2024 Fly Club Symposium
Wednesday May 29, 2024
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Pharm/Bio Building (PBB) atrium on the UConn Storrs campus
Free parking is available to our colleagues visiting from the UConn Health campus. Details for parking at Storrs were sent out after registration.
Keynote speaker:
Dr. Lynn Cooley, Yale School of Medicine
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; C. N. H. Long Professor of Genetics and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Cooley Lab website
Poster award winners:
Emma Beard, Inaba Lab - "Characterization of stage-specific expression and localization of retrotransposons in Drosophila spermatocytes"
Kaylah Samuelson, Hanlon Lab - "Elucidating the role of Polo kinase activity and regulation in the meiotic drive of B chromosomes in D. melanogaster"
Organizers:
Blanka Rogina, Jianzhong Yu, and Stacey Hanlon To email all three organizers at once, click here.
Funded by:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - UConn Storrs | Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences - UConn Health | Department of Physiology and Neurobiology - UConn Storrs | Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - UConn Storrs
Schedule:
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Attendees arrive, put up posters, and mingle over coffee and tea |
| 11:00 AM | Opening remarks |
| 11:10 AM | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lynn Cooley Ring canals to ribosomes: How studying the cell biology of intercellular bridges led to tissue-specific stop codon readthrough |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch (provided to all registered attendees) |
| 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Poster session |
| 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | Tyler McDermott, Mellone Lab Consequences of Activating a Retroelement Enriched at Drosophila Centromeres |
| 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | Samaneh Poursaeid, Inaba Lab The interplay of transcriptional factors explains the opposite effects of niche BMP ligand on stem- versus differentiating cells |
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | Andre Jang, Menuz Lab The Role of Kinase CG7236 in Insect Olfaction |
| 3:30 PM - 3:40 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Mengjia (Michelle) Lin, Hanlon Lab Investigating B chromosome dynamics during female meiosis in D. melanogaster |
| 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | Stella Cho, Sun Lab Actomyosin contraction in follicular epithelium provides the major mechanical force for follicle rupture during Drosophila ovulation |
| 4:20 PM | Awards and Closing Remarks |
