2022 BAD Meeting

Thursday June 16^th 2022– 6^th Boston Area Drosophila Meeting | Boston College

Local Organizers
Dr. Vicki Losick | Assistant Professor of Biology, Boston College
Dr. Eric Folker | Associate Professor of Biology, Boston College

Meeting Agenda

Venue
Higgins Hall at Boston College in Newton, MA

For a PDF version of the schedule, click here.

Schedule

10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Technologies, Cell, & Development (Higgins Hall Rm 300)
Moderator: Vicki Losick, Assistant Professor, Boston College

9:00 am	Registration & Coffee (Higgins Hall Atrium)
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Session 1: Technologies, Cell, & Development (Higgins Hall Rm 300) Moderator: Vicki Losick, Assistant Professor, Boston College
10:00 am	Sian Gramates, Biocurator, Harvard University New and upcoming features at FlyBase
10:15 am	Ying Liu, Postdoc, Harvard Medical School Systemic study of tumor-host organ communication using the DRSC FlyPhone online resource
10:30 am	Ben Ewen-Campen, Postdoc, Harvard Medical School A split-Gal4 system that is fully repressible by Gal80
10:45 am	Steve DeLuca, Assistant Professor, Brandeis University New tools and a new model for studying gene silencing initiation during development
11:00 am	Mary Ann Collins, Postdoc, MIT The F-actin disassembly factors, Capulet and Flare, regulate distinct pools of actomyosin dynamics to promote epithelial remodeling during Drosophila gastrulation
11:15 am	Rebecca Oramas, Graduate Student, University of Connecticut The bHLH-PAS transcriptional complex Sim::Tgo plays active roles in late oogenesis to promote follicle maturation and ovulation
11:30 am	Shruthi Bandyadka, Graduate Student, Boston University Alternative splicing of vha100-2 exon 2 promotes non-cell autonomous clearance of nurse cells in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis
11:45 am	Stacey Hanlon, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut Uncovering mechanisms that promote and suppress B chromosome meiotic drive
12:00 pm	Lunch* (Higgins Hall Atrium and Outside weather permitting) Lunch discussion groups: New fly tools & techniques Building an inclusive lab Cytoskeleton & Mechanics Neurobiology Starting a lab & Networking What you wish you knew in grad school *Boxed lunches will be provided per dietary requests to registered attendees only
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Session II: Aging, Neurogenesis, & Immunity (Higgins Hall Rm 300) Moderator: Eric Folker, Associate Professor, Boston College
1:00 pm	Zeba Wunderlick, Assistant Professor, Boston University Mechanisms of immune priming in Drosophila
1:15 pm	Levi Duhaime, Research Assistant, Boston College Age-induced polyploidy remodels the actomyosin network altering epithelial mechanics over the fly’s lifespan
1:30 pm	Jenna Harris, Graduate Student, Brandeis University The role of circRNAs in aging in Drosophila melanogaster
1:45 pm	Torrey Mandigo, Postdoc, Massachusetts General Hospital Protein Glycosylation is a regulator sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila
2:00 pm	Dingbang Ma, Postdoc, Brandeis University Neural connectivity molecules best identify the heterogeneous clock and dopaminergic cell types in the Drosophila adult brain
2:15 pm	Karen Leopold Cunningham, Graduate student, MIT Regulation of presynaptic calcium channel abundance at active zones through a balance of delivery and turnover
2:30 pm	Rajan Thakur, Postdoc, Brown University PDZD8 promotes autophagy at ER-Lysosome contact sites to regulate synaptic growth
2:45 pm	Heena Khurana, Graduate student, University of Massachusetts Boston Mechanisms of induction of Mps
3:00 pm	Julia Nemtsova, Graduate student, Brown University Mitochondrial dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
3:15 pm	Juliet Girard, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston Paths and pathways that generate cell-type heterogeneity and developmental progression in hematopoiesis
3:30 pm	Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:00 pm Keynote Speaker Address

Dr. Jennifer Zallen, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, HHMI Investigator
Signals, forces, and cells: Decoding tissue morphogenesis

5:00 – 6:00 pm Poster Session & Reception (Higgins Hall Atrium)

Parking available in Commonwealth Garage and the event will take place in Higgins Hall.  Map will be sent to all registrants one week before the meeting.