The New York Area Worm Meeting will be a full day meeting sponsored by Scott Berman (Advanced Imaging Concepts, Inc), Thom Geere (Nobska Imaging) and NYU. As in the past, we have two excellent keynote speakers. As always, attendance is free. Please see the tentative schedule below:
| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Breakfast at 12 Waverly Place CGSB lobby |
| 10:00 - 10:45 AM | Keynote, "Signaling via extracellular vesicles," Maureen Barr, Rutgers University |
| 10:00 - 11:15 AM | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 11:45 AM | “The Roles of Inhibition in C. elegans Locomotion,” Lan Deng and Gal Haspel, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| 11:45 - 12:00 PM | “Metabolic state modulates multisensory integration via the insulin receptor daf-2 in C. elegans,” Kaitlin H. Snider and Michael Nitabach, Yale University |
| 12:15 - 2:00 PM | Lunch break |
| 2:00 - 2:15 PM | “Determinants of Signaling Specificity for DBL-1/BMP in the Immune Response of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans,” Emma Jo Ciccarelli and Cathy Savage-Dunn, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY |
| 2:15 - 2:30 PM | “Identifying regulators of the C. elegans DBL-1/bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathway,” Tina L. Gumienny, Texas Woman’s University |
| 2:30 - 2:45 PM | “Towards a molecular understanding of synapse formation,” Peri Kurshan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | “The C2C-MCT domain of Munc13 is essential for priming synaptic vesicles,” Murugesh Padmanarayana, Haowen Liu, Lei Li, Francesco Michelassi, Zhitao Hu, Jeremy S. Dittman; Weill Cornell Medical College |
| 3:00 - 3:15 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:15 - 3:30 PM | “SPE-36 is an EGF-motif containing secreted sperm protein required for fertilization in C. elegans,” Amber Krauchunas and Andy Singson, Rutgers University |
| 3:30 - 3:45 PM | “Specific N-glycans modulate somatosensory patterning in Caenorhabditis elegans,” Maisha Rahman and Hannes Bülow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 3:45 - 4:00 PM | “Unique homeobox codes delineate all neuron classes of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans,” Molly B. Reilly, Cyril Cros, Erdem Varol, Eviatar Yemini, and Oliver Hobert, Columbia University |
| 4:00 - 4:15 PM | Coffee break |
| 4:15 - 5:00 PM | Keynote: "Niche-germ cell interactions in the developing gonad," Jeremy Nance, Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Health |
Corganizers:
- Sevinc Ercan
- Alicia Meléndez
- Gal Haspel