For anyone attending the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (#SICB2023) meeting in Austin this week, I will sadly not be there, but we have two talks from the lab!
On 1/7 (8 AM), Dr. Sweta Agrawal (lab alumnus as of 2 days ago, as she just left to start her own lab at Virginia Tech) will be presenting on a comprehensive (and comprehensible) analysis of the synaptic connectivity of neural circuits downstream of fly leg proprioceptors.
On 1/6 (11:30 AM), Dr. Chris Dallmann (post-doc) will be presenting on behavioral state-dependent presynaptic inhibition of proprioceptor axons in walking flies.
#SICB (at Disney World) was the first scientific meeting I attended as an undergraduate and it holds a special place in my heart. I love the diversity of animals represented: consecutive talks and neighboring posters are often about the same scientific topic, but almost never studied in the same species.