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| Honeybee neuroscience: a symposium in honor of Randolf Menzel: non-bee invertebrates |
| This day of the symposium was all about invertebrates other than honeybees. Pulitzer-winning author Bert Hölldobler started out by talking about "Multicomponent and multimodal signals in ant communication". The first par...[more] |
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| Posted on Sunday 13 June 2010 - 11:53:56 |
| Bruno van Swinderen: Attention-like processes in the fly brain |
 I was so busy at my two posters that I had almost missed the talk by my good colleague and friend Bruno van Swinderen! Many thanks to Kit Longden for coming and picking me up at my poster.  Bruno started with a great ge...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 02:31:24 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 5 |
| Couldn't live-blog the fourth session of our 'family' meeting, because the Max Planck Institute where we are located has a policy that all WiFi guest-accounts expire over night - and I thought a 'day' had 24h... Anyway, t...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 - 12:19:49 |
| Stefan Schuster: Solving complex tasks with small networks |
| Stefan Schuster works on archerfish: those are the fish which spit water at insects and other small animals close to the water such that they fall into the water and can be eaten by the fish. The animals can even learn t...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 02:58:04 |
| Kazuo Okanoya: Neuroethology of song complexity in Bengalese finches |
| I missed the first part of the previous plenary lecture by Dan-Eric Nilsson on the evolution of eyes: "Animal vision: The simple beginning" But what I saw was a great showcase of first an overeview of eyes, eye genes and...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 18:56:29 |
| Leslie Griffith: Sex and the single fly: Pheromone-mediated learning in Drosophila |
| The third day of the conference was kicked of by a plenary lecture by Leslie Griffith from Brandeis. As the title suggests, Leslie's lab works on courtship conditioning in flies. This is a paradigm where naive males enc...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 25 July 2007 - 18:01:27 |
| Paul S. Katz: Evolution of neural circuits in nudibranch molluscs |
| One of the great strengths of Neuroethology is the ability to derive evolutionary concepts from the study of the neural control of behavior in different species. This symposium on the "Evolution of brains and behavior" ...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 20:03:02 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 9 |
| Randolf Menzel, professor emeritus of our institute in Berlin started the last session of this fantastic little meeting with an enthusiastic presentation on naviating bees which he followed by harmonic RADAR. His team fi...[more] |
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| Posted on Sunday 13 December 2009 - 12:38:48 |
| Sarah Dunlop: Recovery of function after CNS and PNS injury |
| Interestingly enough and I don't know yet if I like that, a medical researcher gave the second plenary lecture of this day. Sarah Dunlop from the University of Western Australia works on brain trauma. I don't know yet w...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 25 July 2007 - 19:04:43 |
| Larry Young: Molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution of social monogamy |
| Larry Young works on voles. The Prairie Vole is highly social, monogamous and biparental. In contrast, the closely related Montane Vole is solitary, promiscuous and uniparental. Larry's work received quite some press, so...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 20:27:35 |