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815B
The role of piRNAs in genome stability and germline maintenance in
Drosophila virilis
.
Mauricio Galdos
2
, Chris Harrison
1
, Kim Box
1
,
Michelle Wickersheim
1
, Christine Yoder
1
, Jianwen Fang
3
, Justin
Blumenstiel
1
.
1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, KS; 2) Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS; 3) Applied Bioinformatics Lab, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS.
816C
U bodies respond to nutrient stress in
Drosophila
.
Mickey
Buckingham, Ji-Long Liu.
MRC Functional Genomics Unit,
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
817A
Characterization of in vivo targets of the nuclear RNA-binding protein
Lark during oogenesis.
Christopher Ferrari
1
, Gerard McNeil
1,2
.
1)
Doctoral Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University
if New York, New York, NY; 2) Department of Biology, York College,
The City University if New York, Jamaica, NY.
818B
An analysis of maternally contributed mRNAs in early Drosophila
embryogenesis and germ cell specification.
Michelle A. Kowanda
1
,
Stephanie Yee
1
, Eric Lécuyer
2
, Paul Lasko
1
.
1) McGill University,
Montreal, Canada; 2) Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal,
Montreal, Canada.
819C
Genome wide analysis of mRNA sub-cellular localization in embryos
and larvae, with a focus on all the
Drosophila
Nuclear Receptors.
Ronit
Wilk
1,2,3
, Jack Hu
1,2
, Henry Krause
1,2,3
.
1) Donnelly Centre for Cellular
and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,
Canada; 2) Banting and Best Department of Medical Research,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3) Molecular and Medical
Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
820A
The role of the NMD pathway in endogenous gene regulation.
Alex
Chapin, Mark Metzstein.
Human Gen, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
821B
A suppression screen for required targets of the nonsense mediated
mRNA decay pathway.
Jonathan O. Nelson, Mark M. Metzstein.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
822C
Exploring
Drosophila
Genes Involved in the Oxidative Stress Pathway
and the Response to Hypergravity.
Husein Badani, Oana Marcu,
Ravikumar Hosamani, Sharmila Bhattacharya.
NASA Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
823A
Characterization of TSE and its Role in the piRNA Pathway.
Arlise P.
Andress, Yanxia Bei, Richard Carthew.
Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
824B
Using functional proteomic approach to study Spindle-E function.
Yanxia Bei
1
, Bryan Fonslow
2
, Arlise Andress
1
, John Yates
2
, Richard
Cathew Cathew
1
.
1) BMBCB, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL; 2)
Department of Chemical Physiology, SR11 The Scripps Research
Institute La Jolla, CA.
825C
Germline Silencing of Transposable Elements.
Sidney Wang, Kiri
Ulmschneider, Sarah Elgin.
Biology, Washington University in St
Louis, St Louis, MO.
826A
The Control of Lipid Metabolism by mRNA Splicing in Drosophila.
Nicole M. Chichearo
1
, Michelle E. Warren
3
, Robert M. Gingras
3
,
Thomas Carr
2
, Timothy Rudolph
2
, Justin R. DiAngelo
3
, Alexis
Nagengast
2
.
1) Dept Biology, Widener University, Chester, PA; 2) Dept
Biochemistry, Widener University, Chester, PA; 3) Dept Biology,
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
827B
A truncated
Drosophila dADAR
mRNA isoform which is evolutionarily
conserved but not translated into protein potentially regulates full-length
isoform expression during embryogenesis.
John A. Cook, Lea N.
Chhiba, Dana L. Doctor, Jack C. Vaughn.
Zoology, Miami
University, Oxford, OH.
Stem cells
828C
Examining the role of the fat body in the ovarian response to diet.
Alissa
R. Armstrong
1
, Leesa LaFever
2
, Kaitlin Laws
1
, Robert Cole
3
,
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
1
.
1) Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; 2)
Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's
Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH;
3) Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
829A
The LEM-D protein Otefin regulates niche signaling cascades to
maintain female germline stem cell homeostasis.
Lacy J. Barton
1
,
Belinda S. Pinto
2
, Pamela K. Geyer
1
.
1) Dept Biochemistry, Univ
Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 2) Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
830B
Investigating the Role of Hr39 in the Germline Stem Cell Lineage.
Grace H. Hwang, Elizabeth T. Ables, Daniela Drummond-Barbosa.
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins
University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
831C
in vitro
analyses of cellular interactions among germline stem cells, cap
cells and escort cells in
Drosophila
.
Yuzo Niki, Takuya Sato, Yusuke
Iizumi.
Dept. Biology, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito,
Ibaraki, Japan.
832A
PointedP1 connects the establishment and maintenance of intermediate
neural progenitor cell fate in
Drosophila
neural stem cell lineages.
Derek H. Janssens
1,4
, Hideyuki Komori
4
, Xiao Qi
2,4
, Cheng-Yu
Lee
1,2,3,4
.
1) Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program; 2)
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology; 3) Division of
Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine; 4)
Center for Stem Cell Biology, Life Sciences Institute, University of
Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
833B
The Landscape of Drosophila
cis
-Regulation as Revealed by
EvoPrinter
Analysis.
Mukta R. Kundu
1
, Alexander Kuzin
1
, Tzu-Yang Lin
2
, Chi-
Hon Lee
2
, Thomas Brody
1
, Ward F. Odenwald
1
.
1) Neural Cell Fate
Determinants, NINDS, Bethesda, MD; 2) Section on Neuronal
Connectivity, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
834C
The
Drosophila
gene
clueless
is required for mitochondrial function and
dynamics in larval neuroblasts.
Aditya Sen, Vanessa Damm, Rachel
Cox.
Biochemisty and Mol Biology, Uniformed Services Univ,
Bethesda, MD.