Mini-Symposium "Frontiers in Crustacean Neuroscience" (Aug 5, 2024)

Program

• 10:30-10:40 welcome and opening remarks
• 10:40-11:15 “Evolutionary transformations in the central olfactory pathway of Panarthropoda: a crustacean perspective”
  Steffen Harzsch (University of Greifswald)
• 11:15-11:50 “The olfactory system of the amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis: implications for the understanding of olfactory coding strategies in arthropods”
  Katja Kümmerlen (University of Greifswald)
• 11:50-12:15 “Establishing a CT based pipeline to quantify numbers of olfactory glomeruli in crustaceans”
  Frederice Hilgendorf (University of Greifswald)

lunch break

• 14:00-14:35 “Diverse synaptic connectivity underlies the multiple physiological roles of a lobula giant neuron in crabs”
  Julieta Sztarker (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• 14:35-15:10 “The polarization of light as a source of visual contrast in crabs”
  Martin Beron de Astrada (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• 15:10-15:45 "Neurobiology in the mud: neural circuits serving visually guided prey and predator behavior of crabs"
  Daniel Tomsic (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• 15:45-16:00 closing remarks

registration

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