Midwest Protozoology Conference
April 18, 2009, RNS 410
All are welcome!
9:00 Jacek Gaertig “Tubulin Modifications in Tetrahymena and Zebrafish.” (Keynote address)
10:00 Jeffrey L. Salisbury “Centrin Phosphorylation Licenses Centriole Duplication.”
10:30 Coffee/ Posters
11:00 Mark Winey “Basal body assembly.”
11:25 Norman Williams “Disruption cassette MrpL29B creates spikey phenotype in
Tetrahymena thermophila.”
11:50 Eric Cole “Cytoskseletal and Membrane Activities at the Nuclear Exchange Junction.” - data from the confocal microscope and electron tomography
12:15 Break / Posters
1:40 Josh Smith "Histone Deacetylation, DNA Repair, and Programmed Macronuclear Degradation."
2:05 Lihui Yin “ASI2 is specifically required for DNA replication during mac anlagen development in Tetrahymena.”
2:30 Annie Shieh “LIA5, a PHD domain protein, is required for Tetrahymena DNA rearrangements.”
3:00 Coffee/ Posters
3:30 Jason Motl “Characterization of putative dsRNA binding proteins of Tetrahymena.”
3:55 Nick Stover “Building a Tetrahymena Genome Wiki”
4:20 Pete Lefebvre "How Chlamydomonas Controls Flagellar Length"
4:45 Doug Chalker “Tetrahymena functional genomics in the undergraduate classroom.”
5:15 Business Meeting
Poster Session:
Susan Gater “DNA replication in the macronuclear anlagen of wild type and ASI2 germ line knockouts of Tetrahymena”
Piroska Huvos “Short DNA repeats in the micro-and macronuclei of Tetrahymena”
Amy Colleen Johnson “Identification of Conjusome-Associated Proteins in Tetrahymena thermophila”
David Dassenko "A Proteomic Investigation of Tetrahymena thermophila using MALDI-TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometry."
