Schedule for Plenary Lectures
Plenary 1: Jenny Read – Stereoscopic vision in the praying mantis
Plenary 2: Eugenia Chiappe – Motor context orchestrates visual control of locomotion in Drosophila
Plenary 3: Nathan Morehouse – The evolution of color vision in jumping spiders
Plenary 4: Elissa Hallem – Host-seeking behaviors of skin-penetrating nematodes
Plenary 5: Ana Amador – An integrative view of birdsong production: biomechanics and neural dynamics
Plenary 6: Hideaki Takeuchi – Exploring the neural geography of the social brain using medaka fish
Plenary 7: Michiyo Kinoshita – Visual world of flower foraging swallowtail butterflies
Plenary 8: Elena Gracheva – Molecular adaptations to the unique life style in mammalian hibernators
Plenary 9: Carlos Ribeiro – The gourmet fly: how needs turn into “wants”
HUBER LECTURE
• Paul Katz – Form, function, and phylogeny of neural circuits underlying behavior in nudibranchs
HEILIGENBERG LECTURE
• José Luis Peña – The biased owl: How the brain selects what information to rely on
Proposed schedule for Symposia
Symp 1: Ayali – The neural basis of collective behavior
Symp 2: Hoffmann/Hechavarria – Mechanisms of echo-acoustically guided navigation in birds and mammals
Symp 3: Szczupak – Sensory Integration
Symp 4: Carr/Christensen-Dalsgaard – The evolution of sound localization circuits in land vertebrates
Symp 5: Wagner – Memorial Symposium in honor of Barrie Frost and Jack Pettigrew
Symp 6: Zornig/Chagnaud – Overlooked for decades? Motoneuron involvement in rhythm generation
Symp 7: Mangan/Wystrach – New tools to study behaviour in the field: insights from insect navigation
Symp 8: Giurfa/d’Ettorre – Redefining the boundaries of pheromone action: pheromones as neuromodulators of learning and memory
Symp 9: Trimmer/Long – Making Biorobots Behave: Connecting Engineering and Animal Behavior
Symp 10: Quintana – Insights into the fine tuning of social behavior: the brain as a source of steroid hormones
Symp 11: Yartsev – Neuroethology of 3D Spatial Navigation
Symp 12: Nityananda – Selective Attention and State-Dependency in Invertebrates
