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616A
Drosophila
female precopulatory behavior is modulated by ecdysteroids.
Geoffrey Ganter
1
, Joseph Desilets
1
, Jessica Davis-Heim
1
, Alexandra
Panaitiu
1
, Mark Sweezy
2
, Joseph Sungail
1
, Leonard Tan
1
, Aurora
Adams
1
, Elizabeth Fisher
1
, Joselle O'Brien
1
, Kelsey Kincaid
1
, Ralf
Heinrich
3
.
1) Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, 04005, USA; 2)
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Saint
Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, 06117, USA; 3)
Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Institute for Zoology, Georg-
August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
617B
The seminal protein, ovulin, increases ovulation behavior through
signaling of OA neurons.
Clifford D. Rubinstein, Mariana F.
Wolfner.
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY.
618C
Behavioral Plasticity of Drosophila melanogaster in response to varying
social experiences.
Sehresh Saleem, Ginger Carney.
Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX.
619A
Investigating the role of a fourth chromosome mutation in courtship
receptivity and decisionmaking.
Joseph Schinaman, Rui Sousa-Neves.
Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
OH.
620B
The role of Juvenile Hormone in
Drosophila melanogaster
male
courtship behavior.
Thilini P. Wijesekera, Brigitte Dauwalder.
Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
621C
Drosophila
sNPF regulates feeding through the dFOXO post-
translational modification.
Kyu-Sun Lee
1,2
, Seung-Hyun Hong
1
, Su-Jin
Kwak
1
, Ae-Kyeong Kim
1
, Hua Bai
3
, Marc Tatar
3
, Kweon Yu
1
.
1)
Aging Res Ctr, KRIBB, Daejeon; 2) Functional Genomics Program,
University of Science and Technology, Daejeon; 3) Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI.
622A
The Role of Odorant Binding Proteins in Aversive Taste Perception in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Sruthipriya Sridhar
1,2
, Michael Nokes
1,2,4
,
Shilpa Swarup
2,3
, Tatiana V. Morova
1,2
, Robert R. H. Anholt
1,2,3
.
1)
Department of Biology; 2) W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology;
3) Department of Genetics, NCSU, Raleigh NC; 4) University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame IN.
623B
Identification of regulatory elements impacting AKH signaling.
Jason
T. Braco, Greg E. Alberto, Emily L. Gillespie, Erik C. Johnson.
Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
624C
The Role of Hormones in the Stress Response.
Kathryn J. Argue,
Wendi S. Neckameyer.
Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences,
Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
625A
The membrane-bound ecdysteroid receptor DopEcR plays a unique role
in the regulation of behavioral response to ethanol in Drosophila.
Emily
Petruccelli, Toshihiro Kitamoto.
51 Newton Rd, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA.
626B
A genetic RNAi screen for G-protein coupled receptors regulating
Drosophila
flight.
Tarjani Agrawal, Gaiti Hasan.
Natinal Centre for
Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, INDIA.
627C
Characterization of three ligand gated ion channel subunits - Potential
pesticide targets?
Daniel Feingold, Stephanie Bourque, Patrick
Janukavicius, Saima Sidik, Laura Nilson, Joseph Dent.
Biol, McGill
Univ, Montreal, QC, Canada.
628A
The role of glia in axonal degeneration.
Bibhudatta Mishra, Catherine
A. Collins.
Molecular,Cellular and Developmental Biology, University
of Michigan, Ann Abor, MI.
629B
Probing the regulatory mechanisms of AKH cell excitability.
Rebecca J.
Perry, Jason T. Braco, Erik C. Johnson.
Department of Biology,
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
630C
CREB results in memory enhancement for a conditioned place
preference and courtship suppression task in Drosophila melanogaster.
Eugenia Friedman
1
, Toshihiro Kitamoto
2
, Jerry Yin
3
.
1)
Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI; 2) Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, Iowa; 3) Dept. of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI.
631A
Dopamine neurons signal reward for odour memory in Drosophila.
Chang Liu
1,2
, Anja Friedrich
1
, Igor Siwanovicz
1
, Hiromu Tanimoto
1
.
1) Max-Plank Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany; 2)
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming,
China.
632B
Effect of LIMK1 isoform ratio on Drosophila melanogaster courtship
behavior.
Ekatherina Nikitina, Alena Kaminskaya, Dmitry
Molotkov, Gennady Zakharov, Tatyana Payalina, Elena
Savvateeva-Popova.
Dept Neurogenetics, Pavlov Inst Physiology, St
Petersburg, Russian Federation.
633C
Tip60 HAT activity regulates synaptic plasticity: Implications for
epigenetics in learning and memory.
Jessica Sarthi, Felice Elefant.
Biology, Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA.
634A
An epigenetic role for dTip60 in locomotion and axonal vesicle
transport.
Ashley Zervos, William Reube, Felice Elefant.
Dept Biol,
Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA.
635B
ROS-mediated detection of epidermal mechanical stress by larval
peripheral nociceptors.
Wayne A. Johnson, Justin Carder.
Dept Molec
Physiol/Biophysics, Univ of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa
City, IA.
636C
The temporal pattern of neural activity underlying ecdysis behavior is
regulated by neuropeptides downstream of Ecdysis Triggering Hormone.
John Ewer, Wilson Mena.
Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias,
Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, CHILE.
637A
Differential Recruitment of Dopamine Neurons into the Stress Response
Circuitry.
Kathryn J. Argue, Wendi S. Neckameyer.
Pharmacological
and Physiological Sciences, Saint Louis University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, MO.