POSTER SESSIONS
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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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Neural development
656B
Characterization of the neural expression and roles of the Ret tyrosine
kinase receptor.
Daniel Perea, Irene Miguel-Aliaga.
Zoology,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
657C
Disassembling F-actin Networks Through Manipulations of Mical and
Actin Bundling Proteins.
Jimok Yoon, Heng Wu, Jonathan Terman.
Center for Basic Neuroscience, UTSouthwestern Medical Center at
Dallas, Dallas, TX.
658A
The fate of identified dHb9-positive larval motor neurons during
metamorphosis.
Soumya Banerjee, Marcus Toral, Matthew Siefert,
Joyce Fernandes.
Zoology, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH.
659B
Neurotrophic actions of dopamine on the development of a serotonergic
feeding circuit in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Parag Bhatt, Wendi
Neckameyer.
Pharmcological and Physiological Science, Saint Louis
University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
660C
RNA-seq reveals diverse neurosecretory properties of the CNS-midline
cells in
Drosophila
.
Joseph R. Fontana
1
, Stephen T. Crews
1,2
.
1)
Molecular Biology, Univ North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC;
2) Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Univ North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
661A
Genome-wide expression profiling identifies genes regulated by
JAK/STAT in the
Drosophila
optic lobe.
Hong Luo, Hongbin Wang.
School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
662B
Identification of novel maternal neurogenic genes that are potential
components of Notch signaling in
Drosophila
.
Kenjiroo Matsumoto
1
,
Naoki Aoyama
1
, Takahiro Seto
1
, Ryo Hatori
1
, Akira Ishio
1
,
Takahiro Maeda
1
, Tamiko Itou
1
, Syusuke Shimaoka
1
, Hironao Iida
1
,
Takuma Gushiken
1
, Yuu Atsumi
1
, Tomoko Yamakawa
1
, Takeshi
Sasamura
1
, Kenji Matsuno
1,2
.
1) Dept. Biol Sci/Tec, Tokyo Univ of
Science; 2) Res Inst Sci/Tec, Tokyo Univ of Science.
663C
The Role of Dscam in Dendrite Development of an identified
Drosophila Motoneuron.
Katie M. Hutchinson, Carsten Duch.
Arizona
State University, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience,
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501.
664A
NMNAT protects against hypoxia-induced dendrite degeneration.
Yuhui
Wen, Grace Zhai, Michael Kim.
Molecular and Cellular
Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami,
FL.
665B
RNAi screen to identify genes involved in retinal basal glia (RBG) cells
in Drosophila.
Yen-Ching Chang
1,2
, Y. Henry Sun
1,2
.
1) Institute of
Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of
China; 2) Department of Life sciences and Institute of Genome sciences,
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan.
666C
Study of Cell Lineage in Drosophila Retinal Basal Glia.
Yu Fen
Huang
1,2
, Y. Henry Sun
1,2
.
1) Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2) Department of Life Science and Institute of
Genome Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
667A
Degeneration of optic lamina caused by defective endocytic function in
glial cells.
Yuan-Ming Lee
1,2
, Y. Henry Sun
1,2
.
1) Inst Molecular
Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2) Inst Genomic Science,
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
668B
Number Matching Between Ommatidia and Retinal Basal Glial Cells
(RBGs) during
Drosophila
Eye Development.
Par B. Pun
1,2
, Yi Henry
Sun
1,2
.
1) Molecular and Cell Biology, Taiwan International Graduate
Program, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan; 2) Graduate Institute of Life Science, National Defense Medical
Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
669C
Glial remodeling during reorganization of the peripheral nervous system.
Matthew Siefert, Soumya Banerjee, Bridget Hartman, Tara Fallah,
Todd Simmons, John Wilber, Dorothy Lakis.
Zoology, Miami
University, Oxford, OH.
670A
Dissecting the regulation of a novel gene cg11910 in the longitudinal
glial cells of drosophila embryos.
Pavithra Vivekanand
1
, Jaclyn
Malat
2
.
1) Biology, Dickinson College, Carlise, PA; 2) Franklin and
Marshall College, Biology Department, Lancaster, PA 17604.
671B
The actions of gonadotropic hormones on the development and mature
function of a defined neural circuit in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Selma
Avdagic, Bhatt Parag, Neckameyer Wendi.
Pharmacological and
Physiological Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, MO.
672C
Sexual identity affects the development and mature function of a defined
neural circuit in
Drosophila
melanogaster.
Parag Bhatt, Selma
Avdagic, Wendi Neckameyer.
Pharmcological and Physiological
Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
673A
jim lovell, a BTB-POZ domain protein implicated in neural
differentiation and embryonic pattern formation.
Kathleen M.
Beckingham, Sonia Bjorum, Rebecca A. Simonette, William J.
Deery, Raul Alanis, Benjamin Lewis.
Dept Biochem & Cell Biol, Rice
Univ, Houston, TX.
674B
Identification of a novel suppressor of Crumbs and its role in growth
regulation.
Eunbyul Yeom, Kwang-Wook Choi.
Department of
Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology,
KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
675C
scalloped expression during Drosophila embryogenesis.
Michael
Benson
1
, Nicholas Gubitosi
1
, Elizabeth Norris
1
, Chelsea Gurvis
1
,
Elena Brandano
1
, Karrie Brondell
1
, Rachel Yonker
1
, James Skeath
2
,
Kirsten Guss
1
.
1) Biology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; 2)
Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
676A
CHARACTERIZATION OF
aaquetzalli (aqz)
, A GENE REQUIRED
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DURING
Drosophila melanogaster
EMBRYOGENESIS.
Miguel Mendoza-
Ortiz, Juan Riesgo-Escovar.
Dep. de Neurobiología del Desarrollo y
Neurofisiología, Inst. Neurobiología, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla,
Querétaro, México.