Conference: 2011 CSHL Conference on Neurobiology of Drosophila, Cold Spring Harbor, NY Oct. 3-7, 2011

本次果蝇神经生物学会议的重点是利用遗传学、分子生物学、生物化学、细胞生物学、电生理学、成像和行为分析的联合力量来解决使用模式生物黑腹果蝇的神经生物学中的基本问题。整个领域的一个驱动原则是，卑微的果蝇虽然看起来与人类没有什么共同之处，但却有许多相同的基因、分子和神经线路。尽管要简单得多？脊椎动物。蝇类神经生物学领域建立在一百年来对蝇类遗传学研究的基础上，是一个新兴的领域，世界上许多实验室在该领域取得了重大进展。了解果蝇的这些系统如何工作，对我们阐明这些东西在高等动物中如何运作有着巨大的相关性，其结果包括我们如何看待大脑进化和人类研究的其他主要主题。许多用于苍蝇的研究技术在脊椎动物和哺乳动物的神经系统功能研究中具有相当大的实用性。会议的目的是提供一个论坛，汇集不同群体的科学家和年轻的研究人员在苍蝇神经生物学领域的不同领域工作。

This Neurobiology of Drosophila conference focuses on advances made using the combined power ofgenetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, electrophysiology, imaging, and behavioral analysis to address fundamental issues in neurobiology using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. A drivingprinciple of the entire field is that the lowly fruit fly, while seeming to have little in common with humans, shares many of the same genes, molecules and neural wiring ?albeit far simpler ? with vertebrate animals. Building on one hundred years of research in fly genetics, the fly neurobiology field is a burgeoning field of endeavor with many laboratories around the world making significant advances in the field. Understanding how these systems work in Drosophila has enormous relevance to our efforts to elucidate how these things function in higher animals, with consequences including how we think about brain evolution and other major themes of research in humans. Many of the research techniques that are developed for use in the fly have considerable utility in research into nervous system function in vertebrates and mammals. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to bring together a diverse group of scientists and young investigators working in different areas of the field of fly neurobiology.