
2006 Annual UPGG Retreat, Myrtle Beach,
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Schedule
Friday, May 5th
5:00 pm Dinner
7:00 Welcome and Introduction – Salon A and B, 2nd Floor
7:15 Whitney Jones, “The Role of RacGap50C in the Wingless Pathway”
7:45 Gregory Lamonte, “Creating a TNNI3K Transgenic Fly”
8:00 Break
8:15 Laura Simmons Kovacs, “Cell cycle control of Spindle Pole Body Duplication”
8:45 Small Groups
Saturday, May 6th
8:30 Breakfast – Salon D
9:30 Karen Hayden, “A Mammalian-CENtric view of Satellite Sequences” – Salon A and B
10:00 Christina Sheedy, “Screening for X Inactivation Choice Factors with Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells”
10:15 Elizabeth Cirulli, “Crossover rate heterogeneity in Drosophila pseudoobscura”
10:30 Break
10:45 Nicole Spahich, “Characterizing interactions between OMP85 homologs and Haemophilus influenzae adhesion proteins”
11:00 Erin Rees, “Intracellular Copper Sequestration, Reduction, and Mobilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
11:30 Faculty Talks (Mohamed Noor, David Sherwood, Fan Wang)
12:15 Lunch and Free Time
6:00 Dinner – Salon D
7:00 Radhika Das, “Exploring the potential role of piwi in silencing Blastopia (by the RNAi pathway” – Salon A and B
7:15 Sehoon Keum, “The genetic association study on the secondarily generalized epileptic seizure: fine mapping”
7:30 Anastasia Wise, “A toxicogenomic approach to gene-environment interactions in complex human disease” 8:00 Terry Jackson, “The role of miRNA in erythriod differentiation”
8:15 Break
8:30 Neelanjan Mukherjee, “Predicting miRNAs Involved Differentiaton Using DNA Microarrays”
8:45 Sabah Oney, “Developing Antidote Controllable Anti-platelet Therapies by Targeting the VWF - GP Ib-IX-V Interaction”
Sunday, May 7th
8:30 Breakfast – Salon D
9:30 Meleah Hickman, “Transcriptional Repression: Before and After the Whole Genome Duplication in Hemiascomycete Fungi” – Salon A and B
10:00 Sean Garvey, “Of Mice and Men: A Story of Muscle, Myotilin, Modifiers, and More"
10:30 Kent Wood, “Regulation of the Copper Responsive Transcription Factors in Saccharomyces”
11:00 Awards
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