CONCURRENT PLATFORM SESSIONS
SATURDAY, MARCH 10 10:45 am – 12:30 pm
Program number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
40
Systems and Quantitative Biology
Co-Moderators: David Arnosti, Michigan State University, East Lansing
and Stas Shvartsman, Princeton University, New Jersey
Room: Sheraton 4/5, Level 4
112
- 10:45
The YAN Network is robust against YAN protein variation in the
developing eye.
Nicolás Peláez
1,2,3
, Hiba Eltahir
1,3
, Alec Victorsen
3
,
Kevin White
3,4
, Ilaria Rebay
3,4
, Luís Amaral
1,2,3
, Richard Carthew
1,3
.
1) Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; 2)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 3) Chicago Center for Systems
Biology, IL; 4) Universitry of Chicago, Dept. Human Genetics / Dept.
for Cancer Research, IL.
113
- 11:00
Quantitative insights into enhancer architecture of dorsal-ventral
patterning in Drosophila.
Rupinder Sayal
1
, Jacqueline Dresch
2
, Irina
Pushel
1
, David Arnosti
1
.
1) Biochem & Molec Biol, Michigan State
Univ, East Lansing, MI; 2) Mathematics, Michigan State Univ, East
Lansing, MI.
114
- 11:15
Increasing discriminative power in computational evaluation of the BMP
activity distribution in wing disks.
Alexi Brooks
1,2
, Tara Brosnan
1,2
,
Mohit Bahel
2,3
, David Umulis
4
, Laurel Raftery
1,2
.
1) School of Life
Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV; 2) CBRC,
MGH/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA; 3) New York
University, New York, NY; 4) Department of Agriculture and Biological
Engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, IL.
115
- 11:30
Reverse-engineering the evolutionary and developmental dynamics of
the gap gene system.
Johannes Jaeger, Karl Wotton, Anton
Crombach, Damjan Cicin-Sain.
EMBL/CRG Research Unit in
Systems Biology CRG - Centre de Regulació Genòmica Barcelona,
Spain.
116
- 11:45
Consequences of enhancer architecture for gene expression dynamics
and fitness.
Manu Manu
1
, Michael Ludwig
1,2
, Ralf Kittler
2,3
, Kevin
White
2,3
, Martin Kreitman
1,2
.
1) Ecology and Evolution, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2) Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 3) Human Genetics, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL.
117
- 12:00
Epithelial folding during eggshell morphogenesis.
Miriam Osterfield
1
,
XinXin Du
2
, Trudi Schüpbach
4,5
, Eric Wieschaus
4,5
, Stanislav
Shvartsman
1,3
.
1) Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ;
2) Department of Physics, Princeton University, NJ; 3) Department of
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, NJ; 4)
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ; 5) Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.
118
- 12:15
Quantifying the consistency of interactions in the NADP(H) enzyme
network across varying environmental conditions.
Teresa Rzezniczak,
Thomas J. S. Merritt.
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Cell Biology and Signal
Transduction II
Co-Moderators: Kristi Wharton, Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island and Matt Gibson, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Room: Chicago 6/7, Level 4
119
- 10:45
The GEF Vav regulates collective cell migration downstream of
guidance receptors by locally activating Rac at the leading edge.
Cecilia
H. Fernandez-Espartero
1
, Damien Ramel
2
, Marganit Farago
3
,
Malartre Marianne
1,5
, Carlos M. Luque
1,4
, Shiran Limanovich
3
,
Shulamit Katzav
3
, Gregory Emery
2
, María D. Martín-Bermudo
1
.
1)
Centro Andaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo (CABD), CSIC, Sevilla,
Spain; 2) IRIC, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada; 3) IMRID,
Jerusalem, Israel; 4) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; 5) Université Paris
Sud, France.
120
- 11:00
Signal regulation by Rab5 GEFs in Drosophila melanogaster.
Katja L.
Vogt, Martin P. Zeidler, Elizabeth Smythe.
Biomedical Sciences,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
121
- 11:15
Endocytic regulation of collective cell migration.
Gregory Emery
1
,
Damien Ramel
1
, Xiaobo Wang
2
, Denise Montell
2
.
1) IRIC, University
of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2) Department of Biological
Chemistry,Center for Cell Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
122
- 11:30
Intercellular protein movement in syncytial Drosophila follicle cells.
Peter McLean, Stephanie Airoldi, Lynn Cooley.
Genetics, Yale
School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520.
123
- 11:45
Destabilization of Integrin-dependent adhesion leads to epidermal cell-
cell fusion in
Drosophila
larvae.
Yan Wang, Michael Galko.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
124
- 12:00
Wunen, a
Drosophila
lipid phosphate phosphatase, is required for
septate junction mediated barrier function.
Andrew D. Renault
1
,
Kristina E. Ile
1
, Ratna Tripathy
1
, Valentina Goldfinger
1,2
.
1) Max
Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany; 2)
Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen,
Tübingen, Germany.
125
- 12:15
Macroglobulin complement related is a secreted core septate junction
protein whose localization is mediated through the transmembrane
protein Neuroglian.
Sonia Hall, Robert Ward.
Molecular Biosciences,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.