Seminars--MOCB Retreat 2009

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Annual Molecular and Cell Biology Program Retreat
PARTICIPANTS

Morning presentations

10:30 - 10:50 - Jessica Miller -  "Mycobacteria tuberculosis neutralizes phagosomal reactive oxygen species to inhibit macrophage apoptosis"
 

10:50 - 11:10 - Siqian Feng, - "The Drosophila polyhomeotic gene helps maintain tissue homeostasis"
 

11:10 - 11:30 - Jyoti Narayana - "Effects of chicken Dexamethasone-induced Ras-related 1 (cDexras1) on growth hormone gene expression in embryonic pituitary cells"
 

11:30 - 11:50 - Paúl E. Clavijo - "Comparison of NF-κB Regulation on Naïve and Anergic Primary T Lymphocytes"

Poster presentations

Amanda Field, Caroline Li, Chen-Hsin Yu, Jaekwang Jeong, Jennifer German, Kawther Abdilleh, Lalitha Srinivasan, Lara Hause, Laura Ellestad, Malini Mukherjee, Miao Pan, Nellie Moshkovich, Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong, Omar Memon, Qian Wang, Robert Berkey, Roxane Bouten, Rui Gao, Sandi Kirsch, Trinity Perry, Varnika Roy, Vonetta Edwards, Wayne Cabral, Yizhou Yin, Zhen Shi

Afternoon presentations

2:00 - 2:20 - Cristel Thomas - "Consequences of Mating System Switches on the evolution of sex-biased genes in Caenorhabditis"
 

2:20 - 2:40 - Chen Cao - "Estimating the Accuracy of Protein Structure Model Accuracy using a Force Bypass Smith-Waterman alignment algorithm"
 

2:40 - 3:00 - Vandana Sekhar - "Hitchhiking on Mitotic Chromosomes; Analysis of the Human Papillomavirus type-8 E2 Genome Tethering Protein"
 

3:00 - 3:20 - Alison Heffer - "Evolution of the Hox gene fushi tarazu in arthropods"