SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Introductory/Keynote Lectures |
| Chair of the GRC 2005 meeting: N.J. Strausfeld (University of Arizona)
Opening welcome |
| Discussion Leaders: Catharine Carr (University of Maryland) & Paul S. Katz (Georgia State University) |
| Edmund T. Rolls (University of Oxford , Department of Experimental Psychology)
How the brain processes faces and emotion; and why we have emotions |
| Thomas Seeley (Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior)
House hunting by honey bees: a study of group decision-making |
MONDAY |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Ecological Neuroethology |
| Discussion Leaders: Eric Warrant (University of Lund, Sweden) & Anna Gislen (University of Lund, Sweden) |
| Jochen Zeil (Australian National University)
Visual ecology of fiddler crabs |
| Peter Narins (UCLA, Department of Physiological Science)
A neuroethological model for cross-modal binding |
| Carolyn Shumway (Dept. of Research, New England Aquarium and Dept. of Biology, Boston University)
How social and habitat complexities shape brain and behavior |
| Melissa Bateson (School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Business Meeting / Poster Session |
| Posters will remain up until the last evening of the conference and will provide a focal point for afternoon and evening discussions. |
TUESDAY |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Evolution of Behavior and Brains |
| Discussion Leaders: Catharine Rankin (Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia) & Jonathan Bacon (Sussex University, UK) |
| Hudson Kern Reeve (Cornell University, Ithaca)
Evolution of cooperation and conflict in wasp societies: the brain as an inclusive fitness projector |
| Heather Eisthen (Michigan State University)
Evolutionary changes in the vertebrate olfactory system: How do they affect behavior? |
| Kenneth Catania (Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University)
Cortical evolution and the senses |
| Daniel Robert (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK)
Coevolution of acoustic systems |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Emergent Social Behavior |
| Discussion Leaders: Susan Fahrbach (Wake Forest University) & Samuel S-H. Wang (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University) |
| Harold Zakon (University of Texas, Austin, School of Biological Sciences)
Signalers and receivers in animal communication |
| Fred Dyer (Michigan State)
Sequential data gathering by honey bees |
| Tucker Balch (Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing)
How research in multirobot systems can impact research in social animal behavior |
WEDNESDAY |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Navigation and migration |
| Discussion Leaders: Katalin Gothard (University of Arizona) & Francesco Battaglia (College de France, Paris) |
| Anna Gagliardo (Dipartimento di Etologia, Ecologia ed Evoluzione Universitá di Pisa, Italy)
The role of olfaction in pigeon navigation |
| Thomas Collett (School of Biological Sciences, Sussex University, UK)
Flexibility and choice in insect navigation |
| James Knierim (University of Texas Medical School at Houston)
Neural mechanisms for representing place and direction in rats |
| Kenneth J. Lohmann (Department of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill)
The maps, compasses, and sensory biology of sea turtle navigation |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Social position: recognition of kin and competitor |
| Discussion Leaders: Lori Marino (Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, Emory University) & Brenda McCowan (University of California
School of Veterinary Medicine & California National Primate Research Center) |
| George Pollak (University of Texas, Austin)
Vocal signatures of bats and processing in the auditory system |
| Olivier Pascalis (Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, UK)
Cognitive development of face recognition |
| Elizabeth A. Tibbetts (University of Michigan; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
How wasps recognize each other's faces |
THURSDAY |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sensory and Motor Control: From Animals to Robots |
| Discussion Leaders: John Hildebrand (University of Arizona, Division of Neurobiology) & Hillel J. Chiel (Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biology) |
| Barbara Webb (Institute of Perception, Action and Behavior School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Robot models of the auditory and visual localization behavior of crickets |
| Bijan Pesaran (Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology)
Decoding of movement planning and the control of neurally-driven prosthetic devices |
| Charles Higgins (Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona)
Insect-inspired visual navigation algorithms and robotic implementations |
| Roy Ritzmann (Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biology)
The mechanical roach: Interaction between descending and local control |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Gene expression and behavior |
| Discussion Leaders: Henrike Scholz (Biozentrum, University of Würzburg) & Charles W. Whitfield (Department of Entomology, Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Adi Mizrahi (Department of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Inst. of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In vivo imaging in the mouse olfactory bulb |
| Hideaki Takeuchi (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Biological Sciences)
Future aspect of molecular neurobiology using a honeybee as a model system |
| Reinhard Wolf (University of Würzburg, Department of Genetics and Neurobiology)
Localization of visual pattern memory in the central complex of Drosophila |
FRIDAY |
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |