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Program 2024

States – Behavior, Neural Circuits and Codes

DAY 1 – Monday 19 August

LVR Museum, Colmantstraße 14-16, 53115 Bonn

09:20 – 12:30

Young Investigator Research Symposium

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

13:00 – 15:00

Neuroscience PI business meeting (future conferences, iBehave, and proposals)

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

18:0020:00

Poster Session

20:0023:00

Open Poster and Networking Session
(accompanied by music, drinks and finger food; museum visits)

DAY 2 – Tuesday 20 August

BMZ Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

9:00

Keynote lecture: Cerebral Cortex Connectomics
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

The Snake Retina – a fascinating model of adaptations and parallel evlution in nocturnal vertabrates
Silke Haverkamp, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar, Bonn

12:15

A Hypothalamic Circuit that Bidirectionally Regulates Hunger in Anticipation of Future Changes in Energy State
Elijah Lowenstein, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

12.30 – 14:00

Lunch

Session Computation

Chair: Jan Gründemann

14:00

Schema formation in non-human primates
Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington, USA

14:30

Multi-option foraging in naive mice
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus, USA

15:00

The Regulation of Collective Motion in Desert Locusts
Sercan Sayinto, University of Kostanz

15:15

Synaptic mechanisms of temporal coding in the Drosophila mushroom body
Nathan Buerkle, Yale University

15:30

Coffee Break

16:15

Neural dynamics and cognition
Priya Rajasethupathy, Rockefeller University, USA

16:45

Vision and the evolution of neuronal computation
Tom Baden, University of Sussex, UK

17:15

Parallel sensorimotor pathways control landing in Drosophila
Sander Liessem, JMU Würzburg – Neurobiology and Genetics

17:30

Keynote lecture: Neural manifolds expand with experience in a maximally informative way
Tatyana Sharpee, The Salk Institute, USA
Chair: Tatjana Tchumatchenko

21:00

BonnBrain³ Party (organized by BIGS neuroscience)
N8Lounge in the city center, Franzstr. 44, 53111 Bonn

DAY 3 – Wednesday 21 August

BMZ Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

9:00 

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

Developmental exposure to food-associated sensory cues primes feeding preference, central responses to food and obesity
Laura Casanueva Reimon, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

12:15

Neural substrates in the postpartum brain for flexible maternal care
Mingyu Yang, University of Cologne, Institute for Systems Physiology

12:30-13:30 

Lunch

Session Behavior

Chair: Tobias Rose

13:30

Neural circuits for cooperation and communication
Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

14:00

Neural circuits for interactive communication
Michael Long, New York University, USA

14:30

Memory and decision of navigational goals
Hiroshi Ito, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

15:00

Autonomous activity in Drosophila during immobility, sleep, and learning
Johannes Seelig, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar

15:15

Coffee Break

16:00

Keynote lecture: The Geometry of Decision-Making
Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Chair: Jason Kerr

17:00

Closing Remarks and Award Presentation