Conference programme



Thursday 5th September 2024

TimeSession/ActivityVenue
8:30 - 9:00Arrival RefreshmentsGreat Hall
9:00 - 9:45Plenary Talk 6 - Lars Chittka - Social insects - ancient civilisations?
Chair: Carolina Rezaval
Bramall
9:45 - 10:30Session 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 BreakGreat 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 - 12:30Session 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 - 14:00Lunch and Posters
Great Hall 
13:00 - 14:00Practical workshop: Bridging Connectomics and transctiptomics
David Osumi-Sutherland

For more information on this workshop, please click here
G30
14:00 - 14:45Plenary Talk 7 - Bruno Van Swinderen - The predictive fly brain
Chair: Thomas Riemensperger
Bramall
14:45 - 15:30Session 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 - 16:15Talks 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 - 17:05Prizes Awarded for NeuroFly Bags and T-ShirtsGreat Hall 
17:05 - 19:00Poster Session with Refreshments 

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Great Hall
19:15 - 00:00  
Conference DinnerBotanical Gardens


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