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THURSDAY, MARCH 8 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
31
Drosophila Models of Human
Disease
Co-Moderators: Charles Nichols, Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center, New Orleans and Udai Pandey, Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Room: Chicago 8-10, Level 4
17
- 4:30
Genome-wide Association Mapping of Resistance to Oxidative Stress in
Drosophila
Identifies Genes Involved in Complex Disease.
Allison L.
Weber
1,2
, George F. Khan
2,3
, Michael M. Magwire
1
, Crystal L.
Tabor
1
, Robert R. H. Anholt
1,2,3
, Trudy F. C. Mackay
1,2
.
1)
Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;
2) W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC; 3) Department of Biology, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC.
18
- 4:45
ATM kinase inhibition in glial cells activates the innate immune
response and causes neurodegeneration.
Andrew Petersen, David
Wassarman.
Cellular and Regenerative Biology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
19
- 5:00
A Drosophila Model Linking Diet-induced Metabolic Disease and
Cancer.
Susumu Hirabayashi
1
, Thomas Baranski
2
, Ross Cagan
1
.
1)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; 2) Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
20
- 5:15
Drosophila - a useful model for anti-amyloid drug development.
Daniel
Segal
1
, Roni Scherzer-Attali
1
, Ronit Shaltiel-Karyo
1
, Sivan Peled
1
,
Moran Frenkel-Pinter
1
, Dorit Farfara
2
, Dan Frenkel
2
, Ehud Gazit
1
.
1) Molecular Microbiol & Biotech, Tel Aviv Univ, Tel Aviv; 2)
Neurobiology, Tel Aviv Univ, Tel Aviv.
21
- 5:30
Creating an epileptic fly by tipping the balance of
prickle
isoforms.
Salleh Ehaideb
1
, Atsushi Ueda
1
, Alexander G. Bassuk
1
, Chun-Fang
Wu
1
, J. Robert Manak
1,2
.
1) Dept of Biology, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA; 2) Dept of Pediatrics, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
22
- 5:45
microRNAs Orchestrate Muscular Dystrophy in Drosophila.
April K.
Marrone, Halyna R. Shcherbata.
Laboratory of Gene Expression and
Signaling, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen,
Germany.
23
- 6:00
Cell-Specific MeCP2 expression changes Sleep Patterns and Aggressive
Behavior in a Drosophila model of MeCP2 Spectrum Disorders.
Sarah
J. Certel, Tarun Gupta, David Hess-Homeier, Conor Jacobs,
Brittany Felgate.
Division of Biological Sciences, University of
Montana, Missoula, MT.
24
- 6:15
Organotypic models for kidney disease:
Drosophila
gets kidney stones,
too.
Julian A. T. Dow
1
, Pablo Cabrero
1
, Taku Hirata
2
, Michael
Romero
2
.
1) Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2) Physiology &
Biomedical Engineering & O’Brien Urology Research Center, Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905 USA.
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