Program
Lecture Hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
May
30
tuesday
8:30 Registration
8:55 Welcome address: Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Yoshinori Aso, André Fiala
Session I - Chair: Oren Schuldiner
9:00 – 9:20 Yoshinori Aso (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, USA)
“Ultrastructural analysis of synapses in the adult mushroom body”
9:20 – 9:40 Kokoro Saito (Tohoku University, Japan)
“Feedback regulation of dopamine signaling tunes reward intensities”
9:40 – 10:00 Kuan-Lin Feng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
“Idiosyncratic avoidance circuit for aversive long-term memory retrieval in Drosophila “
10:00 – 10:20 Emmanuel Perisse (University of Montpelllier, France)
“Learning relative aversive value in the fly brain”
10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session II – Chair: Gaia Tavosanis
11:00 – 11:20 Xuelin Li (Peking University, China)
“Local 5-HT signals bi-directionally modulate the coincidence time window of associative learning”
11:20 – 11:40 Lisa Scheunemann (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
“Keeping the balance: serotonin signals bi-directionally regulate aversive and appetitive memory consolidation”
11:40 – 12:00 Toshihide Hige (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
“Circuit effects of synaptic plasticity across the mushroom body compartments”
12:00 – 12:20 Karla R. Kaun (Brown University, USA)
“Molecular mechanisms for a valence shift driving alcohol seeking”
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch buffet and poster session (even numbers)
Session III – Chair: David Owald
14:00 – 14:20 Suewei Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
“Functional feedback connections in the adult Drosophila mushroom body”
14:20 – 14:40 Radostyna Lyutova (University of Regensburg, Germany)
“Mushroom body output neuron 02 regulates the transition from goal-directed actions to habits in Drosophila”
14:40 – 15:00 Seth Tomchik (University of Iowa, USA)
“Differential roles of monoaminergic receptors on presynaptic plasticity in Kenyon cells”
15:00 – 15:20 Mingyue Lv (Peking University, China)
“A specific GRAB sensor reveals the in vivo octopamine dynamics in aversive learning”
15:20 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session IV - Chair: Ilona Grunwald-Kadow
16:00 – 16:20 Andrew C. Lin (University of Sheffield, UK)
“Ectopic sodium channel expression paradoxically decreases excitability in Drosophila Kenyon cells”
16:20 – 16:40 Moshe Parnas (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
“Muscarinic receptors, voltage dependence and learning specificity”
16:40 – 17:00 David Owald (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine, Germany)
“Dopamine action at dendrites of dopaminergic neurons”
17:00 – 17:20 Wenbin Yang (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
“Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila”
17:20 – 17:40 Martin Brill (Rapp OptoElectronic, Germany)
“Advanced Light Solutions – Photomanipulation in Light- and Multi-Photon-Microscopy”
17:40 – 19:00 Poster session (even numbers) with wine and cheese
may
31
wednesday
Session V - Chair: Brian Smith
9:00 – 9:20 Aurore Avagues-Weber (Paul Sabatier University – Toulouse III, France)
“Numerosity categorization by parity in an insect”
9:20 – 9:40 Claudia Groh (University of Würzburg, Germany)
“Development and adult neuronal plasticity of mushroom body microcircuits in social Hymenoptera”
9:40 – 10:00 Tiyasa Roy (NCBS Bangalore, India)
“Time-place memory in honeybees: how are the mushroom bodies connected to the circadian clock?”
10:00 – 10:20 Wolfgang Rössler (University of Würzburg, Germany)
“The role of the mushroom bodies during learning walks in desert ants”
10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session VI – Chair: Yoshinori Aso
11:00 – 11:20 Martin Strube-Bloss (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
“Categorization across stimulus modalities by mushroom body output neurons”
11:20 – 11:40 Brian Smith (Arizona State University, USA)
“A model for modulation of Hebbian plasticity and its potential role in regulating attention in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)”
11:40 – 12:00 Ilona Grunwald Kadow (University of Bonn, Germany)
“How states and needs shape neural processing and behavior of fruit flies”
12:00 – 12:20 Cansu Arican (University of Cologne, Germany)
“The mushroom body output encodes behavioral decisions during sensory-motor transformation”
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch buffet and poster session (odd numbers)
Session VII – Chair: Annekathrin Widmann
14:00 – 14:20 Florence Besse (Institute of Biology Valrose, Nice, France)
“Imp-dependent localization of RNAs to Mushroom Body γ axons is essential for long-term associative memory”
14:20 – 14:40 Stephan Sigrist (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
“Transient active zone remodeling in the Drosophila mushroom body supports mid-term olfactory memories”
14:40 – 15:00 Pierre-Yves Plaçais (ESPCI Paris, France)
“Metabolic plasticity supports and regulates memory formation”
15:00 – 15:20 Robert J. Kittel (Leipzig University, Germany)
“Rab3 is essential for cyclic AMP-mediated presynaptic plasticity and olfactory learning in Drosophila”
15:20 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session VIII – Chair: Lisa Scheunemann
16:00 – 16:20 Martin Nawrot (University of Cologne, Germany)
“Reward prediction for adaptive sensory-motor transformation in a spiking agent of Drosophila larva.”
16:20 – 16:40 Ashok Litwin-Kumar (Columbia University, USA)
“Action-related information in learning signals for distributed control”
16:40 – 17:00 Giorgio F. Gilestro (Imperial College London, UK)
“Divergent evolution of sleep homeostasis open new perspectives on the function of sleep”
17:00 – 17:20 Daisuke Hattori (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
“A neuronal count sketch in the mushroom body”
19:30 Speakers’ dinner at Restaurant Bullerjahn or young investigators’
get-together at Nautibar
june
1
thursday
Session IX - Chair: Stephan Sigrist
9:00 – 9:20 Oren Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
“The mushroom body is a model to study mechanisms of developmental circuit remodeling”
9:20 – 9:40 Gaia Tavosanis (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
“Exploring the mushroom body calyx landscape”
9:40 – 10:00 Halyna Shcherbata (Medical University Hanover, Germany)
“Profiling of the neuron-specific Dystroglycan interactome reveals new factors contributing to MB morphogenesis”
10:00 – 10:20 Annekathrin Widmann (University of Göttingen, Germany)
“Behavioural and anatomical features in an aging maggot”
10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session X – Chair: Karla Kaun
11:00 – 11:20 Carlotta Martelli (University of Mainz, Germany)
“The role of the mushroom body in olfactory-driven exploratory behavior”
11:20 – 11:40 Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval (Georgetown University, USA)
“Unimodal sensory preconditioning in a fruit fly”
11:40 – 12:00 André Fiala (University of Göttingen, Germany)
“Neuronal circuits underlying aversive second-order conditioning in Drosophila”
12:00 – 12:20 Fatima Amin (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany)
“Action, valence, dopamine – Drosophila as a study case”
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch buffet
14:00 – 15:30 Panel discussion
15:30 – 15:35 Closing remarks: Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Yoshinori Aso, André Fiala