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2006 Annual UPGG Retreat, Myrtle Beach, SC

Myrtle Beach at sunset

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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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