SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
4
THURSDAY, April 4
12:01
am - 11:59 pm
Posters Open
Exhibit Hall B South/C
Exhibition Level
7:00
am - 3:00 pm
Speaker Ready Room
Park Tower Suite 8228
Lobby Level
7:15
am - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Marriott Ballroom Foyer
Mezzanine Level
7:15
am - 8:30 am
Publishers Breakfast
Virginia Suite
Lobby Level
8:00
am - 5:00 pm
Registration and Book/T-Shirt Pickup Open
Convention Registration Desk
Lobby Level
8:30
am - 12:30 pm
Plenary Session
Moderator:
David Stern, Janelia Farm Research
Campus, Ashburn, Virginia
Marriott Ballroom Salons 1-3
Lobby Level
8:30
am
Image Award Presentation
David Bilder, University of California, Berkeley
8:35
am
Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration
Marc R. Freeman, Dept Neurobiology, Univ
Massachusetts Med Sch/HHMI, Worcester, MA
9:05
am
Genetic Approaches to Dissecting Neural
Computation in the Visual System
Tom Clandinin, Dept of Neurobiology, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
9:35
am
The Genomics of Speciation and Pattern
Evolution in (butter)flies
Chris Jiggins, Dept Zoology, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:05
am
Break
Marriott Ballroom Foyer
Mezzanine Level
10:30
am
Creating Gradients by Morphogen Shuttling
Naama Barkai, Weizman Institute, Rehovot,
Israel
11:00
am
Maintenance of Niche Function and Tissue
Homeostasis During Aging
Leanne Jones, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Inst,
La Jolla, CA
11:30
am
Histone Genetics in Drosophila
Jürg Müller, Max-Planck Institute of
Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152
Martinsried, Bavaria, Germany
12:00
noon
Presentation of FASEB Excellence in Science
Award to Terry Orr-Weaver
Judith Bond, President, FASEB, Bethesda, MD
12:05
pm
Diamonds in the Rough: Finding Paradigms
in Drosophila Developmental Strategies
Terry Orr-Weaver, Whitehead Institute, MIT,
Cambridge Massachusetts
