Agenda for Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva

Schedule at a Glance

Sunday October 19th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Opening Remarks (Dining Room)
9:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's

Monday October 20th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 1: Sensory Systems: Smell and Taste
10:30 am Break and Group Photo
11:00 am Session 1 continued
12:00 pm Open Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Tour (optional)
2:00 pm Session 2: Sensory Systems: Light and Air
3:00 pm Break
4:00 pm Session 3: Sensory Systems: Somatic Senses
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Poster Reception

Tuesday October 21st
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 4: Motor Systems: Locomotion
10:10 am Break
10:40 am Session 5: Interneuron Classification and Specification
12:10 pm Open Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Session 6: Evolution and Tracking of Behavior
3:10 pm Open Discussion
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Session 7: Of Maggots and Worms: Comparative Analysis
9:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's

Wednesday October 22nd
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 8: Central Systems: Feeding and Neuropeptide Circuits
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Session 8 continued
11:10 am Final Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch (take out boxes from servery) and Departure
12:15 pm First shuttle to Dulles
1:00 pm Second shuttle to Dulles
1:45 pm Last shuttle to Dulles

Full Schedule

Sunday October 19th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Opening Remarks (Dining Room)
9:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's Pub

Monday October 20th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 1: Sensory Systems: Smell and Taste
Chair: Bertram Gerber
9:00 am - Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School
Olfactory processing in the adult Drosophila antennal lobe
9:30 am - Reinhard Stocker, University of Fribourg
The larval antennal lobe: mapping of ORN terminals and projection neuron dendrites
9:50 am - Liria Masuda-Nakagawa, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Stereotypic input into the larval mushroom body calyx revealed by odor- induced neuronal activity
10:10 am - Matthieu Louis, Center for Genomic Regulation
Sensory logic of odor perception in Drosophila larvae
10:30 am - Break and Group Photo
11:00 am - Session 1: (continued)
Chair: Reinhard Stocker
11:00 am - John Carlson, Yale University
Translation of chemosensory input into behavioral output
11:20 am - Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester
How maggots smell
11:40 am - Bertram Gerber, University of Wuerzburg
Smelling, tasting, learning in larval Drosophila
12:00 pm - Open Discussion
12:30 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - Tour (optional)
2:00 pm -Session 2: Sensory Systems: Light and Air
Chair: Dan Tracey
2:00 pm - Simon Sprecher, New York University
Distinct roles of larval photoreceptor subtypes in clock entrainment and photophobic behavior
2:20 pm - Joshua Ainsley, University of Iowa
Behavioral responses of Drosophila larvae to oxygen are mediated by sensory neurons expressing the Deg/ENaC PPK1
2:40 pm - David Morton, Oregon Health & Science University
Oxygen-sensitive guanylyl cyclases mediate the larval hypoxia escape response
3:00 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Session 3: Sensory Systems: Somatic Senses
Chair: Yuh-Nung Jan
4:00 pm - Yuh-Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco
Studies of the function of a group of Drosophila larval sensory neurons, the da neurons
4:30 pm - K. Vijayraghavan, National Centre for Biological Sciences
The development of motor neuron connectivity and its relationship to locomotion
4:50 pm - Marta Zlatic, Columbia University
Screen for neural substrates of stereotyped behaviors in Drosophila larva
5:10 pm - Dan Tracey, Duke University
Larval learning in response to nociceptive input from multidendritic neurons.
5:30 pm Open Discussion
6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Poster Reception

Tuesday October 21st
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 4: Motor Systems: Locomotion
Chair: Richard Baines
9:00 am - Michael Bate, University of Cambridge
The developmental origin of larval locomotion in Drosophila
9:30 am - Kendal Broadie, Vanderbilt University
Functional development of the neuromuscular junction synapse
9:50 am - Richard Baines, University of Manchester
Pumilio binds paralytic mRNA and regulates its translation to control neuron excitability
10:10 am - Break
10:40 am - Session 5: Interneuron Classification and Specification
Chair: Michael Bate
10:40 am - Julia Kaltschmidt, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Synaptic specificity during interneuron circuit assembly in the spinal cord
11:10 am - Chris Doe, University of Oregon/HHMI
Assembling a transcription factor/gal4 neuronal atlas for developmental analysis of neural circuits
11:30 am - Barry Condron, University of Virginia
A fast-searchable atlas of neuronal morphology of the fly larval abdominal CNS
11:50 am - Volker Hartenstein, University of California, Los Angeles
A developmental guide to compartmentalization of the Drosophila brain
12:10 - Open Discussion
12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Session 6: Evolution and Tracking of Behavior
Chair: Marta Zlatic
2:00 pm - Raul Godoy-Herrera, Universidad de Chile
The behavior of Drosophila larvae in the wild
2:30 pm - Deniz Erezyilmaz, Princeton University
Selection of pupariation sites among different species of Drosophila
2:50 pm - Aravi Samuel, Harvard University
Tracking behavior in freely moving Drosophila larvae
3:10 pm Open Discussion
3:30 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Poster Session
6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Session 7: Of Maggots and Worms: Comparative Analysis
Chair: Jim Truman
8:00 pm - Mario de Bono, Medical Research Council
Understanding how behavior evolves
8:30 pm - William Schafer, Medical Research Council
Quantitative analysis of behavioural phenotypes in C. elegans
9:00 pm - Refreshments available at Bob's

Wednesday October 22nd
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 8: Central Systems: Feeding and Neuropeptide Circuits
Chair: Michael Pankratz
9:00 am - Michael Pankratz, University of Bonn
Neural circuits controlling feeding behavior and metabolism in Drosophila
9:20 am - Eric Rulifson, University of California, San Francisco
Drosophila models for pancreatic islet-cell specification
9:40 am - Christian Wegener, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Morphological and neurochemical organisation of peptidergic systems in the larval ventral ganglion
10:00 am - Break
10:30 am - Amsale Belay, University of Toronto
Larval food-related behaviours and lipid metabolism governed by the foraging gene of Drosophila melanogaster
10:50 am - Ping Shen, University of Georgia
Mapping of molecular and neuronal pathways for sugar-stimulated avoidance and social interaction in Drosophila larvae
11:10 am - Final Discussion
12:00 pm - Lunch (take out boxes from servery) and Departure
12:15 pm - First shuttle to Dulles
1:00 pm - Second shuttle to Dulles
1:45 pm - Last shuttle to Dulles

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