Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology

Thursday, August 9, 2012

AM 8:30-9:30
Plenary 6

Chair: Justin Marshall (University of Queensland)

• Elke K. Buschbeck (University of Cincinnati)
  The making of an eye: Structural and functional diversity of stemmata

AM 10:00-12:00
Invited Symposium 7: Activity generated modulation of motion vision responses

Chair: Karin Nordstrom (Uppsala University)

• Gaby Maimon (Rockefeller University): Modulation of visual processing by flight behavior in
         Drosophila.
• Marie P. Suver, Akira Mamiya and Michael H. Dickinson (University of Washington): Endogenous release of octopamine mediates flight-induced modulation of visual interneurons in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Kit Longden and Holger G. Krapp (Imperial College London): State-dependent motion vision in walking blowflies.
• Vivek Jayaraman (HHMI): Linking vision and action in Drosophila.

Invited Symposium 8: Automated social behavior analysis

Chair: Tali Kimchi (Weizmann Institute)

• Mayank Kabra, Alice Robie, Marta Rivera-Alba, Jonathan Hirokawa, Steven Branson and Kristin Branson (HHMI and University of California San Diego): Machine vision tools for quantitatively measuring animal behavior in large scale experiments. 
• Gonazalo de Polavieja (Cajal Institute): Completely automatic tracking of individuals in groups from video, with a focus on fish. (abstract not submitted)
• S. E. Roian Egnor, Shay Ohayon, Pietro Perona and Adam Taylor (HHMI): Quantifying mouse social behavior.
• Genadiy Vasserman, Aharon Weissbrod and Tali Kimchi (Weizmann Institute): Automated behavioral phenotyping platform for multiple mice.

Invited Symposium 9: Invertebrate models for locomotion research

Chair: Amir Ayali (Tel Aviv University)

• Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute): Origin of the first neurons as sensory-motor and sensory-neurosecretory cells.
• Netta Cohen (University of Leeds): The worm turns: neural control of nematode locomotion.
• Binyamin Hochner (Hebrew University):
• Einat Fuchs, Amir Ayali, Philip Holmes, Tim Kiemel and Izhak David (Princeton University,
         Tel Aviv University and University of Maryland): Adaptive control of six-legged
         locomotion.