Organizers
DATE
May 31st – June 2nd 2021
Location
Online
SPEAKERS
Alla Borisyuk University of Utah
André Fiala University of Göttingen
Andrew Lin University of Sheffield
Aurore Avargues-Weber University of Toulouse
Bertram Gerber Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology
David Owald Charité – Berlin University of Medicine
E. Josie Clowney University of Michigan
Gaia Tavosanis German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Bonn
Hiromu Tanimoto Tohoku University
Hokto Kazama Riken Center for Brain Science
Ilona Grunwald Kadow Technical University of Munich
Jim Truman Janelia Research Campus
Karla Kaun Brown University
Larry Abbott Columbia University
Marta Zlatic University of Cambridge
Martin Nawrot University of Cologne
Nitin S. Chouhan University of Pennsylvania
Oren Schuldiner Weizmann Institute of Science
Scott Waddell University of Oxford
Seth Tomchik The Scripps Research Institute
Stephan Sigrist Free University of Berlin
Thomas Nowotny University of Sussex
Thomas Préat ESPCI Paris
Vanessa Ruta The Rockefeller University
Walter Senn University of Bern
Wolfgang Rössler University of Würzburg
Yoshinori Aso Janelia Research Campus
SESSION CHAIRS
Amita Sehgal University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Webb University of Edinburgh
Gerald Rubin Janelia Research Campus
Geraldine Wright University of Oxford
Glenn Turner Janelia Research Campus
Leslie Griffith Brandeis University
Lisa Scheunemann Free University of Berlin
Martin Giurfa Paul Sabatier University Toulouse
Randolf Menzel Free University of Berlin
Program
The meeting took place from May 31st – June 2nd with sessions from 3 pm – 6.30 pm CEST.
May
31
2021
Session 1: 3 pm
Chair: Glenn Turner
12 + 5 Hokto Kazama Constructing representations of odor objects
12 + 5 Gaia Tavosanis The mushroom body calyx: structure and function
12 + 5 Karla Kaun Alternative splicing in memories for natural and alcohol reward
8 + 5 Short talk – Nannan Chen Local translation assembles the synaptic proteome required for associative learning in Drosophila
10 Discussion
Session 2: 4.15 pm
Chair: Gerry Rubin
12 + 5 Oren Schuldiner Developmental remodeling of the MB circuit requires activity dependent coordination between the APL and ɣ-KCs
12 + 5 Josie Clowney Development of connectivity in the mushroom body calyx
12 + 5 Yoshi Aso Neural circuit mechanisms of memory-based actions and learning
8 + 5 Short talk – Chen-Han Lin Wiring and operational flexibility of the Drosophila mushroom body circuit
10 Discussion
Session 3: 5.30 pm
Chair: Amita Sehgal
12 + 5 Ilona Grunwald Kadow Innate Immune receptors, AMPs and the mushroom body
12 + 5 Nitin Chouhan Context-dependent role for sleep in memory formation
12 + 5 Thomas Preat Glial insulin prompts glucose shuttling to mushroom body neurons for long-term memory
10 Discussion
30 Social Breakout Room Session
June
1
2021
Session 4: 3 pm
Chair: Leslie Griffith
8 + 5 Short talk – Xuelong Sun The role of the Mushroom bodies in orchestrating guidance behaviours
12 + 5 Hiromu Tanimoto Presynaptic inhibition of dopamine neurons controls cognitive bias
12 + 5 André Fiala Imaging synaptically distributed memory engrams: The Drosophila mushroom body as a study case
12 + 5 Stephan Sigrist Active zone plasticity: a gating mechanism connecting sleep with
memory formation?
10 Discussion
Session 5: 4.15 pm
Chair: Barbara Webb
12 + 5 Aurore Avargues-Weber Are higher-order analytic cognitive faculties of honeybees the consequence of the mushroom bodies architecture?
8 + 5 Short talk – Evripidis Gkanias How fruit flies acquire, forget and assimilate memories: a computational perspective
12 + 5 Andrew Lin Compensatory variability in network parameters enhances memory performance in the Drosophila mushroom body
12 + 5 Seth Tomchik Mechanisms of graded plasticity in the mushroom body
10 Discussion
Session 6: 5.30 pm
Chair: Martin Giurfa
12 + 5 Alla Borisyuk How mushroom body odor representations are shaped by connectivity patterns
12 + 5 Wolfgang Roessler Mushroom-body expansion in social Hymenoptera – are Kenyon cells special?
12 + 5 Jim Truman Strategies and Constraints in the Evolution of the Larval Mushroom Bodies
10 Discussion
30 Social Breakout Room Session
June
2
2021
Session 7: 3 pm
Chair: Lisa Scheunemann
12 + 5 Thomas Nowotny Learning with reward prediction errors in a model of the Drosophila mushroom body
12 + 5 David Owald Where to store a memory
12 + 5 Scott Waddell Things are often not what they appear to be
10 Discussion
Session 8: 4 pm
Chair: Randolf Menzel
12 + 5 Bertram Gerber Heterogeneity in the temporal fingerprint of internal reinforcement signals in Drosophila
12 + 5 Marta Zlatic Circuits for learning, predicting, and deciding
12 + 5 Walter Senn Error- or target-driven synaptic plasticity? A model of predictive learning in the mushroom body
8 + 5 Short talk – Kristin Scaplen Transsynaptic mapping of Drosophila mushroom body output neurons
10 Discussion
Session 9: 5.15 pm
Chair: Geraldine Wright
12 + 5 Martin Nawrot Foraging on the fly: A spiking model for rapid learning and odor plume navigation
8 + 5 Short talk – Cornelia Buehlmann Mushroom bodies are required for learned visual navigation, but not for innate visual behavior, in ants
12 + 5 Vanessa Ruta Mushroom body signaling during odor navigation
12 + 5 Larry Abbott Continuous memory in the mushroom body
10 Discussion
30 Social Breakout Room Session
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