INVITED AND SPECIAL SESSIONS
Thursday, October 27
2:00 PM-4:30 PM
Concurrent Platform Sessions II (33-39) Click on abstract number to view full text
SESSION 39 - Model Organisms: Yeast to Chimp (Minus the Mouse)
Ballroom I-J
Co-Moderators: Larry T. Reiter, University of Tennessee, Memphis; and Gail Herman, Children's Research Institute, Columbus, OH
137/2:00 Pur alpha overexpression suppresses neurodegeneration in the Drosophila FXTAS Model. P. Jin, R. Duan, F. Hassouna, T. C. Rosser and S. T. Warren.
138†/2:15 A first generation drug screen for Fragile X syndrome. S. Chang, P. Jin and S. T. Warren.
139/2:30 A conserved function for two Drosophila homologs of Chx10, a human micropthalmia gene, in the control of proliferation and interneuron differentiation of the visual system. T. Erclik, V. Hartenstein, H. Lipshitz and R. McInnes.
140/2:45 Dissection of epistasis in an oligogenic disorder. J. L. Badano, C. C. Leitch, S. J. Ansley, H. May-Simera, R. A. Lewis, P. L. Beales, H. C. Dietz, S. Fisher and N. Katsanis.
141†/3:00 Bardet-Biedl Syndrome genes are involved in a common pathway affecting intracellular trafficking and cilia maintenance. M. Tayeh, H.-J. Yen, R. Mullins, C. Searby, T. Westfal, E. Stone, D. Slusarski and V. Sheffield.
142/3:15 Organ laterality: cilia direct a wave of asymmetric gene expression that establishes the left and right sides of developing organs. J. D. Amack, X. H. Wang and H. J. Yost.
143/3:30 Fishing for functional DNA: Efficient functional examination of noncoding sequences in transgenic zebrafish. A. McCallion, S. Fisher, E. A. Grice and R. Vinton.
144/3:45 Genetic backgrounds susceptible to genomic deletions: Alu-mediated mutations of BRCA1 as a model. K. M. Chisholm, P. L. Welcsh, K. P. Freese and M.-C. King.
145/4:00 Yeast model system reveals the mechanism of palindrome-mediated chromosomal translocation. T. Ohye, H. Inagaki, H. Kogo, B. S. Emanuel and H. Kurahashi.
146/4:15 Human inversion polymorphisms identified through studies of inversion events in recent primate evolution. L. Feuk, J. MacDonald, A. R. Carson, T. Tang and S. W. Scherer.
