9:30	Welcome, registration, coffee
10:00	Zoltán Bochdanovits (Evolutionary Population Biology, Utrecht University) Evolutionary Genomics of Drosophila body size
10:20	Ody Sibon (Department of Radiation and Stress Cell Biology, University of Groningen) The role of grapes/dchk1 in cell cycle regulation
10:40	Mariska van der Plas (Department of Molecular Cell Biology, LUMC) A Drosophila model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Maarten Jongsma (Unit Bioscience Plant Research International Wageningen University) Study of the effects of health -promoting plant derived compounds (e.g. curcumin) using Drosophila larvae and Eurogentec 22,000 unigene microarrays
11:50	Rene Wouda (Department of Molecular Cell Biology, LUMC) The role of Wnt5 in Axon Guidance
12:10	Vangelis Kondylis (Dept of Cell Biology, UMCU) dGMII, cytokinesis and spermatogenesis
12:30	Lunch and posters
14:00	Key Note lecture Ernst Hafen, Zoological Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland Insulin signaling and growth control in Drosophila ® Roze Collegezaal, AZU
15:10	Kim van der Linde (Animal Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Leiden University) Interspecific variation in genetic correlations in Drosophila.
15:30	Marcin Gorski (Department of Toxicogenetics, LUMC) DNA double-strand break repair in Drosophila melanogaster
15:50	Tea break
16:20	Corneel Vermeulen (Evolutionary Genetics, University of Groningen) On the disposable soma theory of ageing: age-specific fat content and starvation resistance in lines selected on virgin life span
16:40	Bas van Steensel (NKI, Amsterdam) Chromatin Genomics in Drosophila
17:00	Egon Baldal (Evolutionary Biology, Leiden University) Crowded house: the effects of larval density on life history traits
17:20	Drinks

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