Projects

Theme A: Universality, Invariance and Specialization

• Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates
  Aristides Arrenberg (U Tübingen), Ziad Hafed (U Tübingen)
• Spatially anisotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect AL and vertebrate OB
  Veronica Egger (U Regensburg), Silke Sachse (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly
  Ilona Grunwald Kadow (TU München), Ruben Portugues (MPI of Neurobiology, München)
• Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing
  Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen), Michael Wibral (U Göttingen)

Theme B: Evolution and Optimization of Core Circuits

• Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem
  Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
• Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system
  Udo Ernst (U Bremen), Andreas Kreiter (U Bremen)
• A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit?
  Onur Güntürkün – Ruhr (U Bochum), Roland Pusch (U Bochum), Jonas Rose – Ruhr (U Bochum)
• Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects
  Steffen Harzsch (U Greifswald), Martin Nawrot (U Köln), Jürgen Rybak – (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment and theory
  Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
• Deciphering the neuronal codes for convergently evolved working memory functions in humans, monkeys, and crows
  Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen), Florian Mormann (University Medical Center Bonn)
• Through the eyes of a mouse lemur – understanding the evolutionary emergence of visual cortical columns through cellular imaging, optimization theory, and visual behavior in a miniature primate
  Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)

Theme C: Trajectories of Molecular Evolution

• The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets
  Jan Clemens (U Göttingen), Matthias Hennig (HU Berlin)
• Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera
  Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
• Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance
  Dieter Wicher (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena), Robert Kittel (U Leipzig)
• Modeling dynamics, function and evolution of earliest nervous systems
  Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (U Bonn)
• The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species
  Katja Nowick (FU Berlin), Mathias Wernet (FU Berlin)