Daily Program

November 30 (Sunday)

14:00-16:00 Registration
16:00-16:10 Opening Remarks
16:10-18:00 Session I: Developmental Mechanism

Chair: Chuen-Chuen Jang / Wu-Min Deng

Talk and Presentation

  • Justin Kumar / Novel roles for Eyeless in establishing dorsal/ventral territories and maintaining symmetry of eye size in Drosophila
  • Chuen-Chuen Jang / Temporal Coordination of Border Cell Detachment Through Gdi-Mediated Hormone and Adhesion Regulation
  • Francois Schweisguth / Pulsatile dynamics of Notch propagate crystalline order in the developing eye
  • Jean Jung / Xpd regulates the mitotic kinesin Klp61F via Slimb to control organ growth in Drosophila
  • Makoto Sato / More Than Just Hexagons: Does an Einstein Tile Exist in Life
18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception
19:00-20:00 Plenary Lecture 1: Denise Montell

December 1 (Monday)

09:00-10:30 Session II: Cell Biology

Chair: Chi-Kuang Yao / Chao Tong

Talk and Presentation

  • Patrik Verstreken / Synaptic autophagy in Parkinson’s disease
  • Chi-Kuang Yao / Unconventional ER crosstalk between neurons and glia via extracellular vesicles
  • Richa Rikhy / Mitochondrial fission function in gastrulation
  • Luigi zechini / Drosophila Mcr is a functional homologue of mammalian complement C5a and operates as a wound induced chemotactic signal to drive inflammatory cell recruitment to sites of sterile tissue damage
  • Chien-Tzu Lin / Pickpocket channels mediate osmosensing in a pair of thirst neurons in Drosophila
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Session III: Physiology & Metabolism

Chair: Li-Mei Pai/Louise Cheng

Talk and Presentation

  • Trudi Schupbach / Drosophila as a Model for Analysis of Rasopathy Phenotypes
  • Louise Cheng / The Role of Adipose Phospholipids during Cancer Cachexia
  • Yan Yan / Molecular Links Between Systemic Metabolism and Local Tumor Growth
  • Daewon Lee / Energy Metabolism in Drosophila larval Hemocytes
  • Ryusuke Niwa / Sex peptide governs its own replenishment via sex peptide receptor and serotonergic neuronal signaling in males across multiple Drosophila species
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Session IV: Neurodevelopment & Neurodegeneration

Chair: Tzu-Kang Sang/Jongkyeong Chung

Talk and Presentation

  • Santhosh Magesh / Compartment-specific axonal innervation of dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila mushroom body
  • Phuong-Khanh Nguyen / Chinmo defines the region-specific oncogenic competence in the Drosophila central nervous system
  • So Sakamura / Cellular Chirality Determines Lateral Polarity of Drosophila's Left-Right Brain Asymmetry
  •  Chao Tong / Mitochondrial protein nmd regulates lipophagy and general autophagy during development
14:30-15:00 Tea Break
15:00-16:50 Session V: Neural Circuit & Behavior

Chair: Suewei Lin/Daisuke Hattori

Talk and Presentation

  • Daisuke Hattori / A hierarchical dopamine circuit regulates locomotor initiation and persistence in Drosophila
  • Chih-Ying Su / Day/night cycles regulate pheromone acuity to gate rhythmic courtship behavior
  • Kuan-Lin Feng / Individualized decision making driven by long-term memory retrieval in Drosophila
  • Do-Hyoung Kim / Long-term neuropeptide modulation of pC1 neurons and female sexual drive through pyrexia TRP channel
  • Azusa Kamikouchi / Neuromodulation of hearing: Dopamine's role in the fruit fly auditory system
  •  Pei-Ju Chen / Characterizing contrast-opponent properties of the Drosophila medulla neuron Tm20
17:00-18:00 APDRC Board meeting
18:00-19:00 Dinner
19:00-20:00 Plenary Lecture 2: Ann-shyn Chiang

December 2 (Tuesday)

08:30-09:30 Plenary Lecture 3: Eric Wieschaus / Patterning and Cell Fate in Drosophila Embryos in the Absence of All Maternal Gradients
10:00-19:00 Free time
19:00-21:00 Poster session

December 3 (Wednesday)

09:00-09:45Flash Talk*9
09:45-10:15Tea Break
10:15-11:40 Session VI: Stem cell & Regeneration

Chair: Hwei-Jan Hsu/Ryusuke Niwa

Talk and Presentation

  • Cai Yu
  • Olivia Majhi / Superoxide Dismutases maintain niche homeostasis in stem cell populations
  • Hideyuki Komori  / N6-methyladenosine modification promotes exit from stemness in type II neuroblast progeny by facilitating decay of neuroblast gene transcripts
  • Yuichiro Nakajima / BubR1 and Mad2 regulate intestinal stem cell dynamics to control adult midgut remodeling in Drosophila diapause
  • Chi-Hung Lin / Niche-derived Stemness Signals Ensure Functionality of Ovarian Germline Stem Cells via the Control of Mitochondria
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:20 Session VII: Genomics & evolution

Chair: Chau-Ti Ting/Aya Takahashi

Talk and Presentation

  • Aya Takahashi / Genomic insights into latitudinal divergence: reproductive diapause in Drosophila triauraria
  • Ching-Ho Chang / Rapid protamine evolution suppresses meiotic drive in Drosophila
  • Tsu-Yen Hsu / Low parthenogenetic capacity and long-term fertility costs in Drosophila albomicans
  • Jia-Syuan Chen / Host-specific Acetobacter impact on Drosophila development and fitness
14:20-14:50 Lunch Break
14:50-16:25 Session VIII: Disease model

Chair: Chih-Chiang Chan/Fengwei Yu

Talk and Presentation

  • Hongyan Wang / Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Drosophila
  • John Vaughen / Learning from Lysosomal Storage Disorders: Lipid Remodeling Sculpts Brain Development
  • Ferdinand Koranteng / Acute Myeloid Leukemia progression in Drosophila is mediated by dMrtf-FGF8 signaling in hemocytes
  • Daichi Hinda / The Hippo tumor suppressor pathway triggers non-cell-autonomous tumorigenesis in Drosophila
  • Wanzhong Ge / Activation of the integrated stress response contributes to developmental delay and seizures caused by mitochondrial prolyl-tRNA synthetase (PARS2) deficiency
16:30-18:00 Tea Break
18:00-19:00 Dinner
19:00-20:00 Poster session

December 4 (Thursday)

09:00–10:30 Session IX: Technological Innovation

Chair: Ya-Hui Chou/Hiromu Tanimoto

Talk and Presentation

  • Jean-Paul Vincent
  • Peter Soba
  • Hiromu Tanimoto
  • Shu Kondo / Expanding the limits of the GAL4/UAS system
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-12:00 Award Ceremony
12:00- Conference closure

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