Print version| WEDNESDAY, March 4 | |||||
| 10:30 am | - | 4:00 pm | GSA Trainee Boot Camp Separate registration required | Ohio | |
| 12:00 noon | - | 6:00 pm | Ecdysone Workshop Organizers: Laurie von Kalm, University of Central Florida ; and Nick Sokal, Indiana University | Chicago 9/10 | |
| 3:00 pm | - | 6:30 pm | Speaker Ready Room | Columbus A | |
| 3:00 pm | - | 6:00 pm | Drosophila Board of Directors Meeting | Michigan A/B | |
| 3:30 pm | - | 9:00 pm | Registration and Book/T-Shirt Pick Up Open | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 4:00 pm | - | 7:00 pm | Workshop - Preparing your Educational Resources for Online Publication Separate registration required | Ohio | |
| 5:00 pm | - | 7:00 pm | GSA Education Special Interest Group Mixer | Mississippi | |
| 5:00 pm | - | 12:00 am | Posters Open | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 7:00 pm | - | 9:15 pm | Opening General Session Moderators: Ilaria Rebay, University of Chicago, IL; and Greg Beitel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | Sheraton/Chicago Center | |
| 7:00 pm | Welcome and Opening Remarks Ilaria Rebay, University of Chicago, IL | ||||
| 7:10 pm | GSA Update Adam Fagen, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, MD | ||||
| 7:20 pm | Presentation of Larry Sandler Award Erika Bach, NYU Langone Medical Center, NY | ||||
| 7:25 pm | Larry Sandler Award Lecture | ||||
| 7:55 pm | Keynote Address Introduction Greg Beitel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | ||||
| 8:00 pm | Drosophila: Assuming the Mantle of Leadership in Biological Research Allan Spradling, HHMI and Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD | ||||
| 9:00 pm | GSA Awards Presentation Lynn Cooley, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT | ||||
| 9:15 pm | - | 11:00 pm | Mixer/Reception Sponsored by the Journals GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics | Sheraton 1-3 and Promenade | |
| THURSDAY, March 5 | |||||
| 12:01 am | - | 12:00 am | Posters Open | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 7:00 am | - | 3:00 pm | Speaker Ready Room | Columbus A | |
| 7:15 am | - | 8:30 am | Undergrad Mixer with Continental Breakfast Ticket required | Missouri | |
| 7:15 am | - | 8:30 am | How To Get Published Continental Breakfast Ticket required | Sheraton 2 | |
| 7:15 am | - | 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 8:00 am | - | 5:00 pm | Registration and Book/T-Shirt Pick Up Open | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 8:30 am | - | 12:00 noon | Plenary Session 1 Moderator: Marc Freeman, HHMI & University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA | Sheraton/Chicago Center | |
| 8:30 am | Image Award Presentation Michelle Arbeitman, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee | ||||
| 8:35 am | Cell Division and Epithelial Tissue Morphogenesis Yohanns Bellaiche, Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, Institut Curie, Paris, France | ||||
| 9:05 am | Genetic Conflicts During Meiosis Drive Innovation in Centromeric Proteins Harmit Malik, Dept Basic Sci & HHMI, Fred Hutchinson CA Res Ctr, Seattle, WA | ||||
| 9:35 am | Coordinate Migration of Mesoderm Cells in the Drosophila Embryo Angela Stathopoulos, Division of Biology and Bioengineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA | ||||
| 10:05 am | Break | ||||
| 10:30 am | Signaling Kinetics in the Early Embryo Stanislav Shvartsman, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ | ||||
| 11:00 am | Addressing Complexity of Notch in Cancer: When Less is More Maria Dominguez, Neuroscience Institute of Alicante, UMH-CSIC, San Juan de Alicante Spain | ||||
| 11:30 am | Using Drosophila Neuroblasts as a Model for Stem Cell Biology and Tumorigenesis Juergen Knoblich, IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria | ||||
| 8:30 am | - | 12:30 pm | The Genetics Conference Experience By invitation | Sheraton 1 | |
| 12:45 pm | - | 2:00 pm | GSA Career Luncheon Ticket required | Sheraton 2 | |
| 1:00 pm | - | 5:00 pm | FlyBase Demo Room Open for Tutorials & Discussions Presentations: 2:00-2:15 pm: Human Disease Models and Gene Groups in FlyBase 2:20-2:35 pm: New Views in GBrowse2: Release 6 melanogaster Assembly, RNA-Seq data, and more | Mayfair | |
| 2:00 pm | - | 4:00 pm | Exhibits Open & Poster Presentations Presentations - 2:00 pm EVEN Posters, 3:00 pm ODD posters | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 4:30 pm | - | 6:30 pm | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Cell Division & Growth Control | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Neural Development | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Organogenesis & Gametogenesis | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 8:00 pm | - | 11:00 pm | Exhibits Open & Poster Viewing | River Exhibit Hall | |
| FRIDAY, March 6 | |||||
| 12:01 am | - | 12:00 am | Posters Open | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 7:00 am | - | 3:00 pm | Speaker Ready Room | Columbus A | |
| 8:15 am | - | 5:00 pm | Registration and Book/T-Shirt Pick Up Open | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 8:30 am | - | 10:15 am | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Cell Cycle & Cell Death | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Evolution & Quantitative Genetics I | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Neurophysiology & Behavior I | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 10:15 am | - | 10:45 am | Coffee Break | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 10:45 am | - | 12:30 pm | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Evolution & Quantitative Genetics II | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Chromatin & Epigenetics | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Neurophysiology & Behavior II | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 12:45 pm | - | 1:45 pm | GSA Advocacy Lunch Ticket required | Huron | |
| 1:00 pm | - | 6:00 pm | FlyBase Demo Room Open for Tutorials & Discussion Presentations: 3:45-4:00 pm: Human Disease Models and Gene Groups in FlyBase 4:05-4:20 pm: New Views in GBrowse2: Release 6 melanogaster Assembly, RNA-Seq data, and more | Mayfair | |
| 1:30 pm | - | 4:00 pm | Plenary Session and Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers Organizers: Alexis Nagengast, Widener University, Chester, PA; and Beth Ruedi, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, MD | Missouri | |
| 1:45 pm | - | 3:45 pm | Concurrent Workshops | ||
| Communicating Your Drosophila Research to Scientific and Non-scientific Audiences Organizers: Joyce Fernandes, Miami University, Oxford, OH; Raeka Aiyar, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, MD; and Andreas Prokop, The University of Manchester, UK | Michigan A/B | ||||
| Feeding Behavior, Nutrition and Metabolism Organizers: Tânia Reis , University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver; and William W. Ja, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| Integration of Computational Approaches and Big Data to Tackle Systems-Biology Problems in Drosophila and other Model systems Organizers: Marc S. Halfon, University at Buffalo-SUNY; Molly Duman-Scheel, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, IN and the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; Alexander Fletcher, Oxford University, England; Greg Reeves, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; and Jeremiah Zartman, University of Notre Dame | Sheraton 2 | ||||
| Tools for Functional Genomics Analyses Organizers: Stephanie Mohr, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and Lizabeth Perkins, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | Sheraton 1 | ||||
| Harnessing Community Resources for Drosophila Neuroscience Organizers: Cahir O'Kane, University of Cambridge, UK; and David Osumi-Sutherland, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK | Sheraton 3 | ||||
| 2:00 pm | - | 4:00 pm | Dedicated Exhibit Time | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 4:30 pm | - | 6:30 pm | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Physiology, Organismal Growth & Aging I This session made possible in part by generous support from Division of Aging Biology at National Institute on Aging | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Pattern Formation (4 Talks) and RNA Biology (4 Talks) | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Techniques & Resources | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 6:30 pm | - | 8:00 pm | Special Screening of The Fly Room Movie | Sheraton 4/5 | |
| 8:00 pm | - | 11:00 pm | Exhibits Open & Poster Presentations Presentations - 8:00 pm "C" Posters, 9:00 pm "B" Posters, 10:00 pm "A" Posters | River Exhibit Hall | |
| SATURDAY, March 7 | |||||
| 12:01 am | - | 10:00 pm | Posters Open | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 7:00 am | - | 3:00 pm | Speaker Ready Room | Columbus A | |
| 8:15 am | - | 3:00 pm | Registration and Book/T-Shirt Pick Up Open | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 8:30 am | - | 10:15 am | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Cell Biology & Signal Transduction | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Drosophila Models of Human Disease I | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Regulation of Gene Expression I | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 10:15 am | - | 10:45 am | Coffee Break | Sheraton/Chicago Ballroom Promenade | |
| 10:45 am | - | 12:30 pm | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Cell Biology & Cytoskeleton I | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Drosophila Models of Human Disease II | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Gene Expression & Chromatin II | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 1:30 pm | - | 3:30 pm | Exhibits Open & Poster Presentations Presentations - 1:30 pm ODD Posters, 2:30 pm EVEN posters | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 4:00 pm | - | 6:00 pm | Concurrent Platform Sessions | ||
| Cell Biology & Cytoskeleton II | Sheraton 4/5 | ||||
| Stem Cells | Chicago 6/7 | ||||
| Immunity & Pathogenesis (4 talks) and Physiology, Organismal Growth & Aging II (4 talks) This session made possible in part by generous support from Division of Aging Biology at National Institute on Aging | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| 6:45 pm | - | 8:45 pm | Concurrent Workshops | ||
| Diverse Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering Organizers: Jill Wildonger, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kate O'Connor-Giles, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Melissa Harrison, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Chicago 8-10 | ||||
| Drosophila Research and Pedagogy at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) Organizers: Josefa Steinhauer, Yeshiva University, New York, NY; David Roberts, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Eric Stoffregen, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID; and Rebeccah Kurzhals, Southeast Missouri State University | Sheraton 1 | ||||
| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex Organizers: Michelle Arbeitman , Florida State University; Mark Siegal , New York University; Artyom Kopp, University of California, Davis; and Mark VanDoren, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | Missouri | ||||
| Cracking the Cis Regulatory Code: New Computational and Physical Approaches Organizers: David Arnosti, Michigan State University; Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Hernan Garcia, University of California, Berkeley | Sheraton 2 | ||||
| 7:00 pm | - | 10:00 pm | Exhibits Open & Poster Viewing | River Exhibit Hall | |
| 9:15 pm | - | 11:15 pm | Concurrent Workshops | ||
| Homologous Recombination Mechanisms and Metrics Organizers: Mitch McVey, Tufts University; Jeff Sekelsky, University of North Carolina; and Jan LaRocque, Georgetown University | Sheraton 1 | ||||
| Developmental Mechanics Organizers: Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto; and Guy Tanentzapf, University of British Columbia | Sheraton 2 | ||||
| New Tools and Approaches for Behavioral Phenotyping in Drosophila Organizers: Pavel M Itskov, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal; Giorgio F Gillestro, Imperial College London, UK; and Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown | Sheraton 3 | ||||
| SUNDAY, March 8 | |||||
| 8:30 am | - | 12:00 noon | Plenary Session II Moderator: Michael Eisen, HHMI & University of California, Berkeley | Sheraton/Chicago Center | |
| 8:30 am | Poster Awards Presentation Ilaria Rebay, University of Chicago, IL | ||||
| 8:35 am | How Zelda Promotes Enhancer Activity During Zygotic Genome Activation C. Rushlow, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY | ||||
| 9:05 am | Asymmetric Stem Cell Division in Drosophila Testis Yukiko Yamashita, Ctr Stem Cell Biol, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI; Howard Hughes Medical Institute | ||||
| 9:35 am | Mechanisms and Functions of RNA Silencing Pathways Phillip Zamore, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605 | ||||
| 10:05 am | Break | ||||
| 10:30 am | Control of Proliferative and Immune Homeostasis in the Aging Intestine Heinrich Jasper, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA | ||||
| 11:00 am | Decapentaplegic and the Control of Growth in the Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Matthew Gibson, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110 USA | ||||
| 11:30 am | Flies and Alcohol: Interplay of Nature and Nurture Ulrike Heberlein, HHMI/Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA | ||||