POSTER SESSIONS
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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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Regulation of metamorphic neuronal remodeling by
alan shepard
(
shep).
.
Dahong Chen, Randall Hewes.
Department of Biology,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
930
A
Drosophila
Tempura, a putative protein prenyltransferase, regulate
synaptic growth and synaptic transmission.
Kuchuan Chen
1
,
Wu-
Lin Charng
1
,
Shinya Yamamoto
1
,
Nele Haelterman
1
,
Guang
Lin
2,4
,
Hugo Bellen
1,2,3,4
.
1)
Program in Developmental Biology; 2)
Dept of Molecular and Human Genetics; 3) Dept of Neuroscience;
4)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Jan and Dan Duncan
Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX.
931
B
PPR-proteins, which are implicated in the neurodegenerative disease
Leigh Syndrome, reveal a role for mitochondria in attenuating BMP-
signaling.
Nele Haelterman
1
,
Manish Jaiswal
2
,
Berrak Ugur
1
,
Hector Sandoval
2
,
Ke Zhang
3
,
Taraka Donti
2
,
Brett Graham
2
,
Vafa Bayat
1
,
Shinya Yamamoto
1,2
,
Hugo Bellen
1,2,3,4
.
1)
Program
in Developmental Biology; 2) Department of Molecular and Human
Genetics; 3) Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular
Biophysics Graduate Program; 4) Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX 77030.
932
C
Adult brain compartment formation requires proper scaffolding by
secondary neuronal lineages.
Jennifer K. Lovick, Volker
Hartenstein.
MCDB, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
933
A
A Drosophila Cobblestone Lissencephaly model reveals
Dystroglycan is buffered by microRNA-310s via its alternative
3’
UTR.
Halyna R. Shcherbata, Andriy S. Yatsenko, April K.
Marrone.
MPRG of Gene Expression and Signaling, Max Planck
Institute, Goettingen, Germany.
934
B
Role of cell death in the development of the adult
Drosophila
optic
lobe during metamorphosis.
Hidenobu Tsujimura
1
,
Tatsuya
Sudo
1
,
Yusuke Hara
1,2
,
Yu Togane
1
,
Hiromi Akagawa
1,2
,
Ayano
Ishitsuka
1
,
Masashi Iwamura
1
,
Ryo Iizuka
1
,
Ayaka Tsutsumi
1
.
1)
Dept Dev Biol, Tokyo Univ Agric & Tech, Fuchu-si, Tokyo, Japan;
2)
Dept Bio Pro Sci, Tokyo Univ of Agric & Tech, Fuchu-si, Tokyo,
Japan.
935
C
Regulation of Axonal Branch Refinement by EGF-Receptor
Signaling.
Marlen Zschaetzsch, Bassem Hassan.
VIB, Leuven,
Belgium.
936
A
Sexual identity affects the development and mature function of a
defined neural circuit in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Parag Bhatt,
Selma Advagic, Harsha Swamy.
Pharmcological and Physiological
Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
937
B
The transcriptional code of adult motoneuron identity in
Drosophila.
Jonathan Enriquez
1
,
Myungin Baek
2
,
Richard
Mann
1
.
1)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysic,
Columbia University Medical Center , New York, NY; 2) NYU
School of Medicine Neuroscience Program 522 First Avenue
SML504 New York, NY 10016.
938
C
Antp
regulates segment-specific survival and morphology in the
postembryonic ventral nervous system.
Ginna E. Freehling,
Danielle R. Alaimo, Kirstin T. Rudd, Anthony R. Cillo,
Elizabeth C. Marin.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
939
A
Actin associates with bHLH proneural proteins in nucleus and
positively regulates neural precursor gene expression.
Yun-Ling
Hsiao
1,2
,
Yu-Ju Chen
1,2
,
Hsiao-Fong Yeh
2
,
Haiwei Pi
1,2
.
1)
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine,
Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-
Yuan 333, Taiwan; 2) Department of Biomedical Sciences, College
of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road,
Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan.
940
B
Thinking hard for Scarecrow, the NKX2.1 homolog
of
Drosophila
.
Crystal L. Maki, Albert J. Erives.
Dept. of
Biology, University of Iowa.
941
C
Salt Inducible Kinases in Drosophila Neural Development.
Bahar
H. Sahin
1
,
Sercan Sayin
1,2
,
Nic Tapon
3
,
Arzu Celik
1
.
1)
Molekuler
Biyoloji ve Genetik Bolumu, Bogazici Universitesi, Istanbul,
Turkey; 2) Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munchen,
Germany; 3) London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Laboratories, London, UK.
942
A
The larval-to-pupal onset of
let-7-Complex
microRNAs
regulates
chinmo
to specify neuronal temporal identity.
Nicholas S.
Sokol, Yen-Chi Wu.
Dept Biol, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN.
943
B
Mitosis in neurons: Roughex and APC/C maintain cell cycle exit to
prevent cytokinetic and axonal defects in Drosophila photoreceptor
neurons.
Nick Baker
1
,
Robert Ruggiero
1
,
Abhijit Kale
1
,
Barbara
Thomas
2
.
1)
Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx,
NY; 2) Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda, MD.
944
C
Characterization of neuronal death and degeneration upon cell cycle
re-entry in
rux
and APC/C mutants.
Adriana De La Garza,
Nicholas E. Baker.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx,
NY.
945
A
Function of JAK/STAT and Hippo signaling pathways
on
Drosophila
mushroom body neuroblast maintenance and cell
proliferation.
Lijuan Du
1
,
Jian Wang
1,2
.
1)
Molecular and Cell
Biology Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; 2)
Entomology Department, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD.
946
B
Muscle associated
Drosophila
adducin regulates
Drosophila
larval
neuromuscular junction (NMJ) development and the localization of
Draper to the synapse.
Mannan Wang
1
,
Simon Wang
2
,
Charles
Krieger
1
,
Nicholas Harden
2
,
Wade Parkhouse
1
.
1)
Department of
Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, SFU, Burnaby, BC,
Canada; 2) Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
SFU, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
947
C
Variation in larval locomotion and NMJ among melanogaster
sibling species.
Emma Yang, Mirela Belu, Claudia
Mizutani.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
948
A
Nemo is a core proneural target gene and a feedback inhibitor of
Atonal in the Drosophila eye.
Vilaiwan Fernandes
1
,
Lorena
Braid
1,2
,
Esther Verheyen
1
.
1)
Molecular Biology and
