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Insect Neuromodulators and Neuropeptides
April 26 - 29, 2009

Recent scientific advances in Drosophila and other insects have shown the significance of neuropeptides and other neurmodulators in the function of neural circuits. This meeting will focus on work from leading labs in the field.

  • ORGANIZERS:

    Paul Taghert, Washington University School of Medicine

    Jim Truman, HHMI/Janelia Farm

  • INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

    Mike Adams

    University of California, Riverside

    David Anderson

    California Institute of Technology

    Barry Dickson

    Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

    Ralph Greenspan

    The Neurosciences Institute

    Leslie Griffith

    Brandeis University

    Aike Guo

    Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Kyung-An Han

    Pennsylvania State University

    Charlotte Helfrich-Forster

    University of Regensburg

    Rob Jackson

    Tufts University

    Edward Kravitz

    Harvard Medical School

    Edwin Levitan

    University of Pittsburgh

    Dick Nassel

    Stockholm University

    Michael Nitabach

    Yale School of Medicine

    Michael Nusbaum

    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

    Diane O'Dowd

    HHMI / University of California, Irvine

    Michael O'Shea

    University of Sussex

    Hans-Joachim Pflueger

    Free University Berlin (Freie Universität) Berlin

    Joachim Schachtner

    Phillips-University of Marburg

    Paul Shaw

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Paul Taghert

    Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

    James Truman

    Janelia Farm Research Campus / HHMI

    Scott Waddell

    University of Massachusetts Medical School

    Benjamin White

    National Institutes of Health

    Troy Zars

    University of Missouri