Neuroanatomy and Stereotypy of the Adult Drosophila Nervous System
March 11 - 13, 2007

This meeting focused on standardizing the nomenclature and the basis for defining the borders of brain regions, their subdivisions as computational entities, the definition of tracts and other pathways in the adult Drosophila brain and thoracic ganglia, drawing on a wide range of anatomical imaging techniques, functional approaches, and developmental studies. Comparisons with other insect central nervous systems will suggest how some of the limitations of what can be addressed in the fly might be resolved. Discussion included the extent of stereotypy at the level of circuits, neurons, axons, and synapses. We hope to establish ways to archive and share images between labs and expand the reference resources available to orient new people to what is known about insect brain anatomy with reference to Drosophila melanogaster.

• ORGANIZERS:

  Julie H. Simpson, Ph.D., Janelia Farm/HHMI
  
  Nicholas J. Strausfeld, Ph.D., Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology

• INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

  Douglas Armstrong University of Edinburgh Ann-Shyn Chiang National Tsing Hua University Joshua Dubnau Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Carsten Duch Freie Universität Berlin Karl-Friedrich Fischbach Institut für Biologie III Volker Hartenstein University of California, Los Angeles Uwe Homberg Universitaet Marburg Kei Ito The University of Tokyo Haig Keshishian Yale University Liqun Luo HHMI/ Stanford University Ian Meinertzhagen Dalhousie University Rodney Murphey Florica Atlantic University Dick Nassel Stockholm University Cahir O'Kane University of Cambridge Michael Pankratz Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

  Nipam Patel HHMI/ University of California, Berkeley Thomas Preat Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Heinrich Reichert University of Basel Linda Restifo Arizona Research Laboratories Henrike Scholz University of Würzburg David Shepherd University of Southampton Irina Sinakevitch IBDML-UMR 6216 Reinhard Stocker University of Fribourg Paul Taghert Washington University School of Medicine Gerhard Technau Univesitat Mainz James Truman University of Washington Leslie Vosshall The Rockefeller University Benjamin White National Institutes of Health

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