Program

12:00 - 17:00

Opening of the meeting and general information

Four short talks from selected abstracts

1)Dennis Vettkötter: Rapid and reversible optogenetic silencing of synaptic transmission by clustering of synaptic vesicles

2) Jan Watteyne: Visualizing neuropeptide GPCR activation in C. elegans using PepSee

3) Kieran Baxter: Using genetic code expansion to develop a photo-activatable FLP recombinase.

4) Elsa Bonnard: Automatically tracking feeding behavior in populations of foraging C.elegans

Four short talks from selected abstracts

1) Leo Tsz-Ho Tang: Insulin-like signaling regulates left/right asymmetric synaptic connectivity

2) Raphael Dima: Syndecan, netrin, guidance receptors and Rho-family GTPases cooperate to regulate the number of neurites/cellular extensions in neurons and other polarized cells

3) Caitlin Taylor: HDAC inhibition combats neurodevelopmental trafficking stressors

4) Dhanya Cheerambathur: Repurposing the Chromosome-Microtubule Coupling Machinery for Dendritic Branching.

Session Chair: Gert Jansen

Six Short talks from selected abstracts

1) Hyunsoo Yim: The mind of a dauer: EM reconstruction for the dauer connectome

2) Sneha Hegde: Axonal mitochondria regulate gentle touch response through control of actin dynamics

3) HaoSheng Sun: Temporal Maturation of the C. elegans Post-Embryonic Nervous System

4) Karen Juanez: ER network stability promotes organized microtubule disassembly during Compartmentalized Cell Elimination

5) En-Ni Chang: Neuronal Mitochondrial Dynamics Coordinate Systemic Mitochondrial Morphology through Tyramine Signaling

6) Shay Stern: Early-life experience reorganizes neuromodulatory regulation of stage-specific behavioral patterns and individuality types during development

Four short talks from selected abstracts

1) Sophie Dvali: Mapping the Functional Connectome in C. elegans

2) Tosif Ahamed: A circuit for head-body coordination during forward locomotion 

3) Lee Tongyoung: FLP-17 neuropeptide and its cognate receptor EGL-6 regulate a novel C. elegans oviposition behavior that increases reproductive fitness

4) Raymond Dunn: Closed-loop interrogation of whole-brain dynamics for causal analysis of neural network activity and behavior

Session Chair: Arantza Barrios

Six Short talks from selected abstracts

1) Jungsoo Kim: Internal state modulates brain-wide representations of behavior in C. elegans

2) Yuuki Onishi: Neuropeptide NLP-47 and its receptor GNRR-1 promote forgetting of olfactory memory in C. elegans

3) Netta Cohen: How worms explore 3D space

4) Emmanuel Medrano: Mechanosensory feedback regulates egg-laying circuit activity and behavior of C. elegans

5) Inka Busack: Overactivation of a sleep-active neuron decouples survival from the need to sleep

6) Eduard Bokman: Encoding principles of a compact sensory system

Four short talks from selected abstracts

1) Eugene L.Q. Lee: Temporal pattern processing is behaviorally and intergenerationally modulated by the tyraminergic/octopaminergic system in C. elegans

2) Michael Krieg: Photon-based neuronal communication

3) Patrick Laurent: PPRP-1/PHACTR1 holophosphatase controls synaptic vesicle cycle in C. elegans

4) Mara Cowen: Multisensory integration and aggregation behavior depend on select synaptic adhesion molecules and glutamatergic signaling in a “hub-and-spoke” circuit

Session Chair: Janet Richmond

Keynote lecture 6: Meital Oren-Suissa
Design concepts of sexually-dimorphic circuits

Four Short talks from selected abstracts

1) Edgar Correa: The conserved transcription factor UNC-30/PITX is required to establish and maintain functional synapses in C. elegans GABAergic motor neurons

2) Elisa Frankel: Intracellular interactions recruit neurexin and drive presynaptic stabilization in C. elegans

3) Michal Ragan: Regulation of BK channel endocytosis by an RNF-145/EFA-6/ARF-6 molecular pathway

4) Kentaro Noma: Neuronal hyperactivation causes an age-dependent decline in associative learning behavior

Four short talks from selected abstracts

1) Sonu Peedikayil Kurien: Integration of neuronal activity and synaptic plasticity drives sexually dimorphic learning of pathogenic avoidance

2) Laura Molina-Garcia: PDF-1 modulation of aversion and reward during associative learning

3) WooKyu Kang: Nitric oxide produced by gut bacteria modulates foraging behavior through interaction with the oxygen sensing pathway

4) Ruhi Patel: Mechanosensory Behaviors of Skin-Penetrating Parasitic Nematodes

four Short talks from selected abstracts

1) Canyon Calovich-Benne: Sensory neuron transcriptomes reveal complex neuron-specific function and regulation of mec-2/Stomatin splicing

2) Michael Iannacone: Viral infection in C. elegans promotes sleep, which is necessary for survival and energy maintenance

3) Mark Zhang: Insulin-like peptides control the dauer exit developmental decision in C. elegans

4) Benjamin Brissette: The C. elegans chemosensory system decodes complex blends of microbial metabolites to distinguish benign and pathogenic bacteria