Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior C. elegans Topic Meeting 2014 Oral and Poster List 1 Brain-wide calcium imaging reveals widespread and robust attractor-like representation of motor state Harris Kaplan, Tina Schrödel, Saul Kato, Manuel Zimmer 2 4-D imaging of neuronal activities in the whole central nervous system visualizes correlative patterns between multiple neurons Takayuki Teramoto, Yu Toyoshima, Terumasa Tokunaga, Ryo Yoshida, Yuichi Iino, Takeshi Ishihara 3 Dopamine and neuropeptides: parallel pathways to evade and escape aversive stimuli Evan Ardiel, Andrew Giles, Theodore Lindsay, Ithai Rabinowitch, William Schafer, Shawn Lockery, Catharine Rankin 4 Feeding regulation by neuropeptides – a worm opioid system? Mi Cheong Cheong, Young-Jai You, Leon Avery 5 Formation of non-overlapping neuronal territories by mutual repulsion between dendrite arbors in C. elegans Z. Candice Yip, Maxwell G. Heiman 6 An EGF-like transmembrane protein, T24F1.4/c-tomoregulin, mediates sensory neuron dendritic self-avoidance Barbara O’Brien, Timothy O’Brien, Matthew Tyska, David Miller 7 Deconstructing Sensory Neuron Shape Aakanksha Singhvi, Shai Shaham 8 Cilia and extracellular vesicles are signaling organelles Leonard Haas, Juan Wang, Rachel Kaletsky, Maria Gravato-Nobre, April Williams, Jessica Landis, Cory Patrick, Jonathan Hodgkin, Coleen T. Murphy, Maureen M. Barr 9 D2-like signaling attenuates a gap-junction mediated recurrent circuit during male mating Paola Correa, L. Rene Garcia 10 A comprehensive analysis of cell activity in the C. elegans egg-laying behavior circuit Kevin Collins, Michael Koelle 11 New insight into the structure of the C. elegans pharyngeal connectome Steven Cook, David Hall, Scott Emmons 12 Degenerate pathways for excitation of the Caenorhabditis elegans pharynx Nicholas Trojanowski, Olivia Padovan-Merhar, David Raizen, Christopher Fang-Yen 13 Trans-Synaptic Labeling of Specific Neuronal Connections in vivo Muriel Desbois, Steven Cook, Scott Emmons, Hannes Bülow 14 Guanylyl Cyclase Modulation of ASH-mediated Nociceptive Behavioral Sensitivity Michelle Krzyzanowski, Chantal Brueggemann, Mary Bethke, Kimberly Collins, Noelle L’Etoile, Denise Ferkey Presenter Underlined xiii Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior C. elegans Topic Meeting 2014 15 SPON-1/F-spondin non-autonomously regulates Q migrations in response to MAB-5/Hox patterning Matthew Josephson, Adam Miltner, Erik Lundquist 16 Axonal fusion in regenerating axons shares molecular components with the apoptotic cell recognition pathway Brent Neumann, Sean Coakley, Rosina Giordano-Santini, Casey Linton, Yi Zhang, Hengwen Yang, Ding Xue, Massimo A Hilliard 17 A Microfluidic Platform for Automated Laser Axotomy Sertan Gokce, Sam Guo, Navid Ghorashian, Neil Everett, Travis Jarrell, Aubri Kottek, Alan Bovik, Adela Ben-Yakar 18 The Development and Functional Regulation of the C. elegans Motor Circuit Mei Zhen 19 The Insulin/IGF Signaling Regulators Cytohesin/GRP-1 and PI5K/PPK-1 Modulate Susceptibility to Excitotoxicity in C. elegans Nazila Tehrani, John Del Rosario, Moises Dominguez, Robert Kalb, Itzhak Mano 20 The JBS-Associated E3 Ubiquitin Ligase UBR-1 Regulates Nervous System Development by Maintaining Synaptic Glutamate Homeostasis Jyothsna Chitturi, Maria Lim, Wesley Hung, Abdel Rahman, Jim W Dennis, Mei Zhen 21 Mechanisms underlying inhibition of spontaneous synaptic vesicle fusion by complexin Jeremy Dittman, Rachel Wragg, Daniel Radoff, David Snead, Yongming Dong, Jihong Bai, David Eliezer 22 A gain-of-function UNC-2/CaV2 channel induces behavioral hyperactivity and an imbalance in excitatory-inhibitory signaling Yung-Chi Huang, Jennifer Pirri, Diego Rayes, Shangbang Gao, Yasunori Saheki, Mei Zhen, Cornelia Bargmann, Michael Francis, Mark Alkema 23 Failure of NLP-40 release leads to decreased expulsions in the inx-16 intestinal gap junction mutant Sam McCright, Maureen Peters 24 Genetic analysis of ionotropic acetylcholine receptor function in GABA neurons Alison Philbrook, Michael Francis 25 Cellular and molecular mechanisms of smn-1-mediated neuron-specific degeneration Ivan Gallotta, Alessandra Donato, Nadia Mazzarella, Alessandro Esposito, Justin Chaplin, Ivan Cáceres, Daniel Porto, Paolo Bazzicalupo, Massimo A. Hilliard, Hang Lu, Elia Di Schiavi 26 Dissecting the mechanisms underlying motorneuron disease in C. elegans Maria Dimitriadi, Melissa Walsh, Jill Yersak, Anne Hart 27 Prospects for the neuronal and genetic analysis of economic decisions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Shawn Lockery, Abe Katzen 28 Glia shape URX and BAG sensory dendrites through GRDN-1/Girdin and SAX-7/ L1CAM Ian G. McLachlan, Eizabeth R. Lamkin, Maxwell G. Heiman xiv Presenter Underlined Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior C. elegans Topic Meeting 2014 29 CaMKI-dependent regulation of gene expression mediates long-term temperature adaptation in AFD Yanxun Yu, Harold Bell, Dominique Glauser, Miriam Goodman, Stephen Van Hooser, Piali Sengupta 30 Bacterial Secondary Metabolites Alter C. elegans Behavior by Modifying Sites of Neuronal DAF-7 Expression Joshua Meisel, Dennis Kim 31 Sex, age and hunger regulate behavioral prioritization through dynamic modulation ofchemoreceptor expression Renee Miller, Deborah Ryan, KyungHwa Lee, Scott Neal, Piali Sengupta, Doug Portman 32 Multidimensional phenotypic profiling identifies subtle synaptic pattern mutants, and their morphological defects Adriana San-Miguel, Peri Kurshan, Kang Shen, Hang Lu 33 Synaptic position maintenance involved in hypodermal and glial cells Zhiyong Shao, Shigeki Watanabe, Ryan Christensen, Erik Jorgensen, Daniel Colón- Ramos 34 Perlecan antagonizes collagen IV and ADAMTS9/GON-1 in restricting en passant synapse growth Jianzhen Qin, Jingjing Liang, Mei Ding 35 Regulation of microtubule dynamics in synaptogenesis Naina Kurup, Dong Yan, Alexandr Goncharov, Yishi Jin 36 BK Channel Modulation of Withdrawal from Chronic Ethanol Exposure L.L. Scott, S. J. Davis, S. Iyer, R.W. Aldrich, S.J. Mihic, J.T. Pierce-Shimomura 37 Sensory molecules and mechanisms in C. elegans Bill Schafer 38 Sniffing Out Development of Chemotaxis Behavior Laura Hale, Eudoria Lee, Sreekanth Chalasani 39 Neuropeptides and dopamine regulate different behavioral components of non- associative odor learning Akiko Yamazoe, Kosuke Fujita, Yuichi Iino, Yuishi Iwasaki, Kotaro Kimura 40 Single Cell Mass Spectrometry of GABAergic Motor Neurons in the Nematode Ascaris Christopher Konop, Jennifer Knickelbine, India Viola, Colin Wruck, Martha Vestling, Antony Stretton 41 Transcriptional profiling of dissociated adult C. elegans neurons reveals specialized functions and memory components of Insulin/FOXO signaling Rachel Kaletsky, April Williams, Rachel Arey, Vanisha Lakhina, Jessica Landis, Coleen Murphy 42 Developmental history regulates olfactory behavior via RNAi pathways Jennie Sims, Maria Ow, Kyhyung Kim, Piali Sengupta, Sarah Hall 43 Variability in behavioral and neural responses to consistent stimulation Dirk Albrecht Presenter Underlined xv Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior C. elegans Topic Meeting 2014 44 A neural circuit for head-body coordination mediates decision making in C. elegans Ingrid Hums, Harris Kaplan, Fanny Mende, Julia Riedl, Ev Yemini, Michael Sonntag, Richard Latham, Lisa Traunmueller, Saul Kato, Manuel Zimmer 45 Optogenetic cAMP increase enhances transmitter release: depletion of docked and reserve synaptic vesicles, formation of endosomal structures and of putative compound vesicles Wagner Steuer Costa, Szi-chieh Yu, Jana Liewald, Alexander Gottschalk 46 Contrasting responses within a single neuron class enable sex-specific attraction in C. elegans Anusha Narayan, Vivek Venkatachalam, Omer Durak, Neelanjan Bose, Frank Schroeder, Aravinthan Samuel, Jagan Srinivasan, Paul Sternberg 47 Serotonin facilitates efficient foraging in non-uniform environments by mediating an instantaneous slowdown upon re-feeding Shachar Iwanir, Adam Brown, Dana Najjar, Meagan Palmer, Ivy Fitzgerald, David Biron 48 Matching of neuropeptide-receptor couples reveals ancient behavioral modulation by tachykinin signaling Isabel Beets, Lotte Frooninckx, Jan Watteyne, Elien Van Sinay, Olivier Mirabeau, Liliane Schoofs 49 An oscillatory motor circuit optimizes foraging gait in C. elegans Yu Shen, Quan Wen, Connie Zhong, Yuqi Qin, Aravinthan Samuel, Yun Zhang 50 Extracellular matrix components and axon guidance Cassandra Blanchette, Andrea Thackeray, Paola Perrat, Claire Bénard 51 Regulation of neural circuit formation by a Slit-independent Robo pathway Chia-Hui Chen, Dong Yan 52 The Male Anal Depressor Integrates Cell-autonomous Sex Hierarchy Signaling and Sex Specific Exogenous Signals to Achieve Sex differential Morphological and Functional Alterations in C. elegans Xin Chen, Luis Rene Garcia 53 Analysis of the ENU-3 protein family in nervous system development Roxana Florica, Victoria Hipolito, Homai Anvari, Chloe Rapp, Mehran Asgherian, Costin Antonescu, Marie Killeen 54 Amphid cells transiently organize into a supercellular rosette during morphogenesis Ismar Kovacevic, Zhirong Bao 55 Sensory neurons use epithelial mechanisms of morphogenesis to extend their dendrites Isabel I.C. Low, Claire R. Williams, Ian G. McLachlan, Irina Kolotuev, Maxwell G. Heiman 56 An integrated genetic and biochemical analysis of the Heparan sulfate code in Caenorhabditis elegans Kristian Saied-Santiago, Robert Townley, John Attonito, Carlos Díaz-Bálzac, Dayse Cunha, Hannes Buelow xvi Presenter Underlined Neuronal