Program

session I

chair: Andreas Kreiter

14:10 Winston Mann, Daesung Cho, "The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets" (Göttingen U, project "The evolution of phenotype, computation, and network mechanism of song recognition in crickets", Clemens/Hennig)
14:35 Eric Wiesel, "Response plasticity of Drosophila olfactory sensory neurons" (MPI for Chemical Ecology Jena, project "Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance" Wicher/Kittel)
15:00 Namrata Acharya, Nadine Ehmann, "Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance and the role of synaptic plasticity to maintain neural coding reliability" (Leipzig U, project "Task-dependent orchestration of insect OSN performance" Wicher/Kittel)

15:25-15:55 coffee break

chair: Jan Clemens

15:55 Alexandra Barayeu "Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem" (Tübingen U, project "Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem", Benda/Grewe/Lindner)
16:20 Maria Schlungbaum, "Detecting a periodic signal by a homogeneous and heterogeneous population of LIF neurons" (HU Berlin, project "Weakly nonlinear interactions in an electrosensory cocktail party problem" Benda/Grewe/Lindner)
16:45 Mathias Wernet, "The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species" (FU Berlin, project "The evolutionary mechanisms optimizing neural circuit structure and function for skylight navigation across insect species, Nowick/Wernet)

17:10-18:00 general discussion and closing remarks day 1

chair: Jan Benda

09:00 Tomas Masson, "Coupling Proteomics and Evolutionary Genomics to Study Circuit Wiring Across Diptera" (IST Klosterneuburg Austria, project "Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera", Jösch/Kondrashov)
09:25 Roshan Kumar Satapathy, "Behavioral repertoire of LPTCs - A holistic approach to studying network-level computations" (IST Klosterneuburg Austria, project "Evolution of Sensorimotor Transformation Across Diptera", Jösch/Kondrashov)
09:50 Lucas Rudelt, "Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing" (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen, project "Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing", Priesemann/Wibral)
10:15 canceled Michael Wibral, "Information theory for the task-agnostic study of neural computation" (Göttingen U, project "Evolutionary Convergence of Hierarchical Information Processing", Priesemann/Wibral)

10:40-11:00 coffee break

chair: Fred Wolf

11:00 Katja Kümmerlen, "The olfactory pathway of Parhyale hawaiensis: insights from a small crustacean" (Greifswald U, project "Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects" Harzsch/Nawrot/Rybak)
11:25 Eleftherios Dimitrou, "Evolutionary trends of the olfactory pathway in terrestrial and aquatic insects" (MPI for Chemical Ecology Jena, project "Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects" Harzsch/Nawrot/Rybak)
11:50 Martin Nawrot, "Evolutionary trend and specialization in arthropod olfaction: Circuit design and computational properties" (Köln U, project "Evolutionary specialization of neuronal core circuits in arthropod olfactory systems: structure and function of convergence/divergence in crustaceans versus insects" Harzsch/Nawrot/Rybak)
12:15 Raoul Memmesheimer, "Quantitative experimental approaches to the nerve nets of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita" (Bonn U, project "Modeling dynamics, function and evolution of earliest nervous systems" Memmesheimer)

12:40-14:00 lunch break

15:30-15:50 coffee break

chair: Max Jösch

15:50 Björn Kampa, "Natural visual stimuli improve neuronal representation and sensory perception" (RWTH Aachen, project "Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment and theory" Rotter/Kampa)
16:15 Michael Gerlach, "Disentangling murine color perception for theoretical and experimental evaluation" (Freiburg U, project "Plug and play integration of a new sensory channel in evolution – experiment and theory" Rotter/Kampa)
17:05 Roland Pusch "A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit?" (Bochum U, project "A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual system - Do amniotes share a canonical forebrain circuit?" Güntürkün/Rose/Pusch)

17:30 closing remarks
19:00 dinner at Kartoffelhaus (Goethealle 8, 37073 Göttingen)

chair: Mathias Wernet

09:00 Aristides Arrenberg, "Saccadic suppression in zebrafish retina and optic tectum" (Tübingen U, project "Saccadic suppression: from zebrafish to primates" Arrenberg/Hafed)
09:25 Silke Sachse, Veronica Eggers "Inhibitory processing mechanisms in the Drosophila antennal lobe" (MPI for Chemical Ecology Jena / Regensburg U, project "Spatially anisotropic lateral inhibition: Convergent circuit designs in the insect AL and vertebrate OB" Sachse/Eggers)
09:50 Virginia Palieri, "The Preoptic Area and Dorsal Habenula support different aspects of homeostatic navigation" (TU Munich, project "Identification of conserved circuit logic in temperature navigation behavior in fish and fly" Grunwald Kadow/Portugues)

10:15-10:35 coffee break

chair: Ziad Hafed

10:35 Zoe Stawyskyj, "Understanding a major transition in cortical circuit evolution" (U Göttingen, project "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", Wolf/Huber)
10:50 Tenri Fanyiwi, "Flexible shape processing at different scales in the visual cortex" (Bremen U, project "Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system", Kreiter/Ernst)
11:15 Maik Schünemann, "Optimizing for flexible information processing in artificial and spiking neural networks (Bremen U, Project "Evolving to be flexible - optimizing task-dependent information processing in the visual system", Kreiter/Ernst)

11:40 short coffee / lunch break
12:25-14:00 closing discussion