Page 34 - 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference

CONCURRENT PLATFORM SESSIONS
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 8:30 am – 10:15 am
Program number is in bold above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
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Regulation of Gene Expression I
Co-Moderators: Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute, Kansas City,
Missouri and Angela DePace, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts
Room: Sheraton 4/5, Level 4
25 - 8:30
Patched together: sophisticated multi-modular cis-regulatory circuitry
underlies a seemingly simple "constitutive" response to Hedgehog
signaling. Scott Barolo. Department of Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
26 - 8:45
The spatial and temporal activity of enhancers depends on combinatorial
binding of transcription factors. Zhe Xu 1, Hongtao Chen1, Paolo
Struffi2, Constance Mei1, Darren Huang 1, Steve Small1. 1) Biology,
New York University, New York, NY; 2) European Commission, Joint
Research Center.
27 - 9:00
Assessing the basic building blocks necessary to generate cis-regulatory
modules (CRMs) that regulate spatio-temporal expression. Jelena
Erceg, Charles Girardot, Eileen Furlong. Genome Biology Unit,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
28 - 9:15
Juxtaposed cis-regulatory elements contradict simple definitions of
enhancer modularity. Tara L. Martin, Meghan Bragdon, Kelly
Eckenrode, Zeba Wunderlich, Angela DePace. Department of
Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
29 - 9:30
Temporal Coordination of Gene Networks by Zelda in the Early
Drosophila Embryo. Hsiao-Lan Liang1 , Chung-Yi Nien1 , Stephen
Butcher2 , Yujia Sun1, Shengbo Fu1, Tenzin Gocha1, Nikoai Kirov1 , J.
Robert Manak2 , Christine Rushlow1. 1) Department of Biology,
Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University, New York,
New York, USA; 2) Departments of Biology and Pediatrics, Roy J.
Carver Center for Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
30 - 9:45
The cis-regulatory code of Hox function in Drosophila. Maria
Polychronidou1 , Sebastian Sorge1 , Nati Ha1, Jana Friedrich1,
Daniela Bezdan2, Petra Kaspar1 , Martin Schaefer2,3, Stephan
Ossowski2,4, Stefan R. Henz2 , Juliane Mundorf1 , Jenny Raetzer1,
Fani Papagiannouli1, Ingrid Lohmann 1. 1) Centre for Organismal
Studies, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 2) Max Planck Institute for
Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany; 3) Max Delbrück Center
for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; 4) Center for Genomic
Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.
31 - 10:00
Unlocking specificity: Cofactor binding reveals latent differences in
DNA binding specificity between Hox proteins. Matthew Slattery1,2,
Todd Riley3,4, Peng Liu4,5, Namiko Abe2 , Pilar Gomez-Alcala3,6, Iris
Dror7, Tianyin Zhou7 , Remo Rohs7 , Barry Honig4,5, Harmen
Bussemaker3,4, Richard Mann2 . 1) University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;
2) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia
University, New York, NY; 3) Department of Biological Sciences,
Columbia University, New York, NY; 4) Center for Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, NY; 5)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY; 6)
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York,
NY; 7) Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
CA.
Neural Development
Co-Moderators: Greg Bashaw, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
and Pelin Volkan, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Room: Chicago 6/7, Level 4
32 - 8:30
Dopaminergic precursor fate is established by gsb-n and slp at the
intersection of Wg and Hh signaling. Joseph D. Watson, Stephanie B.
Stagg, Stephen T. Crews. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
33 - 8:45
Combinatorial input from two spatial axes generates neuronal diversity
in the Drosophila medulla. Ted Erclik, Xin Li, Claire Bertet, June Ng,
Claude Desplan. Department of Biology, New York University, New
York, NY, USA.
34 - 9:00
Slit/Robo-mediated axon guidance in Tribolium and Drosophila:
divergent genetic programs build insect nervous systems. Tim Evans,
Greg Bashaw. Dept Neuroscience, Univ Pennsylvania Sch Med,
Philadelphia, PA.
35 - 9:15
Axonal branching and synaptic connectivity of mechanosensory axons.
Derya Ayaz, Dan Dascenco, Olivier Urwyler, Dietmar Schmucker.
Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, BELGIUM.
36 - 9:30
Defining microRNA function during synapse development using the
Drosophila microRNA sponge. Elizabeth M. McNeill, Carlos Loya,
Tudor Fulga, David Van Vactor. Cell Biology, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA.
37 - 9:45
Nucleotide sugar transporter Meigo regulates both dendrite and axon
targeting of synaptic partners through Ephrin signaling in the olfactory
system. Sayaka Sekine1, Liang Liang6 , Miki Yamamoto-Hino4,
Satoshi Goto4, Hideyuki Okano4, Liqun Luo5,6, Masayuki Miura 1,2,
Takahiro Chihara1,3 . 1) Genetics, Grad Sch Pharm Sci, Univ. Tokyo,
Japan; 2) CREST; 3) PRESTO; 4) Dept. Physiol, Keio Univ, Tokyo,
Japan; 5) HHMI; 6) Dept. Biol. Stanford Univ, CA.
38 - 10:00
Ly6 related proteins in Drosophila Blood Brain Barrier. Mubarak
Hussain Syed1, Alice Krudewig2 , Daniel Engelen1 , Tobias Stork3 ,
Christian Klambt1. 1) Institute for neurobiology, University of
Muenster, Muenster, NRW, Germany; 2) Biozentrum, University of
Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; 3) University
of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, 362
Plantation Street, LRB 740, Worcester, MA 01605.