategies in colonial and solitary ascidians: insights from the development of the colonial Clavelina lepadiformis | 15 min |
| 12:00 | Sumit Garai Homologies of gastrulation initiation across chordates | 15 min |
| 12:15 | Matteo Bozzo Axial elongation in amphioxus embryos | 15 min |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 | Rafael D. Acemel The evolution of chromatin folding and the origin of vertebrate regulatory landscapes | 30 min |
| 14:00 | Marina Brasó-Vives The highly heterozygous European amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) at the edge of panmixia | 30 min |
| 14:30 | Samantha Smith Intraspecific gene-expression variability in the European amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) | 15 min |
| 14:45 | Zbynek Kozmik Reverse genetics in amphioxus | 15 min |
| 15:00 | Wrap-up discussion and feedback | |