Sunday, May 6 Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II 3:00 pm Check-in 6:00 pm Reception (Lobby) 7:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:05 pm Keynote: Melina Hale, University of Chicago Mapping circuits beyond the models: Integrating connectomics with comparative and evolutionary neuroscience 8:35 pm Keynote: Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh The role of models in cracking circuit function 9:05 pm Refreshments available at Bob s Pub NOTE: Meals are in the Dining Room Talks are in the Seminar Room Posters are in the Lobby
Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II Monday, May 7 7:30 am Breakfast (service ends at 8:45 am) Talks are 20 min + 5 min for Q&A 9:00 am Session 1 Chair: Judit Pungor 9:00 am Maria Antonietta Tosches, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Evolution of the cerebral cortex at a single-cell resolution 9:25 am Thomas Mueller, Kansas State University The zebrafish amygdala-olfactory cortex organization Evolution and deep homologies to mammals 9:50 am Clifton Ragsdale, University of Chicago Cell-type homologies and the evolution of neocortical circuits 10:15 am Leonid Moroz, University of Florida Origins and convergent evolution of neural circuits through the lens of single-cell genomics 10:40 am Break 11:10 am Session 2 Chair: Molly Liu 11:10 am Karla Kaun, Brown University Mapping memory circuits in Drosophila 11:35 am Karen Mesce, University of Minnesota Locomotor recovery after injury: Path-finding novel solutions 12:00 pm Marta Zlatic, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI Neuronal architecture for adaptive reinforcement processing 12:25 pm Lunch (service ends at 1:00 pm) 1:15 pm Tour (optional - meet at reception) 2:45 pm Session 3 Chair: Kavin Nunez 2:45 pm Frank Hirth, King's College London Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry
Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II 3:10 pm Jeremy Dasen, New York University School of Medicine The ancient origins of neural substrates for land walking 3:35 pm Break 4:05 pm Session 4 Chair: Emre Yaksi 4:05 pm Olena Riabinina, University of Manchester Neuronal and behavioural olfactory responses of Anopheles gambiae larvae 4:30 pm Marie Suver, New York University Wind direction encoding by central neurons in Drosophila melanogaster 4:55 pm Lucia Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute Evolution of olfactory systems in drosophilds 5:20 pm Poster Reception 7:00 pm Dinner 8:10 pm Session 5 Chair: Albert Cardona 8:10 pm Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester A brief history of our ideas about what the brain does 8:40 pm Markus Meister, California Insistute of Technology Irresponsible musings on Lamarckian evolution 9:10 pm Refreshments available at Bob s Pub
Tuesday, May 8 Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II 7:30 am Breakfast (service ends at 8:45 am) 9:00 am Session 6 Chair: Zoe Donaldson 9:00 am James Truman, University of Washington The mushroom body as an example of circuit reorganization through insect metamorphosis 9:25 am Edgar Buhl, University of Bristol Tracing connections and inputs/outputs of the Drosophila clock 9:50 am David Anderson, HHMI/California Institute of Technology Conserved neuropeptide function in the control of aggression by social isolation 10:15 am Break 10:45 am Session 7 Chair: Kristen D Elia 10:45 am Ellie Heckscher, University of Chicago The evolutionarily-conserved transcription factor, Even-skipped in EL interneurons is required for normal locomotor behavior 11:10 am Elia Benito-Gutierrez, University of Cambridge Patterning of a telencephalon in the adult brain of amphioxus 11:35 am Janie Ondracek, Technical University Munich Slow waves, sharp waves, and memories: Exploring ancestral sleep in birds and reptiles 12:00 pm Albert Cardona, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI Model systems for comparative connectomics 12:25 pm Lunch (service ends at 1:00 pm) 2:00 pm Session 8 Chair: Josie Clowney 2:00 pm Michael Nitabach, Yale School of Medicine Color discrimination without eyes or opsins 2:25 pm William Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara Visuomotor behavior and circuitry in the basal chordate Ciona intestinalis
Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II 2:50 pm Claude Desplan, New York University Evolution of color and motion vision circuits 3:15 pm Break 3:45 pm Session 9 Chair: Zhilei Zhao 3:45 pm Gáspár Jékely, Living Systems Institute Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology 4:10 pm Andreas Wanninger, Universitat Wien Ancestral and novel traits in molluscan neural development 4:35 pm Nobuaki Tanaka, Hokkaido University Three-dimensional brain atlas of pygmy squid, Idiosepius paradoxus, revealing the largest relative vertical lobe system volume among the cephalopods 5:00 pm Ian Meinertzhagen, Dalhousie University and Kerrianne Ryan, Dalhousie University Comparing connectomes for motor networks of invertebrate chordate larvae of Ciona intestinalis 5:25 pm Poster Reception 7:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob s Pub
Wednesday, May 9 Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function II 7:30 am Breakfast (service ends at 8:45 am) 9:00 am Session 10 Chair: Mehmet Keles 9:00 am Mei Zhen, Mt. Sinai Hospital & University of Toronto Functional compression at the C. elegans motor circuit 9:25 pm Paul Katz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Homologous behaviors produced by circuits with homologous neurons using different neural mechanisms 9:50 am David Stern, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI Neural changes underlying rapid fly song evolution 10:15 am Break 10:45 am Session 11 Chair: Alice Chou 10:45 am Detlev Arendt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Precambrian evolution of bilaterian neural circuits 11:10 am Pedro Martinez Serra, Universitat de Barcelona The evolution of centralized nervous systems: insights provided by the study of the acoel brain 11:35 am Nicholas Strausfeld, University of Arizona What is a brain, when did it originate, and what did it comprise? 12:00 pm Break 12:10 pm Closing Discussion 12:30 pm Lunch and Departure 12:45 pm First shuttle to Dulles 1:45 pm Second shuttle to Dulles 2:45 pm Last shuttle to Dulles