C. elegans Meeting Talk Schedule
Here is the final list of speakers and talks for the Eleventh
International C elegans Meeting. Speakers will be notified of the
length of their talks by a letter from the Wisconsin Conference Union.
Wednesday, May 28
Platform Session 1: Cells
7:00 PM, Benjamin Podbilewicz, session chair
Wissmann, Andreas IDENTIFICATION OF GENES INVOLVED IN SMALL G-
Costa, Mike A PUTATIVE CATENIN-CADHERIN SYSTEM MEDIATES
Moulder, Gary KNOCK-OUT OF A C. ELEGANS FOCAL ADHESION
Mohler, William 4D-TIMELAPSE IMAGING OF EMBRYONIC LINEAGE
Hanna-Rose, Wendy MORPHOGENESIS MUTANTS: FOUR GENES THAT ACT
Hresko, Michelle A HYPODERMAL TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN
Barral, Jose THE FILAGENINS, NOVEL PROTEINS OF THICK
Wu, Yi-Chun CED-5 MAY FUNCTION IN THE EXTENSION OF
Xue, Ding THE REGULATION AND TARGETS OF THE CED-3 CELL-
Gendreau, Steve A COMPLEX OF CDK INHIBITOR-RELATED GENES
van den Heuvel, S. THE GENES lin-5 AND lin-6 ARE REQUIRED FOR
Gu, Subin CUL-2, A POSITIVE CELL CYCLE REGULATOR.
Swan, Kathryn CYK-1 IS A FORMIN FAMILY MEMBER AND IS
O'Connell, Kevin ISOLATION OF CONDITIONAL CELL DIVISION
Matthews, Lisa ZYG-9 IS A COMPONENT OF THE MEIOTIC AND
Thursday, May 29
Platform Session 2: Sex
9:00 AM, Craig Hunter, session chair
Nicoll, Monique X Chromosome Counting...
Milne, Catherine ANALYSIS OF FOX-1, AN RNA-BINDING PROTEIN
Lieb, Jason AN ESSENTIAL MITOTIC FACTOR IMPLEMENTS DOSAGE
Holdeman, Rich MES-2 AND MES-6, MATERNAL PROTEINS ESSENTIAL
Perry, Marc ELEVATED COPY NUMBER OF HER-1 CIS-ACTING
Li, Weiqing DOES her-1 FEEDBACK-REGULATE THE sdc GENES?
Graves, Laura tra-2 MRNA ACTIVITY IS MEDIATED BY A HIGHLY
Gallegos, Maria CONTROL OF C. elegans SPERM-OOCYTE DECISION BY
Clifford, Bob FOG-2, A MEMBER OF A NEW FAMILY OF PROTEINS,
Chen, Pei-Jiun fog-3 ENCODES A PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE
Parker, Emily TIP-1 AND TIP-2, POTENTIAL DIRECT REGULATORS OF
Rose, Kimberly THE CEH-18 POU-DOMAIN IS REQUIRED FOR NORMAL
McCarter, Jim REGULATION OF OOCYTE MATURATION AND
Zalevsky, Jonathan HIM-14, A MUTS HOMOLOG THAT PROMOTES
LaMunyon, Craig SIZE AND X CHROMOSOMES: DETERMINANTS OF SPERM
Selby, Donald REPRODUCTIVE COMPETITION BETWEEN
Platform Session 3: Nerves
7:00 PM, Ann Rougvie, session chair
Krishna, Srikant SPECIFICITY IN TGF-B SIGNALING.
Suzuki, Jo MUTATIONS OF C. ELEGANS BMP HOMOLOGUE
Inoue, Takao GENETIC INTERACTIONS AMONG DOWNSTREAM
Patterson, Garth DAF-3 ENCODES A SMAD PROTEIN THAT ANTAGONIZES
Thatcher, Jack CONTROL OF PHARYNGEAL GENE EXPRESSION BY THE
Kimura, Kotaro THE DAF-2 INSULIN RECEPTOR FAMILY MEMBER
Ogg, Scott daf-16 MAY ENCODE A FORKHEAD-RELATED
Antebi, Adam THE daf-12 NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ADVANCES LIFE
Hobert, Oliver THERMOREGULATION AND INTERNEURON FUNCTION:
Troemel, Emily REPROGRAMMING CHEMOTAXIS RESPONSES.
Jansen, Gert THE 19 G PROTEIN-ALPHA SUBUNITS OF C. ELEGANS.
Korswagen, Hendrik GENETIC ANALYSIS OF ACTIVATED Gs-INDUCED
Nurrish, Stephen THE ROLE OF G-PROTEINS IN SEROTONIN SIGNALING
Nelson, Laura flp-1 DELETION MUTANTS SUGGEST FMRFamide-LIKE
Waggoner, Laura NEURONS AND GENES THAT CONTROL THE TIMING OF
Ross, Jennifer UNC-4/UNC-37 REPRESSION OF VB-SPECIFIC GENES
Barnes, T.M. MOLECULAR AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF unc-24.
Rajaram,Shantadurga CHARACTERIZATION OF THE unc-1 GENE.
Kayser, Ernst-Bern A MUTATION IN A SUBUNIT OF THE RESPIRATORY
An, Man-Wah GENETIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN PATHOGEN VIRULENCE
de Bono, Mario CLUMPING, BORDERING, AND HYPERACTIVITY IN WA
Friday, May 30
Platform Session 4: Migration
9:00 AM, Julie Ahringer, session chair
Ogura, Ken-ichi THE UNC-14 PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR AXONAL
Maillet, Isabelle UNC-53 IS STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY
Ren, Xing-Cong NETRIN UNC-6 AND PATHWAY SELECTION BY THE
Colavita, Antonio SUPPRESSORS OF ECTOPIC UNC-5 EXPRESSION
Zallen, Jennifer SAX-3 ENCODES A CELL ADHESION MOLECULE
George, Sean EPH RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE SIGNALING IN C.
Norris, Carolyn CELLULAR INTERACTIONS UNDERLYING FORMATION
Wolf, Fred SIGNALING AND ADHESION IN NEURONAL
Kindt, Rachel ROLE OF A RAC HOMOLOG IN CELL MIGRATION
Sym, Mary mig-13 ACTS NON-AUTONOMOUSLY TO PROMOTE
Forrester, Wayne REGULATION OF CELL MIGRATION AND POLARITY
Burdine, Rebecca THE ROLE OF FGF SIGNALING IN SM MIGRATION.
Borland, Christin CLR-1 AND FGF RECEPTOR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION.
Stiernagle, Theresa Caenorhabditis Genetics Center
Platform Session 5: Embryos
7:00 PM, Anne Villeneuve, session chair
Horner, Mike pha-4, A PROBABLE FORK HEAD HOMOLOG, IS
Page, Barbara elt-1, A GATA-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, IS
Knight, Jennifer gad-1 CONTROLS GASTRULATION INITIATION AND
Newman-Smith, Erin ENDODERM IS SPECIFIED BY A ZYGOTIC GENE
Fukushige, Tetsunari THE C. elegans GATA FACTOR elt-2 IS
Hung, Tak-June par-6, A GENE REQUIRED FOR THE CORTICAL
Rose, Lesilee LET-99 IS REQUIRED FOR NORMAL SPINDLE
Rocheleau, Christian WNT SIGNALING IN THE EARLY C. ELEGANS
Thorpe, Chris mom-2, A MATERNAL GENE REQUIRED FOR
Schlesinger, Ann THE MOM/WNT PATHWAY AND ORIENTATION OF
Lin, Rueyling POP-1 IS REQUIRED FOR ASYMMETRIC CELL
Downs, William THE GENE MOM-1 IMPLICATES A WNT/WINGLESS
Kaletta, Titus THE EMBRYONIC LINEAGE: LIT-1 AND THE
Eisenmann, David BAR-1 ENCODES A B-CATENIN/ARMADILLO-RELATED
Herman, Michael EGL-27 FUNCTIONS IN TWO WNT SIGNALLING
Whangbo, Jennifer egl-20 ENCODES A WNT PROTEIN INVOLVED IN
Saturday, May 31
Platform Session 6: Signals
9:00 AM, Michael Nonet, session chair
Liu, Jing lin-3 ENCODES ONE SHORT-RANGE AND ONE LONG-
Clandinin, Thomas A RAS INDEPENDENT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
Kaech, Susan LIN-2, LIN-7 AND LET-23 PROTEIN INTERACTIONS
Sieburth, Derek SUR-6 AND SUR-8 POSITIVELY REGULATE RAS-
Jacobs, David GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS SUGGEST LIN-1 IS
Tan, Patrick REGULATION OF VULVAL CELL FATES BY THE
Henderson, Sam REGULATIONS OF CELL FATE BY LAG-2 AND OTHER DSL
Hubbard, E. Jane SEL-10, A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF LIN-12-
Levitan, Diane GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF SEL-12
Arduengo, P. DISRUPTION OF CYTOPLASMIC PARTITIONING
Iwasaki, K AEX-3 ENCODES A NOVEL REGLATOR OF PRESYNAPTIC
Alfonso, Aixa unc-11 ENCODES A C. elegans PUTATIVE NEURONAL
Duerr, Janet COLOCALIZATION OF TWO VESICULAR NEURO-
Schuske, Kim unc-47 ENCODES THE GABA VESICULAR
McIntire, Steven NEUROTRANSMITTER PACKAGING: GABA AND
Hallam, Steven THE HETEROCHRONIC GENE lin-14 REGULATES THE
Platform Session 7: Channels
2:00 PM, Anne Hart, session chair
Goodman, Miriam IONIC CURRENTS AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN THE
Li, Heyi EFFECT OF y-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID (GABA) ON
Bamber, Bruce UNC-49: ONE GENE, MULTIPLE GABA RECEPTORS.
Dent, Joe avr-15 ENCODES GLUTAMATE-AND IVERMECTIN
Elkes, Daniel EGL-36 SHAW CHANNELS REGULATE
Johnstone, Duncan MULTIPLE K+ CHANNELS REGULATE THE
de la Cruz, Ignacio THE sup-9 RUBBER-BAND GENE MAY ENCODE A
Reiner, David unc-43 ENCODES A CA++/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT
Take-uchi, Masaya GENES THAT AFFECT A BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM IN
Davis, M. Wayne THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE
Gillo, Boaz CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES INVOLVED IN
Tavernarakis, N. mec-6 ENCODES A NOVEL PROTEIN NEEDED FOR
Starich, Todd A C. ELEGANS GENE FAMILY AFFECTING GAP
Maryon, Ed TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION AND SUB-CELLULAR
Sunday, June 1
Platform Session 8: Genes
9:00 AM, Michael Krause, session chair
Coulson, Alan THE C. ELEGANS GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECT.
Kohara, Yuji EXPRESSION PATTERN MAP OF THE C. ELEGANS
Anders, Kirk SMG-5 AND SMG-7 ARE INTERACTING PROTEINS
Zorio, Diego ALTERNATIVE SPLICING OF Caenorhabditis U2AF
Ketting, Rene HOW DO THE Tc1 AND Tc3 TRANSPOSASES FIND
Driver, Sam "ANTISENSE" IN C. ELEGANS: HERITABLE GENE
Blaxter, Mark PUTTING C. ELEGANS IN ITS PLACE: A MOLECULAR
Montgomery, Mary REGULATION OF MATERNAL mRNA ACTIVITY.
Kawasaki, Ichiro PGL-1 IS A COMPONENT OF P GRANULES AND IS
Shin, Tae Ho A HIGH THRESHOLD FOR PIE-1 ACTIVITY?
Batchelder, Ceri TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION BY THE PIE-1
Harfe, Brian MyoD, TWIST & POSTEMBRYONIC MUSCLE
Moss, Eric TEMPORAL REGULATION OF lin-28 EXPRESSION.
McDermott, Joan pag-3 ENCODES A ZINC FINGER PROTEIN RELATED TO
