The South West Fly Meeting is a Genetics Society national Special Interest Group run by Dr James Hodge at the Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Bristol. These meetings are for all people interested in Drosophila research but who may, due to geographical, time and financial constraints, not be able to attend the London Fly Meetings. The meetings are regular, informal and consist of research focused seminars given by the scientists who conducted the research.
This group promotes the mandate of the National Centre for Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of protected animals in research. We aim to facilitate future collaborations, grant applications, teaching and public engagement opportunities involving Drosophila, thereby promoting cutting edge genetics and model organism research in this country.
Programme
- 13:30 - 14.00 Lunch provided
- 14.00 - 14.30 Dr Jake Turley (Dr Helen Weavers and Prof Paul Martin labs, University of Bristol): A deep learning analysis of cell behaviour during wound healing
- 14.30 - 15.00 Amaia Alcalde Anton (Drs Stephen Montgomery and James Hodge labs, University of Bristol): Functional analysis of candidate genes linked to mushroom body evolution
- 15.00 - 15.30 Dr Owen Peters (Cardiff University): Glial function of phosphoinositide metabolising enzymes in fly models of Alzheimer’s disease and injury
- 15.30 - 16.00 Tea and Coffee
- 16.00 - 16.30 Dr Alice French (CRICK, London and PPN UoB 2024-): Divergent evolution of sleep functions
- 16.30 - 17.00 Dr Fisun Hamaratoglu (Cardiff University): A non-neuronal role for Tau in epithelial homeostasis
- 17.00 - Pizza, snacks and drinks
Write ups of previous meetings and talks:
- https://genetics.org.uk/events/fly-south-west/
- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/phys-pharm-neuro/events/fly-meetings/meeting-writeups/
Kindly Sponsored by: Genetics Society
Register to attend: email james.hodge@bristol.ac.uk