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)
13:00 – 15:00
Registration, Coffee Break
17:00
Keynote lecture: Large Brain Neuroscience in Elephants
Michael Brecht, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
18:00 – 20:00
Poster Session
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
9:00
Keynote lecture: Cerebral Cortex Connectomics
Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
10:00
Coffee Break
Session Evolution
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 and 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
Neural dynamics
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus, USA
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
Neural dynamics and cognition
Priya Rajasethupathy, Rockefeller University, USA
16:45
to be selected
17:15
Keynote lecture: To sense and decide
Tatyana Sharpee, The Salk Institute, USA
21:00
BonnBrain³ Party (organized by BIGS neuroscience)
DAY 3 – Wednesday 21 August
BMZ Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn
9:00
Keynote lecture: Neurobiology of social motivation
Camilla Bellone, University Geneva, Switzerland
10:00
Coffee Break
Session States
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
14:15
Neural circuits for cooperation and communication
Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
14:45
Neural circuits for interactive communication
Michael Long, New York University, USA
15:15
Memory and decision of navigational goals
Hiroshi Ito, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
Keynote lecture: The Geometry of Decision-Making
Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany