8th Annual BAD Meeting: Tuesday May 21st 2024
UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Dr. Neal Silverman (Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School)
Dr. Phillip Zamore (Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School)
Dr. Andreas Bergmann (Professor of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, UMass Chan Medical School)
Dr. Travis Thomson (Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Prof. Yukiko Yamashita
Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
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| 9:00 am | Registration, 1st Floor Lobby, Albert Sherman Center |
| Session I: (Albert Sherman Center; AS2.2102 Auditorium) Moderators: Panos Velentzas, Instructor (UMass Chan), Lucas Restrepo, Graduate Student (UMass Chan) and Heya Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow (UMass Chan) | |
| 9:30 | Opening remarks: Travis Thomson, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (UMass Chan) |
| 9:40 | Peter M’Angale (UMass Chan) Cryo-EM Structure of the Copia Capsid hints at Structural Antagonism with dArc1 to Regulate Synaptic Plasticity |
| 9:55 | Mikhail S. Klenov (RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan) Piwi and piRNAs Repress Transcription of Aberrant rRNA Genes containing Retrotransposon Fragments |
| 10:10 | Ratna Chaturvedi (UMass Chan) A Glia-Enriched Transporter Controlling Sleep in Drosophila |
| 10:25 | Emily Rivard (Harvard University) Evolving Molecular Mechanisms of Fate Specification within the Drosophila Genus |
| 10:40 | Coffee Break (Outside Auditorium) |
| 11:00 | Roger White (University of Rochester) Monitoring fatty acid trafficking in follicles reveals a critical role for the triglyceride synthase DGAT1 in protecting mitochondrial integrity |
| 11:15 | Torrey Mandigo (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard) Dissecting the Causal Role of Insomnia in Cardiovascular Disease |
| 11:30 | Indrayani Waghmare (UMass Lowell) Understanding Glypican-Based Mechanisms of Extracellular Wnt Distribution |
| 11:45 | Amelie Raz (Whitehead Institute, MIT) Combinatorial signal integration in the maintenance and renewal of adult germline stem cell fate |
| 12:00 | Aditya Tandon (Project Engineer, ABB Inc.) Automated Drosophila Transfer Solution for stock maintenance in cardboard racks without use of anesthesia |
| 12:05 pm | Lunch (Medical School; Faculty Conference Room S1-342) |
| 1:00 | Poster Session (Lobby in Medical School Building) |
| Session II: (Albert Sherman Center; AS2.2102 Auditorium) Moderators: Prathibha Yarikipati, Postdoctoral Fellow (UMass Chan), Molly Murphy, Graduate Student (UMass Chan) and Bao Ho, Graduate Student (UMass Chan) | |
| 3:00 | Loiselle Gonzalez-Baez (Boston College) Melanization Regulates Wound Healing by Limiting Polyploid Cell Growth in the Drosophila Abdominal Epithelium |
| 3:15 | Sarah Crawford (Southern Connecticut State University) Innate Immune System Involvement in Brain Tumor Formation in Drosophila melanogaster Brat mutant: A Research Model of Pediatric Brain Tumor Development |
| 3:30 | Nelson Lau (Boston University) Traffic jam regulates the Drosophila piRNA cluster flamenco via novel shadow enhancer elements to ensure female fertility |
| 3:45 | Lianne Cohen (Boston University) Identifying the Enhancers and Regulatory Logic of the Drosophila Innate Immune System |
| 4:00 | Pushpa Verma Sharma (Harvard Medical School) Brain specific microRNA mediated regulation of metabolic homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster |
| 4:15 | Coffee Break (Outside auditorium) |
| 4:45 | Yu-Chieh David Chen (New York University) Codes of cell surface proteins coordinate stochastic and deterministic cell fates during Drosophila color vision circuit assembly |
| 5:00 | Ting Miao (Harvard Medical School) Role of Malpighian tubule-specific Coenzyme A biosynthesis in systematic metabolic control and maintenance of tissue homeostasis in high-turnover tissues |
| 5:15 | Vanitha Nithianandam (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Reveals a Conserved Role for the Amyloid Precursor Protein in Proteostasis |
| 5:30 | Beverley Matthews (Harvard University) New and Classic Features in FlyBase |
| 5:45 | Keynote Speaker Introduction: Phillip Zamore (UMass Chan) |
| 6:00 | Keynote: Yukiko Yamashita (Whitehead Institute, MIT) Asymmetric cell divisions in Drosophila |
| 7:00pm | Closing remarks: Neal Silverman (UMass Chan) |
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