PP "Evolutionary optimization of neuronal processing": retreat March 1 & 16, 2022

Program: March 1, 2022

• 13:10: Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance
  PIs: Dieter Wicher (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena), Robert Kittel (U Leipzig)
  presentation: Eric Wiesel (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• 13:25: Modeling dynamics, function and evolution of earliest nervous systems
  PI: Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (U Bonn)
  presentation: Bela Erlinghausen, Carla Simon (U Bonn)
• 13:40: Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing
  PIs: Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen), Michael Wibral (U Göttingen)
  presentation: Lucas Rudelt (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)

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panel II (chair: Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer)

• 14:10: Transgenic marking of homologous cells in different species to trace the evolution of development
  presentation: Gregor Bucher (U Göttingen)
• 14:25: The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species
  PIs: Katja Nowick (FU Berlin), Mathias Wernet (FU Berlin)
  presentation: Melanie Sarfert, Heidi Roth (FU Berlin)
• 14:40: The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets
  PIs: Jan Clemens (U Göttingen), Matthias Hennig (HU Berlin)
  presentation: Winston Mann (U Göttingen)

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panel III (chair: Fred Wolf)

• 15:10: I Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment
  PIs: Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
  presentation: Sophie Wetz (RWTH Aachen)
• 15:25: II Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – theory
  Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
  presentation: Michael Gerlach (U Freiburg)
• 15:40: Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system
  PIs: Udo Ernst (U Bremen), Andreas Kreiter (U Bremen)
  presentation: Maik Schünemann (U Bremen)

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Program: March 16, 2022

• 13:00: Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates
  PIs: Aristides Arrenberg (U Tübingen), Ziad Hafed (U Tübingen)
  presentation: Giulia Soto (U Tübingen)
• 13:15: Multimodal representations of context in gradient navigation in larval zebrafish
  project: Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly
  PIs: Ilona Grunwald Kadow (TU München), Ruben Portugues (MPI of Neurobiology, München)
  presentation: Virginia Palieri
• 13:30: Spatially anisotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect AL and vertebrate OB
  PIs: Veronica Egger (U Regensburg), Silke Sachse (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
  presentation: Pramit Bandyopadhyay (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• 13:45: Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects
  PIs: Steffen Harzsch (U Greifswald), Martin Nawrot (U Köln), Jürgen Rybak (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
  presentation: Jürgen Rybak (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)

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panel II (chair: Silke Sachse)

• 14:10: I Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera
  PIs: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
  presentation: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
• 14:25: II Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera
  PIs: Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
  presentation: Tomas Masso (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)

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panel III (chair: Michael Wibral)

• 15:05: I Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem
  PIs: Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
  presentation: Maria Schlungbaum (HU Berlin)
• 15:20: II Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem
  PIs: Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
  presentation: Alexandra Rudnaya (U Tübingen)
• 15:35: Working memory codes for arithmetic rule processing in the human brain
  project: Deciphering the neuronal codes for convergently evolved working memory functions in humans, monkeys, and crows
  PIs: Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen), Florian Mormann (University Medical Center Bonn)
  presentation: Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen)

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panel IV (chair: Maximilian Jösch)

• 16:00: A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit?
  PIs: Onur Güntürkün – Ruhr (U Bochum), Roland Pusch (U Bochum), Jonas Rose – Ruhr (U Bochum)
  presentation: Jonas Rose (U Bochum)
• 16:15: I Through the eyes of a mouse lemur – understanding the evolutionary emergence of visual cortical columns through cellular imaging, optimization theory, and visual behavior in a miniature primate
  PIs: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)
  presentation: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
• 16:30: II Through the eyes of a mouse lemur – understanding the evolutionary emergence of visual cortical columns through cellular imaging, optimization theory, and visual behavior in a miniature primate
  PIs: Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)
  presentation: Daniel Huber (U Geneva)

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