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390C
Using
Drosophila
to study functional relevance of conserved heart
genes.
James H. Catterson
1
, Pierre O. Bagnaninchi
2
, Anthony J.
Harmar
1
, Margarete MS Heck
1
, Paul S. Hartley
1
.
1) Centre for
Cardiovascular Science, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University
Of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
EH16 4TJ; 2) MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Chancellor’s
Building, University Of Edinburgh, 49 Little France Crescent,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH16 4SB.
391A
DHR96 regulates cellular cholesterol homeostasis via the Niemann-Pick
disease Type C genes.
Akila Gopalakrishnan, Kirst King-Jones.
CW405 Biological Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada.
392B
The Role of
slowpoke
Encoded BK Channel in Heart Function.
Santiago
Pineda
1
, Karen Ocorr
1
, Diane Fatkin
2
, Rolf Bodmer
1
.
1) Sanford
Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; 2) Victor Chang
Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010.
393C
Modeling reductive stress induced heart disease in flies.
Heng Xie, Kent
Golic.
Dept Biol, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
394A
The inwardly rectifying potassium channel, Irk2, contributes to
development of the adult wing in
Drosophila
.
Emily A. Bates
1
, Giri
Dahal
1
, Joel Rawson
2
, Brandon Gassaway
1
, Ben Kwok
1
, Emily
Bates
1
.
1) Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT; 2) UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX.
395B
Interactions between the HuD homolog
fne
and the
dNab2
polyadenosine RNA binding factor in a fly model of human intellectual
disability.
Rick Stephen Bienkowski
1
, Callie Wigington
2
, Anita
Corbett
2
, Ken Moberg
1
.
1) Cell Biology, Emory University, Atlanta,
GA; 2) Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
396C
Modeling Degenerative Disc Disease in Drosophila melanogaster.
Megan C. Donegan, Joseph A. Chiaro, Hemlata Mistry.
Department
of Biology, Widener University, Chester, PA.
397A
The mechanism of nuclei positioning during muscle development in
Drosophila.
Hadas Tamir, Talila Volk, Yaxun V. Yu, Michael Welte.
Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
398B
A Drosophila Model of Friedreich's Ataxia and Autophagic Heart
Disease.
Luan Wang.
Inst Environmental Hlth Sci, Wayne State Univ,
Detroit, MI.
399C
A Maternal High Sugar Diet Leads to Metabolic Defects in
Drosophila
Offspring.
Jessica Buescher
1
, Laura Musselman
2
, Riddhi Mitra
1
,
Breckyn Robinson
1
, Thomas Baranski
2
, Jennifer Duncan
1
.
1)
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University, St Louis, MO; 2)
Department of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO.
400A
Using Drosophila to Explore The Architecture of Natural Variations
Influencing a Complex Disease Trait.
Bin He
1
, Michael Ludwig
1
, Soo-
Young Park
2
, Pengyao Jiang
1
, Cecelia Miles
1
, Levi Barse
1
, Desiree
Dickerson
1
, Sarah Carl
1
, Honggang Ye
2
, Graeme Bell
2
, Martin
Kreitman
1
.
1) Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2) Department of Medicine, The University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL.
401B
Intermittent hypoxia alters the metabolism of Drosophila on a high-fat
diet.
Erilynn T. Heinrichsen
1
, Gabriel G. Haddad
1,2
.
1) Pediatrics
Dept, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 2) Rady
Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA.
402C
The fat body controls nutrient flux via transcriptional and biochemical
mechanisms.
Laura Palanker Musselman, Jill L. Fink, Thomas J.
Baranski.
Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
403A
Lipid and carbohydrate analysis on a Drosophila melanogaster Type 2
Diabetes model.
Alejandro Reyes De la Torre, Juan Riesgo-Escovar.
Developmental neurobiology and neurophysiology, Instituto de
Neurobiologia, UNAM, Queretaro, Mexico.
404B
Identifying Genes Involved in Central Nervous System Control of
Obesity.
Irene Trinh
1,2
, Oxana Gluscencova
1
, Gabrielle Boulianne
1,2
.
1) Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2) University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
405C
The effect of three types of diets on the phenotype of Drosophila
melanogaster.
Xiangpei Zeng, Sean Mendez, Laura Reed.
Department
of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
406A
Suppression of progressive motor neuron degeneration by
Diferuloylmethane (Curcumin) in transgenic Drosophila expressing
mutant human gene of neurodegenerative disease.
Namita Agrawal,
Anjalika Chongtham, Nidhi Paliwal.
Dept of Zoology, University of
Delhi, Delhi.
407B
A Parkinson’s Disease Model for the Characterization of Long Term
Effects of Early Exposure to Environmental Toxins.
James W.
Anderson, Arati Inamdar, O'Neil Wright, Janis O'Donnell.
Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
408C
Mutations that Destabilize Helix-3 Induce Aberrant Processing of the
Prion Protein.
Daniela Arbelaez
1,2
, Jonatan Sanchez
2
, Pedro
Fernandez-Funez
2
, Diego Rincon-Limas
2
.
1) College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences; 2) Department of Neurology, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL.
409A
Drosophila
β-secretase and the cleavage of the fly Amyloid Precursor
Protein are required for glial survival.
Bonnie J. Bolkan
1
, Tilman
Triphan
2
, Doris Kretzschmar
1
.
1) CROET, L606, Oregon Hlth & Sci
Univ, Portland, OR; 2) Institut für Zoologie III, Universitaet Mainz,
55099 Mainz, Germany.
410B
Assessing the ability of nicotine to increase lifespan and rescue olfactory
and motor deficits in parkin loss-of-function Drosophila melanogaster.
Lori M. Buhlman, Raegan P. Chambers, Gerald B. Call.
Biomedical
Sciences, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ.
411C
Human LRRK2 expression increased animal lifespan and enhanced the
resistance to oxidative stress in the Drosophila.
Hui-Yun Chang, Hung-
Cheng Wang, Franziska Wolter.
Institute of Systems Neuroscience,
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.