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
18:00 – 20:00
Poster Session
20:00 – 23:00
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