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| Paul Katz: Nudibranchs, Neuromodulation, Neural circuits, & Neuromics |
| This talk was by organizer Paul Katz and covered a wide range of topics. He started with some past successes of gastropod neuroscience, e.g. electrophysiology and behavior in reduced preparations. Before, new individual ...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Katz |
| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 01:56:11 |
| Rhanor Gillette: Behavioral hierarchies and decision-making |
| This was a talk very much to my liking! Rhanor Gillette showed us how different motivational states lead to animals doing completely opposite things to the same stimuli. Fantastic! The model system here was ...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Gillette |
| Posted on Friday 08 June 2007 - 23:09:19 |
| Klaude Weiss: Dynamic reorganization of the feeding CPG of Aplysia |
| This talk, of course, was really close to my heart. Klaude Weiss' lab is also working on the feeding behavior of Aplysia, which is the behavior I use to operantly condition the animals. In this system, the radula (a tong...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Weiss |
| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 01:08:56 |
| Avrama Blackwell: Computational approach to cellular mechanisms of associative learning |
| Just got done with my own talk. Not really sure how it was received. People sure did discuss a lot and seemed skeptical. We'll see what comes of it. Now I'm back to sitting in the audience. This time a talk from ...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Blackwell |
| Posted on Friday 08 June 2007 - 18:49:33 |
| Leonard Kaczmarek: Regulation of prolonged changes in neuronal excitability |
| This talk by Leonard Kaczmarek was all about ion channels. The model Leonard works on are the bag cells neurons in Aplysia. These bag cell neurons regulate reproductive behaviors via multiple neuropeptides. These neurope...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Kaczmarek |
| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 00:18:17 |
| Jonathan Sweedler: Techniques for Probing the Brain's Chemistry One Cell at a Time |
| The final talk of this day was by Jonathan Sweedler telling us about single cell neurobiology. His techniques mainly concerned various forms of chromatography. Single cell chromatography showed that serotonin is cataboli...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Sweedler |
| Posted on Friday 08 June 2007 - 02:27:22 |
| Richard Satterlie: Swimming Speed Changes in a Predatory Mollusk |
| Believe it or not, some snails are pretty good swimmers. Richard Satterlie in his talk presented a lot of neurobiological data on the control of swimming speed in Clione. These animals have wings and use them to propel t...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Satterlie |
| Posted on Wednesday 06 June 2007 - 20:50:26 |
| Leonid Moroz: Genomic bases of neuronal identity and plasticity: insights from single-cell real time genomic profiling |
| Leonid Moroz is THE Aplysia genome project master. He started off his talk with some history on how the genome project got started. The largest problem was that Aplysia has a genome with a high simple repeat content. The...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Moroz |
| Posted on Friday 08 June 2007 - 01:42:58 |
| Robert Meech: Why Mollusks behave the way they do |
| This third talk (Robert Meech) was about a whole bunch of hardcore electrophysiological insights that came from the many large gastropod neurons. A superb selection of basic neurobiology without which we wouldn't know ha...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Meech |
| Posted on Wednesday 06 June 2007 - 20:36:59 |
| Annette Klussmann-Kolb: Current issues in the phylogeny and evolution of Gastropods |
| As sort of an outside expert, Annette Klussmann-Kolb talked about the systematics of gastropods. She started out by showing how little morphology can actually tell us about phylogeny when compared to the molecular geneti...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Klussmann |
| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 21:00:12 |