PP "Evolutionary optimization of neuronal processing": retreat March 1 & 16, 2022

13:00: arrival and welcome
panel I (chair: Katja Nowick)

  • 13:10: Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance
    PIs: Dieter Wicher (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena), Robert Kittel (U Leipzig)
    presentation: Eric Wiesel (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
  • 13:25: Modeling dynamics, function and evolution of earliest nervous systems
    PI: Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (U Bonn)
    presentation: Bela Erlinghausen, Carla Simon (U Bonn)
  • 13:40: Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing
    PIs: Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen), Michael Wibral (U Göttingen)
    presentation: Lucas Rudelt (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)


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panel II (chair: Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer)

  • 14:10: Transgenic marking of homologous cells in different species to trace the evolution of development
    presentation: Gregor Bucher (U Göttingen)
  • 14:25: The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species
    PIs: Katja Nowick (FU Berlin), Mathias Wernet (FU Berlin)
    presentation: Melanie Sarfert, Heidi Roth (FU Berlin)
  • 14:40: The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets
    PIs: Jan Clemens (U Göttingen), Matthias Hennig (HU Berlin)
    presentation: Winston Mann (U Göttingen)


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panel III (chair: Fred Wolf)

  • 15:10: I Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment
    PIs: Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
    presentation: Sophie Wetz (RWTH Aachen)
  • 15:25: II Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – theory
    Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
    presentation: Michael Gerlach (U Freiburg)
  • 15:40: Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system
    PIs: Udo Ernst (U Bremen), Andreas Kreiter (U Bremen)
    presentation: Maik Schünemann (U Bremen)


---15:55 closing remarks (Fred Wolf)---




12:50: arrival and welcome
panel I (chair: Andreas Nieder)

  • 13:00: Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates
    PIs: Aristides Arrenberg (U Tübingen), Ziad Hafed (U Tübingen)
    presentation: Giulia Soto (U Tübingen)
  • 13:15: Multimodal representations of context in gradient navigation in larval zebrafish
    project: Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly
    PIs: Ilona Grunwald Kadow (TU München), Ruben Portugues (MPI of Neurobiology, München)
    presentation: Virginia Palieri
  • 13:30: Spatially anisotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect AL and vertebrate OB
    PIs: Veronica Egger (U Regensburg), Silke Sachse (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
    presentation: Pramit Bandyopadhyay (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
  • 13:45: Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects
    PIs: Steffen Harzsch (U Greifswald), Martin Nawrot (U Köln), Jürgen Rybak (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
    presentation: Jürgen Rybak (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)


---14:00 break---

panel II (chair: Silke Sachse)

  • 14:10: I Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera
    PIs: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    presentation: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
  • 14:25: II Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera
    PIs: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    presentation: Tomas Masso (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)


---14:55 break---

panel III (chair: Michael Wibral)

  • 15:05: I Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem
    PIs: Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
    presentation: Maria Schlungbaum (HU Berlin)
  • 15:20: II Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem
    PIs: Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
    presentation: Alexandra Rudnaya (U Tübingen)
  • 15:35: Working memory codes for arithmetic rule processing in the human brain
    project: Deciphering the neuronal codes for convergently evolved working memory functions in humans, monkeys, and crows
    PIs: Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen), Florian Mormann (University Medical Center Bonn)
    presentation: Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen)


---15:50 break---

panel IV (chair: Maximilian Jösch)

  • 16:00: A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit?
    PIs: Onur Güntürkün – Ruhr (U Bochum), Roland Pusch (U Bochum), Jonas Rose – Ruhr (U Bochum)
    presentation: Jonas Rose (U Bochum)
  • 16:15: I 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
    PIs: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)
    presentation: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
  • 16:30: II 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
    PIs: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)
    presentation: Daniel Huber (U Geneva)


---16:45 closing remarks (Fred Wolf)---