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Gainesville, Florida May 24-28, 2019 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology Gainesville, Florida May 24-28, 2019 HELD JOINTLY WITH 5TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY (NASCE) AND 10TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILIAN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND NEUROBIOLOGY (ISAREN) Conference Center Layout 2 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology Agenda Friday, May 24, 2019 14:00-16:30 NASCE Council Meeting 1- Hawthorne 18:00-18:15 Welcome and Opening Reception- Harn Museum of Art 18:15-21:00 Plenary Saturday, May 25, 2019 Plenary Dr. Sheue-Yann Cheng- Century Ballroom ABC 09:00-10:00 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 10:30-12:30 Thyroid Hormones and Stress Axis Function: From Neuropeptide Signaling Pathways Development Mechanisms to Consequences 1 Session in Arthropods Daniel Buchholz and Aurea Bob Dores, James Carr, Kathleen Angela Lang and Ian Orchard Chair Orozco Gilmore, and Matt Vijayan 12:20-14:00 Lunch Stress Axis Function: From 14:00-16:00 Endocrinology of Domestic and Mechanisms to Consequences 2 Wild Fauna Session Topics in Comparative Endocrinology Bob Dores, James Carr, Kathleen Marta Romano Chair Gilmore, and Matt Vijayan 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 Dr. Michael Romero- Century Ballroom ABC Plenary Poster Session 1- Odd Number 17:30-19:30 Pre-Function Space Sunday, May 26, 2019 Plenary Dr. Ian Orchard- Century Ballroom ABC 09:00-10:00 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Omics: Analysis of Genomes, 10:30-12:30 Proteomes, Transcriptomes, and Session Metabolism Regulation Non-Coding RNA in Cell Signaling Metabolomes in Comparative Endocrinology Chairs Suraj Unniappan and Peggy Biga Chun Peng John Chan and Hamid Habibi 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology 3 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Novel Hormones and Hormonal Advancement of Gene Editing and Session Neuroendocrinology of Feeding Control Their Applications Nick Bernier Chairs David Lovejoy Cheryl Rosenfeld 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break Plenary Gorbman-Bern New investigator 16:30-17:30 Poster Session 2- Even Number 17:30-19:30 Pre-Function Space Monday, May 27, 2019 Silver Springs State Park Excursion 8:00-13:30 *Shuttles Buses will leave hotel at 8:30* 14:00-16:00 Session Hormonal Control of Germinal Comparative Endocrinology of ISAREN: Epigenetic Analysis Stem Cell Development and Ga- Osmoregulation in Amphibian and Reptile metogenesis Endocrinology and Neurobiology Steve McCormick and Jason Chairs Hamid Habibi Breves Satomi Kohno 16:00-16:30 Break Plenary Dr. Carlos Aramburo- Century Ballroom ABC 16:30-17:30 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 ISAREN Ple- nary Dr. Bob Denver- Century Ballroom ABC 09:00-10:00 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Aspects of Reproductive Neuroendocrine Disruption of 10:30-12:30 Endocrinology & Animal Vocalizations and Socio- Neuroendocrinology 1 Session Growth and Growth Factors Sexual Behaviors Chairs Maricela Luna Glen Van Der Kraak and Vance Cheryl Rosenfeld and Frauke Trudeau Hoffmann 12:30-14:00 Lunch Aspects of Reproductive Endocri- GnRH-related Peptides in 14:00-16:00 Advances in Endocrine Disruption nology & Neuroendocrinology 2 Metazoa: Recent Progress and Science Session Discoveries Glen Van Der Kraak and Vance Valerie Langois Chairs Trudeau Jean-Paul Paluzzi and Pei-San tsai 16:00-18:00 NASCE Council Meeting 2- Hawthorne 18:00-19:00 Closing Ceremony and Student Awards Presentation + 19:00-10:00 Closing Banquet (separate ticket required) 4 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology Program Friday, May 24, 2019 14:00-16:30 NASCE Council Meeting 1- Hawthorne 18:00-18:15 Welcome and Opening Reception- Harn Museum of Art 18:15-21:00 Plenary Saturday, May 25, 2019 Plenary Dr. Sheue-Yann Cheng- Century Ballroom ABC 09:00-10:00 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Session Thyroid Hormones and Neuropeptide Signaling Pathways Stress Axis Function: From Development in Arthropods Mechanisms to Consequences 1 Daniel Buchholz and Aurea Bob Dores, James Carr, Kathleen Chairs Angela Lang and Ian Orchard Orozco Gilmore, and Matt Vijayan Mykles, Donald Faught, Erin Denver, Robert SIGNALING PATHWAYS LOSS OF THE GLUCOCORTCOID THYROID HORMONE INDUCES CONTROLLING PHASE RECEPTOR IN ZEBRAFISH LOCUS-SPECIFIC DNA TRANSITIONS IN THE 10:30-12:30 IMPROVES MUSCLE GLUCOSE DEMETHYLATION IN DEVELOPING CRUSTACEAN MOLTING GLAND AVAILABILITY AND INCREASES XENOPUS TROPICALIS BRAIN Mykles DL, Chang ES, Chang SA, GROWTH Raj S, Fontana S, Denver R Durica DS, Tomanek L, Ventura T , Faught E, Vijayan M Zhou W Darras, Veerle Park, Yoonseong Deviche, Pierre AGE-DEPENDENT CHANGES DISRUPTION OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS AND IN GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN NEUROPEPTIDERGIC SYSTEM IN GLYCEMIA DURING STRESS IN DEIODINASE TYPE 2 KNOCKOUT ARTHROPOD PEST CONTROL BIRDS ZEBRAFISH Park Y Deviche P, Griffith S, Buchanan K Houbrechts A.M., Darras V.M. Hoglin, Brianne Orozco, Aurea Zandawala, Meet CHARACTERIZATION OF WHALE KNOCK-DOWN OF SPECIFIC MODULATION OF DROSOPHILA SHARK MELANOCORTIN-2 THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR POST-FEEDING PHYSIOLOGY AND RECEPTOR REVEALS DISTINCT ISOFORMS IMPAIRS BODY PLAN BEHAVIOR BY THE NEUROPEPTIDE PATTERNS OF MC2R ACTIVATION DEVELOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH LEUCOKININ FOR HOLOCEPHALAN Lazcano I, Rodríguez-Ortiz R, Zandawala M, Yurgel M, Texada AND ELASMOBRANCH Villalobos P, Solís-Saínz JC, M, Liao S, Rewitz K, Keene A, CARTILAGINOUS FISHES Orozco A Nässel D Hoglin B, Dores R Shibata, Yuki Rocco, David THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR EXPRESSION PROFILING, DEFFICIENCY ACCELERATES DOWNSTREAM SIGNALING AND Dores, Robert CONNECTIVE TISSUE INTER-SUBUNIT FUNCTIONAL EVALUATING THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT BUT PREVENTS CHARACTERIZATION OF AN MELANOCORTIN-5 RECEPTOR EPITHELIAL TRANSFORMATION EVOLUTIONARY ANCIENT IN THE HPA/HPI AXIS: A DURING METAMORPHOSIS IN GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONE PHYLOGENETIC STUDY XENOPUS TROPICALIS. SYSTEM (GPA2/GPB5) IN THE Dores RM, Oberer N, Hoglin B Shibata Y, Okada M, Wen L, Shi MOSQUITO, AEDES AEGYPTI YB. Rocco D, Paluzzi JP 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology 5 Bernier, Nicholas Leyria, Jimena Suzuki, Ken-ichi CORTICOTROPIN- THE INVOLVEMENT OF INSULIN- INVOLVEMENT OF THYROID RELEASING FACTOR EXERTS LIKE PEPTIDE SIGNALING IN THE HORMONE RECEPTORS IN THE NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF HEMOGLOBIN SWITCH DURING AGAINST AMMONIA RHODNIUS PROLIXUS, A VECTOR FROG METAMORPHOSIS NEUROTOXICITY IN ISOLATED OF CHAGAS´ DISEASE Suzuki KT, Buchholz D LARVAL ZEBRAFISH BRAINS Leyria J, Orchard I, Lange AB Bernier NJ, Williams TA Taylor, Elias NON-GENOMIC THYROID Ayub, Mahnoor Schaaf, Marcel HORMONE SIGNALING IN THE ROLE OF SIFAMIDE AS A GLUCOCORTICOID MODULATION INVERTEBRATES: T4 REGULATES NEUROHORMONE IN THE BLOOD- OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN SKELETOGENESIS IN THE PURPLE GORGING INSECT, RHODNIUS ZEBRAFISH SEA URCHIN VIA AN INTEGRIN- PROLIXUS. Xie Y, Schaaf MJM MEDIATED MAPK CASCADE Ayub M, Lange AB, Orchard I Taylor E, Heyland A 12:20-14:00 Lunch Stress Axis Function: From Session Topics in Comparative Endocrinology of Domestic and Mechanisms to Consequences 2 Endocrinology Wild Fauna Bob Dores, James Carr, Kathleen Marta Romano Chair Gilmore, and Matt Vijayan Denslow, Nancy Lutterschmidt, Deborah PROTEOGENOMICS OF FATHEAD Hamlin, Heather MECHANISMS OF LIFE-HISTORY MINNOW (PIMEPHALES INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE TRANSITIONS: INTERACTIONS PROMELAS) AS A FIRST STEP REGIME AND EPIZOOTIC SHELL AMONG GLUCOCORTICOIDS, TO IDENTIFY TRANSCRIPT DISEASE ON ECDYSTERONE NEUROPEPTIDES, AND 14:00-16:00 VARIANTS OF IMPORTANCE TO CONCENTRATIONS IN AMERICAN METABOLIC FACTORS REGULATE NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY LOBSTERS, HOMARUS THE SEASONAL SWITCH FROM Denslow ND, Lavelle C, Smith LC, AMERICANUS REPRODUCTION TO FORAGING Bisesi JH, Sanchez CS, Buerger Hamlin HJ, Tudor MS, Bouchard BEHAVIOR IN GARTER SNAKES AN, Garcia-Reyero N, Sabo- DA Lutterschmidt DI, Dayger CA, Attwood T Lucas AR, Wilson, RC Gilmour, Kathleen González-de-la-Vara, Marcela TOO STRESSED TO EAT OR Sangha, Vishal HOW TO GROUP PRIMIPAROUS GROW: THE METABOLIC COST PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DAIRY COWS: BEHAVIOR, OF CHRONIC SOCIAL STRESS IN STRUCTURAL ANALOGS OF CORTISOL IN SERUM AND RAINBOW TROUT (Oncorhynchus KININS AND CAPA IN RHODNIUS HAIR AND PRODUCTION mykiss) PROLIXUS PERFORMANCE. Gilmour KM, Best C, Culbert BM, Sangha V, Nachman RJ, Orchard, González-de-la-Vara M, De Anda Jennings K, Kostyniuk DJ, Saulnier Lange AB F, Vázquez-Ch JC, Romano MC RJ, Lamarre SG, Mennigen J, Moon TW Wu, Xinjun Romano, Marta Edwards, Thea INVOLVEMENT OF MULTIPLE SEXUAL MATURATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL COSTS OF PROGESTERONE RECEPTORS AFRICAN ELEPHANTS RAISED IN CHRONIC SEASONAL HYPOXIA IN IN OVARY MAINTENANCE IN CAPTIVITY OKAVANGO TILAPIA ZEBRAFISH García-Delgado SD, Martínez G, Edwards TM, Mosie IJ, Moore BC, XinJun W, Andrew L, Marcus W, Pedernera M, Olloqui E, Valdez Lobjoit G, Bachman RE, Murray- Pujan P, Tyler O, Yong Z RA, Romano MC Hudson M Thomson, Paisley DOES CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO Roda-Martinez, Alba Zulema Harris, Breanna AGRICULTURAL RETENTION SERUM GLUCOCORTICOID OF MICE AND MEN: POND WATER INDUCE PROFILES IN THREE SPECIES OF RELATIONSHIP AMONG STRESS, ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION IN THE MEXICAN PRIMATES: RESPONSE GLUCOCORTICOIDS, AND AMERICAN TOAD? TO CAPTURE-RESTRAINT COGNITIVE FUNCTION Thomson P, Labranche P-A, Rodas-Martínez AZ Harris BN Patey G, Robinson SA, Gruyer N, Thériault G, and Langlois VS 6 5th Biennial North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology Veng D, Gorissen, Marnix TIMING OF A GONADAL A NOVEL ROLE FOR LEPTIN COMMITMENT TO THE IN FISH: BRANCHIAL LEPTIN Zhang, Hugh TESTICULAR DIFFERENTIATION
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