2005 CSHL Conference on Neurobiology of Drosophila, Cold Spring Harbor; October 5-9, 2005

关于“果蝇神经生物学”的会议将召集一组初级和高级科学家讨论神经科学的最新进展，这些进展是在一个非常成功的模型系统中取得的，果蝇是黑腹果蝇。2005年会议是第11届两年一度的国际会议，集中讨论遗传学、分子生物学、生物化学、细胞生物学、电生理学、成像和行为分析的综合力量对神经生物学基本问题的影响。这种简单的有机体很容易研究，所取得的许多进展与人类神经系统有关。 所涵盖的主题将从分子生物学到复杂行为，包括：神经细胞规范，轴突指导和目标识别，突触功能，神经生理学，神经元细胞生物学和病理学，以及复杂行为（例如，昼夜节律和学习和记忆）。 根据先前与会者的投票，会议将保持适度规模（430名与会者），以促进讨论、交流想法和技术，并促进在这一迅速发展的领域开展新的合作。 我们鼓励所有申请人提交摘要，大多数参与者将发表演讲或展示海报。演讲者将从会议前几个月提交的最及时和最有趣的摘要中选出，以确保所有演讲都涵盖了最新的科学。 如果会议报名过多，将选择参加者，其中至少包括每个参与实验室的一名代表。 这次会议有突出年轻调查人员和妇女工作的既定历史。

The conference on the "Neurobiology of Drosophila" will convene a group of junior and senior scientists to discuss the latest advances in the neurosciences that are being made in a highly successful model system, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The 2005 conference is the 11th biennial international meeting in a series that focuses on the advances made as the combined power of genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, electrophysiology, imaging and behavioral analysis are brought to bear on fundamental problems in neurobiology. This simple organism can be easily studied and many advances that are made are relevant to the human nervous system. The topics covered will range from molecular biology to complex behavior and include: nerve cell specification, axon guidance and target recognition, synaptic function, neurophysiology, neuronal cell biology and pathology, and complex behavior (for example, circadian rhythms and learning and memory). By vote of the previous participants, the meeting will remain of moderate size (430 participants) 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 either give a talk or present a poster. The speakers will be chosen from the most timely and interesting abstracts submitted a few months in advance of the conference, to 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 conference has an established history of highlighting the work of younger investigators and women.