MHC Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Hall Belvedere I-II 10:30-10:50 Isolation and characterization of uncle fester, an allorecognition molecule in a primitive chordate McKitrick T.R., De Tomaso A.W. 10:50-11:10 Transcriptomal shifts during allogeneic interactions of a colonial tunicate Oren M., Paz G., Douek J., Rosner A., Fishelson Z., Rinkevich B. 11:10-11:30 MHC class II associated invariant chain from nurse shark Criscitiello M.F., Ohta Y., Graham M.D., Buckingham E.B., Flajnik M.F. 11:30-11:50 Dichotomous trans-species haplotypic lineages of the immunoproteasome subunit genes, PSMB8 and PSMB10, in the MHC class I region of a teleost Oryzias genus Tsukamoto K., Nonaka M. 11:50-12:10 Genetic mapping of the major histocompatibility determinant loci of teleost medaka using scale transplantation Bannai H., Nonaka M.