| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Keynote Lectures |
| Harold Zakon (University of Texas, Austin)
Welcome |
| Harvey Karten (University of California, San Diego)
"Evolution is a Tinkerer: Conservation and Change in Vertebrate Brains." |
| Roger Hanlon (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole)
""EthoNeurology" of adaptive coloration and intelligence in cephalopod mollusks." |
| MONDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Behavioral Plasticity |
| Session co-chair/discussion leaders: Joachim Zeil (Australian National University) & Hans Hoffmann (Harvard University) |
| Brian Smith (Ohio State University)
"Distributed plasticity in early processing of sensory information." |
| Gerhard von der Emde (University of Bonn
"Perceptual plasticity during object imaging in electrolocating electric fish." |
| Break |
| Marla Sokolowski (University of Toronto)
"Molecular, neurogenetic, and plastic components of food related behaviors in the fruit fly." |
| Cathy Rankin (University of British Columbia)
"Behavioral Plasticity in the Mechanosensory System of C. elegans |
| 12:45 pm | Group Photo / Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Plasticity in the Auditory System |
| Session co-chair/discussion leaders: Thom Park (University of Illinois) & Benedikte Grothe (Max Plank Institute, Munich) |
| Eric Knudsen (Stanford university)
"Mechanisms of adaptive auditory plasticity in the owl." |
| Christoph Kapfer (University of Munich)
"Experience dependent refinement of inhibitory inputs to auditory coincidence detector neurons." |
| Laura Hurley (Indiana University)
"Bats on Prozac: Functional reconfiguration of auditory circuits by serotonin." |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic Mechanisms of Plasticity: are they universal? |
| Session co-chair/discussion leaders: Curtis Bell (University of Oregon Health Sciences Center) & Sara Bottjer (University of Southern California) |
| David Glanzman (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Neurobiology of learning and memory in Aplysia: decline of the presynaptic dogma." |
| Alison Mercer (University of Otago)
"Developmental mechanisms: can they tell us something about synaptic plasticity in the adult brain?" |
| Break |
| Richard Mooney (Duke University)
"Encoding learned vocalizations: the genesis and function of multiple song representations in the songbird's brain." |
| Paul Katz (Georgia State University)
"Serotonergic neuromodulation in Tritonia, Aplysia, and other Opisthobranch molluscs: Similar actions and homologous neurons but different behaviors." |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Morphological Plasticity |
| Co-chair/discussion leaders: Susan Fahrbach (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) & Sarah Pallas(Georgia State University) |
| Janis Weeks (University of Oregon, Eugene)
"Steroid-induced dendritic loss as an anatomical substrate for electrophysiological and behavioral modification." |
| Sarah Farris (University of Arizona, Tucson)
"Mushroom body plasticity: Kenyon cell remodeling from embryo to adult." |
| Anthony Tramontin (University of California, San Francisco)
"Behavioral correlates of seasonal plasticity in the adult brain." |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular/Genetic Approaches |
| Co-chair/discussion leaders: Marla Sokolowski (University of Toronto) & Elba Serrano (New Mexico State University). |
| Kei Ito (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
"Anatomy and function of the information pathways from the lower-order sensory neuropils to the higher-order integrative regions." |
| Troy Zars (University of Missouri)
"A sufficient circuitry approach for the localization of short-term memory in Drosophila." |
| Break |
| Erich Jarvis (Duke University)
"A systems approach to understanding the molecular biology of behavior: genes and bird song." |
| Shawn Lockery (Univeristy of Orgeon)
"Kinetics' genetics in C. elegans: rhyme or reason?" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Business Meeting and Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Aggressive/Affiliative Behaviors |
| Co-chair/discussion leaders: Israel Lederhendler (National Institute of Mental Health) & Cathy Marler (University of Wisconsin) |
| Larry Young (Emory University)
"Plasticity in neuropeptide receptor gene expression and the evolution of monogamy." |
| Andrew Bass (Cornell University)
"Evolutionary labile patterning of brain and social behavior in fish: a tale of two males." |
| Break |
| Dionysia Theodosis (Univeristy of Bourdeux)
"Maternity induces neural, glial, and synaptic remodeling in the female brain." |
| Donald Edwards (Georgia State University)
"Adaptive State changes in the nervous system and behavior during social hierarchy formation." |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Computational Neuroethology |
| Co-chair/discussion leaders, Frederick Theunnisen (University of California at Berkeley) & Christine Linster (Cornell University) |
| Gary J. Rose (University of Utah)
"Plasticity as a filter of temporal information" |
| Gwen Jacobs (University of Montana)
"Predicting function from form: analysis of the relationship between ensemble activity patterns and the representation and encoding of sensory stimuli in the cricket cercal sensory system." |
| Daniel Margoliash (University of Chicago)
"The error signal in birdsong learning." |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
