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Sorry, retreat registrations are now closed for 2008. If you have any questions, please contact Brenda Hanning at hanningb@mail.nih.gov or 301-451-7753.

The following abstracts have been submitted:

Fellow Speakers
1 Aarthi Ashok Efficient ER-associated degradation of prion proteins containing an unprocessed GPI signal sequence
2 Patricia Burgos The AP4 Complex Mediates Sorting of the Amyloid Precursor Protein at the trans-Golgi Network
3 Oishee Chakrabarti The pathways of neurodegeneration in Prion diseases
4 Anelia Horvath A cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase (PDE8B) that is mutated in adrenal hyperplasia and is expressed widely in human and mouse tissues: a novel PDE8B isoform
5 Matthew Kohn Differentiation Of Trophoblast Stem Cells Into Giant Cells Is Triggered By p57 Inhibition Of CDK1 Activity
6 Elena Makareeva Structural Heterogeneity of Type I Collagen Triple Helix and Its Role in Osteogenesis Imperfecta
7 Carolyn Ott Stable and prolonged contacts form between cilia of adjacent cells
8 Matthew Phillips The LIM-domain binding protein Ldb1 is required for proper endocardial cushion formation during heart development in Mus musculus.

Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
1 Mark Bayfield La protein uses two binding sites for precursor-product discrimination during tRNA metabolism
2 Yuk Yin Cheung Mice lacking glucose-6-phosphatase-beta exhibit reduced fertility and increased pregnancy-associated mortality
3 Daniel Crooks Ferrochelatase Deficiency Contributes to Development of Erythropoietic Protoporphyria in Mice Lacking Iron Regulatory Protein 2
4 Elena Curti Interplay of E. coli polymerases during genome duplication
5 Melissa Durant Defining the requirements for Polycomb group response elements (PREs) at the engrailed locus
6 Maria Fiorentino The 67kDa Laminin Receptor Cleavage by Stromelysin-3: A Biochemical Study.
7 Tara Hessa The degradation pathway for mislocalized secretory and membrane proteins
8 Kiyonobu Karata Purification and characterization of bacterial DNA polymerase V
9 Kuanyu Li Iron-dependent regulation of frataxin expression: implications for treatment of Friedreich's ataxia
10 Hiroki Matsuda A role of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 in the Transcriptional Regulation by Thyroid Hormone Receptor during Xenopus metamorphosis
11 Yogikala Prabhu Structural Determinants of Retromer Complex Assembly
12 Xiangyun Qiu Divalent Counterion Induced Condensation of Triple-strand DNA
13 Yutaka Suzuki Dual localization of RNase H1 by Translational control
14 Yoshimitsu Takahashi Sumoylation affects localization of essential chromosomal proteins to nucleolar chromatin
15 Deliang Zhang A No-IRE Containing Isoform of Ferroportin Expresses in Duodenum and is Involved in Iron Uptake in Low-Iron Diet

Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Cancer Biology
16 Andrea Barrett Adult Neurogenesis and Circuitry Formation in the hippocampus
17 Jun Chen Anti-apoptotic effect of vasopressin in neurons involves activation of the extracellular signal regulated kinase and phosphorylation of BAD
18 Jennifer Chua Dynamin's Role in Apical Constriction
19 Luis DaSilva Downregulation of CD4 by the HIV-1 protein Nef involves ESCRT-dependent MVB targeting, but does not require CD4 ubiquitination.
20 Michael Daw Cell-Type Specific Kainate Receptor Modulation of GABAergic Transmission in the Hippocampus
21 Stephanie Fliedner Increased Malignant Potential in Mouse Pheochromocytoma Cells Involves Changes in Oxidative Phosphorylation
22 Sundar Ganesan Neuronal Protein Interactions at the single cellular and sub cellular level using FRET measured by Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
23 Lindsay Hayes Dopamine Neuron Development: A Legacy Un-muddled
24 Tsz Wan Ho Developmental expression of Ca2+-permeable AMPARs underlies depolarization-induced LTD (DiLTD) at mossy fiber-CA3 pyramid synapses
25 Suh Young Jeong Disruption of Iron Homeostasis in the Spinal Cords Causes Neurodegeneration in Mice
26 Sang-Wook Kang Signal sequence-dependent sampling of the ER lumen facilitates regulated protein translocation
27 Prasanna Krishnan Selective targeting of misfolded protein in the endoplasmic reticulum for degradation by autophagy
28 Xingzhe Li Exploration for a Pre-targeting Factor for Posttranslational Membrane Protein Insertion into the ER
29 Edwin Lai Identification and characterization of interleukin-13 receptor expression in pheochromocytoma and targeting with IL-13 receptor directed immunotoxin
30 Kara Lukasiewicz Phosphorylation of centrin by aurora A contributes to centrosome amplification in cancer
31 Javier Magadan The HIV-1 Vpu accessory protein hijacks the p97-Ufd1-Npl4 endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation pathway to mediate down-regulation of CD4 receptor molecules
32 Evgeny Makarev Islet1 and its cofactor LDB1 express in the mouse intestinal epithelium
33 Gonzalo Mardones Sorting nexin-8 is a novel regulator of endosomal trafficking and downregulation of the epidermal growth factor receptor
34 Malaiyalam Mariappan Identification of machinery for tail-anchored membrane protein insertion
35 Fan Mei BDNF/TrkB signaling regulates protein kinase C (PKC) in the maintenance of L-LTP
36 Guhan Nagappan Transcriptional gene regulation by the BDNF pro-fragment
37 Yingchun Ni Study the Role of Astrocytic Exocytosis in the Development of the Brain
38 Joshua Park A Bi-directional Carboxypeptidase E - driven transport mechanism controls BDNF vesicle homeostasis in hippocampal neurons.
39 Francisco Javier Prez-Victoria Concerted action of GARP Complex and SNARE proteins to mediate fusion of vesicular carriers between endosomes and the TGN.
40 Richa Rikhy Dynamin function is essential for maintenance of the polarized epithelium like organization of the plasma membrane of the syncytial Drosophila blastoderm Richa Rikhy, Manos Mavrakis and Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz
41 Alexander Samoshkin Condensin Has a Key Role in Proper Kinetochore Positioning Relative to Centromere Chromatin
42 Yanbo Shi Functions of Isd11 and Adrenodoxin / Adrenodoxin Reductase in mammalian iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis and iron homeostasis
43 Rachid Sougrat Complexity of membrane systems : unusual architecture of the endoplasmic reticulum.
44 Christine Torborg Temporal dynamics of feed-forward inhibition in the hippocampus
45 Ludovic Tricoire Genetic fate mapping of hippocampal GABAergic subpopulations
46 Kit-Man Tsang A mouse model of heterozygosity for protein kinase A regulatory subunit type 1A and catalytic subunit A deficiency develops bone lesions
47 Helge Uhrigshardt Characterization of the small J-type cochaperone Hsc20. A novel candidate for ataxia-susceptibility?

Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Psychology
48 Rebecca Brown Glucagon secretion in the first year after diagnosis of type 1 diabetes
49 Joan Han BDNF Haploinsufficiency in Patients with WAGR Syndrome is Associated with Decreased Behavioral Responses to Pain
50 Khalisa Herman Gene-environment interaction predicts fear-related behavior in neonatal rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
51 Nichole Jonas The elements of style: Using graphic design to enhance visual communication in scientific posters
52 Jana Kainerstorfer Towards quantitative bedside Karposi??s Sarkoma imaging
53 Zigurts Majumdar In Vivo Quantification of Macular Pigment via Autofluorescence Imaging of the Retina
54 Jeremy Swan Using Wikis for Collaboration, Information Dissemination, and Content Management

Computational Biology, Biophysics, Evolutionary Biology
55 Franck Amyot Topology of the heterogeneous nature of the extracellular matrix on stochastic modeling of tumor-induced angiogenesis
56 Jason DeRouchey Dependence of polycation length on the attractive interactions between DNA Helices
57 Martin Ehler The Benefits From Redundancy in Wavelet-based Image Processing
58 Andrea Fera Tracking quantum dots with nanometer precision on the plasma membrane of living fibroblasts evidences their diffusion in two dimensions
59 Kenta Fujimoto Gene duplication of matrix metalloproteinase-9 gene and their distinct gene expression in the frog Xenopus
60 Jennifer Galanis Building a polymer using only short ranged repulsive interactions.
61 Philip Gurnev Functional reconstitution of the voltage-sensitive potassium channel KvAP in planar lipid bilayers
62 Peter Krsko Bacterial Extracellular Matrix as Responsive Hydrogel
63 David Lin Swelling and Large Strain Indentation Behavior of Neonatal Mouse Cartilage
64 Shakir Muradymov Restriction Endonuclease EcoRV-DNA Binding Measured by Self-Cleavage Assay
65 Jason Riley Choice of Data-Types in Time Resolved Fluorescence Enhanced Diffuse Optical Tomography
66 Brian Todd Looping Dynamics of Stretched DNA

Developmental Biology and Immunology
67 Catherine Boucheron Effect of vitamin A deficiency on the epigenomics of male germ cells
68 Tsadok Cohen The Role of Ldb Complexes in Eye Development
69 Ipsita Dey-Guha Role of Ldb1 in tissue homeostasis in the skin of the adult mouse
70 Gabriela Finkielstain An Extensive Genetic Program Occurring during Postnatal Growth in Multiple Tissues.
71 Patricia Forcinito Zfp423 Expression During Somatic Growth Deceleration in Mammals
72 Misato Fujita Analysis of Cranial Vessel Formation in the Developing Zebrafish
73 Claudia Gebert Search for the primary mark required to imprint the H19ICR in somatic tissue
74 Aniket Gore Role of Small GTPase Rap1b in Vascular Patterning and Homeostasis
75 Lina Gugliotti & Hyongi Chon Effects of RNase H1 on Class-Switch Recombination
76 Rachel Heimeier Bisphenol A: An established endocrine disruptor for the estrogen pathway affects intestinal development through the thyroid hormone receptor
77 Julian Lui Postnatal Down-regulation of an Imprinted Gene Network that could contribute to the Postnatal Growth Deceleration in Mammals
78 Miho Matsuda Subcellular distribution of endogenous Delta protein in the zebrafish embryo reveals a potential role for Notch in determining Delta endocytosis
79 Sin Man Ng Virus-mediated Modulation of the Endocrine Signaling in Dendritic Cells
80 Geoffrey Rezvani A Network of Postnatally Downregulated Imprinted Genes is Overexpressed in Embryonal Tumors
81 Matthew Swift Elucidating the Role of Hedgehog Signaling in Vertebrate Vascular Development
82 Hui Wang Sonic hedgehog signaling in mouse eye development