2022 BAD Meeting

6^th Boston Area Drosophila Meeting: June 16^th 2022

Boston College

LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Dr. Vicki Losick  (Assistant Professor of Biology, Boston College)
Dr. Eric Folker (Associate Professor of Biology, Boston College

Agenda

For a PDF version of the schedule, click here.

9:00 am	Registration & Coffee (Higgins Hall Atrium)
10:00– 12:00 pm	Session 1: Technologies, Cell, & Development (Higgins Hall Rm 300) Moderator: Vicki Losick, Assistant Professor (Boston College)
10:00	Sian Gramates, Biocurator (Harvard University) New and upcoming features at FlyBase
10:15	Ying Liu, Postdoc (Harvard Medical School) Systemic study of tumor-host organ communication using the DRSC FlyPhone online resource
10:30	Ben Ewen-Campen, Postdoc (Harvard Medical School) A split-Gal4 system that is fully repressible by Gal80
10:45	Steve DeLuca, Assistant Professor (Brandeis University) New tools and a new model for studying gene silencing initiation during development
11:00	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	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	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	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– 3:30	Session II: Aging, Neurogenesis, & Immunity (Higgins Hall Rm 300) Moderator: Eric Folker, Associate Professor (Boston College)
1:00	Zeba Wunderlick, Assistant Professor (Boston University) Mechanisms of immune priming in Drosophila
1:15	Levi Duhaime, Research Assistant (Boston College) Age-induced polyploidy remodels the actomyosin network altering epithelial mechanics over the fly’s lifespan
1:30	Jenna Harris, Graduate Student (Brandeis University) The role of circRNAs in aging in Drosophila melanogaster
1:45	Torrey Mandigo, Postdoc (Massachusetts General Hospital) Protein Glycosylation is a regulator sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila
2:00	Dingbang Ma, Postdoc (Brandeis University) Neural connectivity molecules best identify the heterogeneous clock and dopaminergic cell types in the Drosophila adult brain
2:15	Karen Leopold Cunningham, Graduate student (MIT) Regulation of presynaptic calcium channel abundance at active zones through a balance of delivery and turnover
2:30	Rajan Thakur, Postdoc (Brown University) PDZD8 promotes autophagy at ER-Lysosome contact sites to regulate synaptic growth
2:45	Heena Khurana, Graduate student (University of Massachusetts Boston) Mechanisms of induction of Mps
3:00	Julia Nemtsova, Graduate student (Brown University) Mitochondrial dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
3:15	Juliet Girard, Assistant Professor (University of Massachusetts Boston) Paths and pathways that generate cell-type heterogeneity and developmental progression in hematopoiesis
3:30	Coffee Break
4:00	Keynote Speaker Address: Dr. Jennifer Zallen, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, HHMI Investigator Signals, forces, and cells: Decoding tissue morphogenesis
5:00-6:00	Poster Session & Reception (Higgins Hall Atrium)