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Cell cycle and checkpoints
284B
The Role of Cyclin B3 in Drosophila Female Meiosis.
Mohammed R.
Bourouh, Rajdeep Dhaliwal, Andrew Swan.
Biological Sciences,
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
285C
Checkpoint defects reveal specific requirements for T14 and Y15-
mediated Cdk1 inhibitory phosphorylation during Drosophila
development.
Joseph O. Ayeni
1
, Oindrila Mukherjee
1
, Ramya
Varadarajan
1
, David T. Stuart
2
, Frank Sprenger
3
, Shelagh
Campbell
1
.
1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2) Department of Biochemistry,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 3) Institute for
Biochemistry, Genetic and Microbiology, NF III, University of
Regensburg, 93049 Regensburg, Germany.
286A
Examination of Arf1 GTPase activity on mitotic events in early
Drosophila
embryos.
Rabab Khodary, Blake Riggs.
San Francisco
State University ,1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco , CA, 94132.
287B
Role of SCF
Skp2
in Maintaining Genome Stability.
Biju Vasavan,
Nilanjana Das, Andrew Swan.
Biological Sciences, University of
Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
288C
Characterization of Caprin Phosphorylation at the mid-blastula
transition.
Xi Chen, Ophelia Papoulas.
The Section of Molecular Cell
and Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
TX.
289A
mu2
affects mitosis and meiosis by regulating BubR1 expression in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
James M. Mason
1
, Raghuvar
Dronamraju
1,2
.
1) Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIH/NIEHS,
Research Triangle Park, NC; 2) Department of Biochemistry and
Biophysics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
290B
Distinct roles for multiple translesion polymerases during DNA double-
strand break repair.
Mitch McVey
1
, Daniel P. Kane
1
, Michael
Shusterman
1
, Kelly Beagan
1
, Yikang Rong
2
.
1) Biology, Tufts
University, Medford, MA; 2) Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
291C
Establishing linkage between GINS complex sub-unit Sld5 and
checkpoint protein Chk2
(loki)
using
Drosophila melanogaster
as the
model organism.
Divya Devadasan, Tim Christensen.
East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC.
292A
Regulation of Replication Initiation and Fork Progression during
Drosophila
Follicle Cell Gene Amplification.
Brian Hua, Jessica L.
Alexander*, Terry Orr-Weaver.
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA.
293B
Mutation of the lethal(2)denticless gene results in larval lethality and
sterility.
S. Catherine S. Key
1
, Roketa Sloan
1
, Christina Swanson
2
,
Maryonne Snow-Smith
1
, Kristen Smith
1
.
1) Department of Biology,
North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC; 2) Department of
Biology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
294C
Integrins are required for proper cell cycle progression and
differentiation.
Maria J. Gomez-Lamarca, Laura Cobreros, Maria D.
Martin-Bermudo.
Centro Andaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo (CABD),
Univ. Pablo Olavide-CSIC, SEVILLA, Spain.
295A
Tissue Growth Coordination in the Drosophila Brian via Glia
Polyploidization.
Yingdee Unhavaithaya, Terry Orr-Weaver.
Whitehead Institute and Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge MA 02142.
296B
Role of p8 during spermatogenesis and the early embryonic
development of
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Grisel L. Cruz, Enrique A.
Reynaud, Mario E. Zurita.
Department of Developmental Genetics
and Molecular Physiology, Institute of Biotechnology, Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mexico.
297C
Mitotic Reorganization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum is dependent on
the Microtubule Network.
Justin D. Mclaurin, Blake Riggs PhD.
San
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway ave. San Francisco, CA.
94132.
Cell death
298A
A screening for autophagic genes in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Ahrum
Jin
1,2
, Joonho Choe
1
, Thomas Neufeld
2
.
1) Department of Biological
Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Daejeon, South Korea; 2) Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and
Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
299B
Regulation of neural stem cell fate in Drosophila cell death mutants.
Richa Arya, Ying Tan, Hsiao-Yu Huang, Megumu Yamada-
Mabuchi, Kristin White.
CBRC, MGH/HARVARD,
CHARLESTOWN, MA.
300C
Investigating a role of dHb9-positive motor neurons in eclosion
behavior.
David S. Conway, Soumya Banerjee, Marcus Toral,
Alexander Busch, Joyce Fernandes.
Zoology, Miami Univ, Oxford,
OH.
301A
A Genetic Screen to Identify Cell Death Regulators In the
Drosophila
Ovary.
Tatevik Keshishyan, Jeremy Nguyen, Olivia Rudnicki,
Michelle Gammill, Jemma Taipan, Sarah Durrin, Luz Ceballos,
Aileen Leung, Elizabeth Tanner, Jeanne Peterson, Kim McCall.
Boston University, Boston, MA.
302B
Determination of the contributions of caspases and autophagy to cell
death in the ovary.
Jeanne S. Peterson, Kim McCall.
Dept Biol,
Boston Univ, Boston, MA.
303C
An EMS genetic screen to identify mutations that modulate loss of Rb
phenotypes.
Tianyi Zhang, Zhentao Sheng, Wei Du.
Ben May
Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
304A
Screening for genes regulating mitochondrial dynamics in Drosophila
apoptosis.
Eltyeb Abdelwahid
1
, Michael Thomenius
2
, Sally
Kornbluth
2
, Kristin White
1
.
1) Cutaneous Biology Research Center,
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown,
MA, USA; 2) Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.