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
