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I'm here at the 12th European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference, in short Neurofly2008. I actually got here 3 days ago already. I had planned to blog from the meeting, but things have just been so hectic that I haven't had a chance to do any blogging at all. Incidentally, the meeting is in my home town of Würzburg in Germnay, which has contributed to the meeting becoming sort of hectic, trying to balance family an old friends with the conference schedule. Moreover, large time slots have been allotted to posters, and it's hard to blog when standing in front of a poster dodge.png
Now that the meeting is slowly drawing to a close, I've finally settled down enough to sit down and write a short post.
The meeting despite being on Drosophila fruit fly research alone, is extremely diverse and it's a real challenge to try and follow all the talks.
The first day was about (believe it or not!) diseases and aging with topics such as neuronal degeneration including models for Parkinson and Alzheimer's (fly mutants had such descriptive names as "swiss cheese"), the role of dopamine in ethanol-induced behaviors, or the neuroprotective effects of RNA Editing.
The second day was about the developmental biology of neuronal patterning and cell fate determination of neurons and glia with talks about the genetics of asymmetric cell division. neural stems cells, inter-segmental neuroblast lineage diversification, survival of differentiated motorneurons, cell singalling and adhesion and the organization of nervous system architecture, glial cel migration, the genetics of odorant receptor specification, or the role of the ecdyson receptor in mushroom body pruning.
The third day (yesterday) was all about channels: K and Ca channels in synaptogenesis, Ca homeostasis in the flight circuit, or G-Protein signalling in olfactory signal transduction. In the evening, there was the banquet dinner at the fortress of Würzburg, the Festung Marienberg. It's been a very pleasant evening with a delightful conclusion in a nearby bar, the Brauhaus. According to my personal observations, it is quite possible that some of the particpants may feel the physiological reminder of fine brew at this place this morning. fever.png
Today's program has two sessions, one of synapses (that's the one I'm sitting in right now) and one on circuits in the afternoon. Between these two sessions I will present my poster. Let's see if I find someone to record one presentation for a postercast! The day will end with the José Campos-Ortega memorial lecture by Bert Hölldobler of "The Ants" fame.
Maybe I'll find the time to cover some of what is going to happen on the last day (behavior) in another blog post, but don't count on it grin.png
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