Over here, we're all getting ready for this year's Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Chicago. This time around we will have three posters at the meeting: 

1. Pflüger, HJ.; Vierk, R.; Kononenko, NL.; Brembs, B.; Stocker, B and Duch, C. (2009): Modulatory function of octopamine and tyramine in insects. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 178.8
2. Brembs, B. and van Swinderen, B. (2009): Attention deficit and hyperactivity in a Drosophila memory mutant. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 478.3
3. Rentinck, M.N.; Beuster, B. and Brembs, B. (2009): Mechanisms of plasticity in simple taxis behaviors in Drosophila. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 580.13

Just in case you're there and would like to have a look at one or all of them We're in the process of putting the posters together and I hope to have at least two of them ready for download before I leave for the meeting.
One poster is particularly noteworthy: Rentinck et al., the thid on the list. It clearly states in the title and the abstract that the experiments are done in Drosophila, a fruit fly. Yet, the session organizers at SfN insisted on keeping it in this session:
580. Executive Function: Rodent Models of Flexible Behavior
Tue, Oct 20, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In several attempts, I tried to point this out to the organizers (unfortunately, I don't know who they are so I had to use their generic email), but it was never corrected. Here are some of the replies I received on the multiple occasions: After receiving a couple of these responses, I gave up. With any luck, there will be more Drosophila posters in this rodent session and the two undergraduates presenting this poster will not stand completely alone by their poster when the session is running.

UPDATE: I just noticed that there is yet another mistajke with this poster abstract. When you click on the link above to view the abstract, it doesn't show the figure that was supposed to go below the abstract. Apparently, they screwed up the URL to the figure, because when you convert all the backslashes to forward-slashes, the image displayes correctly:



Tststs, that's a lot of mistakes for a single poster. I hope for the undergrads that everything else will run smoothly...