Concurrent Platform Sessions
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 4:00-6:00 pm
Program number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online
42
Cell Cycle and Cell Death
Co-Moderators: Hyung Don Ryoo, New York University and Brian
Calvi, Indiana University, Bloomington
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1, Lobby Level
133
- 4:00
A novel role of
Drosophila
P/Q type voltage gated calcium channel
subunits in autophagy.
Upasana Gala
1
,
Chao Tong
2,3
,
Manish
Jaiswal
2
,
Hector Sandoval
2
,
Shinya Yamamoto
1
,
Vafa Bayat
1
,
Bo
Xiong
1
,
Ke Zhang
4
,
Wu-Lin Charng
1
,
Lita Duraine
5
,
Kartik
Venkatachalam
6
,
Hugo Bellen
1,2,5
.
1)
Program in Developmental
Biology, BCM; 2) Department of Human and Molecular Genetics,
BCM; 3) Department of Molecular Biology, Zhejiang University; 4)
Structural & Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics Program,
BCM; 5) Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 6) Department of
Integrative Pharmacology, UTHSC.
134
- 4:15
Zonda: A novel gene involved in autophagy and growth
control.
Mariana Melani
1
,
Maria Julieta Acevedo
1
,
Joel Perez
Perri
1
,
Nuria Magdalena Romero
2
,
Pablo Wappner
1
.
1)
Fundacion
Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2) Institute of
Developmental Biology and Cancer, Nice, France.
135
- 4:30
Ino80
is required for ecdysone-dependent regulation of PI3K/Akt
signaling during
Drosophila
development.
Sarah Neuman, Robert
Ihry, Arash Bashirullah.
University of Wisconsin-Madison,WI.
136
- 4:45
Necrotic cell death is mediated by a specific chromatin-modifying
pathway in fly and mammals.
Kai Liu
1
,
Yuhong Li
1
,
Lianggong
Ding
1
,
Hui Yang
1
,
Chunyue Zhao
1
,
Hermann Steller
2
,
Lei Liu
1
.
1)
State Key Lab of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, School
of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; 2) Strang
Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, The Rockefeller University, NY.
137
- 5:00
The endocycle promotes aneuploidy at both ends of the
spindle.
Donald T. Fox
1,2
,
Ruth Montague
1
,
Kevin Schoenfelder
1
,
Benjamin Stormo
2
,
Sarah Paramore
1
.
1)
Deprt of Pharmacology &
Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2)
Dept of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
138
- 5:15
Cell cycle remodeling is sufficient to repress apoptosis.
Suozhi Qi,
Christiane Hassel, Brian R. Calvi.
Indiana University, Bloomington,
139
- 5:30
The Molecular Chaperone Hsp90 is Required for Cell Cycle
Exit.
Jennifer L. Bandura
1,2
,
Huaqi Jiang
1,3
,
Derek W. Nickerson
1
,
Bruce A. Edgar
1,2
.
1)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100
Fairview Ave., Seattle, WA 98109, USA; 2) German Cancer Research
Center (DKFZ) - Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH)
Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; 3)
Current address: UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6000
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
140
- 5:45
Phosphorylation of Caprin by Chk1(Grapes) May Control the Cell
Cycle at the Mid-Blastula Transition.
Helen X. Chen
1,3
,
Ophelia
Papoulas
2,3
,
Paul Macdonald
1,3
.
1)
Section of Molecular Cell and
Developmental Biology; 2) Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology;
3)
The Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of
Texas at Austin
Gametogenesis and Organogenesis
Co-Moderators: Cordula Schulz, University of Geogia, Athens and Wu-
Min Deng, Florida State University, Ft. Lauderdale
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2, Lobby Level
141
- 4:00
Ecdysone Signaling Antagonizes EGF Signaling in Germline-Cyst Cell
Interactions of
Drosophila melanogaster
Testes.
Ricky W. Zoller,
Cordula Schulz.
Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
142
- 4:15
Localization and functional analysis of Nmd and CG4701 AAA
proteins in mitochondrial and microtubule dynamics
in
Drosophila
spermatogenesis.
Bethany L. Wagner, Lindsay A.
Regruto, Melissa Lorenzo, Jessica Gerard, Sarah C. Pyfrom, Karen
G. Hales.
Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
143
- 4:30
NPR2/3 define a novel nutrient stress pathway in the Drosophila
ovary.
Youheng Wei, John Reich, Weili Cai, Tanveer Akbar,
Kuikwon Kim, Mary Lilly.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program,
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
144
- 4:45
Tramtrack69 regulates epithelial tube expansion in the Drosophila
ovary through Paxillin, Dynamin, and the homeobox protein
Mirror.
Nathaniel Peters, Celeste Berg.
Dept of Genome
Sciences/MCB Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
145
- 5:00
Ovulation requires female reproductive tract secretions controlled by
NR5a-family nuclear hormone receptors.
Jianjun Sun, Allan
Spradling.
HHMI Laboratory, Department of Embyology, Carnegie
Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD.
146
- 5:15
Using transcriptome and phosphoproteome profiling to identify genes
that regulate the egg-to-embryo transition in D. melanogaster.
Caroline
V. Sartain, Amber R. Krauchunas, Jun Cui, Vanessa L. Horner,
Jeffrey A. Pleiss, Mariana F. Wolfner.
Dept Molec Biol & Gen,
Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY.
147
- 5:30
Intercellular Protein Equilibration through Somatic Ring Canals.
Peter
McLean.
Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
148
- 5:45
A non-canonical role for Yorkie and the Salvador/Warts/Hippo
pathway in tracheal tube-size regulation.
Renée M. Robbins,
Samantha C. Gbur, Greg J. Beitel.
Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL.
