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FRIDAY, MARCH 9 10:45 am – 12:30 pm
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above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
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Cell Cycle and Cell Death
Co-Moderators: Kristin White, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Charlestown and Nam-Sung Moon, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada
Room: Chicago 8-10, Level 4
60
- 10:45
How Do Endocycling Cells Block Apoptosis?
Bingqing Zhang,
Christiane Hassel, Suozhi Qi, Brian R. Calvi.
Department of Biology,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
61
- 11:00
Lack of E2F activity protects cells from irradiation-induced cell death.
Aaron M. Ambrus
1
, Abul B. M. M. K. Islam
2
, Mary Truscott
1
, Núria
López-Bigas
2
, Maxim V. Frolov
1
.
1) Department of Biochemistry &
Molecular Genetics, University Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2)
Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics, Department of Experimental
Health and Sciences, PRBB, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain.
62
- 11:15
JNK and Draper regulate the engulfment of nurse cells by follicle cells
during starvation induced mid-oogenesis cell death in the Drosophila
ovary.
Jon Iker Etchegaray
1
, Allison Timmons
1
, Adam Klein
1
, Tracy
Pritchett
2
, Elaine Welch
1
, Kim McCall
1
.
1) Boston University, Boston,
MA; 2) Boston University Medical School, Boston, MA.
63
- 11:30
A role for the Drosophila histone variant H2Av in mitotic chromosome
segregation.
Giovanni Cenci
1,2
, Fiammetta Vernì
3
.
1) Dip. Biologia di
Base ed Applicata, Università dell'Aquila, Via Vetoio, 67100 L'Aquila,
Italy; 2) Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine,
Dept. of Biology, Temple University, PA 19122, USA; 3) Dip. di
Biologia e Biotecnologie "C. Darwin", Sapienza Università di Roma,
Roma 00185, Italy.
64
- 11:45
The Tumor Suppressor APC2 and the Chk2 DNA Damage Checkpoint
Promote Genomic Stability in the Early Embryo.
John Poulton, Frank
Mu, Mark Peifer.
Dept of Biology, Linberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center, Univ North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
65
- 12:00
A FISH-based RNAi screen identifies genes involved in somatic
homolog pairing of heterochromatic regions.
Eric Joyce, Ting Wu.
Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
66
- 12:15
Identification of factors that cooperate with rbf1 mutations.
Nam-Sung
Moon, Kate Krivy, Mary-Rose Bradley-Gill.
Department of Biology,
Developmental Biology Research Initiative, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada.
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