Program and Abstract Book - 19th International C. elegans Meeting

PLENARY, PARALLEL AND WORKSHOP LISTINGSThursday, June 27 9:00 AM–12:00 NOONAckerman Grand BallroomPhysiology I: Aging and Stress IChairs: Veena Prahlad, University of Iowa, USA and Jeremy VanRaamsdonk, Van Andel Research Institute, USA15- 9:00 Counterbalance between BAG and URX neurons viaguanylate cyclases controls lifespan homeostasis in C. elegans. T. Liu, D.Cai.16- 9:12 PQM-1: the missing “DAE Factor” and key regulator of DAF-2-mediated development, longevity, and homeostasis. Ronald G. Tepper,J. Ashraf, R. Kaletsky, G. Kleemann, C. T. Murphy, H. J. Bussemaker.17- 9:24 Analysis of mutation accumulation by large scale C. eleganswhole genome mutation profiling. B. Meier, S. Cook, J. Weiss, A. Bailly,P. Campbell, Anton Gartner.18- 9:36 TORC2 regulates SGK-1 in two opposing longevity pathways.M. Mizunuma, E. Neumann-Haefelin, N. Moroz, K. Blackwell.19- 9:48 A CREB-Dependent Neuropeptide Signal from theThermosensory AFD Neuron Regulates C. elegans Life Span at WarmTemperatures. Yen-Chih Chen, Wei-Chin Tseng, Chun-Liang Pan.20- 10:00 FGT-1 is the sole glucose transporter in C. elegans and iscentral to aging pathways. Ying Feng, B. Williams, F. Koumanov, A. J.Wolstenholme, G. D. Holman.10:12 - Break21- 10:36 Sensory neuronal regulation of lifespan through modulatinginsulin-like peptides in C. elegans. Murat Artan, Dae-Eun Jeong,Dongyeop Lee, Young-Il Kim, Joy Alcedo, Seung-Jae Lee.22- 10:48 HLH-30/TFEB is a conserved regulator of autophagy andmodulates longevity in C. elegans. Louis R. Lapierre, C. Daniel DeMagalhaes Filho, Philip R. McQuary, C.-C. Chu, O. Visvikis, J. T. Chang, S.Gelino, B. Ong, Andrew Davis, J. E. Irazoqui, Andrew Dillin, M. Hansen.23- 11:00 Regulation of SKN-1/Nrf by the germline longevity pathway.Michael J. Steinbaugh, Sri Devi Narasimhan, Stacey Robida-Stubbs,Prashant Raghavan, Theresa Operana, T. Keith Blackwell.24- 11:12 Importance of Growth, Stress Defense, and NAD+-relatedPathways for Dietary Restriction Longevity. Natalie Moroz, Juan J.Carmona, Edward Anderson, Anne Hart, David A. Sinclair, T. KeithBlackwell.25- 11:24 Nonsense-mediated decay as a novel modulator of toxic CUGrepeats in C. elegans. Susana M. Garcia, Yuval Tabach, GuinevereLourenço.26- 11:36 A high throughput chemical screen identifies a novelactivator of dietary restriction. Mark S. Lucanic, Ravi Shah, Ivan Yu, BobHughes, Gordon Lithgow.27- 11:48 Mating-induced somatic collapse reveals a novel somagermlineinteraction. Cheng Shi, Coleen Murphy.Thursday, June 27 9:00 AM–12:00 NOONBradley International BallroomNeurobiology I: BehaviorChairs: Jagan Srinivasan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA andAlexander Gottschalk, Goethe University, Germany28- 9:00 Neuromodulation of C. elegans mechanosensation. XiaoyinChen, Martin Chalfie.29- 9:12 Humidity sensation requires a conserved DEG/ENaC complexin multi-dendritic FLP neurons. Josh Russell, Jonathan Pierce-Shimomura.30- 9:24 CEPsh glia modulate a sleep-related neuronal circuit in C.elegans. Menachem Katz, Francis Corson, Shachar Iwanir, ElenaDragomir, David Biron, Shai Shaham.31- 9:36 A neuronal mechanism for navigation along a repulsive odorgradient. Akiko Yamazoe, Yuki Tanimoto, Kosuke Fujita, Yuya Kawazoe,Yosuke Miyanishi, Shuhei Yamazaki, Xianfeng Fei, Karl Emanuel Busch,Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Junichi Nakai, Yuichi Iino, Yuishi Iwasaki, KoichiHashimoto, Kotaro Kimura.32- 9:48 Multiple cholinergic pathways for excitation of theCaenorhabditis elegans pharynx. Nicholas Trojanowski, Olivia Padovan-Merhar, David Raizen, Christopher Fang-Yen.33- 10:00 Pathogen-induced changes of neuronal TGF-β signalingpromote avoidance behavior and survival. Joshua D. Meisel, Dennis H.Kim.10:12 - Break34- 10:36 Nematophagous fungi eavesdrop on nematode pheromones,and lure their prey with attractive volatile organic compounds. Yen-Ping Hsueh, E. Schwarz, W. Zeng, Z. Xian, P. Mahanti, M. Gronquist, F.Schroeder, A. Mortazavi, P. Sternberg.35- 10:48 Sensory neurons override recurrent motor programs toinduce ejaculation during mating. Brigitte L. LeBoeuf, L. Rene Garcia.36- 11:00 eol-1, the homolog of mammalian Dom3z, is a novel geneticregulator of C. elegans olfactory learning. Yu Shen, Jiangwen Zhang,John Calarco, Yun Zhang.37- 11:12 Membrane phospholipids that contain arachidonic acidregulate touch receptor neuron mechanics and touch sensation. V.Vásquez, M. Krieg, D. Lockhead, M. B. Goodman.38- 11:24 Serotonin and PDF are opposing neuromodulators thatcontrol a bistable foraging behavior in C. elegans. Steven W. Flavell, N.Pokala, E. Z. Macosko, D. A. Albrecht, J. Larsch, C. I. Bargmann.39- 11:36 Adenosine signaling in C. elegans: does skin rule the brain?Hsiao-Fen Han, Michael Ailion, Mary Beckerle, Erik Jorgensen.40- 11:48 Chemosensing a predator: Pristionchus pacificus and C.elegans. Kevin Curran, A. Tong, M. Joens, J. Fitzpatrick, J. Srinivasan, S.Chalasani.10