Daily Program

Talk and Presentation

• Patrik Verstreken / Synaptic autophagy in Parkinson’s disease
• Chi-Kuang Yao / Unconventional ER crosstalk between neurons and glia via extracellular vesicles
• Richa Rikhy / Mitochondrial fission function in gastrulation
• Luigi Zechini / Drosophila Mcr is a functional homologue of mammalian complement C5a and operates as a wound induced chemotactic signal to drive inflammatory cell recruitment to sites of sterile tissue damage
• Chien-Tzu Lin / Pickpocket channels mediate osmosensing in a pair of thirst neurons in Drosophila

Talk and Presentation

• Trudi Schupbach / Drosophila as a Model for Analysis of Rasopathy Phenotypes
• Louise Cheng / The Role of Adipose Phospholipids during Cancer Cachexia
• Yan Yan / Molecular Links Between Systemic Metabolism and Local Tumor Growth
• Daewon Lee / Energy Metabolism in Drosophila larval Hemocytes
• Ryusuke Niwa / Sex peptide governs its own replenishment via sex peptide receptor and serotonergic neuronal signaling in males across multiple Drosophila species

Talk and Presentation

• Santhosh Magesh / Compartment-specific axonal innervation of dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila mushroom body
• Phuong-Khanh Nguyen / Chinmo defines the region-specific oncogenic competence in the Drosophila central nervous system
• So Sakamura / Cellular Chirality Determines Lateral Polarity of Drosophila's Left-Right Brain Asymmetry
• Minh Nguyet Nguyen / dx and en, miRNA-92 family target genes, ameliorate tau-induced defects in the Drosophila model

Talk and Presentation

• Daisuke Hattori / A hierarchical dopamine circuit regulates locomotor initiation and persistence in Drosophila
• Chih-Ying Su / Day/night cycles regulate pheromone acuity to gate rhythmic courtship behavior
• Kuan-Lin Feng / Individualized decision making driven by long-term memory retrieval in Drosophila
• Do-Hyoung Kim / Long-term neuropeptide modulation of pC1 neurons and female sexual drive through pyrexia TRP channel
• Azusa Kamikouchi / Neuromodulation of hearing: Dopamine's role in the fruit fly auditory system
• Pei-Ju Chen / Characterizing contrast-opponent properties of the Drosophila medulla neuron Tm20

Talk and Presentation

• Cai Yu / A conserved role of Tra2 during insect spermatogenesis
• Olivia Majhi / Superoxide Dismutases maintain niche homeostasis in stem cell populations
• Hideyuki Komori  / N6-methyladenosine modification promotes exit from stemness in type II neuroblast progeny by facilitating decay of neuroblast gene transcripts
• Yuichiro Nakajima / BubR1 and Mad2 regulate intestinal stem cell dynamics to control adult midgut remodeling in Drosophila diapause
• Chi-Hung Lin / Niche-derived Stemness Signals Ensure Functionality of Ovarian Germline Stem Cells via the Control of Mitochondria

Talk and Presentation

• Aya Takahashi / Genomic insights into latitudinal divergence: reproductive diapause in Drosophila triauraria
• Ching-Ho Chang / Rapid protamine evolution suppresses meiotic drive in Drosophila
• Tzu-Yen Hsu / Low parthenogenetic capacity and long-term fertility costs in Drosophila albomicans
• Jia-Syuan Chen / Host-specific Acetobacter impact on Drosophila development and fitness

Talk and Presentation

• Hongyan Wang / Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Drosophila
• John Vaughen / Learning from Lysosomal Storage Disorders: Lipid Remodeling Sculpts Brain Development
• Ferdinand Koranteng / Acute Myeloid Leukemia progression in Drosophila is mediated by dMrtf-FGF8 signaling in hemocytes
• Daichi Honda / The Hippo tumor suppressor pathway triggers non-cell-autonomous tumorigenesis in Drosophila
• Po-Jen Wu / HP1a-mediated heterochromatin formation in macrophages promotes early cellular immune responses against systemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

Talk and Presentation

• Peter Soba / Neuromodulation on the fly: tools and challenges for understanding neural network function
• Hiromu Tanimoto / Conditional tagging of endogenous proteins reveals intracellular coordination of synaptic machineries
• Ya-Hui Chou / Keeping adult brains alive outside the body: an ex vivo platform for extended live imaging
• Shu Kondo / Expanding the limits of the GAL4/UAS system