 Thursday, March 25, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
PLENARY SESSION I
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Marriott Salon 1/2 |
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Paul Lasko, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Presentations:
Making and shaping the tiny tubes of the Drosophila tracheal system. Mark A. Krasnow, Stanford University, CA.
The regulation and execution of apoptosis in development. Kristin White, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown.
Investigating rhomboids in Drosophila and beyond. Matthew Freeman, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK.
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How: a post-transcriptional regulator of tissue differentiation. Talila Volk, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Biology in the era of complete genomes. Francis S. Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
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Sunday, March 28, 8:30 am-12:30 pm
PLENARY SESSION II
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Marriott Salon 1/2 |
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Howard Lipshitz, Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Presentations:
Looking for needles in a haystack: Drosophila nuclear receptors and their elusive ligands.
Henry M. Krause, University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Regulation of Gurken expression in oogenesis. Trudi Schüpbach, Princeton University, NJ.
Can flies help man treat neuro-degenerative diseases? J. Lawrence Marsh, University of California, Irvine.
Systematic mapping of developmental genomic regulatory networks. Kevin P. White, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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Drosophila as a model organism for research into aging. Linda Partridge, University College, London, UK.
Genetic manipulations at the Fruit Fly Fight Club. Ed Kravitz, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Balancing spermatogonial stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. Erika L. Matunis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
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