Understanding Neural Circuit Evolution

Opening Lecture and Virtual Poster Session (July 7, 2022)



18:00 Opening lecture Emergence of a sense for numbers in primates, corvids, and machines (Andreas Nieder, University of Tübingen and SPP 2205)



18:30-20:00 poster session


Lectures (July 8, 2022)


09:15 Opening remarks (Fred Wolf, Marion Silies)

Session I: Nervous system evolution in deep time


11:00 coffee break

11:20-12:00 Lecture I: Functional evolution of avian taste receptors (Maude Baldwin, MPI Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen, Germany)


12:00-13:30 lunch break


Session II: Decoding evolutionary design principles