Conference programme



Friday 6th September 2024

TimeSession/ActivityVenue
8:30 - 9:00Arrival RefreshmentsGreat Hall
9:00 - 9:45Plenary Talk 8 - Gaia Tavosanis - Exploring the landscape in the mushroom body calyx
Chair: Matthias Landgraf
Bramall     
9:45 - 10:30Session 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 - 10:45Talks 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 - 11:15Refreshment BreakGreat 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 - 12:45Session 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 - 13:00Closing 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:

14:15 - 14:35 - Stephane De Brito (School of Psychology): "Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA)"
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


Contact us

Event Management Team, Great Hall, Aston Webb Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TT

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