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346A
Co-ordinate regulation of heterochromatic genes in
Drosophila
melanogaster
males.
S. Kiran Koya, Xinxian Deng, Ying Kong,
Victoria Meller.
Dept of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI.
347B
Modifiers of X recognition: exploring the secrets of sex chromosome
identity.
Debashish Menon, Victoria Meller.
Department of Biological
Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
348C
The H3K36 Demethylase KDM4A is a Novel Regulator of
Heterochromatin Organization and Dynamics.
Serafin U.
Colmenares
1,2
, Sasha Langley
1,2
, Cameron Kennedy
1,2
, Joel
Swenson
1,2
, Irene Chiolo
1,2
, Gary Karpen
1,2
.
1) Genome Dynamics,
Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA;
2) Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
349A
Functions of the RNAi system and heterochromatin components in
heterochromatin formation.
Tingting Gu, Sarah Elgin.
Biology,
Washington University, St Louis, MO.
350B
dSet1 acts as the main global H3K4 di- and tri-methyltransferase
throughout Drosophila development.
Graham Hallson, Robert E.
Hollebakken, Taosui Li, Monika Syrzycka, Inho Kim, Shawn
Cotsworth, Kathleen A. Fitzpatrick, Donald A. R. Sinclair, Barry
M. Honda.
Dept MBB, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC.
351C
Loss of heterochromatic repression with age in Drosophila.
Nan Jiang,
Guyu Du, Ethan Tobias, Stephen Helfand.
Molecular Biology, Cell
Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI.
352A
Separation of stem cell maintenance and transposon silencing functions
of Piwi protein.
Mikhail S. Klenov, Olesya A. Sokolova, Evgeny Y.
Yakushev, Sergey A. Lavrov, Vladimir A. Gvozdev.
Dept Molecular
Gen of Cell, Inst Molecular Genetics, Moscow, Russia.
353B
Functional Characteristics of HP1a.
Deanna L. Mendez
1
, Sepideh
Khorasanizadeh
2
, Sarah CR Elgin
1
.
1) Department of Biology,
Washington University, CB-1137, St. Louis, MO 63130; 2) Sanford-
Burnham Medical Research Institute, 6400 Sanger Road, Orlando, FL
32827.
354C
Identifying Proteins that Interact with Drosophila melanogaster
Heterochromatin Protein 2 (HP2) and Characterizing Their Contribution
to Heterochromatin Formation.
Patrick C. Ng
1
, Elizabeth E. Slawson-
Tempel
1
, Hien P. Nguyen
2
, Chris D. Shaffer
1
, Sarah C. Elgin
1
.
1)
Biology, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2) Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO.
355A
Studying the functions of the hybrid lethality proteins- LHR and HMR.
Satyaki P. Rajavasireddy, Nathan L. Clark, Tawny Cuykendall,
Shuqing Ji, Hojoong Kwak, Daniel Barbash.
Molecular Biology and
Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
356B
A dissection of Mcm10’s functions in
D. melanogaster
.
Michael C.
Reubens, Casi Strickland, Tim W. Christensen.
Biology Dept, East
Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
357C
HP1a Mediates the DNA Damage Response in Heterochromatin.
Joel
Swenson
1,2
, Serafin Colmenares
2
, Irene Chiolo
2
, Cameron Kennedy
2
,
Sylvain Costes
2
, Gary Karpen
2
.
1) Molec & Cell Biol, Univ
California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2) Genome Dynamics, Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA.
358A
Chromatin remodeling during aging and dietary restriction in Drosophila
melanogaster.
Jason G. Wood
1
, Peter V. Kharchenko
2
, Sara
Hillenmeyer
1
, Chengyi Chang
1
, Meyrolin Garcia
1
, Priyan
Wickremesinghe
1
, Nan Jiang
1
, Peter J. Park
2
, Nicola Neretti
1
,
Stephen L. Helfand
1
.
1) Molecular Bio, Cell Bio, and Biochemistry,
Brown University, Providence, RI; 2) Center for Biomedical
Informatics, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital, Boston,
MA.
359B
Invadolysin plays a role in the functioning of the SAGA complex.
Michal M. Janiszewski
1
, Shubha Gururaja Rao
2
, Edward Duca
1
,
Margarete M. S. Heck
1
.
1) University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular
Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2)
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University
of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
360C
Investigating the Potential Interaction of SIN3 with Methionine
Metabolism.
Mengying Liu, Valerie L. Barnes, Lori A. Pile.
Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit,
MI.
361A
The role of Lid in mediating the cellular response to oxidative stress.
Xingyin Liu, Christina Greer, Julie Secombe.
Department of
Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University,
Bronx, NY.
362B
Epigenetic Regulation of Replication Origins.
Neha P. Paranjape, Jun
Liu, Brian R. Calvi.
Department of Biology, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN.
363C
Interaction of the SIN3 histone deacetylase complex with the histone
demethylase LID.
Lori A. Pile, Ambikai Gajan.
Dept Biological Sci,
Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI.
364A
Studies into functional aspects of two isoforms of Drosophila SIN3.
Nirmalya Saha, Lori Pile.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
365B
Elucidating the contribution of distinct Su(Hw) zinc fingers in DNA
association and female fertility.
Ryan M. Baxley
1
, Alexey A. Soshnev
1
,
Michael W. Klein
2
, Ashley B. Gaeth
2
, Joel A. Morales-Rosado
2
, Bing
He
3
, Kai Tan
3
, Pamela K. Geyer
1,2
.
1) Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 2) Biochemistry
Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 3) Internal Medicine
Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
366C
In vivo
function of Homie, the
eve
insulator: Is it a PRE blocker?
Miki
Fujioka, James B. Jaynes.
Dept Biochem & Molec Biol, Thomas
Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA.
367A
A Role for dCAP-D3/Condensin II in Preventing Natural Transposon
Mobilization.
Michelle Longworth, Andrew Schuster.
Department of
Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute,
Cleveland, OH.