EMBO Workshop: 'Drosophila Cell Division Cycle'
Workshop - Totnes, United Kingdom
The main objective of the EMBO Workshop, co-sponsored by the University of Exeter, UK, is to bring together scientists working across the world, who are actively engaged in research on the cell division cycle using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This model organism combines more than 100 years of mutational studies with a particularly well annotated genome (and genomes of related species), the ability to undertake biochemical and proteomic studies, amenability for high-temporal and spatial microscopy approaches, and both cell culture-based and in vivo-based RNAi methodology. Together, these techniques have advanced our understanding of cell division in areas such as the mechanisms underlying chromosome segregation, DNA and spindle checkpoint mechanisms, the molecular basis of DNA repair, stem cell renewal and specification, and tumor formation. This workshop follows three previous EMBO workshops organized on similar lines, at approximately 6 year intervals, that have been highly successful both in assessing the state of the field and in providing a broad view of the type of research that is possible using Drosophila.
Sessions:
Cell Proliferation and Stem Cells
Chromosomes, DNA replication and repair
Mitosis and Cell Division
Centrosomes
Cell Cycle control and checkpoints
Meiosis
Organization: EMBO
(Courtesy of Dartington Hall, Totnes, UK, via http://events.embo.org/13-drosophila/)
Thu, Sep 12, 2013 - Mon, Sep 16, 2013
Dartington Hall, Totnes, Exeter, United Kingdom
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