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Plenary Sessions
 Thursday, March 6, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
PLENARY SESSION I [see Schedule]
Room: Sheraton Chicago Ballroom
Moderator: Helmut Krämer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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Presentations: |
| 9:00 am |
Downstream of the Dpp morphogen gradient.
Konrad Basler, University of Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 9:30 am |
Pathways that restrict growth and cell number.
Iswar Hariharan, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA. |
| 10:00 am |
Wiring up the central olfactory circuits in the Drosophila brain.
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, CA. |
| 10:30 am |
Break |
| 11:00 am |
Differential patterning of homologous Drosophila appendages.
Grace Boekhoff-Falk (formerly Grace Panganiban), University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison. |
| 11:30 am |
Ancient pathways programmed by small RNAs.
Philip Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester. |
Sunday, March 9, 8:30 am-12:30 pm
PLENARY SESSION II [see Schedule]
Room: Sheraton Chicago Ballroom
Moderator: John Abrams, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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Presentations: |
| 8:30 am |
Sequence of the Drosophila pseudoobscura genome.
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. |
| 9:00 am |
Sex, lies and sperm proteomics: Wolbachiainsinuation of Drosophila and other sorted tails of symbiosis.
Tim Karr, University of Bath, United Kingdom. |
| 9:30 am |
Molecular control of rest:activity behavior.
Amita Seghal, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia. |
| 10:00 am |
Regulation of lipid synthesis by membrane composition in Drosophila.
Robert Rawson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. |
| 10:30 am |
Break |
| 11:00 am |
Targeting of dosage compensation by noncoding roX RNAs.
Mitzi Kuroda, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. |
| 11:30 am |
Whole-genome analysis of dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo.
Mike Levine, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 12:00 pm |
Stem cell self renewal and differentiation in the male germ line.
Minx Fuller, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. |
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