Home BI-seminars Talks at the MPI for Biological Intelligence Keynote Lectures An internal committee identifies and invites outstanding scientists from areas related to the research at our institute. more Emerging Scientist Series We encourage excellent postdocs to give a talk at the institute. more Institute Seminars Our research departments and groups organize regular seminars relevant to their research fields. more Gender in Ecology & Neuroscience Seminar Series This seminar series has two aims: To contribute to a precise and un-biased understanding of sex in ecology and neuroscience and to put a spotlight on the situation of researchers of different genders in the field. more Upcoming talks Deterministic and stochastic specification of neural diversity in the Drosophila visual system and its evolution Date: Jan 28, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Claude Desplan New York University, Department of Biology Location: MPI BI Martinsried Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105 Host: Alexander Borst Contact: alexander.borst@bi.mpg.de [more] The VBC framework on how vision works in primate brain, and its extension to multisensory domains across species Date: Feb 4, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Zhaoping Li MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen Location: MPI BI Martinsried Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105 Host: Lisa Fenk Contact: lisa.fenk@bi.mpg.de [more] Noradrenergic-dependent visual disruption and restoration in a SYNGAP1 Mouse Model of Intellectual Disability and Autism Date: Feb 25, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nathalie Rochefort University of Edinburgh, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Location: MPI BI Martinsried Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105 Host: Mark Hübener Contact: mark.huebener@bi.mpg.de [more] Behavioural evolution in the Tanganyikan cichlid adaptive radiation Date: Mar 11, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alex Jordan Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz Location: MPI BI Martinsried Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105 Host: Peter Jägers Contact: peter.jaegers@bi.mpg.de [more] A coming-of-age story: neuronal control of behavior in early life Date: Apr 1, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Harris Kaplan Harvard University Location: MPI BI Martinsried Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105 Host: Lorenz Fenk Contact: lorenz.fenk@bi.mpg.de [more] Cognitive rules underlying the self-organization of animal collectives Date: May 6, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marina Papadopoulou University of Tuscia, Italy Location: MPI BI Seewiesen Room: MPI BI Seewiesen, Haus 4, Seminarraum 4/0.07 und 4/0.08 Host: Susanne Hoffmann Contact: susanne.hoffmann@bi.mpg.de [more]
