The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) consists of three neuroethologists from Lisbon, Rui Oliveira, Chair (Gulbenkian Institute of Science and ISPA – Instituto Universitário), Susana Lima (Champalimaud Research) and Marta Moita (Champalimaud Research).
The Program Committee (PC) co-chairs are Cynthia F. Moss (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Uwe Homberg (University of Marburg, Germany). Other members of the PC were selected by the co-chairs in consultation with the Executive Council (EC) of the ISN, and include a co-chair of the 2018 congress (Karin Nordström, Flinders University, Australia) for continuity. The PC members are representative of the diversity in expertise, geographic area and gender of the ISN membership, and consist of: Lauren O’Connell (Stanford University, USA), Michael Dickinson (Cal Tech, USA), Yossi Yovel (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Kentaro Arikawa (SOKENDAI, Japan), and Ana Silva (University of the Republic Uruguay at Montevideo, Uruguay). The PC selects Plenary Speakers, symposium topics and speakers, and organizes abstracts into specific topic sessions.