• Breitenbach, Angela, Dr. - University of Cambridge
• Striedter, Georg, Prof. Dr. - UC Irvine

Theme A: Universality, Invariance and Specialization

• Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates Aristides Arrenberg (U Tübingen), Ziad Hafed (U Tübingen)
• Spatially anisotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect AL and vertebrate OB Veronica Egger (U Regensburg), Silke Sachse (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly Ilona Grunwald Kadow (TU München), Ruben Portugues (MPI of Neurobiology, München)
• Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen), Michael Wibral (U Göttingen)

Theme B: Evolution and Optimization of Core Circuits

• Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
• Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system Udo Ernst (U Bremen), Andreas Kreiter (U Bremen)
• A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit? Onur Güntürkün – Ruhr (U Bochum), Roland Pusch (U Bochum), Jonas Rose – Ruhr (U Bochum)
• Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects Steffen Harzsch (U Greifswald), Martin Nawrot (U Köln), Jürgen Rybak – (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment and theory Stefan Rotter (U Freiburg), Björn Kampa (RWTH Aachen)
• Deciphering the neuronal codes for convergently evolved working memory functions in humans, monkeys, and crows Andreas Nieder (U Tübingen), Florian Mormann (University Medical Center Bonn)
• 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 Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) Daniel Huber (U Geneva)

Theme C: Trajectories of Molecular Evolution

• The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets Jan Clemens (U Göttingen), Matthias Hennig (HU Berlin)
• Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera Maximilian Jösch (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg), Fyodor Kondrashov (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg)
• Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance Dieter Wicher (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena), Robert Kittel (U Leipzig)
• Modeling dynamics, function and evolution of earliest nervous systems Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (U Bonn)
• The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species Katja Nowick (FU Berlin), Mathias Wernet (FU Berlin)

• Bertrand, Ornella C., PhD - Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Barcelona, Spain
• Kondrashov, Fyodor, Prof. Dr. - OIST, Japan

• Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates Aristides Arrenberg (U Tübingen), Ziad Hafed (U Tübingen)
• Efficient representations of fast dynamic stimuli in populations of ON- and OFF-cells Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Grewe (U Tübingen), Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin)
• The impact of network architecture on evolvability and robustness: Comparing the song recognition networks of grasshoppers and crickets Jan Benda (U Tübingen), Jan Clemens (U Oldenburg)
• The evolution and organization of non-canonical olfactory systems in ants and other insects Susanne Foitzik (U Mainz), Hugo Darras (U Mainz), Carlotta Martelli (U Mainz)
• Spatially anisotropic and isotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect antennal lobe and vertebrate olfactory bulb Veronica Egger (U Regensburg), Silke Sachse (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
• Evolving to be flexible – optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system Udo Ernst (U Bremen), Andreas Kreiter (U Bremen)
• From Branch to Branch: Unravelling Primate Vision in Arboreal Leaping and Navigation Fred Wolf (U Göttingen, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization), Claudia Fichtel (U Göttingen, German Primate Center), Daniel Huber (U Geneva, Switzerland)
• Visual system design from dynamic stimulus constraints Marion Silies (U Mainz), Julijana Gjorgijeva (TU München)
• Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly – part 2 Ilona Grunwald-Kadow (U Bonn), Ruben Portugues (TU München)
• A three-dimensional investigation of the avian thalamofugal visual system – Functional properties, relation to the avian tectofugal system and comparison to the mammalian cortex Onur Güntürkün (U Bochum), Roland Pusch (U Bochum), Jonas Rose (U Bochum)
• Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects Steffen Harzsch (U Greifswald), Martin Nawrot (U Köln), Jürgen Rybak (MPI for Chemical Ecology)
• Evolutionary optimization of neuronal network dynamics for recipient-optimized cross-area communication Moritz Helias (FZ Jülich), Simon Musall (FZ Jülich)
• Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera Maximilian Jösch (IST Klosterneuburg, Austria), Wiktor Młynarski (LMU München)
• One worm, two minds: Investigationg divergent neuronal architecture associated with the evolution of polyphenic behavioural trait James Lightfoot (MPI for Neurobiology and Behavior, Bonn)
• NeuroParTI: Evolutionary Trade-off Analysis of Human and Macaque Monkey Neurochemistry Kaustubh Patil (FZ Jülich), Nicola Palomero-Gallagher (FZ Jülich)
• Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, U Göttingen), Michael Wibral (U Göttingen)
• Benchmarking birds’ core object recognition abilities with rodents and primates Jonas Rose (U Bochum)