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

POSTER SESSION LISTINGSBob Goldstein, Jason D. Lieb.776A. Genome-wide landscape of hybrid incompatibility (HI) betweenCaenorhabditis briggsae and C. sp.9 . Zhongying Zhao, Cheung Yan, YuBi, Xiaoliang Ren, Dongying Xie.Development and Evolution: Cell Death andNeurodegeneration777B. Perturbation of NAD+ salvage biosynthesis causes a distinctdeath program in a neuroendocrine cell. Awani Awani, Matt Crook,Wendy Hanna-Rose.778C. A C. elegans model for TDP-43-induced motor neuron pathology.J. C. Chaplin, M. Mangelsdorf, R. Narayanan, R. Wallace, M. A. Hilliard.779A. Elucidating the mechanism by which C.elegans KRI-1 regulatesdamaged-induced germline apoptosis. Eric M. Chapman, W. BrentDerry.780B. Using Caenorhabditis elegans to Fight Human NeurodegenerativeDiseases. Xi Chen, Brian C. Kraemer, Jeff Barclay, Robert D. Burgoyne,Alan Morgan.781C. C. elegans peroxidasin, pxn-1 is essential for epidermalattachment of muscles and neurons. Jeong H. Cho, Juyeon Lee.782A. Analysis of the Function and Dysfunction of the HumanAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Gene C9ORF72 Using C. elegans. AnnaCorrionero, Bob Horvitz.783B. Blocking NAD+ salvage biosynthesis sensitizes specificmechanosensory neurons to nutritional conditions and predisposesthem to death. Matt Crook, Wendy Hanna-Rose.784C. EGF and phosphocholine; a novel mechanism to prevent necrosis.Matt Crook, Wendy Hanna-Rose.785A. BRAP-2 is necessary for the regulation of DNA damage inducedgerm line apoptosis in C. elegans. Dayana R. D'Amora, Terrance J.Kubiseski.786B. The Possible Role of Autophagic Cell Death in the Regulation ofExcitotoxicity in C. elegans. John S. Del Rosario, Towfiq Ahmed,JunHyung An, Tauhid Mahmud, Itzhak Mano.787C. Investigation of SMN1 structure-function relationship in neuronaldegeneration. A. Donato, I. Gallotta, G. Battaglia, M. A. Hilliard, P.Bazzicalupo, E. Di Schiavi.788A. ced-11 is Required for the Morphological Appearance ofApoptotic-Cell Corpses. Kaitlin B. Driscoll, Gillian Stanfield, Bob Horvitz.789B. Diapause protects neurons from degeneration and promotesaxonal regrowth. Andres Fuentes, Andrea Calixto.790C. UNC-105 activation causes mitochondrial dysfunction and CED-4dependent caspase-mediated protein degradation in terminallydifferentiated C. elegans muscle. C. J. Gaffney, F. Shephard, J. Chu, D. L.44Baillie, A. Rose, D. Constantin-Teodosiu, P. L. Greenhaff, N. J. Szewczyk.791A. Neurodegeneration and death induced by neuron-specific knockdownof smn-1, the homolog of the gene responsible for SpinalMuscular Atrophy. I. Gallotta, A. Donato, N. Mazzarella, P. Bazzicalupo,M. Hilliard, E. Di Schiavi.792B. Chronic alcohol exposure induces toxicity and neurodegenerationin C. elegans. Lina Gomez, Sangeetha Iyer, Ashley Crisp, Jesse Cohn, JonPierce-Shimomura.793C. Functional analysis of VPS41-mediated protection from β-Amyloid cytotoxicity. Edward F. Griffin, Christopher Gilmartin, Kim A.Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell.794A. SGK-1 promotes germline apoptosis by a cell non-autonomousmechanism. Madhavi Gunda, W.Brent Derry.795B. The Sodium-Potassium ATPase alpha subunit EAT-6 promotesprogrammed cell death. Tsung-Yuan Hsu, Meng- I. Lee, Yi-Chun Wu.796C. Innate immune signaling protects against patternedneurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. Sangeetha V. Iyer, AshleyCrisp, Anushri Kushwaha, Jon Pierce-Shimomura.797A. Sirtuin Mediated Neuroprotection and its Association withAutophagy and Apoptosis: Studies Employing Transgenic C. elegansModel. Pooja Jadiya, Aamir Nazir.798B. LIN-3/EGF promotes programmed cell death by transcriptionalactivation of the pro-apoptotic gene egl-1. Hang-Shiang Jiang, Yi-ChunWu.799C. Assisted Suicide: a Caspase- and Engulfment-Dependent CellDeath. Holly Johnsen, Bob Horvitz.800A. Modulation of mec-10(d)-induced necrosis by ER chaperone NRA-2. Shaunak Kamat, Shrutika Yeola, Monica Driscoll, Laura Bianchi.801B. Mutations in progranulin and cell death genes confer organismalstress resistance. M. Judy, A. Nakamura, H. McCurdy, A. Huang, H.Grant, C. Kenyon, A. Kao.802C. A C. elegans model of Adult-onset Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosisreveals a sir-2.1 independent protective effect of resveratrol. SudhanvaKashyap, James Johnson, Mimi Ayala, Jeff Barclay, Bob Burgoyne, AlanMorgan.803A. Post-transcriptional control of C. elegans germ cell apoptosis byRNA-binding proteins. Martin Keller, Michael O. Hengartner.804B. Investigating neuroprotecive genes on S. venezuelae toxicity in C.elegans. H. Kim, G. A. Caldwell, K. A. Caldwell.805C. Using artificial insemination to identify genes involved in linkercell death and corpse removal. Lena M. Kutscher, Nima Tishbi, ShaiShaham.806A. Identification of interacting partners of a poly-glutamine proteininvolved in non-apoptotic cell death. Lena M. Kutscher, Shai Shaham.