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Workshops
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Friday, March 9 1:45 PM–4:15 PM
Undergrad Researcher Workshop
Room:
Sheraton 3
Organizers:
Karen Hales
, Davidson College and
Beth Ruedi
, GSA
This session is tailored for an undergraduate researcher
audience. The workshop will begin with talks by Amita
Seghal (Univ Penn; “Using a Drosophila model to
understand sleep”) and Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute).
At 3:15 pm, undergraduates will have a chance to talk to a
panel of graduate students about graduate school, after
which students will have a chance to break into small
groups and participate in a discussion about specific
topics such as graduate school applications, admission,
CV preparation, funding, and quality of student life.
Saturday, March 10 6:45 PM–8:45 PM
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex
Room:
Sheraton 3
Organizers:
Artyom Kopp
, University of California -
Davis, and
Michelle Arbeitman
, University of Southern
California, and
Mark Siegal
, New York University and
Mark Van Doren
, John Hopkins University.
The workshop will cover the molecular genetics,
development, neurobiology, genomics, evolution, and
population genetics of sexual dimorphism, with an
emphasis on cross-disciplinary interactions. Presentations
by invited speakers and selected abstracts from each
discipline will be followed by moderated discussions. The
speakers are encouraged to summarize the key ideas
behind their research for people working in other fields,
outline the main unsolved questions, offer their opinions
about future directions, and suggest connections that
could be built with other disciplines.
Saturday, March 10 6:45 PM–8:45 PM
Drosophila Research and Pedagogy at Primarily
Undergraduate Institutions (PUI)
Room:
Sheraton 2
Organizers:
Justin DiAngelo
, Hofstra University, and
Jason Duncan
, Willamette University, and
Hemlata Mistry
, Widener University,
Chester, Pennsylvania.
This workshop focuses on increasing the quality and
visibility of Drosophila research performed at primarily
undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and facilitating faculty
and students in these endeavors. The goals include: 1)
encouraging undergraduate research by providing a forum
for students to make oral presentations; 2) connecting
people interested in this career path with current PUI
faculty; 3) establishing a network among current PUI
faculty to promote discussion and provide support on
professional issues that differ from those at large
institutions; 4) sharing concepts and techniques that
encourage the integration of Drosophila as a teaching tool
in the classroom and laboratory.
Saturday, March 10 6:45 PM–8:45 PM
modENCODE
Room:
Chicago 8-10
Organizers:
Susan Celniker
, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, and
Kevin White
, University of Chicago
The modENCODE workshop will update the community
on the model organism ENCODE project that endeavors
to identify all sequence-based functional elements in the
D. melanogaster genome. The project is organized and
conducted by a research network called the modENCODE
Consortium. Topics include the transcriptome, regulatory
elements, chromosomal proteins, small and microRNAs
and origins of replication and data coordination.