program / Schedule

2014 ICN/JSCPB and satellites

Date 25-27 July 28 July 29 July 30 July 31 July 1 August 2 August
FRI/SAT/SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
8:30am-9:30am

IBRO Advanced School of Neuroethology

Hokkaido Neuroethology Workshops 2014

(Both @Hokkaido Univ)

 
Plenary 1
Martin Giurfa
  • Martin Giurfa
    (CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier)
    From simple to higher-order learning in an insect brain: Lessons from honey bee
Plenary 3
Ryohei Kanzaki
  • Ryohei Kanzaki
    (University of Tokyo)
    Analysis and synthesis of odor-source localization in insects: From genes, neural networks, and behavior to robots
Plenary 5
Motojiro Yoshihara
  • Motojiro Yoshihara
    (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan)
    The Drosophila feeding circuit to connect synaptic plasticity to memory
Plenary 7
Lidia Szczupak
  • Lidia Szczupak
    (University of Buenos Aires)
    Recurrent inhibition in motor systems, a functional analysis in the leech nervous system.
 
9:30am-10:00am Joint Workshop
(@Hokkaido Univ)
Coffee
Break
Coffee
Break
Coffee
Break
Coffee
Break
Public Lectures
(@Hokkaido Univ)
10:00am-12:00am
12:00pm-1:30pm   Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch JSCPB Poster Awards  
1:30pm-2:30pm JSCPB
Business
Meeting
Plenary 2
Sarah Woolley
  • Sarah Woolley
    (Columbia University)
    Neural mechanisms of auditory-vocal communication: Mapping receiver auditory tuning to sender behavior
Plenary 4
Barbara Finlay
  • Barbara Finlay
    (Cornell University)
    Integrating brain diversity with conserved developmental mechanisms: the case of the isocortex.
Plenary 6
Jochen Zeil
  • Jochen Zeil
    (Australian National University)
    Visual homing in insects
Plenary 8
Malcolm MacIver
  • Malcolm MacIver
    (Northwestern University)
    Convergent evolution of mechanically optimal locomotion and its implications for information acquisition
 
2:30pm-3:00pm Poster Session 1 & Coffee Coffee
Break
Poster Session 2 & Coffee Coffee
Break
 
3:00pm-5:00pm Participant Symposia  
5:00pm-5:30pm Coffee
Break
Business Meeting and Awards  
Young
Investigators
Symposium
5:30pm-6:00pm    
6:00pm-6:30pm Opening
Ceremony

Welcome Party
free bus to...  
6:30pm-7:30pm
Heiligenberg Lecture
  • Harold Zakon
    (University of Texas)
    Electric fish in the age of genomics
Huber Lecture
  • Alan Roberts
    (University of Bristol)
    The formation and function of the first networks controlling behaviour in a very small vertebrate
Banquet
@Sapporo Beer Garden
 
7:30pm-8:00pm Student / Post-doc Mixer