CSHL 2015 Neurobiology of Drosophila Conference

 描述(由申请者提供)：本提案请求支持一个独特的国际会议，将于2015年在冷泉港举行两年一次的果蝇神经生物学会议，这是该系列的第16次会议。对于2015年的会议，组织者将会议的重点重新放在与NIH神经科学蓝图和大脑倡议的中心目标直接相关的主题上，特别是NINDS的使命，以及NICHD、NIDA、NIA和NIMH的使命。特别是，这次会议将探索在非常成功的模式系统果蝇黑腹果蝇中取得的最新进展，利用遗传学、分子生物学、细胞生物学、电生理学、成像和行为分析的综合力量来解决神经生物学中与人类健康和疾病直接相关的基本问题。会议将有七个口头环节：i)大脑、行为和进化；ii)感觉系统；iii)神经发展；iv)突触传递和可塑性；v)神经疾病的机制；vi)神经胶质生物学；vii)神经回路和高阶神经系统功能。将有三个海报会议展示从这些领域中的每一个领域提取的工作。此外，2015年会议的一项创新是包括分组研讨会，这些会议将以参与性活动为主，涵盖果蝇神经生物学家在所有职业阶段感兴趣的主题。最后，还将有一场全体会议的演讲，本泽演讲，将由莱斯利·格里菲斯博士发表，他是 神经生物学领域，其科学贡献从根本上改变了我们对行为的生化基础的理解。经前几位与会者投票表决，会议将保持中等规模(约430名与会者)，以促进讨论、交流思想和技术，并促进这一快速发展领域的新合作。将鼓励所有申请者提交一份摘要，大多数申请者 参赛者将发表演讲或海报。发言者将由会议领导人和会议组织者从会议前几个月提交的最及时和最有趣的摘要中挑选出来：这将确保所有演讲都涵盖最新的科学。如果会议超额认购，参会者将被选择包括至少一名来自每个参与实验室的代表。这次会议一直吸引着来自其职业生涯多个阶段的调查人员，并在促进年轻调查人员和女性的科学发展方面有着历史上的良好记录。为了鼓励初级研究人员的参与，一名研究生将发表埃尔金演讲，这是一项荣誉，授予自上次会议以来写出最好的博士论文的学生。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for a unique international meeting, the biennial Neurobiology of Drosophila conference at Cold Spring Harbor to be held in 2015, the 16th meeting in this series. For the 2015 edition, the organizers have refocused the meeting on topics of direct bearing on the central goals of the NIH Neuroscience Blueprint and BRAIN initiative, in particular the mission of NINDS, but also those of NICHD, NIDA, NIA and NIMH. In particular, this meeting will explore the latest advances that are being made in the highly successful model system the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster using the combined power of genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, electrophysiology, imaging, and behavioral analysis to address fundamental issues in neurobiology with direct relevance to human health and disease. The meeting will have seven oral sessions: i) Brain, Behavior and Evolution; ii) Sensory Systems; iii) Neural Development; iv) Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity; v) Mechanisms of Neurological Disease; vi) Glial Biology; and vii) Neural Circuits and Higher Order Nervous System Function. There will be three poster sessions presenting work drawn from each of these areas. In addition, an innovation for the 2015 meeting is the inclusion of breakout workshop sessions that will be dominated by participatory activities and cover topics of interest to Drosophila neurobiologists at all career stages. Finally, there will also be one plenary talk, the Benzer lecture, which will be given by Dr. Leslie Griffith, one of the leaders in the field of neurobiology, whose scientific contributions have fundamentally changed our understanding of the biochemical underpinnings of behavior. By vote of the previous participants, the meeting will remain of moderate size (~430 participants) in order to facilitate discussion, exchange of ideas and techniques, and to promote new collaborations in this rapidly-evolving field. All applicants will be encouraged to submit an abstract and the majority of participants will present a talk or poster. Speakers will be chosen by session leaders and meeting organizers from the most timely and interesting abstracts submitted a few months in advance of the conference: this will ensure that late-breaking science is covered in all of the talks. In the event that the conference is oversubscribed, participants will be chosen to include at least one representative from each participating laboratory. This meeting has always attracted investigators from across many stages of their careers, and has a historically excellent record of promoting the scientific development of younger investigators and women. To encourage participation by junior investigators, a graduate student will present the Elkin's Lecture, an honor given to the student who has written the best Ph.D. thesis since the previous meeting.