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Dear Lucy,</div>
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Would you please be so kind to help us advertise Neurofly2024 at the London Fly Meeting today?</div>
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Please find attached a poster and a couple of slides.</div>
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Perhaps could you please show one of them in between the talks?</div>
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The registration deadline is this coming Sunday and we would like to make sure no fly-person has missed it.</div>
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Thank you so much.</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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Alicia</div>
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On behalf of the Neurofly2024 Organising Committee</div>
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Dear Drosophila Neuroscientists,</div>
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The 20th Biennial European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference (Neurofly) will take place from
<b>2.-6. September 2024 at the University of Birmingham campus.</b></div>
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<b><a href="https://uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/" target="_blank" id="OWA2a656533-d553-9ce3-21f0-8a52e334e86c" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">Neurofly 2024</a></b> is a
great opportunity for researchers from across the globe to meet to discuss their latest research, principally on the neurobiology of Drosophila, but also other invertebrate models. We aim to provide a venue for wide-ranging discussions and interactions between
junior and senior researchers, in an inclusive interdisciplinary environment for an open exchange of results, ideas and new concepts. </div>
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<b>Check out the <a href="https://uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/programme" target="_blank" id="OWAcc6faf58-29e9-fd71-b8e0-448ef18cc645" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px;">
programme</a> and lineup of inspiring <a href="https://uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/keynote-speakers" target="_blank" id="OWA5fce0f78-8907-b319-f6e3-45a489a60ff0" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px;">
plenary speakers</a>. </b></div>
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A wide range of sessions will include: Developmental and cellular neuroscience, Brain homeostasis and metabolism, Brain disease, injury and ageing, Gene expression and molecular neuroscience, Neural circuits and behaviour, Plasticity and remodelling. </div>
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<b>All other talks will be selected from abstract submissions,</b> to allow exciting, emerging research to be presented by early career and established researchers. We will host a practical demo workshop on bridging connectomics and transcriptomics. Social
& networking activities include a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare’s birth place) and a gala conference dinner.</div>
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<b>Early bird and abstract deadline is this Sunday 16 June 2024.</b></div>
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Lecture theatre capacity is limited; please register now to avoid disappointment:
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<b>Please forward to your team and colleagues</b>, particularly postdocs and PhD students (<b><a href="https://uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/the-company-of-biologists-travel-awards" target="_blank" id="OWA76b04d49-046b-238e-ead3-177eaac8fa91" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="margin: 0px;">PhD
travel bursaries</a> </b>available, sponsored by the Company of Biologists). </div>
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Join us in Birmingham, a <b>vibrant city</b> with lots of restaurants, pubs and live music,
<b>easy to get to</b>:</div>
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The <b>international airport</b> is only 45min from the university campus.</div>
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By train it is <b>1h30min from London</b> and the <b>Eurostar;</b> the <b>University has its own train station,</b> just 5min from Birmingham New Street central station</div>
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<b>For practical issues,</b> if needed, please contact Sam, from the <b>conference management team at:</b></div>
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<b><u><a href="mailto:academic.conferences@contacts.bham.ac.uk" id="OWAca897b8b-8e6e-7d38-de1e-572487daf6f6" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="7" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;">academic.conferences@contacts.bham.ac.uk</a></u></b></div>
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Looking forward to welcoming you to Neurofly2024!</div>
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The Neurofly2024 Organising Committee</div>
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