2023 BAD Meeting

7^th Annual BAD Meeting: June 14^th 2023

Brandeis University

LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Dr. Sebastian Kadener (Biology Department, Brandeis University)
Dr. Michael Marr (Biology Department, Brandeis University)

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9:00 am	Registration & Coffee (outside Gerstenzang “Gzang” 123)
	Session I: From Molecules to Organism (Gzang 123) Moderator: Sebastian Kadener, Professor (Brandeis University)
9:30	Meeting kick off
9:40	Melissa Brown (UMass Boston) Control of brain development by the DYRK1A kinase Minibrain
9:55	Hassan Bukhari (BWH, Harvard University) A CRISPR-engineered endogenous tauopathy model brain at single-cell resolution
10:10	Yu-Chieh David Chen (New York University) Using single-cell RNA sequencing to generate predictive cell-type-specific split-GAL4 reagents throughout development
10:25	Ruoyu Chen (Whitehead Institute, MIT) Drosophila germ granules activate the translation of localized mRNA
10:40	Alex Dyson (MGH, Harvard University) Loss of dNf1 in Drosophila larvae causes hyper-responsivity and impaired synaptic transmission
10:55	Biljana Ermanoska (Brandeis University) Presynaptic actomyosin regulates the mechanobiology of the neuromuscular junction
11:10	Yerbol Kurmangaliyev (Brandeis University) Integrating connectomes and transcriptomes uncovers determinants of synaptic specificity
11:25	Ying Liu (Harvard Medical School, Harvard University) Tumor Cytokine-Induced Hepatic Gluconeogenesis Contributes to Cancer Cachexia: Insights from Full Body Single Nuclei Sequencing
11:40	SHORT TALK: Susan Gerbi (Brown University) Chromosome antics of Sciara – a lower Dipteran new/old model organism
11:50	Sian Gramates (Harvard University) New and Classic Features in FlyBase
12:00 pm	Lunch (Sherman Function Hall in Hassenfeld Conference Center)
Round Table Topics:	– Emerging tools in Drosophila – What you wish you knew in grad school/Post-doc/New Faculty – Career Development & Mentorship – Cell Signaling – RNA Research in Drosophila – Neurobiology and Behavior *Boxed lunches will be provided per dietary requests to registered attendees only
	Session II: From Organism to Molecules (Gzang 123) Moderator: Michael Marr, Associate Professor (Brandeis University)
1:00	Yuki Shindo (Dartmouth College) Beyond the Gateway: nuclear pore control of nuclear composition in early development
1:15	Ryan Maloney (Harvard University) Spontaneous Drift in Individual Preference as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds
1:30	Ane Martin Anduaga (Brandeis University) tim-cold slows down the circadian clock allowing temperature compensation to low temperatures in Drosophila
1:45	Jonathan Nelson (Whitehead Institute, MIT) Dynamic modulation of insulin signaling activity in germline stem cells regulates germline ribosomal DNA copy number expansion
2:00	Mukulika Ray (Brown University) Sex-specific transcript diversity is regulated by a maternal transcription factor in early Drosophila embryos
2:15	Ruoxi Wang (UMass Medical School) Selective clearance of endoplasmic reticulum is regulated by PINK1, Keap1 and Rtnl1 during development
2:30	Prathibha Yarikipati (UMass Chan Medical School) Single Cell transcriptomic analysis of hemocytes in Drosophila overgrowth/tumor models
2:45	Albert Yu (Brandeis University) Butt-Seq: Transcriptional Features of the Drosophila Clock
3:00	SHORT TALK: Claire Hu (Harvard Medical School) DRSC informatics tools/resources for mining and analyzing data of model organisms
3:10	SHORT TALK: Suresh Kumar (MIT) Molecular Logic of Functional Synaptic Diversity in Drosophila Tonic and Phasic Larval Motoneurons
3:20	SHORT TALK: Willem Laursen (Brandeis University) Short-range heat and humidity detectors for mosquito host-seeking and egg-laying behaviors
3:30	Coffee Break (Outside Gzang 123)
4:00	Keynote: Norbert Perrimon (Harvard University) A holistic understanding of inter-organ communication and metabolic regulation
5:00	Poster Session & Reception (Shapiro Science Center Atrium)
7:00pm	Meeting concludes