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You are invited to attend the 20th International C.
elegans Meeting. The meeting will be returning to the
University of California, Los
Angeles and will be held June 24-28, 2015.
Cutting-edge research is presented on diverse topics,
including: physiology, neurobiology, development, ecology
and evolution, behavior, aging, ecology, gene regulation and
genomics.
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We
are pleased to announce that the Keynote Address
will be presented on Friday, June 26 by the 2006 Nobel Prize winner,
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In addition, each plenary session will feature one of the
following invited speakers:
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Marie-Anne Félix started her
scientific career in cell biology with a PhD (1991)
at EMBL, and then turned to nematodes, development
and evolution as a postdoc (1994-1997) in the
Sternberg lab at Caltech. From 1997 to 2011, she was
a principal investigator at CNRS in the Jacques
Monod Institute in Paris. Since 2011, she is a
professor in the Department of Biology of the Ecole
Normale Supérieure. Her recent research encompasses
quantitative and evolutionary biology of vulva
development in C. elegans and other nematode species
and studies of natural populations of these species,
including their interaction with natural pathogens
such as microsporidia and viruses.
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Bob Goldstein discovered
endoderm induction in C. elegans as a PhD
student at the University of Texas at Austin. As a
postdoc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
in Cambridge, he demonstrated that embryonic
patterning in C. elegans originates from
cues delivered by the sperm, and he used C.
elegans to discover that cell-cell interactions
can orient mitotic spindles. Since 1999, he has been
a PI at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Members of his lab are studying mechanisms of
cell shape change in morphogenesis and mechanisms of
cell polarization, and they are working on C.
elegans methods development. His lab is also
developing water bears as a new model system for
understanding two issues: evolution of body plans,
and survival of extremes including desiccation,
intense radiation, and the vacuum of space.
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Alex Hajnal earned a Master in
Biochemistry from the University of Zurich in 1989.
During his PhD in the Department of Cancer Research
at Zurich University he studied gene expression in
revertants of HRAS transformed cancer cells,
receiving a PhD degree in 1993. After a short
Postdoc working on muscle cell differentiation in
the lab of Helen Blau in 1994, he joined the lab of
Stuart Kim at Stanford University, where he made
first contact with worms. After returning to Zurich
in 1997, he continued his work on cell fate
determination and signal transduction in C. elegans
as a junior group leader at the Department of Cancer
Research. Since 2001, he is Professor at the
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the
University of Zurich.
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Yishi Jin received her B.S.
degree in Biology from Peking University, China, and
her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University
of California, Berkeley. She completed her
postdoctoral training under H. Robert Horvitz at
MIT. She began her assistant professor position at
the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is now
a professor of neurobiology and of cellular and
molecular medicine at the University of California,
San Diego. She is an investigator of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute. She is interested in
understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms
controlling synapse formation and function, and axon
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The Conference will begin on Wednesday evening, June 24 with an opening session from 7:00 pm until
10:00 pm, followed by a Welcome Reception. The meeting
will end on Sunday, June 28 at 12:00 noon.
IMPORTANT NOTE,
NEW THIS YEAR: The full text of all abstracts submitted by
the deadline date will
ONLY be available online and will not be printed in the
program book. The program book will still contain the full
schedule information, including platform and poster session
date, time, title, authors, gene index and the listing of
exhibitors. Late abstracts will only be accepted if space
permits and will not be included in the
online search.
Conference Organizers
Benjamin Podbilewicz |
Technion-IIT |
Gillian Stanfield |
University of Utah |
Organizing Committee
Julie Ahringer
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University of Cambridge
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Erik Andersen
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Northwestern
University
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Maureen Barr
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Rutgers University
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Peter Boag
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Monash University
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Raymond Chan
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University of
Michigan
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Diana Chu
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San Francisco
State University
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Luisa Cochella
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IMP, Vienna
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Monica Colaiacovo
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Harvard Medical
School
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Erin Cram
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Northeastern
University
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Asher Cutter
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University of
Toronto
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Meng-Qiu Dong
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National Institute
of Biological Sciences, Beijing
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Ronald Ellis
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Rowan University
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Jonathan Ewbank
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Centre d'Immunologie de
Marseille-Luminy
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Anton Gartner
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University of
Dundee
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Andy Golden
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NIDDK
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Tina Gumienny
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Texas Woman’s
University
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Oliver Hobert
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Columbia
University
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Sophie Jarriault
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IGBMC
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Rik Korswagen
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Hubrecht Institute
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Sandhya Koushika
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TIFR, Mumbai
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Michael Krause
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NIDDK
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Patty Kuwabara
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University of
Bristol
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Ayelet Lamm
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Technion Israel Institute of
Technology
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Enrique
Martinez-Perez
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Imperial College,
London
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Jeremy Nance
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Skirball
Institute, New York University
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Kiyoji Nishiwaki
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Kwansei Gakuin
University
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Matt Rockman
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New York
University
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Piali Sengupta
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Brandeis
University
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Geraldine Seydoux
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Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine
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Ahna Skop
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Ralf Sommer
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Max-Planck Institute for
Developmental Biology, Tuebingen
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Jennifer Watts
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Washington State
University
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Mei Zhen
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University of
Toronto
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Organizers of the Worm Art Show: Ahna Skop, University of
Wisconsin, Madison and Megan Brady, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
2015 C. elegans Meeting logo design created by Petra Tulpa.
Any questions?
Contact us.
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