DAY 1 – Monday 19 August
09:20 - 12:30
Young Investigator Research Symposium
Organised by Paunica
09:20
Welcome by BIGS Neuroscience
09:30
Session 1 (with 5 talks by young scientists)
10:45
Break
11:15
Session 2 (with 5 talks by young scientists)
12:30
Award Ceremony
15:00 - 17:00
Registration, Coffee Break
17:00
Keynote lecture: Large Brain Neuroscience in Elephants
Michael Brecht, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Chair: Jason Kerr
18:00 - 20:00
Poster and Networking Session
(accompanied by music, drinks and finger food; museum visit)
DAY 2 – Tuesday 20 August
BMZ Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn
09:00
Keynote lecture:
Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Chair: Sabine Krabbe
10:00
Coffee Break
Session Evolution
Chair: Ilona Grunwald Kadow
10:30
Evolution of neural circuits in Drosophilids
Lucia Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
11:00
Neural mechanisms of multimodal communication in the budgerigar
Jesse Goldberg, Cornell University, USA
11:30
The evolutionary origin of neuronal cell types
Maria Tosches, Columbia University, USA
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Session Computation
Chair: Jan Gründemann
Talks from selected abstracts
14:00
to be selected
14:15
to be selected
14:30
to be selected
14:45
Schema formation in non-human primates
Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington, USA
15:15
Multi-option foraging in naive mice
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus, USA
15:45
Coffee Break
16:45
Vision and the evolution of neuronal computation
Tom Baden, University of Sussex, UK
21:00
BonnBrain³ Party (organized by BIGS neuroscience)
DAY 3 – Wednesday 21 August
BMZ Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn
09:00
Keynote lecture: Neurobiology of social motivation
Camilla Bellone, University Geneva, Switzerland
Chair: Jan Gründemann
10:00
Coffee Break
Session States
Chair: Sabine Krabbe
10:30
Imaging brain states underlying behavior
Manuel Zimmer, University of Vienna, Austria
11:00
Cortical circuits for goal-directed cross-modal transfer learning
Sami El-Boustani, University Geneva, Switzerland
11:30
The circadian, feed-forward regulation of hunger
Amelia Douglass, Harvard Medical School, USA
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
Talks from selected abstracts
13:30
to be selected
13:45
to be selected
14:00
to be selected
Session Behavior
Chair: Tobias Rose
14:15
Neural circuits for cooperation and communication
Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
15:15
Neural circuits for interactive communication
Michael Long, Memory and decision of navigational goals
15:45
Coffee
16:15
Keynote lecture: The Geometry of Decision-Making
Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Chair: Jason Kerr
18:00 - 20:00
Poster Session