2025 Fly Club Symposium
Tuesday May 20, 2025 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Biology/Physics (BPB) atrium on the UConn Storrs campus
The abstract book is available here
Poster award winners:
Maddy O'Connor, Mellone Lab - "Determining the localization of centromere-derived transcripts in Drosophila"
Annette St. Jacques, Hanlon Lab - "Investigating How Oocyte Age Impacts B Chromosome Transmission in Drosophila melanogaster"
Keynote speaker: Erica Larschan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University.
Organizers:
Jelena Erceg, Karen Menuz, Mayu Inaba-Oguro
Funded by:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - UConn Storrs | Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences - UConn Health | Department of Cell Biology-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 – 11:30 AM | Akshada Shankar Ganesh
Erceg Lab The functional organization of chromosome territories in single nuclei during zygotic genome activation |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Vedansh Patel
Inaba Lab Dynamic Histone Turnover Facilitates Cell Fate Transitions during Male Germline Differentiation |
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch (provided to all registered attendees) | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Poster session | |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Blanka Rogina
Faculty Talk Caloric Restriction and Aging in Drosophila |
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| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Sydney Ballou
Menuz Lab Role of adult antennal support cells in Drosophila olfaction |
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| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Andre Jang
Menuz Lab The Role of Kinase CG7236 in Insect Olfaction |
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| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Natalie Aloisio
Sun Lab DILP8 functions as a mature follicle sensor to prevent excessive accumulation of mature follicles in Drosophila ovaries and oocyte aging |
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| 3:20 PM - 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM | Keynote lecture: Erica Larschan
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. "X marks the spot: Targeting of the X chromosome for coordinated gene regulation" |
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| 4:20 PM | Awards and Closing Remarks | |
