New York Area Worm Meeting
The NYAWM is held 2-3 times/year to facilitate exchange between area laboratories using C. elegans and closely related nematodes in their research. The meetings consist of refreshments (usually pizza) followed by 3-4 talks of 20-25 minutes in length. Meetings are held Weiss Research building Room 305 on the Rockefeller University campus at 6:30 pm.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/hubbard/NYAWM.html
THE NEXT NY AREA MEETING IS:
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2006 AT 6:30PM
NOTE NEW VENUE: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Speakers for 2/23/06 NYAWM:
Laura Moffat
Clark lab, NYU Skirball Institute
PLR-1, a transmembrane RING finger protein, is needed for anteroposterior neuronal polarity.
Richard Poole
Hobert lab, Columbia University
Early embryonic programming of postmitotic laterality in chemosensory neurons.
Hannes Buelow
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sugars in axonal development.