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696C
Negative regulation of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor signalling in
the ovary.
Scott De Vito
1
, Jean-François Biosclair Lachance
1,2
,
Mariana Fregoso Lomas
1
, Laura Nilson
1
.
1) Department of Biology,
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2) Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
697A
Pattern formation by graded and uniform signals: gene regulation by
Dorsal and Zelda in the
Drosophila
embryo.
Bomyi Lim
1
, Jitendra S.
Kanodia
1
, Hsiao-Lan Liang
2
, Yoosik Kim
1
, Mei Zhan
3
, Hang Lu
3
,
Christine A. Rushlow
2
, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
1
.
1) Department of
Chemical and Biological Engineering and Lewis-Sigler Institute for
Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; 2)
Center for Developmental Genetics, Department of Biology, New York
University, New York City, NY 10003; 3) School of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Parker H. Petit Institute for
Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332.
698B
Bonus is required maternally for dorsal-ventral pattern formation.
Stuart
Newfeld, Janine Quijano, Estela Arciniega, Nancy Tran, Ashley
Castillo, Michael Stinchfield.
Sch Life Sci, Arizona State Univ,
Tempe, AZ. 85287-4501.
699C
defective proventriculus
(
dve
), a new member of DV patterning in the
eye.
Oorvashi Roy G. Puli
1
, Takeshi Yorimitsu
3
, Hideki Nakagoshi
3
,
Amit Singh
1,2,4
.
1) Department of Biology, University of Dayton, 300
College Park Drive, Dayton, OH; 2) Premedical Program, University of
Dayton, 300 College Park Drive, Dayton, OH; 3) School of Natural
Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka,
Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; 4) Center for Tissue Regeneration
and Engineering at Dayton (TREND), University of Dayton, Dayton,
OH.
700A
Specification of Drosophila corpora cardiaca neuroendocrine cells by
Daughterless homodimer.
Sangbin Park
1
, Seung K. Kim
1,2
.
1)
Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2) HHMI.
701B
Conserved MAPK and CK2 sites in E(spl)-M8 regulate repression of
Atonal.
Mohna Bandyopadhyay, Adam Majot, Bhaskar Kahali,
Clifton Bishop, Ashok Bidwai.
Biology, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV.
702C
A Novel function of Muscle Myosin II in Drosophila melanogaster Eye
Development.
Carlos Cano, Landry E. Nfonsam, Jennifer Curtiss.
Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
703A
Novel function of the kinase Nemo in the negative regulation of Atonal
expression in the
Drosophila
eye.
Vilaiwan Fernandes, Esther
Verheyen.
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
704B
Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase interacts with the retinal
determination gene network and is required for development of the
Drosophila
compound eye.
Jessica A. Gardner
1
, Wendy Lee
2
, Esther
Verheyen
1
.
1) Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby BC, BC, Canada; 2) Dept Cell Biology, Harvard,
Boston, MA, USA.
705C
Study the functions of eye selector genes in Drosophila eye-antenna disc
primordium.
Hui-Yu Ku
1,2
, Henry Sun
1,2
.
1) Institute of Molecular
Biology,Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2) Department of Life
Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming
University, Taipei, Taiwan.
706A
Alleles of
CK2
and
EGFR
modulate the neural defects of
Nspl
and
E(spl)D
.
Adam Majot, Mohna Bandyopadhyay, Christa Bryan,
Bhaskar Kahali, Clifton Bishop, Ashok Bidwai.
Biology, West
Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
707B
Functional analysis of Abd-B protein.
Jesús R. Curt
1
, Nagraj
Sambrani
2
, Samir Merabet
2
, Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero
1
, Yacine
Graba
2
.
1) Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM),
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Nicolás Cabrera 1, Cantoblanco,
Madrid, Spain; 2) Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille
Luminy, CNRS, Université de la Mèditerranée, Marseille, France.
708C
A missense allele in the evolutionarily-conserved octapeptide motif of
Sex combs reduced, a Drosophila Homeotic selector gene, represents the
first of a novel class of mutant alleles.
Lovesha Sivanantharajah,
Anthony Percival-Smith.
Dept. of Biology, The University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
709A
The role of disco in specification of the Drosophila leg.
Juan Bautista
Rosario.
Genetics Dept, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC.
710B
New allele of
engrailed
associated with three spermathecae in
Drosophila melanogaster
female.
Masanobu Itoh
1,2
, Akiko Sawada
3
.
1) Center for Bioresource Field Science, Kyoto Inst Tech, Kyoto, Japan;
2) Insect Biomedical Research Center, Kyoto Inst Tech, Kyoto, Japan;
3) Dept. Applied Biology, Kyoto Inst Tech, Kyoto, Japan.
711C
Identification of the gene responsible for the
wings apart
phenotype in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Ginny Morriss, Carmelita Jaramillo,
Bianca Garcia, Richard Cripps.
Biol, Univ New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM.
712A
An interdisciplinary approach to studying the evolution of BMP
signaling.
Matthew G. Niepielko
1,2
, Kuhn Ip
2,3
, Jitendra S. Kanodia
4
,
Desmond S. Lun
2,3
, Nir Yakoby
1,2
.
1) Biology Department, Rutgers
University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA; 2) Center for Computational and
Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, 08102, USA; 3)
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
08102, USA; 4) Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Carl Icahn Laboratory,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
713B
Patterning potential of the terminal system in segmentation of the
Drosophila
embryo.
Yoosik Kim, Kate M. Fitzgerald, Stanislav Y.
Shvartsman.
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
714C
Description and visualization of motor neuron morphology in three
dimensions.
Prateep Mukherjee
1
, Jennifer Brazill
2
, Michael D. Kim
2
,
Gavriil Tsechpenakis
1
.
1) Computer and Information Science, Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN; 2) Department of
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of
Medicine, FL.