Meeting programme

Time Speaker Title
Monday, May 18th
from 15:00 Arrival and check-in
16:30 - 17:00 Welcome coffee and registration
17:00 – 18:30 Session 1
Kevin Briggman Brain-wide integration of visual and vestibular input during navigation in Danionella cerebrum
Valentina Emiliani All-Optical Neural Circuit Manipulation in Freely Moving Mice Using Flexible Two-Photon Microendoscopes
Damian Wallace Sequential activation of neurons in PPC layer 2/3 but not layer 5 in freely jumping mice
Alexander Groh Thalamocortical bursts encode reward contingencies and drive associative learning
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, May 19th
09:30 - 11:00 Session 2
Benjamin Judkewitz The smallest vertebrate brain in action
Coen Elemans Vocal constraints limit biosonar emission rates in bat and whale echolocation
Jennifer Bizley Studying the role of active sensing in sound localisation
Sonja Bisch-Knaden Coding of natural plant bouquets in the brain of a hawkmoth
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 3
Itai Cohen Uncovering motor control in insect flight
Marie Suver Mechanisms of mechanosensory and motor integration in Drosophila
Avner Wallach What electric fish teach us about prediction, perception, and navigation
Ehud Ahissar The perceptual bottleneck: brain-world loops
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session 4
Aneta Koseska Biological computations across scales
Emily Dennis From intuition towards mechanisms: how mice can use sound to find hidden prey
Florencia Iacaruso Persistent collicular representations of target kinematics during active pursuit
Eva Naumann Neural mechanisms of visually driven action selection in larval zebrafish
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 5
Jason Kerr Hawk vision during aerial target capture in the wild
Cindy Poo Adaptive behavior in a dynamic patch foraging environment
Nacho Sanguinetti Sensorimotor intelligence of the wild Agouti
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, May 20th
09:30 - 11:00 Session 6
Jonathan Whitlock Cortical coding of posture and the face in freely moving rats
Jean Laurens Parietal cortex activity during naturalistic behavior in freely moving marmosets
Tobias Rose Stability of Visual Processing in Passive and Active Vision
Adam Sugi Layer 6 Control of Visual Cortex in Low Luminance
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 7
Chris Angeloni Hippocampal representations during active avoidance of a mobile threat
Riccardo Beltramo The role of an ancestral visual pathway in shaping hippocampal maps
James Knierim Visual landmark control over path integration circuits
Pascal Malkemper Absence of the Earth's magnetic field induces stress in a mammal
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session 8
Pauline Fleischmann Magnetoreception in Motion: The role of the magnetic sense for navigation in desert ants
Sepiedeh Keshavarzi Dissecting sensory contributions to spatial orientation in mice
Ronen Segev Fish navigation in and out of the lab
Guy Bouvier Self- versus Externally-Generated: Head Movement Representations in Primary Visual Cortex
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Dahlem Campus Tours
Tour 1: 100 Years of Science at Germany's Oxford
Tour 2: Science Heaven - Dahlem's Nobel Laureates
17:30 - 19:00 Poster session
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, May 21st
09:30 - 11:00 Session 9
Antonin Blot Encoding of visuomotor gain for depth estimation
Philip Parker Beyond the Receptive Field: Visual Cortex Coding During Natural Behavior
Lisa Fenk The emergence of spontaneous and reflexive eye movements in insects
Jasper Poort Comparing the roles of the superior colliculus and primary visual cortex in visual spatial detection in freely moving mice.
11:00 Guesthouse check-out
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 10
Arkarup Banerjee Sensorimotor computations underlying vocal communication in singing mice
Alison Barker Dynamics of Social Systems: Communication and Cooperation in the Naked Mole-Rat
Jesse Goldberg Parrots imitate song and dance with mixed vocal-gestural neural signals
Richard Hahnloser Disentangling zebra finch group-level behaviors
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Departure