Conference programme
Tuesday 3rd September 2024
| Time | Session/Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Arrival Refreshments | Great Hall |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary Talk 2 - Florence Besse - Regulating RNA in the spatial dimension in the Drosophila brain Chair: Matthias Soller | Bramall |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Session 2 - Developmental and cellular neuroscience Chairs: Guy Tear and Vilaiwan Fernandes 9:45 - 10:00 - Samuel Vernon - Spontaneous neurotransmitter release is regulated by Unc-5 (O4) 10:00 - 10:15 - Dario Lasser - Molecular mechanisms controlling microtubule organization and abundance at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (O5) 10:15 - 10:30 - Lora Fahdan - A systematic exploration of the intrinsic mechanisms controling axon growth during development (O6) | Bramall |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Break | Great Hall |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Session 3 - Developmental and cellular neuroscience Chairs: Yun Fan and Vilaiwan Fernandes 11:00 - 11:15 - Johann Markovitsch - Never too late to get it right: Dynamic adhesion between lineage-related neurons organizes Drosophila brain circuit asymmetry. (O7) 11:15 - 11:30 - Elisabeth Kamper - The role of thioredoxin peroxidase in the developing Drosophila CNS during oxidative stress (O8) 11:30 - 11:45 - Suchet Nanda - Kon-RTK crosstalk controls the development of axon wrapping glia in Drosophila (O9) | Bramall |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Session 4 - Brain Homeostasis & Metabolism Chairs: Yun Fan and Gaynor Smith 11:45 - 12:00 - Celia Barredo - The conserved AstA/Ptth neuroendocrine axis is required for starvation resistance in adult Drosophila (O10) 12:00 - 12:15 - Diana Knoblochova - Ecdysteroid signaling in energy metabolism and obesity development in flies on high-calorie diets (O11) 12:15 - 12:30 - Thomas Vaccari - Hecw controls neuronal homeostasis by promoting the liquid state of ribonucleoprotein particles and autophagy (O12) | Bramall |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and Posters | Great Hall |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Early Career Workshop Chairs: Carolina Rezaval and Natalia Sanchez Soriano Anissa Kempf (Universität Basel) Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield) Lisa Scheunemann (Freie Universität Berlin) | Bramall |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Plenary Talk 3 - Irene Miguel-Aliaga - Gut feelings Chair: Yun Fan | Bramall |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Session 5 - Brain Homeostasis & Metabolism Chairs: Matthias Landgraf and Gaynor Smith 14:45 - 15:00 - Pierre-Yves Plaçais - Diverting glial glycolytic flux towards mushroom body neurons: a memory-fueling role of CRH-like neuropeptide signalling (O13) 15:00 - 15:15 - Joseph Bateman - The neurological basis of mitochondrial stress signalling (O14) 15:15 - 15:30 - Jingyi Long - A conserved epilepsy-associated gene co-expression module in Drosophila converges on increased AMPK signaling (O15) | Bramall |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshment Break | Great Hall |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Talks by Sponsors 16:00 - 16:05 - Biologix Limited 16:05 - 16:10 - Qidong Fungene Biotechnology Co., Ltd 16:10 - 16:13 - Andor 16:13 - 16:16 - BFKLab | Bramall |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Session 6 - Brain Homeostasis & Metabolism Chairs: Thomas Riemensperger and Gaynor Smith 16:15 - 16:30 - Pierre-yves Musso - Taste regulation of immunity (O16) 16:30 - 16:45 - Ellen McMullen - Metabolic regulation of the central nervous system during infection (O17) 16:45 - 17:00 - Nina Surina - A novel trehalose sensor to study carbohydrate transport kinetics in the nervous system (O18) | Bramall |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Business Meeting | Bramall |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Poster Session with Refreshments | Great Hall |