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| Dennis Willows: The Molluskan Geomagnetic Sensor |
| The first talk of this meeting was by Dennis Willows on magnetotactic behavior of the slug Tritonia. These animals apparently orient themselves with respect to the earth's magentic field to find the shoreline where food ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 06 June 2007 - 20:21:31 |
| Louise Page: Evolution of Developing Gastropod Nervous Systems |
| Louise Page's talk addressed the role of the larval nervous system as a scaffold for the adult nervous system. To answer this question, she analyzed the phylogeny of larval development in gastropods with regards to swimm...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Page |
| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 20:14:23 |
| Live blogging from Friday Harbor Labs |
| I'm currently sitting in a lecture room at Friday Harbor Laboratories, near Seattle in Washington, USA. I'm attending the Gastropod Neuroscience meeting organized by Paul Katz. I'll try to write a short blog for every le...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting flight Friday Harbor |
| Posted on Wednesday 06 June 2007 - 19:55:43 |
| Group picture of Gastropod Neuroscience meeting |
For everybody who missed the great meeting at Friday Harbor Labs, here's the group picture of all the participants (thumbnail linked to a high-resolution.jpg). Let's do it again! ©2007, Daniel Gardner...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience group picture Friday Harbor meeting |
| Posted on Thursday 14 June 2007 - 18:34:57 |
| Roger Croll: Development and function of the larval nervous system in gastropods |
| This talk by Roger Croll was all about the developing nervous system in gastropod larvae. Many developing invertebrates including most gastropod larvae have a so-called apical organ. This organ appears to contain seroton...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 19:34:38 |
| John Byrne: Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Operant Reward Learning |
| The final talk of the meeting was by my former postdoc supervisor John Byrne. He was talking about my favorite topic, obviously, operant conditioning in Aplysia. The preparation is great because the network is really wel...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 09 June 2007 - 01:27:44 |
| Gaynor Spencer: Retinoid signaling during regeneration: What can Lymnaea growth cones tell us? |
| In the second talk on growth cones and regeneration Gaynor Spencer told us about experiments with acutely isolated axons from Lymnaea stagnalis in cell culture. The talk started out by reviewing the involvement of local ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 18:41:26 |
| Paul Benjamin: Long-term memory: translating electrical and molecular changes into modified behavioral output |
| This talk was all about long-term memory of classical conditioning in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Paul Benjamin is the eminent researcher studying this topic. To study this, the scientists in this lab condition feed...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 09 June 2007 - 00:51:30 |
| Vincent Rehder: Roles for nitric oxide in neuronal development and regeneration |
| In the first talk of this day, Vincent Rehder talked about the role of nitric oxide (NO) in growth cone development in cultured Heliosoma neurons. We learned that giving NO into the culture medium increased filiopodial e...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 07 June 2007 - 18:00:40 |
| Thomas Abrams: Molecular Mechanisms of Attention in a Marine Gastropod |
| This talk was very exciting: it was about attention in Aplysia. Thomas Abrams is using behavioral habituation and homosynaptic depression in Aplysia as a model for this research. There are several molecular mechanisms inv...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting Abrams |
| Posted on Friday 08 June 2007 - 23:26:33 |
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