Program

  • approx. as of 13:00 check-in, arrival, and a bit of free time until
  • 14:50 welcome note


session I

  • 15:00-15:30 Beyond glomeruli: Functional receptor columns in the olfactory bulb (Veronica Egger, U Regensburg)
  • 15:30-16:00 Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects (Steffen Harzsch, U Greifswald)
  • 16:00-16:30 Wiring the fly brain at different temperatures (Carlotta Martelli, U Mainz)


16:30-17:00 coffee break

session II

  • 17:00-17:30 Visual system design from dynamic stimulus constraints I (Luisa Ramirez, U Mainz, Marion Silies group)
  • 17:30-18:00 Visual system design from dynamic stimulus constraints II (Joey Stawyskyj, TU Munich, Julijana Gjorgijeva group)
  • 18:00-18:40 Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system (Tim Thörner, Anton Chizhov, U Bremen, Andreas Kreiter & Udo Ernst group)


  • 19:30 dinner



    session III

    • 09:00-09:30 The evolution of species-specific signals and preferences (Daesung Cho, ENI Göttingen, Jan Clemens group)
    • 09:30-10:00 Emergence of intensity-invariant song representation along the grasshopper auditory pathway (Jona Hartling, U Tübingen, Jan Benda group)
    • 10:00-10:30 Visual and motor dependencies in peri-saccadic neural and behavioral modulations of the rhesus macaque monkey (Matthias Baumann, U Tübingen, Ziad Hafed group)



    10:30-11:00 coffee break

    session IV

    • 11:00-11:30 Encoding of dynamic stimuli in ON- and OFF pathways - Balancing encoding bandwidth and costs of signaling (Kolja Klett, HU Berlin, Benjamin Lindner group, Alexander Wendt, U Tübingen, Jan Benda & Jan Grewe group)
    • 11:30-12:00How Electric Fish Sense Musical Intervals (Lena Stöckl, U Tübingen, Jan Benda group)
    • 12:00-12:30 Sensory gating and state estimation: an across-species perspective (Aristides Arrenberg, Jan Grewe, U Tübingen)
    • discussion



    13:00 lunch (and break)

    session V

    • 14:30-15:00 Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera (Tomas Masson, ISTA, Max Jösch group)
    • 15:00-15:30 Building a theory of sensory coding for active behavior (Wiktor Młynarski, LMU Munich)



    15:30 coffee, cake, and future plans
    (or there might be some non-scientific group activitiy... still to be decided...)

    session VI

  • 17:30-18:00 Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing (Lucas Rudelt, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Viola Priesemann group, Marcel Raabe, U Göttingen, Michael Wibral group)



19:30 dinner



session VII

  • 09:00-09:30 NeuroParTI: Evolutionary Trade-off Analysis of Human and Macaque Monkey Neurochemistry I (Eliana Nicolaison Sobesky, FZ Jülich, Kaustubh Patil group)
  • 09:30-10:00 NeuroParTI: Evolutionary Trade-off Analysis of Human and Macaque Monkey Neurochemistry II (Camille Giacometti, FZ Jülich, Nicola Palomero-Gallagher group)
  • 10:00-10:30 What the central project can do for you: avalable funding and further support measures (Britta Korkowsky U Göttingen)


10:30-11:00 coffee break

session VIII

  • 11:00-11:30 One worm, two minds: Investigating divergent neuronal architecture associated with the evolution of polyphenic behavioural trait (Lewis Cockram, MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior, Bonn, James Lightfoot group)
  • 11:30-12:00 A conserved circuit logic for homeostatic navigation (Meenakshi Lnu, U Bonn, Ilona Grunwald Kadow group)
  • 12:00-12:30 A synthetic biology model of the early visual pathway to study evolutionary transitions in functional cortical architecture (Julian Vogel, U Göttingen, Fred Wolf group)



12:30 final discussion, snacks and good bye