Conference programme
Friday 6th September 2024
| Time | Session/Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Arrival Refreshments | Great Hall |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary Talk 8 - Gaia Tavosanis - Exploring the landscape in the mushroom body calyx Chair: Matthias Landgraf | Bramall |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Session 15 - Plasticity and Remodelling Chairs: Matthias Landgraf and Christa Rhiner 9:45 - 10:00 - Medha Raman - Glutamate receptors interact with transcription factors to regulate synaptic scaling (O43) 10:00 - 10:15 - Cathy Gouelle - The putative monocarboxylate transporter CG8028 regulates synaptic activity through glutamate receptors at the postsynapse (O44) 10:15 - 10:30 - Sayaka Eno - Octopamine signaling regulates intracellular active zone heterogeneity depending on nutritional states (O45) | Bramall |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Talks by Sponsors 10:30 - 10:33 - Pavel Itskov 10:33 - 10:36 - PHCbi 10:36 - 10:39 - WellGenetics 10:39 - 10:42 - Zanitiks 10:42 - 10:45 - Zeiss | Bramall |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Refreshment Break | Great Hall |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Session 16 - Plasticity and Remodelling Chairs: Alicia Hidalgo and Christa Rhiner 11:15 - 11:30 - Maria Fernanda Ceriani - (Ultra) structural plasticity in adult pacemaker neurons (O46) 11:30 - 11:45 - Sofia Bandao - Homeostatic feedbacks at central synapses support background invariant odor representations (O47) 11:45 - 12:00 - Andrew C Lin - Contradictory homeostatic plasticity in an inhibitory feedback circuit (O48) | Bramall |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Session 17 - Plasticity and Remodelling Chairs: Alicia Hidalgo and Christa Rhiner 12:00 - 12:15 - Chien-Chun Chen - Sleep Deprivation Impairs Pattern Separation and Neural Coding in the mushroom body of Drosophila melanogaster (O49) 12:15 - 12:30 - Büşra Coban - Unlocking Visual Pathways: Enhanced Visual Learning Through Olfactory Deprivation in Drosophila (O50) 12:30 - 12:45 - Anna Parsons - The Toll adaptor Wek drives regenerative neurogenesis following CNS injury (O51) | Bramall |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Closing Remarks and
announcing Neurofly2026 Chair: Alicia Hidalgo | Bramall |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Neurofly2024 and Birmingham
Centre for Neurogenetics Social Lunch - All Welcome | Great Hall |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Birmingham Centre for Neurogenetics launch 14:00-14:15 - Opening Address by Prof Bill Bloss, Head of LES, to inaugurate the Centre. Scientific taster from across our community: 14:35-14:55 - Carolina Rezaval (School of Biosciences): "Is love blind? Mating proximity blinds threat perception" 14:55- 15:15 - Zubair Ahmed (Neuroscience & Opthalmology, Medical Health Sciences): "Inhibiting components of the DNA damage pathway promotes functional recovery after CNS injury in Drosophila and rodents" 15:15-15:30 - Closing address by the Directors and keeping in touch: Alicia Hidalgo (Biosciences), Daniel Fulton (CMH) and Stephane De Brito (Psychology) | Bramall |