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ICN looming ahead
I'm currently preparing my posters for the upcoming 8th International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) in Vancouver, Canada. The ICN takes place 22-27 of July and I will present two posters this time: "Mushroom-bodies reg...[more]
neuroethology   posters   science   meeting   Vancouver   
Posted on Thursday 05 July 2007 - 13:44:55

ISN Newsletter
On Sunday, the July Newsletter of the International Society for Neuroethology appeared. It contains an article by Jim Murray and myself about the Gastropod Neuroscience meeting this past June at Friday Harbor Labs. It's ...[more]
neuroethology   meeting   gastropod neuroscience   Murray   Aplysia   scholarpedia   
Posted on Tuesday 10 July 2007 - 10:36:13

Ready for the 8th ICN in Vancouver
I just got my posters ready for the 8th International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) in Vancouver, Canada. I'm leaving for Vancouver on Sunday and will stay there until the next Saturday. My posters will both be in the...[more]
Neuroethology   meeting   posters   Vancouver   Sandra Kiume   
Posted on Thursday 19 July 2007 - 10:45:25

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]
meeting   neuroethology   van Swinderen   attention   
Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 02:31:24

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]
meeting   neuroethology   Schuster   archerfish   
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]
meeting   neuroethology   okanoya   birdsong   
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]
meeting   neuroethology   Griffith   courtship conditioning   
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]
meeting   neuroethology   evolution of behavior   Katz   
Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 20:03:02

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]
meeting   neuroethology   Dunlop   regeneration   
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]
meeting   neuroethology   evolution of behavior   Young   
Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 20:27:35

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