Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva
This meeting was the continuation of the "Maggot Meeting" series. Containing about 10,000 neurons, the nervous system of the Drosophila larva is complex enough to provide insights into the organizational principles of larger nervous systems, yet the relatively small numbers of cells in larvae provide distinct advantages over adults for linking behavior to underlying neural circuits. There have been rapid advances in EM reconstruction of larval circuits and in the generation of light-level atlases of larval neurons that are linked to specific genetic driver lines. At the same time, recently developed methods enable high resolution and high-throughput characterization of a range of larval behaviors. This high level of anatomical resolution, coupled with a growing set of genetic tools available in Drosophila and fine-detail behavioral analysis, makes the fly larva an excellent model system for moving from neural circuits to behavior. This meeting provided a timely updating of advances in the study of larval behavioral neurogenetics.
Organizers
James Truman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Marta Zlatic, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Michael Bate, University of Cambridge
Jimena Berni, University of Cambridge
Albert Cardona, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Barry Condron, University of Virginia
Chris Doe, HHMI/University of Oregon
Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN)
Raul Godoy-Herrera, Universidad de Chile
Yuh-Nung Jan, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Matthias Landgraf, Cambridge University
Matthieu Louis, Center for Genomic Regulation
Liria Masuda-Nakagawa, University of Cambridge
David Morton, Oregon Health & Science University
Akinao Nose, University of Tokyo
Michael Pankratz, University of Bonn
Aravi Samuel, Harvard University
Ping Shen, University of Georgia
Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto
Simon Sprecher, University of Fribourg
Andreas Thum, University of Konstanz
Dan Tracey, Duke University
Hongyan Wang, Duke NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Fengwei Yu, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
