Drawing with black background, a neuron and a fly, walking on a ball shape with Alexander Borst's portrait

Thursday, Sep 12 – Friday, Sep 13, 2024

Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, T-Building

 

Thursday, September 12, 2024

19:00 – 19:40            Evening lecture by Max Jösch, ISTA, Klosterneuburg: Inspiring vision                          

Friday, September 13, 2024

08:45 – 09:00 Welcome by the Organizers
09:00 – 09:30 Botond Roska, IOB Basel
Cell-type targeted therapies for visual diseases
09:30 – 10:00 Armin Bahl, University of Konstanz
Fly non-motion vision
10:00 – 10:30 Martin Egelhaaf, University of Bielefeld
Optic Flow: A key to spatial vision and orientation in insects
10:30 – 11:00 C O F F E E     B R E A K
11:00 – 11:30 Idan Segev, ELSC, Jerusalem
The Rosetta Neuron Project and beyond
11:30 – 12:00 Bettina Schnell, MPINB, Bonn
Neuronal control of steering maneuvers during Drosophila flight                                                         
12:00 – 12:30 Cori Bargmann, The Rockefeller University, New York City, NY
Behavioral adaptations to physiological challenges
12:30 – 13:30 B R E A K
13:30 – 14:00 Dierk Reiff, University of Freiburg
Early spectral processing in Drosophila and the multiple roles of Dm9
14:00 – 14:30 Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA
The estimation and use of self-motion for vector navigation
14:30 – 15:00 Frederic Theunissen, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Information flow in sensory systems
15:00 – 15:30 C O F F E E     B R E A K
15:30 – 16:00 Lukas Groschner, University of Graz
Time flies — temporal processing in Drosophila
16:00 – 16:30 Gerald Rubin, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA
Illustrating and enhancing the power of connectomics
16:30 – 17:00 Haim Sompolinsky, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The ring attractor - revisited
17:00 – 17:30 Sebastian Seung, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ
Insights into vision from interpreting a neuronal wiring diagram
17:30 – 17:45 Concluding remarks: Alexander Borst, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
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