 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 |
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| 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Drosophila Board of Directors Meeting |
Chicago 10 |
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| 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm |
Opening General Session |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
| 7:00 pm |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dennis McKearin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas |
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| 7:20 pm |
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Paul Lasko, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
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| 7:30 pm |
Keynote Address: a Life of Flies
Michael Ashburner, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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| 8:15 pm |
Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
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| 9:15 pm |
Opening Mixer |
Ballroom Promenade |
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| THURSDAY, MARCH 6 |
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| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Plenary Session I
Moderator: Helmut Krämer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
| 9:00 am |
Downstream of the Dpp morphogen gradient
Konrad Basler, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 9:30 am |
Pathways that restrict growth and cell number
Iswar Hariharan, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA |
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| 10:00 am |
Wiring up the central olfactory circuits in the Drosophila brain
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, CA |
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| 10:30 am |
Break |
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| 11:00 am |
Differential patterning of homologous Drosophila appendages
Grace Boekhoff-Falk (formerly Grace Panganiban), University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison |
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| 11:30 am |
Ancient pathways programmed by small RNAs
Philip Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Community Resources Meeting |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
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1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm |
FlyBase Demonstrations
Presentations:
The Apollo Annotation Viewer and Editor
Bulk Data Retrieval and Advanced Queries |
Mayfair Room |
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| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm |
Poster Session I and Visit Exhibits
Presenters of Even-numbered Posters
Presenters of Odd-numbered Posters |
River Exhibition Hall |
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| 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Concurrent Platform Sessions I |
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Signal Transduction I
Co-Moderators: Jin Jiang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and Leonard Rabinow, University of Paris, Orsay, France |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Organogenesis
Co-Moderators: Susan Abmayr, Pennsylvania State University, State College; and Richard Cripps, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
Chicago Ballroom 6-7 |
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Genome Structure
Co-Moderators: Abby Dernburg, University of California, Berkeley; and Peter Gallant, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
Chicago Ballroom 9-10 |
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| 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
9:00 pm
10:00 pm |
Poster Session II and Visit Exhibits
"A" Poster Presenters
"B" Poster Presenters
"C" Poster Presenters |
River Exhibition Hall |
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7 |
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| 8:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Concurrent Platform Sessions II |
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Neural Physiology and Behavior
Co-Moderators: Dean Smith, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and Barbara Taylor, Oregon State University, Corvalis |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Meiosis, Mitosis, and Cell Division
Co-Moderators: Tin Tin Su, University of Colorado, Boulder; and Laura Johnston, Columbia University, New York, NY |
Chicago Ballroom 6-7 |
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Gametogenesis/Sex Determination
Co-Moderators: Erika Matunis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and Dorothea Godt, University of Toronto, Canada |
Chicago Ballroom 9-10 |
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| 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm |
FlyBase Demonstrations
Presentations:
The Apollo Annotation Viewer and Editor
Bulk Data Retrieval and Advanced Queries |
Mayfair Room |
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| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Techniques Workshop [details]
Moderator: Brian Oliver, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
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| 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm |
Concurrent Platform Sessions III |
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Gene Expression I
Co-Moderators: David Arnosti, Michigan State University, East Lansing; and Teresa Orenic, University of Illinois, Chicago |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Signal Transduction II
Co-Moderators: Georg Halder, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Helen McNeill, London Research Institute, United Kingdom |
Chicago Ballroom 6-7 |
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Immunity/Cell Death
Co-Moderators: Kim McCall, Boston University, MA; and Andreas Bergmann, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
Chicago Ballroom 9-10 |
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| 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
9:00 pm
10:00 pm |
Poster Session III and Visit Exhibits
"C" Poster Presenters
"B" Poster Presenters
"A" Poster Presenters |
River Exhibition Hall |
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| SATURDAY, MARCH 8 |
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| 8:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Concurrent Platform Sessions IV |
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Neurogenetics and Neural Development
Co-Moderators: Tanya Wolff, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; and Mark Seeger, Ohio State University, Columbus |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Pattern Formation
Co-Moderators: Jamila Horabin, University of Alabama, Birmingham; and Bryan Rogers, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge |
Chicago Ballroom 6-7 |
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Cytoskeleton and Cell Biology
Co-Moderators: John Sisson, University of Texas, Austin; and Kathryn Miller, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
Chicago Ballroom 9-10 |
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| 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm |
FlyBase Demonstrations
Presentations:
The Apollo Annotation Viewer and Editor
Bulk Data Retrieval and Advanced Queries |
Mayfair Room |
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| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm |
Poster Session IV and Visit Exhibits
Presenters of Odd-numbered Posters
Presenters of Even-numbered Posters |
River Exhibition Hall |
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| 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Concurrent Platform Session V |
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Gene Expression II
Co-Moderators: John Pollock, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA; and Richard Jones, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Techniques/Genomics
Co-Moderators: Alan Christensen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and Charles Dearolf, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA |
Chicago Ballroom 6-7 |
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Evolution and Quantitative Genetics
Co-Moderators: Bryant McAllister, University of Iowa, Iowa City; and Jennifer Gleason, University of Kansas, Lawrence |
Chicago Ballroom 9-10 |
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| 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm |
Concurrent Workshops |
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Research and Pedagogy at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions [details]
Organizers: Elaine Reynolds, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Beverly Clendening, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Karen Hales, Davidson College, NC; and Nancy Pokrywka, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
Sheraton Ballroom 1 |
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RNA Processing [details]
Organizers: David Standiford, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; and Mary Beth Davis, Bryn Mawr College, PA |
Sheraton Ballroom 2 |
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Ecdysone Action [details]
Organizer: Laurence von Kalm, University of Central Florida, Orlando |
Sheraton Ballroom 3 |
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Release 3 Re-Annotated D. melanogaster Genome [details]
Organizers: Madeline Crosby, FlyBase, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Sima Misra, FlyBase/BDGP, University of California, Berkeley |
Sheraton Ballroom 4-5 |
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Hematopoiesis and Immunity [details]
Organizer: Shubha Govind, City University of New York, NY |
Chicago Ballroom 8 |
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| 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm |
Visit Posters and Exhibits
Open Poster Viewing |
River Exhibition Hall |
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| SUNDAY, MARCH 9 |
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| 8:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Plenary Session II
Moderator: John Abrams, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas |
Sheraton Chicago
Ballroom |
| 8:30 am |
Sequence of the Drosophila pseudoobscura genome
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX |
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| 9:00 am |
Sex, lies and sperm proteomics:
Wolbachia
insinuation of Drosophila and other sorted tails of symbiosis
Tim Karr, University of Bath, United Kingdom |
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| 9:30 am |
Molecular control of rest:activity behavior
Amita Seghal, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia |
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| 10:00 am |
Regulation of lipid synthesis by membrane composition in Drosophila
Robert Rawson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas |
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| 10:30 am |
Break |
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| 11:00 am |
Targeting of dosage compensation by noncoding
roX
RNAs
Mitzi Kuroda, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX |
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| 11:30 am |
Whole-genome analysis of dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo
Mike Levine, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 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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