CONCURRENT PLATFORM SESSIONS
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Program number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
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Physiology and Aging
Co-Moderators: Pankaj Kapahi, Buck Institute, Novato, California and
Blanka Rogina, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington
Room: Sheraton 4/5, Level 4
67
- 4:30
Role of oenocytes in metabolic response to starvation.
Debamita
Chatterjee, Heinrich Jasper.
Department of Biology, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY.
68
- 4:45
Juvenile hormone regulation of lipid metabolism through insulin
signaling.
Hua Bai, Ping Kang, Marc Tatar.
Ecology & Evolutionary
Biol, Brown University, Providence, RI.
69
- 5:00
An Interleukin-6 like cytokine regulates systemic insulin signaling by
conveying the 'fed' state from the fat body to the brain.
Akhila Rajan
1
,
Norbert Perrimon
1,2
.
1) Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 77 Ave
Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA.
70
- 5:15
MASOP coordinates imaginal disc growth and maturation with
developmental timing.
Julien Colombani, Ditte Andersen, Pierre
Leopold.
Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Nice, France.
71
- 5:30
Drosophila Lipoprotein Metabolism.
Wilhelm Palm, Julio Sampaio,
Suzanne Eaton.
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology ,
Dresden, Germany.
72
- 5:45
MPC1 plays an essential role in pyruvate metabolism in yeast,
Drosophila
and human disease.
Daniel K. Bricker
1
, Thomas Orsak
2
,
John Schell
2
, Yu-Chan Chen
2
, Eric Taylor
2
, Michele Brivet
3
, Audrey
Boutron
3
, Jared Rutter
2
, Carl S. Thummel
1
.
1) Dept of Human
Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT; 2)
Dept of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake
City, UT; 3) Laboratoire de Biochimie, AP-HP Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le
Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
73
- 6:00
Mitochondrial genotype alters the nuclear transcriptional response to
varied levels of hypoxia in Drosophila.
David M. Rand, Patrick A.
Flight, Nicholas Jourjine, Lei Zhu.
Ecology & Evolutionary Biol,
Brown Univ, Providence, RI.
74
- 6:15
Gustatory Regulation of Aging in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Michael J.
Waterson
1
, Zachary M. Harvanek
2
, Ivan Ostojic
3
, Joy Alcedo
3
, Scott
D. Pletcher
1,4
.
1) Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program,
University of Michigan; 2) Medical Scientist Training Program,
University of Michigan; 3) Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical
Research, Basel, Switzerland; 4) Department of Molecular and
Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Chromatin and Epigenetics
Co-Moderators: Leonie Ringrose, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology,
Vienna, Austria and Nicole Francis, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Room: Chicago 6/7, Level 4
75
- 4:30
Dynamic and Tissue Specific Regulation of Gene Activation and
Silencing by Noncoding PRE/TRE Transcription.
Leonie Ringrose
1
,
Adelheid Lempradl
1,2
, Frank Ruge
1
, Helena Okulski
1
, Christina
Altmutter
1
, Gerald Schmaus
1
, Karin Aumayr
1,3
, Hasene Basak
Senergin
1
, Andrew Dimond
1,4
.
1) IMBA (Institute of Molecular
Biotechnology), Vienna, Austria; 2) MPI (Max Planck Institute of
Immunology and Epigenetics), Freiburg, Germany; 3) IMP (Institute of
Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria; 4) Nuclear Dynamics ISP,
Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
76
- 4:45
An RNA Memory Mechanism to Inherit Epigenetic Marks.
Maria
Cristina Onorati, Walter Arancio, Davide F. V. Corona.
STEMBIO,
Telethon Dulbecco Institute c/o University of Palermo, Italy.
77
- 5:00
Insulators bring active genes into transcription factories in Drosophila.
Hua-Bing Li, Vincenzo Pirrotta.
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
78
- 5:15
A genetic screen for recessive Polycomb group mutants.
James A.
Kennison, Mark A. Mortin, Monica T. Cooper.
Program in Genomics
of Differentiation, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
79
- 5:30
Mapping of chromosomal proteins of the bithorax complex in single
parasegments.
Welcome Bender
1
, Heber Domingues
1
, Sarah
Bowman
2
, Robert Kingston
2
.
1) BCMP Dept, Harvard Medical Sch,
Boston, MA; 2) Dept. of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boton, MA 02114.
80
- 5:45
Spliceosomal Dynamics is Required for Nurse-Cell Chromatin Dispersal
In the
Drosophila
Germ Line.
Stephen M. Klusza, Shirelle Figueroa,
Amanda Novak, Billy Palmer, Wu-Min Deng.
Dept Biological Sci,
Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL.
81
- 6:00
Phylogenomic analysis of the Heterochromatin Protein 1 gene family
defines new germline-restricted functions.
Mia Levine
1
, Connor
McCoy
1
, Danielle Vermaak
1
, Mary Alice Hiatt
1
, Frederick Matsen
1
,
Harmit Malik
1,2
.
1) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle,
WA; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
82
- 6:15
The Unusual Features of Active Genes on Drosophila melanogaster
Chromosome Four: Reinterpreting the Roles of Chromatin
Modifications.
Sarah CR Elgin
1
, Nicole C. Riddle
1
, Tingting Gu
1
,
Youngsook L. Jung
2
, Monica Sentmanat
1
, modENCODE Drosophila
Chromatin Consortium.
1) Washington Univ, St Louis, MO; 2)
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.