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OPENING/PLENARY SESSIONS
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Wednesday, March 7 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Opening General Session
Co-Moderators: Celeste Burg, University of Washington,
Seattle and Steve Crews, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Room: Sheraton/Chicago Center, Level 4
Presentations
:
7:00 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks.
Celeste
Berg. University of Washington, Seattle.
7:15 pm
GSA Update/Awards.
Adam Fagen. Genetics
Society of America, Bethesda, Maryland.
7:25 pm
Larry Sandler Award Presentation.
Richard
Mann. Columbia University, New York.
7:30 pm
Larry Sandler Lecture.
8:00 pm
Future Advances in Drosophila Research
Featuring Hugo Bellen, Ross Cagan, Dan Kiehart and
Trudy Mackay.
Steve Crews. Moderator, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Thursday, March 8 8:30 AM–12:00 NOON
Plenary Session I
Moderator: Kevin White, University of Chicago, Illinois
Room: Sheraton/Chicago Center, Level 4
Presentations
:
8:30 am
Image Award Presentation.
Ross Cagan. Mt
Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
8:35 am
Regulation of energy metabolism in
Drosophila
.
Carl S. Thummel. Dept of Human Genetics,
Univ Utah School of Med, Salt Lake City, UT.
9:05 am
Behavioral and anatomical analysis of the
neural circuits that drive fly grooming.
Julie H.
Simpson. HHMI, Janelia Farm Res Campus, Ashburn,
VA.
9:35 am
News from the Niche.
Stephen DiNardo. Dept
Cell & Developmental Biol, Perelman Sch Medicine;
Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Univ. Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.
10:05 am
GSA Journals - Get Published.
R. Scott
Hawley. Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO.
10:10 am –
Break
10:30 am
Lipoproteins in human and Drosophila
Hedgehog signaling.
Suzanne Eaton. The Max Planck
Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,
Germany.
11:00 am
3D video tracking of Drosophila behavior
and GFP expression and predictive biomarkers of
aging.
John Tower. Molecular and Computational
Biology Program, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA.
11:30 am
The Neurobiology of Monarch Butterfly
Migration.
Steven Reppert. UMass Medical School,
Worcester, MA.