PP "Evolutionary optimization of neuronal processing": retreat March 1 & 16, 2022
13:00: arrival and welcome
panel I (chair: Katja Nowick)
- 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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12:50: arrival and welcome
panel I (chair: Andreas Nieder)
- 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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