European C.elegans Neurobiology Meeting 2010

Saturday, 9 October
16:00-	Registration
Platform session 1: Sensory Mechanisms Chair: Sandhya Koushika
18:00	Welcome note
18:10	Marios Chatzigeorgiou, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK “Lateral facilitation between primary mechanosensory neurons controls nose touch perception in C. elegans”
18:35	Steven Husson, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany “Optogenetics-based functional analysis of a PVD-mediated nociceptive neuronal network in C. elegans”
19:00	Wolfgang Maier, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland “Different food types affect lifespan through the sensory nervous system and the neuromedin U receptor nmur-1”
19:25	Manuel Zimmer, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria “Soluble guanylate cyclases specify oxygen sensory neurons in C.elegans”
20:00	Dinner
Sunday, 10 October
Platform session 2: Neuronal Cell Biology, Development & Disease models I Chair:Natascia Ventura
09:00	Emiliano Cohen, Hebrew University, Israel “DEG-3/DES-2 nAChR in PVD function and morphology”
09:25	Muna Elmi, University College London, UK “Identifying the effectors that enable RHO-1 to stimulate neuronal activity”
09:50	Anthony Flemming, Syngenta, UK “C. elegans identifies a novel insecticide target”
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	James Johnson, University of Liverpool, UK “Analysis of cysteine string protein function in Caenorhabditis elegans”
11:10	Sandhya P. Koushika, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India “Mitochondrial distributions in neurons are regulated by microtubules”
11:35	Nikos Kourtis, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Greece “Small heat shock proteins protect against necrotic cell death”
13:00	Lunch
Platform session 3: Neuronal Cell Biology, Development and Disease Models II Chair: Tibor Vellai
14:00	Sandhya P. Koushika, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India “The C.elegans kinesin motor UNC-104 is degraded upon loss of specific binding to cargo”
14:25	Markella Katidou, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Greece “The contactin RIG-6 mediates axon outgrowth and navigation in C. elegans”
14:50	Benjamin Podbilewicz, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel “Mechanism of dendritic arborization”
15:15	Coffee break
15:45	Oliver Wagner, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan “Regulation of the molecular motor UNC-104(KIF1A) in the nervous system of C. elegans”
16:10	Natascia Ventura, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy “Frataxin suppression reduces fat accumulation and induces autophagy, in a p53 dependent manner, independently of a caloric restriction-like response”
16:35	Rakesh Bodhicharla, University of Nottingham, UK “Transgenic nematodes as a model for Parkinson’s disease”
17:00	Poster session with Coffee break
20:00	Dinner
Monday 11 October
Platform session 4: Behaviour & Methods/Technology Chair: Manuel Zimmer
09:00	Andrea Choe, CALTECH University, USA “Identification of Ascr1 as a gender specific mate-finding cue in the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus”
09:25	Shu Liu, Albert Ludwig Univ. Freiburg, Inst. Fuer Biology III/ZBSA, Germany “The neuronal circuit for the thermal avoidance response in Caenorhabditis elegans”
09:50	Neta Cohen, University of Leeds, UK “A computational model of associative learning and chemotaxis in the nematode worm C. elegans”
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	Sudip Mondal, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India “Microfluidic devices for neuronal transport imaging in C.elegans”
11:10	Matthias Rieckher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Greece “In vivo Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) imaging in Caenorhabditis elegans”
11:35	Closing remarks
13:00	Lunch

Meeting Program