Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

AM 8:30-9:30
Plenary 3

Chair: Lidia Szczupak (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

• Ole Kiehn (Karolinska Institutet)
  Probing neural circuits controlling walking: moving forward

AM 10:00-12:00
Special Symposium: Young Investigators Symposium

Chair: Paul Katz (Georgia State University)

• Antoine Wystrach (University of Sussex and Macquarie University): What ants do when they are lost? Multiple interactions between different navigational systems.
• Basil el Jundi (Lund University): The neural substrate of the celestial compass.
• Michael Yartsev (Weizmann Institute): Neural representation of two- and three-dimensional space in the hippocampal formation of behaving bats.
• Lauren O'Connell (University of Texas): Evolutionary convergence of gene modules regulating social systems.

PM 14:00-15:00
Plenary 4

Chair: Roy Ritzmann (Case Western Reserve University)

• Malcolm Burrows (University of Cambridge)
  How do animals move quickly: Interactions between brain, muscle and skeleton

PM 15:30-17:30
Invited Symposium 1: Animal visual search

Chairs: Hermann Wagner (RWTH Aachen University) and Ohad Ben-Shahar (Ben-Gurion University)

• Karla K. Evans (Harvard University): Non-selective and selective processing in human visual search.
• Julius Orlowski and Hermann Wagner (RWTH Aachen University): Visual search and orientation saliency in barn owls.
• Alik Mokeichev, Ronen Segev and Ohad Ben-Shahar (Ben Gurion University): Orientation based saliency and visual search in the archer fish.
• Vivek Nityananda, Muyun Wang, Thomas Ings, Michael Proulx, Peter Skorupski, Jonathan Pattrick and Lars Chittka (Queen Mary University): Visual search and attention in bumblebees.

Invited Symposium 2: Correlated neural activity in tadpole and zebrafish studied by recent advanced technologies

Chair: Kazuo Imaizumi (Louisiana State University)

• Kazuo Imaizumi (Louisiana State University): Global and local synchronous spontaneous activity in the developing optic tectum.
• Mihai Alevra, Stephan Junek, Tsai-Wen Chen and Detlev Schild (Georg-August University of Gottingen, Max Planck Institute, HHMI, and DFG Research Center): Activity correlation imaging: Visualizing function and structure of neuronal populations.
• Akira Muto and Koichi Kawakami (National Institute of Genetics): Visualization of functional neural circuits in zebrafish. German Sumbre (Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure)

Invited Symposium 3: Fixed and flexible traits in mating signals: evolution, genetics and physiological background

Chairs: Varvara Vedenina (Russian Academy of Sciences) and Michael D. Greenfield (Université François Rabelais de Tours).

• John A. Endler (Deakin University): Using colour vision principles to understand criteria for mate choice.
• Michael D. Greenfield (Université François Rabelais de Tours): Phenotypic plasticity, genotype x environment interaction, and the sexual selection process.
• Andrew Mason, Damian Elias and Paul De Luca (University of Toronto, University of California Berkeley, College of the Bahamas): Complex signals: what do spiders have to say?
• Varvara Vedenina and Gerald Pollack (Russian Academy of Sciences and McGill University): Variable courtship song traits in the field cricket Gryllus assimilis fit the features of the female sensory system.

PM 18:00-19:00
Huber Lecture

Chair: Hans Hofmann (University of Texas)

• Edward A. Kravitz (Harvard University)
  Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: Role of amine neurons studied at a single neuron level