12:30

Lunch

14:00

Welcome and opening remarks

14:30-15:30

Keynote Lecture

Maurizio Gatti (Rome, Italy)
Drosophila telomeres: a tale of trains and train stations

15:30-17:00

Chromosomes and cell cycle session

Raquel Oliveira (Oeiras, Portugal)
Coping with wrong chromosome numbers during development

Zoltan Lipinszki (Szeged, Hungary)
STABILON: a short conserved motif that prevents proteins from degradation

Yuu Kimata (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Proteolytic control of centrosome activity by APC/C-Polo maintains oocyte fate in Drosophila

17:00-17:30

Coffee break

17:30-18:30

Trafficking session

Gabor Juhasz (Szeged, Hungary)
Lysosomal degradation routes in Drosophila

Thomas Vaccari (Milan, Italy)
New roles for old trafficking proteins in congenital syndromes and neurodegeneration

18:30

Advocacy roundtable

Thomas Vaccari

19:30

Get together and dinner

10:00-12:00

Physiology session

Carine Meignin (Strasbourg, France)
Antiviral innate immunity: RNAi and nucleic acid receptors

Tobias Reiff (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Intestinal stem cells and epithelial homeostasis in the adult Drosophila midgut

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:00

Nicolae Radu Zabet (Colchester, United Kingdom)
Mechanistic models of enhancer occupancy in Drosophila melanogaster

12:00

Tech and tools roundtable

Radu Zabet, Korneel Hens, Zoltan Lipinzski

12:30

Lunch

14:00-16:30

Neurodevelopment session

Martin Müller (Zurich, Switzerland)
Fighting the dark side (of a synapse) with tiny lightsabers

Natalia Mora Garcia (Paris, France)
A temporal transcriptional switch governs stem cell division, neuronal numbers and maintenance of differentiation

Sebastian Rumpf (Münster, Germany)
A bypass pathway is required for translation initiation during neuronal remodeling in Drosophila

Korneel Hens (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Gene regulatory Networks in the adult organism

Rita Sousa-Nunes (London, United Kingdom)
In vivo expansion of functionally integrated GABAergic interneurons by targeted increase of neural progenitors

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:00

Sleep and behavior session

Sha Liu (Leuven, Belgium)
Sleep drive is encoded by neural plastic changes in a dedicated circuit

Giorgio Gilestro (London, United Kingdom)
Ninna nanna defines a sleep-regulating circuit integrating circadian and homeostatic drive

18:00

Funding roundtable

Martin Müller, Raquel Oliveira

20:00

Gala dinner

9:30-11:00

Polarity and tumor session

Tor Erik Rusten (Oslo, Norway)
Endocytic control of the Peutz-Jeghers Cancer Syndrome Kinase, Lkb1 directs epithelial polarity in flies and humans - Lkb1 as a “contextual oncogene”

Natalia Bulgakova (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Regulation and functions of E-cadherin cell-cell adhesion

Francesco Napoletano (Trieste, Italy)
Programmed necrosis controls germ cell homeostasis during Drosophila spermatogenesis

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:00

Polarity and tumor session

Fisun Hamaratoglu (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Hippo restricts Ras driven tumorigenesis

Sofia Araújo (Barcelona, Spain)
The Spectraplakin Short-Stop is an essential microtubule regulator mediating subcellular branching

Mirka Uhlirova (Cologne, Germany)
Stress signaling in tissue homeostasis and disease

13:00

Closing remarks

13:15

Lunch

14:30

Visit to Neptune’s Grotto (Grotte di Nettuno)

19:30

Dinner

Breakfast and departure