Microsymposium 17

The Story of Life: Survival and Death

Tuesday, December 11
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 30B
Moderators: Scott Wilkinson, National Institutes of Health; and Emily Summerbell, Emory University

11:00 am   E97    Genetic interactions between specific chromosome copy number alterations dictate complex aneuploidy patterns.  M. Coimbatore Ravichandran¹, S. Fink¹, M. Clarke¹, F. Hofer¹, C.S. Campbell¹; ¹Department of Chromosome biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

11:10 am   E98    Cadherin-11 is required for the specification and cell survival of neural crest cells.  S. Manohar¹, A. Camacho¹, C.D. Rogers¹; ¹Biology, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA

11:20 am   E99    Shedding light on cell death: optogenetic control of programmed cell death pathways.  K. Shkarina¹, E. Hasel², M. Leptin², P. Broz¹; ¹Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Directors’ Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

11:30 am   E100    Molecular and topological reorganizations in mitochondrial architecture interplay during Bax-mediated steps of apoptosis.  N.R. Ader^1,2, P. Hoffmann², I. Ganeva², A. Borgeaud², C. Wang¹, R.J. Youle¹, W. Kukulski²; ¹National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Cell Biology, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

11:40 am   E101    Implications of Rho GTPase signaling in the genomic stability of glioblastoma cells to DNA damage.  Y.T. Magalhaes¹, F.L. Forti¹; ¹Department of Biochemistry, University of Sao Paulo – Institute of Chemistry, São Paulo, Brazil

11:50 am   E102    Proteomic and Genetic Interaction Mapping Reveals New Ras Pathway Effectors and Regulators.  M.R. Kelly¹, K. Han², K. Kostyrko³, N. Mooney¹, E.E. Jeng², M.C. Bassik², A. Sweet-Cordero³; ¹Baxter Laboratories, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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