2004 Midwest Worm Meeting Abstracts

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Program of the 2004 Midwest Worm Meeting

Plenary Sessions I & II

Friday June 11, Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union

Session I:  7:00 - 8:25 p.m.

Chair:  Colette Witkowski

 

  1. Tim Walston
    The Dishevelleds and Casein Kinase I Regulate Spindle Orientation Through a Wnt Pathway Independent of Transcription

     

  2. Vandana Rajakumar
    Multiple Functions of PAX EGL-38 Coordinate the Development of the Caenorhabditis elegans Egg-Laying System

     

  3. Joseph D. Coolon
    Going back home:  Development of a C. elegans Soil Culture System for Functional Genomic Studies

     

  4. Hongtao Qin
    The AHR-1 Transcriptional Complex Regulates Development of the Pseudocoelomic Neurons and Social Feeding Behavior

     

  5. Yieyie Yang
    Functional Study of Actin-Binding Protein UNC-115 and Its Binding Partner SWR-1 during Neuronal Morphogenesis in C. elegans

 

BREAK

 

Session II:  8:50 - 10:00 p.m.

Chair:  Helen Chamberlin

 

  1. Stacie Hughes
    Characterization of Reproductive Senescence in C. elegans Hermaphrodites

     

  2. Kelly A. Flanagan
    UNC-82 is a Serine/Threonine Kinase Required for Thick Filament Organization in Body-Wall Muscle

     

  3. Jennifer L. Hueston
    Loss of the ELP-1 Microtubule-Binding Protein Exacerbates the Dystrophin Phenotype in Caenorhabditis elegans

     

  4. Vida Praitis
    SMA-1 Spectrin is Required for Epithelial Cell Sheet Morphogenesis in C. elegans

 


Plenary Sessions III & IV

Saturday June 12, Rm. 1005 Haworth Hall

Session III:  8:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Chair:  Myeongwoo Lee

 

  1. Darin Blasiar
    Wormbase:  Improvements to the Database

     

  2. Sinchita Roy Chowdhuri
    The C. elegans T-box gene tbx-2 Is Required for Pharyngeal Development

     

  3. Courtney Wilkins
    C. elegans as a Model Host for Viral Infection

     

  4. Jana E. Harris
    MSP Signals Microtubule Reorganization in C. elegans Oocytes Prior to Fertilization

     

  5. Kenneth L. Jones
    Diversity Estimation to Determine the Changes in Nematode Community Composition in Response to Environmental Cues

     

  6. Kailiang Jia
    TOR and Insulin Pathways Converge at Raptor to Regulate C. elegans Larval Development, Metabolism, and Life Span

 

BREAK

 

Session IV:  10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Chair:  Shin Murakami

 

  1. April M. Orsborn
    To Degrade or Not to Degrade:  Regulation of GLH Protein Levels

     

  2. Mary A. Allen
    Sex Determination Gene laf-1 Is a Processed Non-Coding RNA

     

  3. Dana Byrd
    Regulation of Germline Stem Cells by the DTC Niche

     

  4. Rashmi Deshpande
    Mechanisms of Wnt Signaling During P12 Specification in C. elegans

     

  5. Maria Vidal
    spd-3 Is a Novel Gene Required for Spindle Alignment in C. elegans

     

  6. Ambrose R. Kidd III
    SYS-1, an Atypical β-Catenin, Acts with POP-1/TCF to Control Cell Fates in C. elegans


Plenary Sessions V & VI

Sunday June 13, Rm. 1005 Haworth Hall

Session V:  8:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Chair:  Pamela Padilla

 

  1. Ahna Skop
    Conserved Cytokinesis Mechanisms Revealed through Dissection of the Mammalian Midbody Proteome

     

  2. Ge Gao
    Loss of pan-1 Causes a Peter Pan-Like Phenotype in C. elegans

     

  3. Jo Anne Powell-Coffman
    C. elegans Hypoxia Response:  Elucidating the Function and Regulation of the HIF-1 Transcription Factor

     

  4. Ellen L. Batchelder
    Investigations into the Role of Calmodulin in the Regulation of the Contractile Ring in the Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo

     

  5. Ryan W. Johnson
    Converging Genetic Pathways Restrict vab-3 Transcription in the Male Tail to the B.a and Y.p Cell Lineages

     

  6. Elizabeth R. Leight
    Sumoylation of LIN-1 Promotes Recruitment of Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes and Inhibition of Vulval Cell Fates

 

BREAK

Session VI:  10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Chair:  Russell Hill

 

  1. Ginger R. Miley
    Analysis of LIN-1, an ETS protein Involved in Vulval Development

     

  2. Afaq Shakir
    Functional Redundancy of CED-10 and MIG-2 RACs with UNC-34 Enabled

     

  3. Xiangyan Tong
    Progress in Cloning exc-9

     

  4. Edward S. Davis
    Regulation of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex Function during Meiosis in C. elegans

     

  5. Rafal Ciosk
    ATX-2, the C. elegans Ortholog of Ataxin-2, Is Required for GLD-1 and MEX-3-Dependent Regulation of Translation in the Germline

     

  6. David Greenstein
    A Vesicle-Budding Model for the Release of MSP from C. elegans Sperm


Poster Session

Saturday, June 12, 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Kansas Union Ballroom

 

  1. Jessica Amrozowicz Kerins
    Genetic Studies of the Proliferation Versus Meiotic Development Decision

  2. Jacque Baca
    The Role of NXF-2 in Sexual Determination and tra-2 mRNA Export

  3. Karen Bennett
    Cross-species RNAi:  Several dsRNAs from Ascaris Sterilize Caenorhabditis

  4. Di Chen
    Positional Cloning and Functional Analysis of daf-31

  5. Nancy Cohen
    Electrophysiological Characterization of the PKD-2 Calcium Channel

  6. Frederick A. Danso
    Gut Expression Mechanism of Tropomyosin Isoforms III and IV in Caenorhabditis elegans

  7. Kim Evason
    Pharmacological Analysis of Aging in C. elegans

  8. Susan M. Fox
    Identification and Characterization of C. elegans Fos and Jun Homologs

  9. Ping Gong
    Mutational Analysis of the UNC-44 Axonal Guidance Ankyrin and PP2A B'-Subunit Interaction

  10. David I. Greenstein
    The Conserved DEAD-box Helicase CGH-1 Negatively Regulates MAP Kinase Activation in C. elegans Oocytes

  11. Wang Han
    Cloning and Analysis of ne319 in C. elegans

  12. Amy M. Hubert
    Investigating LAF-1's Involvement in tra-2 Regulation

  13. Andrew R. Jauregui
    Characterization of the Nephronophthisis Genes in C. elegans

  14. Ke Jiang
    The Arp2/3 Activator Scar Acts in Parallel to MIG-2 Rac in Axon Pathfinding

  15. Kenneth G. Johnson
    Identification of a Novel Gene Involved in Ras-Mediated Vulval Induction

  16. Sushant Khandekar
    The Role of MUA-1 in Epidermal Tissue Integrity

  17. Sarah M. LaMartina
    Characterization of a Suppressor of the laf-1 Sex-Determination Gene

  18. Tim Lindblom
    Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Drug Metabolizing Enzyme Gene Expression

  19. Brendan C. Mattingly
    Searching for New Alleles in the GEF exc-5

  20. Gary Moulder
    C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at OMRF

  21. Shin Murakami
    Increasing Learning and Memory by Reducing Oxidative Stress in C. elegans

  22. Garett M. Padilla
    Investigating the Role of a Putative STAR Domain Protein in Caenorhabditis elegans

  23. Deanne S. Pruitt
    Postional Rescue Analysis of mua-2, mua-5, and mua-10

  24. Vinita Prabhu
    Analysis of C. elegans Embryos Exposed to Anoxia

  25. Vida Praitis
    The unc-59(ru5) Mutation Affects Morphogenesis of the Pharynx

  26. Paramita Ray
    ceh-28 is Required for Feeding in C. elegans

  27. Eric C. Struckhoff
    Interactions of Rho-Family GTPases in Axon Development

  28. Prema Sundaram
    Cloning and Characterization of RNAi Defective Mutant ne335 in C. elegans

  29. Kristen Tews
    Determining the role of NUD-1 in hermaphrodite gonadogenesis by analysis of GFP reporters in nud-1(RNAi) Mutants

  30. Koen Verbrugghe
    SPD-1 is Required for the Formation of the Spindle Midzone but Is Not Essential for the Completion of Cytokinesis in C. elegans Embryos

  31. Colette M. Witkowski
    Distribution of AJM-1::GFP in Collagen IV Null Mutant C. elegans Embryos

  32. Mingfu Wu
    lin(mh56) Controls the Asymmetric B Cell Division and Male Tail Development in C. elegans

  33. Qun Zheng
    Analysis of the rpc-1 Gene in C. elegans