Concurrent Platform Sessions
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 8:30-10:15 am
Program number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
32
Evolution and Quantitative Genetics I
Co-Moderators: Peter Andolfatto, Princeton University, New Jersey
and Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, Seattle,
Washington
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1, Lobby Level
25
- 8:30
Recent and strong adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster is driven
primarily by soft selective sweeps.
Nandita Garud, Philipp Messer,
Erkan Buzbas, Dmitri Petrov.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
26
- 8:45
Population and metabolic genomics of five geographically dispersed
fully-sequenced population samples of
Drosophila
melanogaster
.
Andrew G. Clark
1
,
J. Roman Arguello
1
,
Margarida
Cardoso Moreira
1
,
Jian Lu
1
,
Cornelia J. Scheitz
1
,
Anthony J.
Greenberg
1
,
Sean R. Hackett
1,2
,
Julien F. Ayroles
1,3
,
Srikanth
Gottipati
1
,
Lawrence G. Harshman
4
,
Jennifer K. Grenier
1
.
1)
Dept
Molec Biol & Gen, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY; 2) Grad Program Quant
and Comp Biology, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ; 3) Dept of OEB,
Harvard Univ, Cambridge MA; 4) School of Biol Sciences, Univ
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
27
- 9:00
Parallel selection on copy-number variants across continents and
species in
Drosophila
.
Daniel R. Schrider
1,2
,
Matthew W. Hahn
1,2
,
David J. Begun
3
.
1)
Department of Biology. Indiana Univesity,
Bloomington, IN; 2) School of Informatics and Computing. Indiana
Univesity, Bloomington, IN; 3) Department of Evolution and Ecology.
University of California. Davis, CA.
28
- 9:15
Interpreting faster-X evolution in light of expression breadth and
adaptation.
Richard Meisel.
Cornell University.
29
- 9:30
Neofunctionalization of young duplicate genes in Drosophila.
Raquel
Assis, Doris Bachtrog.
Integrative Biology, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
30
- 9:45
Signatures of correlated evolution predict new members of a protein
network required for
Drosophila
female post-mating
responses.
Geoffrey D. Findlay
1
,
Nathaniel L. Clark
1,2
,
Jessica L.
Sitnik
1
,
Charles F. Aquadro
1
,
Mariana F. Wolfner
1
.
1)
Department
of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; 2)
Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
31
- 10:00
The role of the Drosophila meiotic MCM proteins in crossover
formation.
Kathryn P. Kohl, Corbin D. Jones, Jeff
Sekelsky.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
NC.
Cell Biology & Signal Transduction I
Co-Moderators: Helen McNeil, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
and Jin Jiang, UTSW, Dallas, Texas
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2, Lobby Level
32
- 8:30
Contact-mediated long distance signaling by Drosophila
cytonemes.
Sougata Roy, Thomas B. Kornberg.
Cardiovascular
Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA.
33
- 8:45
Ubquitination of Costal 2 by the Ubr3 E3 ligase is required for proper
Hedgehog signaling.
Tongchao Li
1
,
Nikos Giagtzoglou
2
,
Junkai Fan
7
,
Jianhang Jia
7
,
Sinya Yamamoto
1
,
Wu-Lin Charng
1
,
Manish
Jaiwal
2
,
Hector Sandoval
2
,
Vafa Bayat
1,5
,
Bo Xiong
1
,
Ke Zhang
3
,
Gabriela David
1
,
Andy Groves
1,2,4
,
Hugo Bellen
1,2,3,4,6
.
1)
Program in
Developmental Biology; 2) Department of Molecular and Human
Genetics; 3) Program in Structural and Computational Biology &
Molecular Biophysics; 4) Department of Neuroscience; 5) Medical
Scientist Training Program; 6) Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Neurological Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas; 7) Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY.
34
- 9:00
Contribution of Ihog and Boi to the Hedgehog receptor in
Drosophila.
Darius Camp
1,2
,
Haitian He
1
,
Don van Meyel
1
,
Frédéric
Charron
2
.
1)
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2) Institut de recherches cliniques de
Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
35
- 9:15
The Formin Frl functions in Planar Cell Polarity Signaling in
Drosophila.
Andreas Jenny
1
,
Saw-Myat Maung
1
,
Gretchen Dollar
1
,
Cathie Pfleger
2
.
1)
Dept Molec & Dev Biol, Albert Einstein Col Med,
Bronx, NY; 2) Department of Oncological Sciences Mount Sinai
School of Medicine, New York, NY.
36
- 9:30
Frizzled induced Van Gogh phosphorylation regulates PCP
signaling.
Lindsay Kelly, Marek Mlodzik.
Department of
Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, NY.
37
- 9:45
CG9723 is required for spermatogenesis in
Drosophila
.
Robyn
Rosenfeld
1,2
,
Helen McNeill
1,2
.
1)
Samuel Lunenfeld Research
Institute, Mount Sinai hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2) Molecuar
Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
38
- 10:00
Exosomes, secreted from secondary cells of the male accessory glands,
fuse with sperm and female epithelia to modulate reproductive
function.
Laura Corrigan
1
,
Shih-Jung Fan
1
,
Carina Gandy
1
,
Aaron
Leiblich
1
,
Rachel Patel
1
,
Siamak Redhai
1
,
John Morris
1
,
Freddie
Hamdy
2
,
Clive Wilson
1
.
1)
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and
Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2) Nuffield
Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
Kingdom.
