Program

AFDC_2013_Final

Tuesday, 26th November 2013

14:00-16:15 Registration and Welcome!

16:15-16:45     Break

16:45-19:00 Session I                         Nervous system

16:45   Introduction

16:55-17:35     Thomas Préat

The control of long-term memory formation.

17:35-17:55     Clémence Levet (Bertrand Mollereau)

ER stress inhibits neuronal death by promoting autophagy.

17:55-18:15     Maria Capovilla  (Alain Robichon) 

Functional gustatory receptors in Drosophila wings and their role in flight-associated chemoperception.

18:15-18:35     Jean-Maurice Dura    

Extrinsic DRL guides DRL-2-expressing Drosophila mushroom body axons by localizing WNT5.

18:35-18:55     Pierre  Cattenoz (Angela Giangrande)      

A Genome-wide screen reveals a new function for Gcm transcription factor.

 

Wednesday, 27th November 2013

9:00-9:40         Ilan Davis

Syncrip: The missing link between neuronal activation and localized translation at the synapse?

09:40-11:55 Session II                        Oogenesis

9:40-10:00       Jean-Antoine Lepesant   (Antoine Guichet)           

Relationship between microtubules and the positioning of the nucleus during the polarisation of the Drosophila egg chamber.

10:00-10:20          Geordie Zimniak  (Stéphane Noselli)

A novel hemocyte- niche association controls Collagen IV and basement membrane assembly, essential for germline stem cell homeostasis.

10:20-10:40     Hervé Alegot (Vincent Mirouse)   

Study of the ovarian follicles elongation mechanisms during the early stages.

 

10:40-11:15     Break

 

11:15-11:55     Jean-René Huynh

« pre-pairing » chromosomes for meiosis.

11:55-12:55 Session III           Chromatin

11:55-12:35     Luisa Di Stefano

Searching for novel pathways involving LSD1 in vivo.

12:35-12:55     François Bonnay (Nicolas Matt)

NF-κB selectivity during the innate immune response in Drosophila requires an Akirin -dependent recruitment of the (SWI/SNF) BAP chromatin-remodeling complex.

 

13:00-14:30     Lunch

 

14:30-16:10 Session IV           The digestive tract in growth and disease

14:30-15:10     François Leulier

Host/Lactobacilli mutualism: “learning on the fly”

15:10-15:30     Kwang-Zin Lee (Dominique Ferrandon)   

Resilience of the Drosophila intestinal epithelium upon oral infection with Serratia marcescens.

15:30-15:50     Gilles STORELLI – François Leulier    

Lactobacilli mutualism: a promising model to characterize the molecular mechanisms governing host/intestinal microbes interactions.

15:50:16:10     Michael Rera  (Hervé Tricoire)

New insight on aging.

 

16:10-16:45     Break

 

16:45:18:45     Poster session I

 

Thursday, 28th November 2013

9:00-10:40 Session V              RNA

09:00-9:40       Martine Simonelig

mRNA regulation by deadenylation and small non-coding RNAs during early development.

9:40-10:00       Jean-René Martin      

A new small nucleolar RNA (jouvence) extends lifespan and protects against neurodegeneration in Drosophila.

10:00-10:20     Xia Sun (Marie-Laure Samson)

The fne gene (found in neurons) links post-transcriptional regulation to synaptic function.

10:20-10:40     Pascal Heitzler

Genetics of miRNA clusters and families: new insights on Notch lateral signaling.

 

10:40-11:15     Break

 

11:15-12:55 Session VI           Metabolism and disease

11:15-11:35     Rami Makki (Alex Gould)    

A glance at oenocyte function.

11:35-11:55     Damien Garrido (Jacques Montagne)

Fatty acid metabolism protect against sugar toxicity.

11:55-12:15     Adrien Franchet  (Dominique Ferrandon)

Study of the microsporidia Tubulinosema ratisbonensis, an intracellular parasite of Drosophila melanogaster.

12:15-12:35     Vincent Barbier  (Jean-Luc Imler)   

Pastrel, a restriction factor for picorna­like viruses in Drosophila.

12:35-12:55     Berra Erkosar  (François Leulier)   

The impact of commensal bacteria on Drosophila transcriptome: a molecular crosstalk between immunity and metabolism.

 

13:00-14:30     Lunch

 

14:30-16:10 Session VIII         Of hemocytes and viruses

14:30-14:50     Guillaume Trebuchet (Angela Giangrande)

The pan-glial homeotic gene repo represses hemocyte differentiation.

14:50-15:10     Isabelle Louradour  (Michèle Crozatier)    

Hematopoiesis and Cellular Immune Response: role of the NF-kappaB transcriptional factors Dif and Dorsal.

15:10-15:30     Olivier Lamiable (Jean-Luc Imler)  

Diedel, an immunomodulator molecule, involved in resilience to viral infection in Drosophila.

15:30-15:50     Frank Touret  (Christophe Terzian)           

The endogenous retrovirus gypsy and the endosymbiotic bacteria wolbachia : a struggle for transmission.

 

15:50-16:00     Zeiss

 

16:00-16:20                 Business meeting

 

16:00-16:45                 Break

 

16:45-17:45     Poster session II

 

17:45 Bus departure for an evening in Strasbourg

 

Friday, 29th November 2013

09:00-10:00 Session IX           Cellular biology

09:00-9:40       Julien Colombani

The Drosophila TNF receptor Grindelwald couples loss of cell polarity with neoplastic growth.

9:40-10:00       Amandine Clavier (Isabelle Guénal)         

Rbf/dE2F2, together in the dREAM complex, downregulate anti-apoptotic genes to induce cell death.

 

10:00-10:30     Coffee break

 

10:30-11:30     Concluding lecture

Bruce Edgar

Homeostatic and tumorous growth of Drosophila intestinal stem cells

 

12:00               Lunch