Kenneth Catania: Convergent and divergent foraging strategies, sensory specializations, and brain evolution in moles |
Kenneth Catania compared the sensory systems of the Star Nosed Mole and the Water Shrew. The nose of the Star Nosed Mole is covered with specialized sensory organs called Eimer's organs. In order to smell, the mole exhal...[more] |
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Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 21:27:23 |
Getting ready for the next meeting: SQAB in San Antonio, Texas |
SQAB stands for "Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior" and they have invited me to speak about "Spontaneous decisions and operant conditioning in the fruit fly Drosophila". I just hope that, in contrast to the c...[more] |
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Posted on Wednesday 26 May 2010 - 13:38:37 |
Winter Conference on Brain Research in Snowbird, Utah |
After a hellish 26h hour journey I've finally arrived at the 45th annual Winter Conference on Brain Research. For those not familiar with the concept of these conferences: you have a session in the morning from something...[more] |
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Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012 - 17:06:30 |
SfN annual meeting |
I'm currently sitting in meeting room 1B of the convention center in beautiful San Diego, California. I'm attending the annual meeting of the Society for Neurosience. This particular session is entitled "Voluntary moveme...[more] |
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Posted on Monday 05 November 2007 - 22:30:04 |
Honeybee neuroscience: a symposium in honor of Randolf Menzel, Saturday morning |
After just barely making a grant deadline yesterday, I'm back just in time for the learning and memory session of this high-caliber symposium where people from literally all over the world have congregated to honor ...[more] |
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Posted on Saturday 12 June 2010 - 12:50:00 |
Posters have finally arrived! |
I got back to the hotel very late last night after the fireworks competition in Vancouver and to my great relief the tube with the posters had finally arrived! So now I'm all set for the poster session this afternoon! Th...[more] |
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Posted on Thursday 26 July 2007 - 17:21:57 |
Honeybee neuroscience: a symposium in honor of Randolf Menzel, Saturday afternoon |
The first speaker after the lunch break was Bernd Grünewald presenting his work on the "Cellular physiology of the honeybee brain". Bernd showed us the properties of many of the voltage-sensitive ionic currents in mushro...[more] |
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Posted on Saturday 12 June 2010 - 16:39:21 |
Bertram Gerber: Pain relief learning in flies and man |
Bertram was the first speaker after the student presentations at the summer school of the International Society for Neurochemistry. He started out with an attempt to convince people that there are cognitive processes in...[more] |
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Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 - 14:20:11 |
Honeybee neuroscience: a symposium in honor of Randolf Menzel: keynote by Dr. Menzel himself |
Capping off this day of the symposium was the man himself, Randolf Menzel, presenting his version of "Past, presence, future of honeybee neurobiology". He started out by mentioning the shortcomings of the honeybee mode...[more] |
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Posted on Saturday 12 June 2010 - 17:52:46 |
Piali Sengupta: Running hot and cold: Thermosensory behaviors in C. elegans |
After an hour of neurons, patterns and rhythms, Piali Sengupta talked about behavior in probably the most accessible nuroethological model system, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. She started out by detailing t...[more] |
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Posted on Thursday 26 July 2007 - 18:55:19 |
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