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，成像和行为分析的综合力量，以解决神经生物学的基本问题，使用模式生物果蝇的进展。整个领域的一个驱动原则是，虽然低等果蝇似乎与人类没有什么共同之处，但它们却拥有许多相同的基因、分子和神经线路？尽管简单得多与脊椎动物。在果蝇遗传学一百年的研究基础上，果蝇神经生物学领域是一个新兴的领域，世界各地的许多实验室在该领域取得了重大进展。了解这些系统如何在果蝇中工作，对于我们阐明这些东西如何在高等动物中发挥作用的努力具有巨大的相关性，其后果包括我们如何看待人类的大脑进化和其他主要研究主题。许多研究技术，是开发用于在苍蝇有相当大的效用，在研究神经系统功能的脊椎动物和哺乳动物。会议的目的是提供一个论坛，汇集了在苍蝇神经生物学领域不同领域工作的不同科学家和年轻研究人员。

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.