JANUARY         13

Chris Rushlow (New York University)

Zelda, a Key Activator of the Early Zygotic Genome in Drosophila

                          20

Tian Xu (Yale University)

Deciphering Biology and Disease by Large-scale Genetic Screens in Flies and Mammals

                          27

Edward Marcotte (University of Texas-Austin)

Defining Functional Pathways, Systems, and Networks to Link Genes to Traits and Diseases

FEBRUARY        3

Brian Black (University of California-San Francisco)

Transcriptional Control of Cardiovascular Development

                          10

Mary Hendrix (Northwestern University)

Targeting a Novel Embryonic Pathway to Suppress the Metastatic Phenotype

                          17

Barry Gumbiner (University of Virginia)

Cadherins and Catenins in Development and Cancer

                          24

Manolis Kellis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Regulatory Genomics and Epigenomics in Fly and Human

MARCH              3

Eric Wieschaus (Princeton University)

The Mechanics of Cell Shape Change in Drosophila Embryos

                          10

John Condeelis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Microenvironments of Metastasis:  Insights Derived by Multiphoton Imaging

                          17

Bruce Baker (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Sex, Flies and Videotapes

                          24

Mary Hendrix (Northwestern University)

Targeting a Novel Embryonic Pathway to Suppress the Metastatic Phenotype

                          31

Stephen Douthwaite (University of Southern Denmark)

Resistance to Ribosome-targeting Antibiotics Conferred by Changes in rRNA Methylation

APRIL                 7

Mark Martindale (University of Hawaii)

A Bum’s Up View of Metazoan Body Plan Evolution

                          14

Freda Miller (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)

Skin-derived Precursors:  From Morphogenesis to Repair

                          21

David Spector (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Dynamics and Functional Associations of JMJD3, an H3K27 Demethylase

                          28

(4:00 p.m.)

Tim Hunt (Cancer Research UK)

Getting In and Out of Mitosis

MAY                    5

Karen Oegema (University of California-San Diego)

Using C. elegans to Dissect Cell Division Mechanisms

                          12

James Manley (Columbia University)

mRNA Processing:  Links to Disease and Other Cellular Processes

                          19

Steve Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Histone Variant Dynamics and Epigenetics