Dutch Belgian Drosophila Meeting
Dutch Belgian Drosophila Meeting
General context
After the successful 2019 edition at the Donders Institute of Nijmegen, VIB is hosting the 10th Dutch-Belgian Drosophila meeting in Leuven in 2021. Meet all Dutch and Belgian Drosophila groups incl. PIs, and learn about various topics, from cell biology, immunity & physiology, single cell sequencing, neurobiology & behavior, to human disease modelling. The keynote lecture on neural information processing at the level of individual neurons and small neural circuits will be given by Alexander Borst from Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Germany. The perfect opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange! Participants from other countries are also very welcome to attend!
This training targets scientists who want to keep up-to-date with the latest evolutions in the Drosophila field. The training is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, technicians or other scientists with a molecular biology background.
Patrick Callaerts (Laboratory of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics, KU Leuven)
Georg Halder (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)
Albena Jordanova (VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology)
Roman Praschberger (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research)
Patrik Verstreken (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research)
- Participation is free for academics and researchers from research institutes.
- Note that upon no-show without valid justification you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year and for VIB participants the reimbursement of the catering costs (€ 50) will be charged to the research group. Click here for more information.
Program
Welcome coffee - Foyer ON5
Welcome by Patrik Verstreken - Aula ON5
Keynote (introduced by Patrick Callaerts)
TBA
Alexander Borst, Department Circuits-Computation-Models, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, DE
Session 1 (chaired by Georg Halder)
Endophilin-A's calcium switch: turning on synaptic autophagy.
Marianna Decet from the lab of Patrik Verstreken, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
tRNA sequestration triggers peripheral neuropathy.
Coffee - Foyer ON5
Session 2 (chaired by Roman Praschberger)
A sleeping fly at single cell resolution - Do cells sleep differently?
Joana Dopp from the lab of Sha Liu, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
Drosophila as a model system to study familial atrial fibrillation.
Stan van Wijk from the lab of Bianca Brundel, Department of Physiology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, NL
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and their role in neurodegeneration: let’s go to the nucleus.
Imaging the central dogma in living embryos to uncover how cells decide their fate.
Jacques Bothma, Hubrecht Institute, NL
Genes and gene networks regulating Drosophila insulin-producing cell development and function.
Mattias Wynant from the lab of Patrick Callaerts, Laboratory of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics, KU Leuven, BE
Lunch & Poster Session - Foyer ON5 and foyer ON4
Session 3 (chaired by Patrick Callaerts)
Transfer of coenzyme A precursors between generations and from microbiome to the host.
Ody Sibon, Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, NL
Dissecting a conserved signaling network regulating developmental axon branching and adult axon maintenance.
Gabriela-Edwards Faret from the lab of Dietmar Schmucker, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
Understanding and counteracting sleep defects in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Mireia Coll-Tané from the lab of Annette Schenck, Department of Human Genetics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, NL
Correlation of FUS phase separation with toxicity in Drosophila models of ALS/FTD.
Thomas Moens from the lab of Ludo Van Den Bosch, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
Coffee - Foyer ON5
Session 4 (chaired by Albena Jordanova)
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone.
Philip Kohlmeier from the lab of Jean-Christophe Billeter, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, NL
Single-cell analyses in Drosophila: the fly cell atlas and the fly brain
Jasper Janssens from the lab of Stein Aerts, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
Hippo signalling instructs ectopic but not normal organ growth.
Weronika Kowalczyk from the lab of Georg Halder, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, BE
Chromatin dynamics in DNA damage repair.
Aniek Janssen, Center for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL
Coffee - Foyer ON5
Keynote (chaired by Patrik Verstreken)
Assembly of the Fly Olfactory Circuit
Liqun Luo, Howard Huges Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Stanford University, US
Reception
Foyer ON4
Faculty Dinner
Martin's Klooster
Practical info
15 September 2021
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
15 September 2021
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Please use Parking West - Follow 'Dagcentrum Onco' to get to the O&N buildings. Take the stairs on you left after exiting Parking West. You are now in front of buidling O&N4 and on the left you find O&N5.
15 September 2021
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Seminar room ON5 and posters in the lobby of ON4