Page 62 - 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference Program Guide

POSTER SESSIONS
See page 14 for presentation schedule
Poster board number is in
bold
above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online at dros-conf.org
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450
C
Investigating interactions of TDP-43 with the insulin pathway in
a
Drosophila
model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Andrés A.
Morera
1
,
Taylor Podolsky
1
,
Alyssa Coyne
2
,
Archi Joardar
1
,
Daniela Zarnescu
1,3
.
1)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 2) Department of Neuroscience,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 3) Department of Neurology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
451
A
Neurodegeneration in mitochondrial Complex III deficiency
involves necrotic cell death.
Francesco Napoletano, Diane
Lebrun, Gilles Chatelain, Bertrand Mollereau.
LBMC-
Laboratory of molecular cell biology, ENS Ecole Normale
Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France.
452
B
Drosophila cd Mutant of the Kynurenine Pathway as a Model for
Dementia-Like Disorders.
Ekatherina Nikitina, Yulia Dolgaya,
Nadiya Utesheva, Elena Savvateeva-Popova.
Dept Neurogenetics,
Pavlov Inst Physiology, St Petersburg, Russian Federation.
453
C
Glial involvement in neuronal synaptic bouton formation
implicates
pak3
and
draper
function.
Emily F. Ozdowski, Nina T.
Sherwood.
Dept Biol, Duke Univ, Durham, NC.
454
A
Identification of protective prion protein residues with flies: insights
into the dog PrP-N158D substitution.
Diego E. Rincon Limas
1
,
Jonatan Sanchez-Garcia
1
,
Yan Zhang
1
,
Joaquin Castilla
2
,
Pedro
Fernandez-Funez
1
.
1)
Dept Neurology, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL; 2) CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia, Spain.
455
B
The influence of up-regulating basket in a Drosophila model of
Machado-Joseph Disease.
Catherine Romberger, John
Warrick.
University of Richmond, Department of Biology,
Richmond, VA.
456
C
Polar substitutions in helix 3 produce toxic, transmembrane
isoforms of the Prion protein.
Jonatan Sanchez-Garcia
1
,
Daniela
Arbelaez
1
,
Kurt Jensen
1
,
Diego Rincon-Limas
1,3
,
Pedro
Fernandez-Funez
1,2,3
.
1)
Department of Neurology, Univ of
Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2) Department of Neuroscience, Center for
Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; 3) Genetics Institute and Center for
Translational Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
457
A
Drosophila mth mutant resists paraquat induced Parkinson’s like
symptoms.
Arvind K. Shukla
1
,
Prakash Pragya
1
,
M.Z. Abdin
2
,
Debapratim Kar Chowdhuri
1
.
1)
Embryotoxicology, Indian
Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2)
Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar,
New Delhi 110 062.
458
B
Search for the modifiers of amyloid-β-42 mediated cell death in
Drosophila eye.
Andrew Steffensmeier
1
,
Oorvashi Roy Puli
2
,
Meghana Tare
2
,
Madhuri Kango-Singh
2
,
Amit Singh
2
.
1)
Pre-
Med, University of Dayton. 300 College Park Drive, Dayton, Ohio,
45469; 2)
Department of Biology, University of Dayton. 300
College Park Drive, Dayton, Ohio, 45469.
459
C
Identifying the molecular mechanism of nicotine-mediated rescue in
a fly model of Parkinson's disease.
Jared Techau
1
,
Gerald B. Call
2
,
Lori M. Buhlman
1
.
1)
Biomedical Sciences, Midwestern
University, Glendale, AZ; 2) Dept. of Pharmacology, Midwestern
University, Glendale, AZ.
460
A
Study of the Intracellular Handling of Dopamine using
Drosophila.
Antonio Tito
1,2,3
,
Dongsheng Chen
1,3
,
Zhen Xu
1,3
,
Yanning Rui
1,3
,
Zhihua Chen
1,3
,
Sheng Zhang
1,2,3
.
1)
Center of
Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, IMM, Houston, TX; 2)
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, GSBS, Houston, TX; 3)
UT-HEALTH, Houston, TX.
461
B
Molecular study of age-related hearing disorders
using
Drosophila
.
Leo Tsuda, Yasuhiro Omata, Yasutoyo
Yamasaki, Young-Mi Lim.
Animal Models of Aging, National
Center for Geriatrics and Grontology, Aich, Japan.
462
C
Vesicular trafficking in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s
disease.
Katerina Venderova
1
,
Sarah Wong
1
,
Jieyun Cao
1
,
Radek
Linhart
1
,
Melody Tran
1
,
Casey Ardrey
1
,
Christine Hsu
1
,
Anne
Huynh
1
,
Jong Min Park
1
,
Brian Phi
1
,
Gina Stassinos
1
,
Edwin
Yadidi
1
,
Matthew Seaman
2
.
1)
University of the Pacific, Stockton,
CA; 2) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
463
A
Buildup Arsenal for Functional Study of Huntingtin in
Drosophila.
Zhen Xu
1
,
Yanning Rui
1
,
Zhihua Chen
1
,
Dongsheng
Chen
1
,
Antonio Tito
1
,
Yamin Sun
1
,
Sheng Zhang
1,2,3
.
1)
Center for
Metabolic & Degenerative Diseases , the Brown Foundation
Institute of Molecular Medicine; 2) the Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences (GSBS); 3) Department of Neurobiology and
Anatomy, The University of Texas Health Science Center
(
UTHEALTH) at Houston.
464
B
Characterizing the interaction of neuron and glia by
electroretinogram.
Po-An Yeh, Henry Sun.
Molecular Biology,
Taipei, Taiwan.
465
C
RAF2 promotes the autophagic degradation of the Amyloid-β
peptide.
Yan Zhang
1
,
Diego Rincon-Limas
1
,
Pedro Fernandez-
Funez
1,2
.
1)
Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2)
Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
466
A
Drosophila
as a model to study the genetic mechanisms of parental
high-fat diet and its effects on the trans-generational initiation of
obesity and heart dysfunction.
Ryan Tyge Birse, Hannah Catan,
Kathryn Reardon, Sean Oldham, Rolf Bodmer.
Program of
Development and Aging, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research
Institute, La Jolla, CA.
467
B
QTLs associated with female pupal weight on a high fat diet.
Kelly
Dew-Budd
1
,
Ronglin Che
2
,
Alison Motsinger-Reif
2
,
Laura
Reed
1
.
1)
Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; 2) Department of Statistics, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
468
C
Myosin storage myopathy mutations cause age dependent muscle
degeneration and cardiac dysfunction in a Drosophila model.
Meera
Cozhimuttam Viswanathan
1,2
,
William Kronert
1
,
Girish