Conference programme
Thursday 5th September 2024
| Time | Session/Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Arrival Refreshments | Great Hall |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary Talk 6 - Lars Chittka - Social insects - ancient civilisations? Chair: Carolina Rezaval | Bramall |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Session 10 - Gene expression and molecular neuroscience Chairs: Matthias Soller and Natalia Sanchez-Soriano 9:45 - 10:00 - Aaron Allen - Transcriptional diversity of rare cell types underlying sexually dimorphic behaviours. (O28) 10:00 - 10:15 - Guiyi Li - The Toll adaptor Wek is a partner of Yki driving adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis (O29) 10:15 - 10:30 - Francisco Antonio Martin - Searching for a conserved transcriptional memory trace (O30) | Bramall |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Break | Great Hall |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Session 11 - Gene expression and molecular neuroscience Chairs: Matthias Soller and Natalia Sanchez-Soriano 11:00 - 11:15 - Julie Secombe - Transcriptional regulation of neuronal development and function by the histone demethylase KDM5 (O31) 11:15 - 11:30 - Sophie Waldron - Single cell transcriptomics reveal molecular correlates of protein hunger. (O32) 11:30 - 11:45 - Lukas Neukomm - Local translation sustains synaptic function in impaired Wallerian degeneration (O33) | Bramall |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Session 12 - Neural circuits & behaviour Chairs: Thomas Riemensperger and Moshe Parnas 11:45 - 12:00 - Megan Day - Competition Fuels Risk-Taking by Inhibiting Threat-Induced Serotonin Pathways (O34) 12:00 - 12:15 - Anna Hobbiss - Actively Frozen - a novel pattern of leg muscle activity reveals flexible freezing states and anticipates movement onset in Drosophila melanogaster (O35) 12:15 - 12:30 - Dennis Goldschmidt - Multiple navigational strategies contribute to balancing exploration and exploitation during local search (O36) | Bramall |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and Posters | Great Hall |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Practical workshop: Bridging Connectomics and transctiptomics David Osumi-Sutherland For more information on this workshop, please click here | G30 |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Plenary Talk 7 - Bruno Van Swinderen - The predictive fly brain Chair: Thomas Riemensperger | Bramall |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Session 13 - Neural circuits & behaviour Chairs: Carolina Rezaval and Moshe Parnas 14:45 - 15:00 - Marion Silies - Heterogeneous synaptic connectivity in the visual system – causes and consequences (O37) 15:00 - 15:15 - Tihana Jovanic - Neural circuit mechanisms underlying flexible sensorimotor decisions in Drosophila (O38) 15:15 - 15:30 - Marta Costa - Comparing male and female connectomes to quantify stereotypy and sexual dimorphism (O39) | Bramall |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshment Break | Great Hall |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Talks by Sponsors 16:00 - 16:03 - Cairn Research 16:03 - 16:06 - DroBot Biotechnology Co., Ltd. 16:06 - 16:09 - RxCelerate 16:09 - 16:12 - Novogene Co., Ltd. | Bramall |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Session 14 - Neural circuits & behaviour Chairs: Carolina Rezaval and Moshe Parnas 16:15 - 16:30 - Davide Raccuglia - Sensory filtering in the tired and sleeping brain (O40) 16:30 - 16:45 - Cheng Huang - Dopamine-mediated interactions between short- and long-term memory dynamics in Drosophila Mushroom Body (O41) 16:45 - 17:00 - Ishaan Kapoor - Distributed Octopamine signalling prioritises expression of recently learned information (O42) | Bramall |
| 17:00 - 17:05 | Prizes Awarded for NeuroFly Bags and T-Shirts | Great Hall |
| 17:05 - 19:00 | Poster Session with Refreshments Click here to view today's posters | Great Hall |
| 19:15 - 00:00 | Conference Dinner | Botanical Gardens |
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