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CONCURRENT PLATFORM SESSIONS
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Program number is in
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above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
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Cell Biology and Cytoskeleton
Co-Moderators: Mark Peifer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
and Sally Horne-Badinovac, University of Chicago, Illinois
Room: Sheraton 4/5, Level 4
1
- 4:30
Evidence for monomeric α-catenin as a key regulator of adherens
junctions in
Drosophila
.
Ridhdhi Desai
1
, Ritu Sarpal
1
, Milena
Pellikka
1
, Noboru Ishiyama
2
, Mitsuhiko Ikura
2
, Ulrich Tepass
1
.
1)
Cell & Systems Biol, Univ Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2) Division of
signaling biol, Ontario cancer Institute, Canada.
2
- 4:45
Presenilin controls kinesin-1 and dynein activity in axonal transport.
Shermali Gunawardena
1
, Ge Yang
2
, Lawrence S. B. Goldstein
3
,
Kunsang Dolma
1
, Elizabeth Spina
1
.
1) Biological Sciences, SUNY at
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; 2) Lane Center for Computational Biology &
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213; 3) Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093.
3
- 5:00
Differential positioning of adherens junctions initiates epithelial folding
during
Drosophila
gastrulation.
Yu-Chiun Wang
1,4
, Zia Khan
2,3
,
Matthias Kaschube
3
, Eric Wieschaus
1,4
.
1) Department of Molecular
Biology; 2) Department of Computer Science; 3) Lewis-Sigler Institute
for Integrative Genomics; 4) Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
4
- 5:15
Talin: A Master Regulator of Cell-ECM Adhesion-Dependent
Morphogenesis.
Stephanie J. Ellis, Michael J. Fairchild, Stefan
Czerniecki, Mary Pines, Guy Tanentzapf.
Department of Cellular and
Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada.
5
- 5:30
Septins are required for the establishment of adherens junction at the exit
of mitosis of polarized epithelial cells.
Nabila Founounou, Roland Le
Borgne.
CNRS UMR 6061-Institut de Génétique et Développeme,
Rennes. France.
6
- 5:45
Actin turnover balances forces between cells during epithelial
invagination.
Adam C. Martin, Frank M. Mason, Mike Tworoger.
Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
7
- 6:00
Mechanisms of Epithelial Wound Repair.
Jeffrey M. Verboon, Maria-
Teresa Abreu-Blanco, James J. Watts, Raymond Liu, Susan M.
Parkhurst.
Division of Basic Sciences. Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
8
- 6:15
A Novel Mechanism for Actin Filament Disassembly Mediated by the
Semaphorin/Plexin Axon Guidance Signaling Protein Mical.
Ruei-Jiun
Hung
1
, Chi Pak
2
, Jonathan Terman
1
.
1) Neuroscience; 2)
Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Immunity and Pathogenesis
Co-Moderators: Robert Schulz, University of Notre Dame, Indiana and
Nancy Fossett, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Room: Chicago 6/7, Level 4
9
- 4:30
Ras-oncogenic
Drosophila
hindgut cells use an “inflammatory-like cell
program” to migrate to distant sites.
Yiorgos Apidianakis
1,2
, Erdem
Bangi
3
, Laurence Rahme
1
, Ross Cagan
3
.
1) Department of Surgery,
MGH, Harvard University, Boston, MA; 2) Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; 3) Department of
Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mt Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, NY.
10
- 4:45
Mediating a balance between tolerance and resistance.
Moria C.
Chambers, Karla L. Lightfield, David S. Schneider.
MicroBiol &
Immunology, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA.
11
- 5:00
Virus recognition by Toll-7 activates antiviral autophagy in
Drosophila
.
Ryan H. Moy, Margaret Nakamoto, Jie Xu, Shelly Bambina, Ari
Yasunaga, Spencer S. Shelly, Beth Gold, Sara Cherry.
Department of
Microbiology, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, Perelman School of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
12
- 5:15
Study of Pallbearer, an E3-ubiquitin ligase that regulates phagocytosis of
apoptotic cells in
Drosophila
.
Hui Xiao, Nathalie Franc.
The
Department of Genetics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
13
- 5:30
Calcium signaling plays a role in Drosophila cellular immunity and is
antagonized by parasitoid wasp venom.
Nathan T. Mortimer, Todd A.
Schlenke.
Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
14
- 5:45
Beta-arrestin Kurtz regulates
Drosophila
Toll signaling and immune
system homeostasis through an interaction with SUMO protease Ulp1.
Wenjian Xu
1
, Saima G. Anjum
1
, Niusha Nikkholgh
1
, Sukanya Basu
1
,
Mary Thomas
1
, Tony Ip
2
, Alexey Veraksa
1
.
1) Biology Department,
University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA; 2) Program in
Molecular Medicine, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA.
15
- 6:00
Drosophila
immune responses to entomopathogenic nematodes and their
mutualistic bacteria.
Julio César Castillo, Ioannis Eleftherianos.
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University,
Washington DC 20052.
16
- 6:15
A model for intracellular parasitism in Drosophila.
Dominique X.
Ferrandon, Sebastian Niehus, Adrien Franchet, Marie-Céline
Lafarge, David Giacomini.
IBMC, CNRS UPR 9022, Université de
Strasbourg, France.