Sunday

7th Oct

6pm

Opening reception & buffet dinner

8pm

Opening speaker - Barry Trimmer - “Soft bodies: from caterpillars to robots”

Monday

8th Oct

8:45-9:30

Plenary 1 - Chris Doe - “Development and function of locomotor circuits”

9:40-10:40

Motor & Sensory systems

9:40 Ellie Heckscher- How Even-skipped sculpts sensorimotor circuits in Drosophila larvae

10:00 Jonas Bittern - The influence of glia on larval locomotion

10:20 Rebecca Vaadia - Functional organization of a Drosophila proprioceptive system for feedback during locomotion

10:40-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-12:40

Motor & Sensory systems (cont.)

11:20 Dan Tracy - Direction selective responses of the proprioceptive Class I mechanosensory neurons require the mechanosensory ion channel TMC

11:40 Anton Miroschnikov - Convergence of monosynaptic and polysynaptic sensory paths on common motor outputs

12:00 Larisa Neagu-Maier - Taste coding principles in Drosophila larva

12:20 Nikolai Chapochnikov - Relating network connectivity, activity, and function in the larval antennal lobe

12:40-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:45

Poster session*

15:50-17:50

Behaviour

15:50 Aravi Samuel - The “hangry” fly larva: Internal state modulates network processing and switches olfactory preference in Drosophila larvae

16:10 Bing Ye - A neural representation of nociceptive perception in Drosophila larvae

16:30 Matthieu Louis - Sensorimotor control of chemotaxis in the Drosophila larva

16:50 Tihana Jovanic - Mapping neurons and brain regions underlying sensorimotor decisions and sequences

17:10 Michael Pankratz - Toward a complete feeding connectome

17:30 Jane Loveless - A neuromechanical model of larval exploration and chemotaxis

18:00-18:45

Keynote - Caterina Becker - “Development and Repair of Spinal Motor Circuits in the Zebrafish”

Free evening

Tuesday

9th Oct

8:45-9:30

Plenary 2 - Claire Eschbach - “Connectome and Learning in Drosophila larvae”

9:40-10:40

Learning and plasticity

9:40 Michael Schleyer - Characterization of an optogenetically activated dopaminergic reward signal

10:00 Kristina Klein - Neural circuits of classical and operant conditioning

10:20 Dennis Pauls - Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and Kenyon cells in the Drosophila larva

10:40-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-12:40

Learning and plasticity (cont.)

11:20 Bertram Gerber - Timing-dependent valence-reversal: An across-species principle of reinforcement processing?

11:40 Kazuo Emoto - Molecular and cellular basis for neural remodeling

12:00 Birgit Michels - Memory enhancement by ferulic acid ester across species

12:20-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Poster session*

15:00-16:00

Round table discussion: Maggots in outreach and education

16:10-17:50

Methods and tools - sponsored by NIKON

16:10 Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata - Recording neural activity in unrestrained animals with 3D tracking two-photon microscopy

16:30 Andi Thum - The larval standard brain: The reconstruction of the larval memory center at cellular and synaptic resolution

16:50 Astrid Rohwedder - Brainbase- a larval Standard Brain online resource

17:10 Rob Court - Virtual Fly Brain

17:30 Claudio Alonso - The impact of microRNA regulation on behaviour

18:00-18:45

Keynote - Philip Tovote - "Defense reaction circuits in the mammalian brain"

20:00-22:00

Conference dinner at Spoon

Wednesday

10 Oct

9:00-9:45

Keynote - Lucia Prieto-Godino - “Evolutionary tales of olfactory receptors”

10:00-10:40

Development and Evolution

10:00 Tomoko Ohyama - Changes in circuit motif during evolution of a species specific -   behavior

10:20 Peter Soba - Maintenance of circuit integrity and function during larval development

10:40-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-12:20

Development and Evolution (cont.)

11:20 Akinao Nose - Embryonic development of the motor circuits in Drosophila: emergence of coordinated neural activities and the role of sensory feedback

11:40 Richard Baines - Identification of a critical period required to tune the larval motor network

12:00 Jim Truman - Metamorphosis:  coping with the "two mind - two body" problem

12:20-12:40

Closing discussion

Bibi Nusreen Imambocus

Neuropeptidergic control of internal state dependent action selection

Tadao Usui

Information processing in Drosophila nociceptive sensory and central nervous system

Radostina Lyutova

Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and Kenyon cells in the Drosophila larva

Xiangsunze Zeng

Proprioceptive experience regulates formation of functional locomotor circuits via transient gap junctions

Nino Mancini

Structure and function of the anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron in larval Drosophila

Naoko Toshima

Appetitive and aversive learning of amino acids in larval Drosophila

Kai Li

Elucidation of neural circuit mechanism integrating noxious stimulus and ambient temperature sensation in Drosophila

Carlo Giachello

Nitric oxide controls tuning of larval motor circuits during a critical period in embryogenesis

Michael Winding

Towards the complete connectome of the larval central brain

Mason Klein

Dissecting the exploration and navigation strategies of individual larvae over short and long time scales

Hiroshi Kohsaka

A modular structure in premotor circuits for bidirectional axial locomotion

Radostina Lyutova

Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and Kenyon cells

Quan Yuan

Temporal control of inhibition generates ON and OFF selectivity in Drosophila larval visual circuit

Nadine Randel

Circuit mechanisms for behavioral choice

Evripidis Gkanias

 Imitating Drosophila larval learning behaviour on a robot

Sebastian Hückesfeld

Connectome of the Neuroendocrine System in Drosophila Larvae:  - New Sensory Relay-Pathways

Andreas Schoofs

Food swallowing in Drosophila larva

Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

Octopamine regulates behavioral odor discrimination in Drosophila larva

Kristina Klein

Neural circuits of classical and operant conditioning

Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata

Recording neural activity in unrestrained animals with 3D tracking two-photon microscopy

Nikolaos Polizos

The use of temperature to facilitate associative learning and memory retention in Drosophila larvae

Alastair Garner

Interneuron populations coordinating locomotor behaviour in D. melanogaster larvae

Mari Pagli

Silencing of Drosophila ortholog of TCF4 leads to behavioral impairment

Alex McLachlan

Functional Studies on the Mechanisms of Regulation of Sensory Discrimination in the Mushroom Body Calyx of Drosophila Larvae