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POSTER SESSIONS See page 16 for presentation schedule
Poster board number is in bold above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online at drosophila-conf.org
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638B
Dissection of the Dopaminergic Circuitry Regulating Sleep/Wake in
Drosophila. Qili Liu1 , Sha Liu1, Lay Kodama1, Maria Driscoll1 ,
Shahnaz Lone1, Mark Wu1,2. 1) Department of Neurology, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; 2) Department of Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
639C
Using natural variation to investigate Drosophila- yeast interactions.
Kelly M. Schiabor. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
640A
Structural evidence supporting a conserved role for sleep in synaptic
homeostasis. Daniel B. Bushey, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli. Dept
Psychiatry, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI.
641B
Virtual Fly Brain. Marta Costa1 , David Osumi-Sutherland1, Simon
Reeve1 , Nestor Milyaev2 , Cahir O'Kane1 , J. Douglas Armstrong2 . 1)
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United
Kingdom; 2) University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Institute
for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
642C
Walking parameters in adult wild type and sensory impaired Drosophila
melanogaster. César S. Mendes1, Imre Bartos2, Turgay Akay 1,
Szabolcs Márka2, Richard S. Mann1 . 1) Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY; 2)
Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY.
643A
Egg laying decisions in Drosophila depend on the size of the oviposition
substrate and are consistent with optimal larval foraging strategies.
Nicholas U. Schwartz1 , Lixian Zhong2 , Andrew Bellemer3, W. Daniel
Tracey1,2,3,4,5 . 1) Neuroscience Program, Duke University, Durham, NC;
2) Pharmacology Science Training Program, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, NC; 3) Department of Anesthesiology, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 4) Department of Cell
Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 5) Department
of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
644B
The "secondary cells" of the D. malanogaster male accessory gland
make products that prolong the female's post mating response. Jessica
L. Sitnik1, Dragan Gligorov2 , Robert K. Maeda2 , François Karch2 ,
Mariana Wolfner1 . 1) Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell, Ithaca,
NY; 2) Department of Genetics & Evolution and NCCR Frontiers in
Genetics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
645C
Identification of interneurons involved in Drosophila larval reactions to
distinct somatosensory stimuli. Marta Zlatic, Tomoko Ohyama,
Tihana Jovanic. HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
646A
Neural representations of courtship song in the Drosophila brain. Philip
Coen1, Sina Tootoonian 2,3, Mala Murthy1 . 1) Molecular Biology and
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; 2)
Computation and Neural Systems Program and Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; 3) Max Planck
Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.
647B
Screening of Central Pain Circuits. Wijeong Jang, Sunwoo Kim,
Changsoo Kim. Sch Biological Sci, Chonnam National Univ, Gwangju-
Si, South Korea.
648C
Analgesic Drugs Relive Pain in Drosophila. Sunwoo Kim, Myungsuk
Oh, Eunhee Cho, Wijeong Chang, Changsoo Kim. Chonnam National
University, Gwangju, South Korea.
649A
Drosophila exhibit active avoidance behavior in response to a predator.
Claire J. Manson-Bishop1,2, Gregg W. Roman 1,2. 1) Biology and
Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX; 2) Biology of
Behavior Institute, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
650B
A functional genomic screen for phototransduction genes in Tribolium .
Arun K. Sasikala-Appukuttan1 , Matthew Kulpa1, Zahabiya Husain1 ,
Magdalena Jackowska1, Bryce Daines2 , Jason Caravas1, Rui Chen2,
Heinrich Jasper3, Markus Friedrich1,4. 1) Department of Biological
Sciences, Wayne State University, 5047 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202,
USA; 2) Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular
and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza,
Houston, TX 77030, USA; 3) Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Rochester, River Campus Rochester, New York 14627,
USA; 4) Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State
University, School of Medicine, 540 East Canfield Avenue, Detroit, MI
48201, USA.
651C
The Prion Protein Binds to Synapsin and Syntaxin in the Presynaptic
Neuromuscular Junction. Jose E. Herrera1,2 , Diego Rincon-Limas2,
Pedro Fernandez-Funez2,3 . 1) éMaster's Program in Translational
Biotechnology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2) Neurology,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 3) Neuroscience, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL.
652A
Myosin VI contributes to synaptic transmission and development at the
Drosophila neuromuscular junction. Marta Kisiel1 , Bryan Stewart1,2.
1) Cell and System Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2)
Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga,
Mississauga, Canada.
653B
Rugose, a Drosophila homologue of the mammalian Neurobeachin, is
involved in larval locomotion, adult habituation, learning and activity
patterns. Emma Schatoff1 , Julian Flores1, Alexandria Wise2 , Tadmiri
Venkatesh1. 1) Biology, City University of New York The City College,
New York, NY; 2) The Graduate Center, City University of New York,
New York, NY.
654C
Dube3a differentially regulates mEJPs in a ubiquitin dependent manner.
Reese Scroggs1 , Rachel Chassen2, Lawrence Reiter1,3. 1) Anatomy
and Neurobiology, UTHSC, Memphis, TN; 2) IPBS Program, UTHSC,
Memphis, TN; 3) Neurology, UTHSC, Memphis, TN.
655A
The synaptic vesicle-associated Ca2+ channel Flower couples synaptic
exo-endocytosis cycle and regulates synaptic growth. Chi-Kuang
Yao1,2,3, Yong Qi Lin2,3 , Claire Haueter2,3, Hugo J. Bellen2,3 . 1)
Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2)
Department of Molecular and Human genetics, Baylor college of
medicine, Houston, TX, USA; 3) HHMI.