ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Regular abstract submission is now closed. Late abstracts can be sent electronically via the online submission website.
Each abstract must be submitted on the World Wide Web. Abstracts prepared on paper and mailed to the GSA office, photo-copies, facsimiles or e-mails of abstracts will not be accepted.
Abstracts will appear on the Web and in the program and abstracts volume exactly as submitted, i.e., no corrections, additions, revisions or deletions will be made by the GSA staff. Only the submitting author may make revisions and corrections via the Web abstract submission program. GSA staff cannot make revisions. All revisions must be made no later than the revision deadline on November 25, 2005. Please proof your text carefully before submitting.
Because platform presentation requests far exceed platform presentation slots (only 10-15% of all abstracts received can be accommodated in platform sessions), authors should be prepared to present a poster if their abstract is not selected for a platform presentation.
Any authors presenting a talk in a workshop may not make a platform session presentation on the same topic.
Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts
To submit an abstract, follow the instructions for Web submission. Submissions must be completed before midnight on Monday night, November 21, 2005, U.S. East Coast time.
Shortly before the abstract assignment Web site opens around January 23, 2006, authors will be sent an e-mail reminder to check the Conference Web site for platform and poster assignments. Individual notification letters will not be sent. It is the responsibility of each author to check the Web site to ascertain the assignment to poster or platform presentation.
Instructions for Submitting Abstracts
STEP 1: Select a session topic area (01-15) from the following list. Select the area that best defines the session in which you would like to be included. Insert the number in the appropriate field on the Web abstract submission form.
01 Cell division and growth control
02 Cytoskeleton and cellular biology
03 Genome and chromosome structure
04 Regulation of gene expression
05 Signal transduction
06 Pattern formation
07 Gametogenesis and sex determination
08 Organogenesis
09 Neurogenetics and neural development
10 Neural physiology and behavior
11 Evolution and quantitative genetics
12 Immune system and cell death
13 Techniques and genomics
14 Drosophila models of human diseases
15 Physiology and aging
STEP 2: Select a keyword from the keyword list on the following page and enter it in the appropriate place on the Web abstract submission form. You may choose only a keyword listed under the same number as the number of the session topic area you select from the above list. Do not use a keyword from another session topic area.
If you do not see a keyword that is appropriate for your abstract under the session topic you chose, please choose "other" as a keyword and fill in a keyword that fits your research best.
Posters will be grouped by the fifteen session topic areas listed above. Within these topics, posters will be ordered by keywords, in an effort to group related abstracts together within session topic areas.
Platform session topic areas will adhere as closely as possible to the session topic areas above, but are subject to modification based on the relative distribution of specific research areas in the pool of submitted abstracts.
Keywords
01 Cell division and growth control
- mitosis
- meiosis
- checkpoint
- kinase/phosphatase/cyclin
- developmental modulation
- centrosome
- kinetochores and cohesion
- spindles and motors
- cytokinesis
- cell growth
- tissue growth
- tumor suppressors and oncogenes
- cell competition
- other
02 Cytoskeleton and cellular biology
- cytoskeleton
- intracellular transport
- vesicles
- other
03 Genome and chromosome structure
- chromatin and remodeling complexes
- insulators/boundary elements
- polycomb/trithorax complexes
- position effect variegation
- dosage compensation
- telomere
- centromere
- transposons
- other
04 Regulation of gene expression
- core promoters and general transcription factors
- enhancers
- activators/coactivators
- repressors/corepressors
- transcription elongation
- splicing and its regulation
- RNA modification and editing
- translational control
- RNA localization
- other
05 Signal transduction
- kinase/phosphatase
- cell-cell communication
- G protein
- receptor-ligand
- second messengers
- downstream cascades and targets
- other
06 Pattern formation
- segmentation
- homeotics
- axis specification
- compartments and boundaries
- cell migration and motility
- cell polarity
- commitment
- imaginal disk derivatives
- non-Drosophila patterning
- other
07 Gametogenesis and sex determination
- oogenesis
- spermatogenesis
- pre-gametogenic germ cell development
- sex determination
- sex-specific traits and molecules
- other
08 Organogenesis
- endodermal derivatives
- mesodermal derivatives
- ectodermal derivatives (nonneural)
- extracellular matrix/cell adhesion
- other
09 Neurogenetics and neural development
- axon guidance
- synaptogenesis
- neuronal specification
- programmed cell death
- glia
- hormonal control
- CNS
- sensory
- postembryonic
- other
10 Neural physiology and behavior
- sensory
- synapse
- neurotransmitters
- neuropeptides
- ion channels
- homeostasis
- learning/memory
- courtship and mating
- circadian rhythms
- hormones
- other
11 Evolution and quantitative genetics
- genome evolution
- population variation
- evolution and development
- quantitative traits
- speciation
- phylogenetics
- other
12 Immune system and cell death
- cellular immunity
- humoral immunity
- caspases
- death mutants/genes
- inhibitors of apoptosis (iaps)
- transcriptional regulation
- other
13 Techniques and genomics
- microarrays
- RNAi
- microscopy
- gene disruption and targeting
- gene mapping
- computational analyses
- mutational screens
- molecular interactions
- other
14 Drosophila models of human diseases
- neural degeneration
- cancer
- addiction
- developmental disorders
- drug discovery
- other
15 Physiology and aging
- stress response
- metabolism
- nutrition
- nutrient sensing
- endocrine function
- dietary restriction
- oxidative damage
- physiology of adult organs
- other
