Concurrent Platform Sessions
THURSDAY, APRIL 4 4:30-6:30 pm
Program number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
30
Techniques and Functional
Genomics/Systems Biology
Co-Moderators: Tzumin Lee, Janelia Farms Research Institute, and Ward
Odenwald, NIH, and Thomas Gregor, Princeton University, and Richard
Carthew, Northwestern University,
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1, Lobby Level
1
- 4:30
A new frontier for the Duplication Consortium: retrofitted BACs that span
very large Drosophila genes and the 4th chromosome.
Koen Venken
1,2
,
Stacy Holtzman
3
,
Soo Park
4
,
Joe Carlson
4
,
Roger Hoskins
4
,
Hugo
Bellen
1
,
Thom Kaufman
3
.
1)
Molec & Human Genetics, BCM, Houston,
TX; 2) Biochem & Molecular Biology, BCM, Houston, TX; 3) Biology,
IA, Bloomington, IN; 4) Life Sciences Division, LBNL, Berkeley, CA.
2
- 4:45
Captured segment exchange: A strategy for custom engineering large
genomic regions in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Jack R. Bateman, Michael
F. Palopoli, Sarah T. Dale, Jennifer E. Stauffer, Anita L. Shah,
Justine E. Johnson, Conor W. Walsh, Hanna Flaten, Christine M.
Parsons.
Biology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
3
- 5:00
Gene Targeting with TALENs in Drosophila.
Dana Carroll
1
,
Kelly J.
Beumer
1
,
Jonathan K. Trautman
1
,
Michelle Christian
2
,
Timothy J.
Dahlem
3
,
Cathleen Lake
4
,
R. Scott Hawley
4
,
David J. Grunwald
3
,
Daniel F. Voytas
2
.
1)
Dept Biochem, Univ Utah Sch Med, Salt Lake City,
UT; 2) Dept Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 3) Dept Human Genetics, Univ Utah Sch
Med, Salt Lake City, UT; 4) Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO.
4
- 5:15
Pyrimidine salvaging enzyme UPRTase is active in
Drosophila
and limits
the specificity of tissue specific RNA isolation by 4TU tagging.
Arpan
Ghosh, MaryJane Shimmel, Emma Leof, Michael O'Connor.
Gen Cell
&
Development, Univ Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.
5
- 5:30
Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced
Drosophila
embryos to determine
genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.
Peter A. Combs
1
,
Michael B. Eisen
2,3
.
1)
Biophysics Graduate Group, University of
California, Berkeley, CA; 2) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley, CA; 3) Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
6
- 5:45
Mechanical aspects of fruit fly gastrulation.
Konstantin Doubrovinski
1,2
,
Bing He
1
,
Oleg Polyakov
1
,
Eric Wieschaus
1,2
.
1)
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
7
- 6:00
Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of diapause—an important life
history trait in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Xiaqing Zhao
1
,
Alan
Bergland
2
,
Dmitri Petrov
2
,
Paul Schmidt
1
.
1)
Dept. of Biology,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2) Dept. of Biology,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
8
- 6:15
Solving navigational circuits in the
Drosophila
larva.
Marc Gershow
1
,
Mason Klein
1
,
Marta Zlatic
2
,
Matthew Berck
1
,
Elizabeth Kane
1
,
Bruno Afonso
1
,
Aravinthan Samuel
1
.
1)
Center for Brain Science,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; 2) HHMI Janelia Farm, Ashburn,
VA.
Cell Division and Growth Control
Co-Moderators: Robert Duronio, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill and Pat O'Farrell, University of California, San Francisco
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2, Lobby Level
9
- 4:30
Proper chromosome segregation and spindle assembly require both
kinetochore and central spindle components in Drosophila
oocytes.
Sarah J. Radford, Kim S. McKim.
Waksman Institute,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
10
- 4:45
The oocyte-to-embryo transition requires APC/C mediated destruction
of Matrimony, a POLO kinase inhibitor.
Zachary J. Whitfield
1
,
Jennifer Chisholm
2
,
R. Scott Hawley
2
,
Terry L. Orr-Weaver
1
.
1)
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA; 2)
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO.
11
- 5:00
Regulation of the asymmetric centrosome maturation cycle in neural
stem cells.
Dorothy A. Lerit, Nasser M. Rusan.
Cell Biology and
Physiology Center, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD.
12
- 5:15
The role of
corp
in apoptosis following DNA damage.
Riddhita
Chakraborty, Simon W. Titen, Kent G. Golic.
Department of
Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
13
- 5:30
Tissue repair through cell competition and compensatory cellular
hypertrophy in postmitotic epithelia.
Yoichiro Tamori, Wu-Min
Deng.
Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
14
- 5:45
The transcriptional response to tumorigenic polarity loss.
Brandon D.
Bunker
1
,
Anne-Kathrin Classen
2
,
Tittu T. Nellimoottil
3
,
David
Bilder
1
.
1)
Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; 2) Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-
University, Munich, D-82152 Germany; 3) Biological Sciences,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033.
15
- 6:00
Cell competition as a mechanism that can promote tumour growth
through JNK activation.
Luna L. Ballesteros-Arias, Verónica
Saavedra, Ginés Morata.
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo
Ochoa, Madrid, Spain.
16
- 6:15
Identification and verification of genes involved in apoptosis-induced
proliferation in
Drosophila
.
Yun Fan
1,2
,
Andreas Bergmann
2
.
1)
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United
Kingdom; 2) Cancer Biology, UMass Medical School, Worcester,
United States.
