Session 1 - Metabolism and Physiology 1pm
12 minute talks:
Session 2 - Cell Biology and Development 2:05pm
12 minute talks:
Session 3 – Neuroscience 3:05pm
12 minute talks:
Panel discussion led by Dr. Esther Verheyen and Dr. Douglas Allan - What do you want from VanFly? 4:05 pm
Social 4:30pm - 5:45pm
12 minute talks:
- Puja Biswas Insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway promotes increased body fat in Drosophila females
- Colin Miller Regulation of Neuronal Lipid Droplets
- Ferdinand Koranteng The role of transformer in sex-dependent body size plasticity
- Celena Cherian Investigating sex differences in the Drosophila fat body
Session 2 - Cell Biology and Development 2:05pm
12 minute talks:
- Kaicheng Ma Understanding the role of translational control in oocyte function
- Gamze Akarsu Characterizing Robinow Syndrome DVL1 mutations in Drosophila melanogaster
- Sophie Roth The influence of Basigin on Focal Adhesion Complexes at the Perineurial Glial membrane
- Katie Sew Exploring human CDK19 variants and the effects of N-acetylcystine amide using Drosophila as a model organism
- Claire Shih Investigating the role of Cdk8 in a Drosophila model of Parkinson Disease
Session 3 – Neuroscience 3:05pm
12 minute talks:
- Katie Clayworth How to wrap a nerve: glia-ECM communication
- Leisl Brewster Targeted RNA sequencing to investigate the neurobiological and molecular basis of Aedes aegypti smell and taste
- Jinfang Li Taste coding and processing in Drosophila taste projection neurons
- Emily McMann Investigating the function of the autophagy-related protein ATG4D using a Drosophila model
Panel discussion led by Dr. Esther Verheyen and Dr. Douglas Allan - What do you want from VanFly? 4:05 pm
Social 4:30pm - 5:45pm