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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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601
A
Effects of host diet on the tradeoff between mating and immunity
in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Parvin Shahrestani, Brian
Lazzaro.
Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
602
B
Role of Thioester-containing proteins in the immune response
of
Drosophila
against entomopathogenic nematodes and their
mutualistic bacteria.
Upasana Shokal, Ioannis
Eletherianos.
Department of Biological Sciences, George
Washington University, Washington, DC.
603
C
Identification and characterization of the novel antiviral gene rogue
in Drosophila melanogaster.
Jessica Tang
1,2
,
Anne Macgregor
1,3
,
Louisa Wu
1,3
.
1)
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology
Research,; 2) Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program,; 3)
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD.
604
A
Rapid spread of
Spiroplasma
defensive endosymbionts
in
Drosophila hydei
under high parasitoid wasp pressure.
Jialei Xie,
Lauryn Winter, Caitlyn Winter, Mariana Mateos.
Wildlife and
Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
605
B
Regulation of
Drosophila
innate immune signaling by amyloids and
phospholipids.
Anni Kleino
1
,
Jixi Li
2
,
Johanna Napetschnig
2
,
Lucy Chai
1
,
Kingsley Essien
1
,
Hao Wu
2
,
Neal Silverman
1
.
1)
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of
Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,
MA, USA; 2) Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Biological Chemistry
and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
MA, USA.
606
C
Drosophila
as a model organism to understand infection tolerance
mechanisms.
Victoria Allen, Reed O'Connor, Clarice Zhou,
Vanessa Hill, Elizabeth Stone-Jacobs, Thomas McCord,
Michelle Shirasu-Hiza.
Genetics and Development, Columbia
University Medical Center, New York, NY.
607
A
Big bang
and septate junctions modulates gut immune tolerance
in
Drosophila
.
François Bonnay
1
,
Eva Cohen-Berros
1
,
Gabrielle
L. Boulianne
2
,
Jules A. Hoffmann
1
,
Nicolas Matt
1
,
Jean-Marc
Reichhart
1
.
1)
UPR9022, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut
de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France; 2)
Programme in Developmental Biology, The Hospital for Sick
Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G
1
X8.
608
B
Investigating the allelic determinants of immunological natural
variation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Alejandra Guzman, David
Schneider.
Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA.
609
C
Infection Susceptibility in a TPI Deficiency Model.
Natasha C.
Hardina
1
,
Carolyn Steglich
1
,
Stacy L. Hrizo
1,2
.
1)
Biology ,
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA; 2) Pharmacology and
Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Pittsburgh, PA.
610
A
Diedel, induced by NF-kB pathway, regulates tolerance during
Sindbis infection.
Olivier Lamiable
1
,
Cordula Kemp
1
,
Friedemann Weber
2
,
Laurent Troxler
1
,
Nadege Pelte
3,4
,
Michael
Boutros
4
,
Charles Hetru
1
,
Jean-Luc Imler
1
.
1)
Institut de Biologie
Moléculaire et Cellulaire CNRS UPR9022, Strasbourg, France; 2)
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Freiburg,
Germany; 3) Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular
research, Toronto, Canada; 4) Department of Cell and Molecular
Biology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
611
B
Ingestion of
Pseudomonas fluorescens
Pf-5 by
Drosophila
melanogaster
causes larval immune response dependent on bacterial
media type.
Kristin L. Latham, Amy Nicholson, Jenna
Schneider, Elizabeth Mason.
Biology, Western Oregon Univ,
Monmouth, OR.
612
C
Analysis of a novel antibacterial protein, Noduler that is conserved
in insects and mammals.
Asha Minz, Javaregowda
Nagaraju.
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Centre for DNA
Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
613
A
Identification of Transcriptionally Induced Antiviral Effectors in
Drosophila.
Gregory Osborn
1
,
Jie Xu
1
,
Ari Yasunaga
1
,
Ian
Lamborn
2
,
Beth Gordesky-Gold
1
,
Sara Cherry
1
.
1)
Department
of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2)
Department of Immunology, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.
614
B
Cr(VI) induced suppression of Drosophila cellular immune
response: protection by sod overexpression.
Pragya Prakash
1
,
Arvind Shukla
1
,
M.Z. Abdin
2
,
Debapratim Kar Chowdhuri
1
.
1)
Embryotoxicology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research,
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2) Department of Biotechnology,
Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi 110 062.
615
C
Characterisation of lipid-mediated inflammatory pathways in
Drosophila.
Mark A. Watson
1
,
Karen Massey
2
,
Soyeon Kwon
1
,
Anna Nicolaou
2
,
Paul Badenhorst
1
.
1)
Institute of Biomedical
Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK; 2)
Bradford School of Pharmacy, University of Bradford, Bradford
BD7 1DP, UK.
616
A
Bacterial diversity associated with Drosophila in the laboratory and
in the natural environment.
Fabian Staubach
1
,
John Baines
2
,
Sven
Kuenzel
2
,
Elisabeth Bik
3
,
Dmitri Petrov
1
.
1)
Biology, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA; 2) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Biology, Plön, Germany,; 3) Department of Microbiology &
Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California,
United States of America.
617
B
Mechanisms of Wolbachia intracellular accumulation in somatic
cells of the Drosophila ovary.
Ajit Kamath, Eva Fast, Michelle
Toomey, Horacio Frydman.
Biology, Boston University, Boston,
MA.
618
C
Molecular mechanisms for Wolbachia hub tropism in Drosophila
melanogaster.
Rama Krishna Simhadri, Michelle Toomey,
Parthena Mantis, Ajit Kamath, Horacio Frydman.
Biology,
Boston University, Boston, MA.
619
A
Does stem cell niche tropism favor the evolutionary success of
specific Wolbachia strains?
Michelle E. Toomey, Mark Deehan,