Sunday, 9.th March, 2003

Location: Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics,
              Berzelius väg 35, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
                       Map: http://www.cgb.ki.se/cgb/information/address.html

A satellite meeting to the Nobel Mini Symposium on March, 10th.

Starting time:  14.30
 

Preliminary schedule:

14.30 Fredrik Wågberg (Pilon): Specific genetic interference of the human arsA analog ZK637.5 in C.elegans
                          causes L1-growth arrest and decreased resistance to arsenite, antimonite and cisplatin.

14.50 Josefin  Friberg (Tuck): CeS6K affects body size and metabolism.

15.10 Patrick Dessi (Bürglin): Egg prep. cultures for large scale worm growth.

15.20 Anne Hart: Food dependent ASH chemosensory circuit changes.

15.40 Suvi Vartiainen (Garry Wong, Finland): Dopaminergic neuronal loss and motor deficits in C. elegans overexpressing human á-synuclein.

15.55 coffee break/posters

16.30 Limin Hao (Bürglin): Functional analysis of the warthog gene wrt-6.

16.50 Ralf Baumeister: ceh-16 engrailed homeobox gene and warthog genes.

17.10 Catarina Mörck (Pilon): pha-2 encodes a homeobox gene important for pharyngeal  development.

17.30 Patrick Hu (Ruvkun/Boston): Genetic Analysis of Akt/PKB Signaling.

17.50 extra time

18.00 and later: Pizza, discussions, hanging out.

Posters:
Teresa Tiensuu (Tuck)
Lars Nilsson (Tuck)
Ravi Prakash (Tuck)
Gabriele Gahmon (Swoboda)
Suvi Vartiainen (Wong)
Evgeni Efimenko (Swoboda)