| Presenting Author | Abstract Title | Talk/Poster | 
 
  
| Ackerman, Sarah D | Astrocytes close a motor  circuit critical period | talk | 
  
| Adel, Mohamed | Establishing an ex vivo model for aversive associative learning in fruit flies | poster | 
  
  
| Agrawal, Sweta | Central encoding of  proprioception | poster | 
 
  
| Aimino, Michael | Distinct olfactory neuron  classes of the antennal lobe differ in their temporal and molecular  strategies of synaptic development | poster | 
 
  
| Akin, Orkun | Synapse formation depends  on activity coordinated by a discrete neuronal population | poster | 
 
  
| Akpoghiran, Oghenerukevwe | TARANIS interacts with  PDP1 and VRI to modulate the pace of the circadian clock in a  temperature-dependent manner | poster | 
 
  
| Alegria, Andrew D | Multiscale,  multi-perspective imaging assisted robotic microinjection of Drosophila melanogaster embryos | talk | 
 
  
| Aleman, Abigail | Opposing subclasses of Drosophila ellipsoid body neurons  promote and suppress sleep | poster | 
 
  
| Alpert, Michael H | Cellular and circuit  mechanisms underlying thermosensory adaptation in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Andretic Waldowski, Rozi | Cocaine influences social  interaction networks in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Andriatsilavo, Maheva | Uncovering the precise  spatio-temporal dynamic of inter and intra axon selection during development  using deep intravital imaging | poster | 
 
  
| Anreiter, Ina | The Drosophila foraging gene plays a vital role at the start of  metamorphosis for subsequent adult emergence | poster | 
 
  
| Arain, Urfa | Long-range temporal  patterning of medulla neuroblasts couples neurogenesis to circuit assembly | poster | 
 
  
| Araújo, Sofia | Modulating dendritic arborisation and axon guidance by changing neuronal centrosome numbers  | poster | 
 
  
| Ash, Meagan | Drosophila larval burrowing—A  parasitoid avoidance behavior? | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Au, David | Mosquito cryptochrome is  a well-conserved key photoreceptor for light-mediated behaviors in flies | talk | 
 
  
| Baker, Christa A | Divergence in the role of  fruitless in specifying male  courtship behaviors in Drosophila  virilis | talk | 
 
  
| Baladron de Juan, Pablo | ventral veins lacking (vvl), a common  factor for Notch and Abd-B programmed cell death pathways in Va-Capa neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Bali, Namrata | Low affinity interactions  between IgSF cell-surface proteins shape Drosophila  larval neuromuscular junctions | poster | 
 
  
| Bali, Namrata | Sticks and Stones, a  conserved cell surface ligand for the Type IIa RPTP Lar, regulates neural  circuit wiring in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Banerjee, Soumya | Miniature neurotransmission  is essential for synaptic maintenance during aging | talk | 
 
  
| Barajas Azpeleta, Raquel | Beefeater, a conserved neuronal  gene that modulates protein appetite and its physiological consequences | poster | 
 
  
| Bedont, Joseph L | Short and long sleeping  mutants reveal links between sleep and macroautophagy | talk | 
 
  
| Beigaite, Egle | Tmem184b is required for  proper locomotion and excitability in Drosophila   | poster | 
 
  
| Bellemer, Andrew | Connectomics in the  classroom—Introducing students to neuroscientific principles using the Drosophila female adult fly brain  electron microscopy data set | poster | 
 
  
| Bengochea, Mercedes | Counting flies—Evidence  of numerical discrimination in Drosophila  melanogaster  | talk | 
 
  
| Bittern, Jonas | The role of glia in  regulating speed and precision of neuronal signaling | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Bradlaugh, Adam | Free FAD and the  CRYPTOCHROME C-terminus act as a magnetoreceptor in Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Brand, Philipp | The influence of  ecological specialization on Drosophila  courtship evolution—A comparative analysis | talk | 
 
  
| Brezovec, Luke E | Revealing the brain-wide  neural dynamics of Drosophila  locomotion | talk | 
 
  
| Byrns, China | AP1 promotes glial senescence in age, injury, and disease | poster | 
 
  
| Carreira-Rosario, Arnaldo | Mechanosensory input  during circuit formation shapes motor behavior through patterned spontaneous  network activity | talk | 
 
  
| Cavanaugh, Dan | DN1p clock neurons sculpt  locomotor outputs but are dispensable for circadian rest:activity rhythms | poster | 
 
  
| Chen, Dahong | Temporal regulation of  neuronal remodeling by a chromatin anti-looping factor | talk | 
 
  
| Chen, Hsueh-Ling  (Charlene) | Genetic dissection of  physiological properties of local interneurons in the Drosophila larval visual circuit | poster | 
 
  
| Chen, Yang | Dissecting the neural  circuit basis of non-visual cue-driven spatial learning of Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Chen, Yu-Chieh David | Codes of cell surface  proteins coordinate stochastic and deterministic cell fates during Drosophila color vision circuit  assembly | poster | 
 
  
| Cheong, Han S | An ascending  histaminergic circuit connects wing motor output to auditory processing | poster | 
 
  
| Chien, Chun | Autocrine inhibition by a  glutamate-gated chloride channel mediates presynaptic homeostatic depression | talk | 
 
  
| Chithran, Aarya  Vaikakkara | Axon guidance genes are  critical for the maintenance of neural circuits | talk | 
 
  
| Clarembaux, Luis C | Characterization of the Drosophila IgLON protein Lachesin in  neuronal specification | poster | 
 
  
| Coban-Poppinga, Busra | The caloric value of food  influences the connectivity of mushroom body-related modulatory dopaminergic  neurons in the Drosophila brain | poster | 
 
  
| Connolly, Elizabeth | Regenerative neurogenic  response from glia requires insulin-driven neuron-glia communication | poster | 
 
  
| Cordoba, Sergio | Genetic control of  neuronal migration in the Drosophila  optic lobe | poster | 
 
  
| Corthals, Kristina | Characterization of the  humidity receptor neurons in Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Coulson, Bramwell | Characterising the  effects of critical period activity perturbation on the Drosophila larval locomotor network | poster | 
 
  
| Cunningham, Karen L | Regulation of voltage  gated calcium channel abundance at Drosophila  active zones | poster | 
 
  
| Dallmann, Chris J | Proprioceptive coding of  natural leg movements in Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Das, Gaurav | The ‘DIETS’ assay—direct  intake estimation and long-term tracking of solid  food choice in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Davis, Shaun M | Risk of predation alters  fly oviposition behaviors | poster | 
 
  
| De Queiroz, Bruna | The role of local RNA  translation in long-term memory formation | poster | 
 
  
| Deal, Samantha | Identifying novel  evolutionarily conserved regulators of dopamine dynamics using a forward  genetic screen in Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| DeGennaro, Matthew J | Attractive and repellent  social cues are used during mosquito oviposition-site seeking | talk | 
 
  
| Demir, Mahmut | Dynamic switch between ON  and OFF responses in an olfactory receptor neuron | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Depetris Chauvin, Ana | A neuroethological  approach to odor valence in flies across the Drosophila genus | talk | 
 
  
| DePew, Alison T | The cell surface receptor  LRP4 is essential for multiple aspects of synaptic development | talk | 
 
  
| Devineni, Anita V | Integration and  segregated processing in the taste circuit | talk | 
 
  
| Dey, Manali | An inhibitory pathway for  high salt rejection in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Dickman, Dion | Presynaptic glutamate  release adaptively modulates postsynaptic receptor abundance | poster | 
 
  
| Dombrovski, Mark | Circuit wiring strategies  underlying visuomotor transformation in Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Dopp, Joana | Cells sleep  differently—The sleeping fruit fly at single cell resolution | talk | 
 
  
| Dorkenwald, Sven M | FlyWire—Online community  for whole-brain connectomics | talk | 
 
  
| Dresselhaus, Erica C | Biogenesis of neuronal  exosomes via ESCRT machinery | poster | 
 
  
| Du, Chengcheng | Social experience and  pheromone receptor activity reprogram behavioral switch gene splicing and  neuromodulatory gene expression in sensory neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Duan, Qichen | Organizing the Drosophila olfactory circuits by  interacting Ig superfamily adhesion molecules | poster | 
 
  
| Dubey, Sandeep | Nucleoporins are degraded  via upregulation of ESCRT-III/Vps4 complex in a Drosophila model of C9-ALS/FTD | poster | 
 
  
| Duckhorn, Julia | Regulation of sexually  dimorphic abdominal courtship behaviors in Drosophila by the Dissatisfaction nuclear receptor | poster | 
 
  
| Duhart, Jose M | Food quality modulates  the balance between sleep and post-mating behaviors in Drosophila females | poster | 
 
  
| Dunham, Kelly E | Real-time antidepressant  characterization in Drosophila—Differences  in serotonin reuptake and extracellular concentrations suggest unique  vesicular release mechanisms | poster | 
 
  
| Dutta, Suchetana | Establishment of wiring  specificity through endolysosomal synaptic stabilization during a critical  period of developmental circuit wiring | talk | 
 
  
| Dweck, Hany | Evolutionary shifts in  taste coding in the fruit pest Drosophila  suzukii | poster | 
 
  
| Dyson, Alex | ASD-associated NF1  regulates synaptic transmission at the Drosophila  larval neuromuscular junction | poster | 
 
  
| Eichler, Katharina | A complete morphological  description of the Drosophila  melanogaster neck connective | poster | 
 
  
| Elliott, Amicia D | Understanding motor  sequence generation across spatiotemporal scales | poster | 
 
  
| Ender, Anatoli | Investigating putative  pacemaker currents of R5 neurons in Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Farnworth, Max | Sequence heterochrony in  insect evolution—A fly-beetle insight | talk | 
 
  
| Fernandez Hernandez,  Ismael | Neural regeneration in  adult Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Fisher, Yvette E | Dopaminergic modulation  of plasticity in the Drosophila  compass network | poster | 
 
  
| Francisco, Ana Patricia T | marmite, a new conserved  neuropeptide mediates protein-specific satiety | talk | 
 
  
| Frank, C. Andrew | Chaperones HSP26 and 27  promote the induction of homeostatic synaptic plasticity by regulating  protein aggregates | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Frank, C. Andrew | Mitochondrial complex I  controls NMJ function and plasticity through distinct pre- and postsynaptic  mechanisms | poster | 
 
  
| French, Alice S | Sensory processing during  sleep in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Fukumasu, Kazushi | Spatial configuration of  synaptic population activities underlying the generation of larval motor  patterns | talk | 
 
  
| Gattuso, Hannah C | A continuous RNN model of  locomotor control during olfactory navigation in adult Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Gibson, Shelley B | Investigating Hippo  signaling as a novel regulator of dopamine levels in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Gohl, Daryl | Genetic barcoding for  single cell transcriptomics and population behavioral assays | talk | 
 
  
| Goldschmidt, Dennis | Identifying neural  circuits mediating the exploration-exploitation trade-off in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Gong, Naihua N | Intrinsic maturation of  sleep output neurons regulates sleep ontogeny | poster | 
 
  
| Gonzalez-Segarra, Amanda | Using the female adult  fly brain electron microscopy volume to identify neurons that coordinate  sugar and water ingestion | poster | 
 
  
| Gosling, Rory | Maintenance of axonal  morphology during aging is regulated by the microtubule cytoskeleton | poster | 
 
  
| Gosney, Chelsea | The olfactory circuit of Drosophila pseudoobsura is  specialized to detect alpha-pinene | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Gruntman, Eyal | Non-preferred contrast  responses in the Drosophila motion  pathways reveal a receptive field structure that explains a common visual  illusion | poster | 
 
  
| Hamid, Aisha | Developmental programs  governing the specification of Helicon cells, a major component of Drosophila  sleep-wake circuit | poster | 
 
  
| Han, Yifu | A glutamate receptor  C-tail recruits CaMKII to suppress retrograde homeostatic signaling | poster | 
 
  
| Han, Yifu | Synaptic silencing by  botulinum toxin reveals no heterosynaptic plasticity between tonic and phasic  inputs in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Heckman, Emily L | Establishment of  dendritic synaptic specificity through axon guidance cues | poster | 
 
  
| Heim, Michael-Marcel | Dopaminergic auto  receptor signaling in dopaminergic neurons of the fly | poster | 
 
  
| Henderson, Jake E | Differential expression  of the roundabout 3 (Robo3) guidance receptor regulates interneuron dendrite  morphogenesis in Drosophila  melanogaster somatosensory circuit development | poster | 
 
  
| Hidalgo, Alicia | Structural plasticity by Drosophila neurotropin 2 modifies  dopamine-dependent behaviour | poster | 
 
  
| Himmel, Nathaniel J | Chloride-dependent  mechanisms of multimodal sensory discrimination—Roles for subdued, koozie, and excitatory chloride physiology in Drosophila cold nociception | poster | 
 
  
| Holguera, Isabel | Linking neurogenesis and  connectivity—How temporal patterning instructs circuit formation in the Drosophila optic lobe | poster | 
 
  
| Holtz, Stephen L | Functional  specializations in Johnston's organ neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Hu, Yujia | LabGym—Automatically and  accurately categorize and quantify lab animal behaviors | poster | 
 
  
| Hunter, Iain | The Drosophila larval locomotor circuit as a model for other neural  networks | poster | 
 
  
| Inami, Show | Sleep induction by  sensory stimulation | poster | 
 
  
| Iyengar, Atulya | Fly seizure EEG—Field  potential activity in the Drosophila brain | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Izadifar, Azadeh | Dissecting a conserved  signaling network regulating developmental axon branching and adult axon  maintenance | talk | 
 
  
| Jaszczak, Jacob | Steroid hormone signaling  activates thermal nociception during Drosophila  peripheral nervous system development | poster | 
 
  
| Jefferis, Gregory | The circuit basis of  olfactory mate recognition and localisation | poster | 
 
  
| Jetti, Suresh K | Molecular logic of  functional synaptic diversity in Drosophila  tonic and phasic larval motoneurons | talk | 
 
  
| Ji, Hui | Orion bridges  phosphatidylserine and Draper in the phagocytosis of somatosensory neurons in  Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Jones, Hannah | Mating status and past  social experience alters sleep amount and architecture in female Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Jovanic, Tihana | Modulation of  sensorimotor decisions by the feeding state | talk | 
 
  
| Joyce, Michaela | The rebound response with  knockdown of dunce and synapsin genes in Drosophila depends on the method of sleep deprivation | poster | 
 
  
| Kadakia, Nirag | Directional odor sensing  enables complex plume navigation | talk | 
 
  
| Kathman, Nicholas D | Determining the origins  of behavioral variability in wind-guided olfactory navigation | poster | 
 
  
| Kato, Ayaka | Computation and control  of odor value by dopamine neurons | talk | 
 
  
| Kernan, Maurice | TRPN channel  diversification by alternatively spliced, paralogous pore domains: a  mechanosensory driver of the insect radiation? | poster | 
 
  
| Kim, Boram | Response of the  microbiome–gut-brain axis in Drosophila  to amino acid deficit | talk | 
 
  
| Kim, Hyosun | Evaluating noise  tolerance in Drosophila vision | poster | 
 
  
| Kim, Minsu | Ultrastructural  distribution of dense-core vesicles from electron microscopy images in Drosophila olfactory projection  neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Kim, Seong-Jin | Genes important for the  biosynthesis of a seminal galactoside that regulates the post-copulatory  sexual selection in Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Kirk, Molly J | Voltage imaging in Drosophila using a hybrid  chemical-genetic rhodamine voltage reporter | poster | 
 
  
| Klein, Mason | Mechanical vibration  patterns elicit behavioral transitions and habituation in crawling Drosophila larvae | poster | 
 
  
| Knapp, Elizabeth M | Investigating the role of  dSERT activity in Drosophila sleep | poster | 
 
  
| Koskela, Sanna | Do D. melanogaster and D.  simulans see the world differently? | poster | 
 
  
| Krieger, Avery B | Exploring the effects of  multiple neuropeptides on state-dependent visuomotor transformations | poster | 
 
  
| Krupp, Sarah | A behavioral suppressor  screen and glial cell-type specific RNA sequencing converge onto SF2/SRSF1 as  a potent suppressor of TDP-43 mediated neurodegeneration | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Kurmangaliyev, Yerbol | Towards a  transcriptome-to-connectome map of the Drosophila  brain | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Kushwaha, Shikha | ASAP mediated  Arf6-dependent neuronal signalling regulates synapse structure and function  in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Lai, Sen-Lin | The roles of temporal  identity factors in neuron morphogenesis and circuit wiring | poster | 
 
  
| Lange, Anthony P | Ethanol induced  presynaptic plasticity in a tolerance circuit | poster | 
 
  
| Larnerd, Caleb | Different forms of  ethanol tolerance are encoded by distinct transcriptional programs and brain  regions | poster | 
 
  
| Laturney, Meghan | Modulation of feeding in  mated females | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Lee, Jinhyeong | Understanding the  identity of CIF (Calorie-Induced secreted Factor) and the mechanisms  underlying its production and detection | poster | 
 
  
| Lee, Kristen | The temporal  transcription factor Hunchback functions with the homeodomain transcription  factor Bicoid to regulate synapse number in Pair1 neurons | talk | 
 
  
| Lee, Yun-kyung | The response to fatty  acids in gustatory tarsal neurons combines combinatorial and labeled-line  coding in the taste system | talk | 
 
  
| Leinwand, Sarah G | Hormonally-regulated maturation  of Kenyon cell spontaneous neural activity and associative learning | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Li, Guiyi | A Toll-receptor map  underlies structural brain plasticity | talk | 
 
  
| Li, Hui | Pallidin in Drosophila surface glia modulates  sleep via essential amino acid availability | poster | 
 
  
| Li, Wanhe | Chronic social isolation  signals starvation in the Drosophila  brain and reduces sleep | talk | 
 
  
| Li, Yongjun | Glial ecdysone signaling  modulates sleep in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Lim, Seung Yeon | Gal4 drivers for distinct  cell types and regions of the Drosophila  gut | poster | 
 
  
| Linskens, Amanda M | Hunchback manipulations  affect the morphology and behavior of the MDN and Pair1 neuron's circuit | poster | 
 
  
| Liu, Han-Hsuan | A photo-switchable assay  system for dendrite degeneration and repair in Drosophila melanogaster | talk | 
 
  
| Lobb-Rabe, Meike | Novel insights from a Dpr  and DIP expression map of the Drosophila  larval peripheral nervous system | poster | 
 
  
| Loesche, Frank | An inexpensive, high  precision fly-on-ball setup | poster | 
 
  
| Lu, Jenny | Transforming  representations of movement from body- to world-centric space | talk | 
 
  
| Lucas, Tanguy | Discrete cis-acting  element regulates developmentally timed gene-lamina relocation and neural  progenitor competence in vivo. | talk | 
 
  
| Luo, Yichen | The role of Drosophila IR52 cluster genes in courtship behaviors | poster | 
 
  
| M.A. Ribeiro, Ines | Processing of visual cues  in a multi-input optic glomerulus | poster | 
 
  
| Machrone, Alexandra K | Reduced reproductive  fitness in starvation resistance selected flies | poster | 
 
  
| Madhwani, Kimberly Rose | Neurodevelopmental role  of a tRNA methyltransferase implicated in intellectual disability | talk | 
 
  
| Mainwaring, Benjamin | Sleep-promoting neurons  of the dFSB suppress aggression following sleep loss in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Malin, Jennifer | Regulation of neuron  number in the Drosophila visual  system | talk | 
 
  
| M'Angale, Peter G | Copia, of many copies and  the Drosophila neuromuscular  junction | poster | 
 
  
| Mann, Kevin | Causal coupling between  neural activity, metabolism, and behavior across the Drosophila brain | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Marin, Elizabeth C | Hemilineage-based  developmental units as circuit elements in the adult Drosophila nerve cord | talk | 
 
  
| Marzano, Marco | Ecdysone-AMPK axis  regulates energetic balance during dendrite pruning in fly PNS neurons | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Masek, Pavel | The inversion of quality  and intensity in the gustatory system—Hedonic satiety reveals concentrations  of sugars are perceived as different qualities, not intensities | poster | 
 
  
| Massingham, Josephine | Painful injury decreases  sleep quality via inflammatory signalling in astrocyte-like glia | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Masuda-Nakagawa, Liria | Octopaminergic neurons  have multiple targets in Drosophila  mushroom body calyx and can modulate behavioral odor discrimination | poster | 
 
  
| Matheson, Andrew M | A neural circuit for  wind-guided olfactory navigation | poster | 
 
  
| Maulding, Kirstin L | Dissociating the effects  of RNA and translated protein toxicity in C9 ALS. | poster | 
 
  
| Mauthner, Stephanie | The Drosophila gene smoke alarm  regulates nociceptor-epidermis interactions and thermal nociception behavior | poster | 
 
  
| May, Christina E | A fan-shaped body circuit  model for wind direction estimation during flight | poster | 
 
  
| McLaughlin, Colleen | Single-cell  transcriptomes of developing and adult olfactory receptor neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Meng, Julia | Temporal transcription  factors determine circuit membership by permanently altering motor  neuron-to-muscle synaptic partnerships | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Merrill, Collin | Iterative assay for  transposase-accessible chromatin by sequencing to home in on specific neuron  populations | talk | 
 
  
| Mitchell, Josephine W | Ion channel trafficking  is coordinated with dendrite morphogenesis in sensory neurons | talk | 
 
  
| Mitra, Rishav | Sculpting the neuronal  transcriptome through IP3/Ca2+ signals and  store-operated calcium entry | poster | 
 
  
| Mohandasan, Radhika | Enhanced olfactory memory  performance in trap-design Y-mazes allow study of novel memory phenotypes in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Mohapatra, Pratyajit | Functional characterization  of odor responses and gene expression changes in olfactory co-receptor  mutants in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Mohylyak, Iryna | CG7101/dTZAP encodes a  transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial biology required for axonal  outgrowth, circuit connectivity and behavior | poster | 
 
  
| Morimoto, Takako | Effects of essential oils  on learning and memory in Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Mosca, Timothy J | Shared synaptic  maturation defects in divergent neurodegenerative disease models | poster | 
 
  
| Mudher, Amrit S | A Drosophila model  depicting Braak-like propagation of Tau pathology | poster | 
 
  
| Munch, Daniel | Distinct internal states  interact to shape food choice by modulating sensorimotor processing at global  and local scales | poster | 
 
  
| Munro, Anna | The importance of key  residues and regions of the C-terminus of Drosophila  cryptochrome in magnetosensitivity. | poster | 
 
  
| Mushtaq, Zeeshan | Axonal transport defects  and neurodegeneration—Cause or consequence? | poster | 
 
  
| Nguyen, Tho H | Cellular diversity in the  Drosophila 3rd instar  larval ventral cord revealed by single-cell transcriptomics | poster | 
 
  
| Ni, Lina | Ionotropic  receptor-dependent cool cells control the transition of temperature  preference in Drosophila larvae | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Ning, Jing | Gesture analysis during  social interactions in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Noro, Barbara | Innate olfactory  avoidance in Drosophila relies on a  distributed neuronal circuit architecture | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| O'Brien, Caitlin E | Loss of the GARP, but not  EARP, complex drives golgi sterol overload during developmental dendrite  remodeling | talk | 
 
  
| Oh, Yangkyun | Gastric mechanosensation  and peptidergic sugar sensing regulate the Drosophila nutrient sensor | poster | 
 
  
| Ozel, Mehmet Neset | Coordinated control of  neuronal differentiation and wiring specificity by a sustained code of  transcription factors | talk | 
 
  
| Pal Mahadevan, Venkatesh | Exploring the ecology and  evolutionary shifts in olfactory coding in Drosophila virilis | poster | 
 
  
| Pardo-Garcia, Thibaut R | Deterioration of food  reward learning by a high sugar diet | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Patton, Kyle A | DnaJ/Hsp40 tunes  long-term memory and functional amyloidogenesis | poster | 
 
  
| Perez-Sanchez, Consuelo | Evolution of reward  perception and memory formation in Drosophila   | talk | 
 
  
| Perisse, Emmanuel | Specific dopaminergic  neurons signal absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila mushroom body | poster | 
 
  
| Perlegos, Alexandra | The in vivo role of m6A RNA modification in the response of the Drosophila brain to stress  | poster | 
 
  
| Phelps, Jasper S | A seventeen lab  collaboration to reconstruct the connectome of the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Poe, Amy R | Dh44 governs the  emergence of sleep rhythms in Drosophila  larvae | talk | 
 
  
| Polizos, Nikolaos T | Drosophila melanogaster larvae demonstrate associative learning and memory behaviors in  response to thermal conditioning | poster | 
 
  
| Pollington, Heather | The role of temporal  transcription factors and Notch signaling in establishing neural circuits | poster | 
 
  
| Potdar, Sheetal | Neuromodulation of  protein-hunger induced aggression behavior in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Potter, Chris J | Chemoreceptor  co-Expression in Drosophila  olfactory neurons | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Pribbenow, Carlotta | Postsynaptic plasticity  of cholinergic synapses underlies the induction and expression of appetitive  memories in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Prisco, Luigi | The anterior paired  lateral neuron (APL) normalizes odour-evoked responses at the mushroom body  calyx to define the sparse response of Kenyon cells | poster | 
 
  
| Rai, Saurabh | Immunomodulatory role of  Heat shock protein 70—A tool to regulate the inflammatory responses in  neurodegenerative diseases | poster | 
 
  
| Raji, Joshua I | The number of neurons in Drosophila and mosquito brains | poster | 
 
  
| Rangarajan, Nivedita | The representation of  visual feedback during courtship in Drosophila  males | poster | 
 
  
| Reisenman, Carolina E | Taste adaptation to host  specialization in specialist Drosophila  sechellia | talk | 
 
  
| Reiser, Michael B | Neuronal circuits  integrating motion information in the Drosophila  lobula plate | poster | 
 
  
| Rezaval, Carolina | A neuronal mechanism  controlling the choice between feeding and sexual behaviors in Drosophila | talk | 
 
  
| Rigo, Franka | Methamphetamine  self-administration shares common genetic mechanisms with locomotor  sensitization | poster | 
 
  
| Rihani, Karen | Intra-specific  individuality of odor-evoked behavior and activity | poster | 
 
  
| Rings, Annika S | A sex-specific switch  between visual and olfactory inputs underlies adaptive sex differences in  behavior | talk | 
 
  
| Robie, Alice A | Precise part tracking and  behavioral analysis of freely walking, interacting groups of Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Russo, Kathryn | BMP signaling modulation  ameliorates motor dysfunction in dSod1A4V  mutants | poster | 
 
  
| Sabandal, John Martin B | Dopamine-based mechanism  for transient forgetting | talk | 
 
  
| Saul, Christopher | Early seizure burden  leads to sleep fragmentation in adulthood | poster | 
 
  
| Sauvola, Chad | Drosophila tomosyn regulates  tonic/phasic release differences and is required for presynaptic homeostatic  potentiation | talk | 
 
  
| Savas, Doruk | The circuit logic of  light-avoidance behavior in Drosophila  larvae | talk | 
 
  
| Scheffer, Louis K | Comparative connectomics—Overview  and example | poster | 
 
  
| Scheunemann, Lisa | Serotonin signaling  antagonizes between the consolidation of conditioned approach or avoidance  behavior | poster | 
 
  
| Shapira, Gal | Identifying the role of  the gap junction connectivity in neuronal remodeling of the Drosophila mushroom body | talk | 
 
  
| Sharma, Anamika | IP3R - Parkin  interaction in neuronal mitochondrial function | poster | 
 
  
| Shields, Samuel | The role of oxidative  stress in microtubule regulation and neuronal ageing | poster | 
 
  
| Shin, Mimi | In vivo monitoring of endogenous  dopamine in the mushroom body of adult Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Shiu, Philip K | A leaky  integrate-and-fire model of the Drosophila  feeding circuit from appetitive input to motor output | talk | 
 
  
| Silva Moeller, Valeria A | Function of eclosion  hormone targets during ecdysis behavior in D. melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Simpson, Julie | Command and  control—Mapping key neurons for the fly grooming sequence | poster | 
 
  
| Sitaraman, Divya | Distinct neuromodulatory  input pathways to mushroom body regulate sleep need and arousal in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Sood, Chhavi | Delta/Notch signaling  inhibits expression of the early temporal factor Imp to promote termination  of neurogenesis during development | talk | 
 
  
| Sorrells, Trevor R | Mosquito host seeking is  a persistent behavior state for multimodal sensory integration | poster | 
 
  
| Spring, Ashlyn M | A CURE for fly  neurobiology—Modeling rare human neuromuscular disorders in fly larva as a  course-based undergraduate research experience | poster | 
  
| Steinfath, Elsa | Social cues interact with  intrinsic circuit dynamics to drive the choice between two communication  signals in Drosophila | poster | 
  
  
| Sterne, Gabriella R | Classification and  genetic targeting of cell types in the primary taste and premotor center of  the Drosophila brain | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Suárez Grimalt, Raquel | Slow wave oscillations  and circuit interactions underlying sleep regulation and sensory gating in  the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Sung, Hyun | Defective axonal  transport of autolysosomes and impaired ER-mediated autophagosomal biogenesis  in a Drosophila model of C9-ALS | talk | 
 
  
| Suver, Marie P | Active antennal movements  in Drosophila alter the gain and  tuning of wind encoding | poster | 
 
  
| Syed, Durafshan Sakeena | The importance of  inhibition in coordinating grooming actions | poster | 
  
| Szabo, Aron | LC3-associated phagocytosis promotes glial degradation of axon debris after injury | poster | 
  
  
| Tadres, David | Optogenetic mapping of  functional connectivity requires controls for basal level expression | poster | 
 
  
| Tastekin, Ibrahim | Mapping the sensorimotor  connectome underlying protein-specific appetites in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Thiagarajan, Devasena | Bimodal sensory  processing and learning in Drosophila  melanogaster | talk | 
 
  
| Truman, James | A hemilineage approach  for revealing patterns in the evolution of the insect ventral nerve cord | talk | 
 
  
| Turkcan, Mehmet K | NeuroNLP Gene Match—An  open source genetic data visualizer and explorer | poster | 
 
  
| Turner, Max H | Drosophila visual projection neuron  population responses jointly encode diverse visual scenes | poster | 
 
  
| Umezaki, Yujiro | The cephalic phase  response and its regulation by the circadian clock in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Vanderzalm, Pam | Inhibitors of retrograde  BMP signaling during neuromuscular junction development in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Vasudevan, Deeptha | Regulation of neural  lineages by Hox genes to specify post-mitotic neuronal characteristics during  circuit development | poster | 
 
  
| Vaughen, John P | Lysosomal GBA is required  for glial circadian clearance of ubiquitinated aggregates | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Vaziri, Anoumid | Persistent epigenetic  reprogramming of sweet taste by diet | poster | 
 
  
| Ventimiglia, Donovan L | Neural circuits  regulating social defeat in Drosophila  melanogaster | talk | 
 
  
| Vicidomini, Rosario | Identification and  characterization of Drosophila  larval motor neurons by single cell transcriptomics | talk | 
 
  
| Vien, Khanh | Organizational control of  olfactory neural circuit architecture by Fat2, an atypical cadherin | poster | 
 
  
| Vijayan, Vikram | A rise-to-threshold  signal for a relative-value deliberation | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Volkan, Pelin C | Chromatin-based  reprogramming of sex-specific behaviors with social experience | poster | 
 
  
| von Philipsborn, Anne C | Female Drosophila respond to inseminate with copulation song | poster | 
 
  
| Waller, TJ | The transmembrane protein  Raw dichotomously regulates axonal degeneration and NMJ structure by both  promoting and restraining the function of Drosophila  Sarm1 | talk | 
 
  
| Wang, Brian | Thirst interneurons that  promote water seeking, limit feeding, and encode positive valence | poster | 
 
  
| Wang, Yupu | Structural and functional  synaptic plasticity induced by convergent synapse loss in the Drosophila neuromuscular circuit | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Wani, Adil R | The cellular and  molecular programs regulating the fate specification and identity of  sleep-promoting neurons in Drosophila  melanogaster | talk | 
 
  
| Weiss, Jackie | Sleep deprivation drives  brain-wide changes in synaptic abundance in Drosophila melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Xia, Xiju | Next generation  genetically-encoded sensors for monitoring in vivo dynamics of small  molecular neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Xiang, Yang | Shear stress activation  of nociceptors underlying mechanical nociception in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Xiao, Cong | Identifying new players in structural synaptic plasticity | poster | 
 
  
| Xie, Qijing | Temporal evolution of  single-cell transcriptomes of Drosophila  olfactory projection neurons | poster | 
 
  
| Xie, Qijing | Transcription factor Acj6  instructs dendrite targeting by regulating the expression of diverse  cell-surface proteins | talk | 
 
  
| Xu, Chundi | A dual role for  homeodomain proteins in neural fate and neural identity | poster | 
 
  
| Xu, Shuwa | Significance of affinity  variation of cell surface recognition molecules in wiring the nervous system | poster/flashtalk  | 
 
  
| Xu, Yineng | Optogenetic manipulation  of endogenous proteins in Drosophila by  light-inducible trapping | talk | 
 
  
| Yadlapalli, Swathi | Biological clocks—How and  why do cells keep time? | talk | 
 
  
| Yang, Helen H | Patterns of descending  neuron activity during walking | talk | 
 
  
| Yang, Siyuan | Reward taste conditioning  in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Yao, Zepeng | Serotonergic neurons  translate taste detection into internal nutrient regulation | poster | 
 
  
| Yin, Jun | Brain-specific  lipoprotein receptors interact with astrocyte derived apolipoprotein and  mediate neuron-glia lipid shuttling | talk | 
 
  
| Yin, Yijie | Identification and  stereotypy of lineages in olfactory networks between hemispheres in electron  microscopic (EM) datasets in the Drosophila  melanogaster central brain | poster | 
 
  
| Yoo, Juyoun | Cell type and subcellular  synaptic specificity in the visual system | poster | 
 
  
| York, Ryan | Mapping the evolution of  drosophilid walking | poster | 
 
  
| Yoshihara, Motojiro | Subcellular engram, a synaptic memory trace locally formed in the feeding command  neuron during Pavlovian conditioning | talk | 
 
  
| Yun, Minsik | Central circuit  mechanisms that evaluate sociosexual context and modulate the male ejaculate  holding in Drosophila female | poster | 
 
  
| Zamurrad, Sumaira | Mapping the neural  circuitry underlying precise walking kinematics in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Zhang, Chen | The somatostatin pathway  gates vitellogenesis progression during reproductive maturation and the  post-mating response in the fruit fly Drosophila  melanogaster | poster | 
 
  
| Zhang, Wei | Nutrients and pheromones  promote insulin release to inhibit courtship drive | poster | 
 
  
| Zhang, Yali | The molecular and  cellular basis of sour-taste coding in Drosophila | poster | 
 
  
| Zhao, Arthur | A mapping between visual  space and neural space in the fly brain | poster |