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Registration deadline: April 5th (for oral talk) and April 12th (for poster)
2026 Fly Club Symposium
Monday May 4th, 2026
Engineer/Biology Building (ESB) 121 on the UConn Storrs campus
Keynote speaker: Harmit Malik, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigaor, Professor and Associate Director, Basic Science Division at Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Organizers:
Funded by:
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - UConn Storrs
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology - UConn Storrs
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences - UConn Health
- Department of Cell Biology-UConn Health
Tentative Schedule
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Arrival and registration; Poster setup | |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Opening remarks | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Keynote lecture: Dr. Harmit Malik
Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch mixer | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Poster presentation | |
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Sophie Bizink, Inaba lab
Investigating Sperm Quality Control Mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster |
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| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Natalie Aloisio, Sun lab
ILP8 serves as a mature follicle sensor to prevent excessive accumulation of mature follicles in Drosophila ovaries and oocyte aging |
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| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Teng Long, Menuz lab
Identifying the Molecular Components that Generate the Transepithelial Potential in Insect Sensilla |
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| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Natalie Warsinger-Pepe, Hanlon lab
Exploring the underpinnings of B chromosome drag through the Drosophila melanogaster paternal lineage |
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| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm | Ruiyi Sun, Mellone lab
Testing the centromere drive hypothesis in D. melanogaster |
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Akshada Shankar Ganesh, Erceg lab
The functional organization of chromosome territories in single nuclei during zygotic genome activation |
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| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Poster awards and closing remarks | |
