2023 Fly Club Symposium

Friday May 26, 2023
Pharm/Bio Building (PBB) atrium
UConn Storrs

Organizers:
Barbara Mellone, PhD (MCB)
Jianjun Sun, PhD (PNB)
Rebecca Oramas (PNB)
Bryce Santinello (MCB)

Funded by:
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Schedule:
11:00 am Refreshments and Opening Remarks
11:10 am Keynote, Dr. Ruth Lehmann Director, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT. "Seeing Translation in Germ Granules"
12:00 pm Lunch
12:45 pm Poster Session
1:45 pm Graduate Student and Faculty talks (15min talk + 5min questions each)

  1. Muhammed Burak Bener, Graduate Student, Inaba Lab, UConn Health "Dedifferentiating germ cells regain stem-cell specific polarity checkpoint prior to niche reentry"
  2. Andre Jang, Graduate Student, Menuz Lab, UConn Storrs "The role of kinase CG7236 in insect olfaction"
  3. Dr. Zhiping Zhang, Assistant Professor, Miura Lab, UConn Health "Galphao extended 3'UTR sequence is required for mRNA expression regulation during embryonic development"
  4. Bryce Santinello, Graduate Student, Mellone Lab, UConn Storrs "Jockey-3: A Retroelement Linking Transcription and Epigenetic Maintenance of Centromeres in Drosophila"

3:05 pm Closing Remarks

 

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