SATURDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff and Chair's Remarks |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neuroethology: Past and Present |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Kristan (University of California, San Diego) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Keynote Address: Catherine E. Carr (University of Maryland, Baltimore) "Back in my day… How will neuroethology’s past shape its future?" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Shaping Neuroethology Research During Career Beginnings |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Martin How (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) "Courtship herding in the fiddler crab Uca elegans: Tracking control system" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Stefan Pulver (Brandeis University, Boston, MA) "Electrophysiological characterization of light and heat activated methods for acutely manipulating neuronal excitability in Drosophila melanogaster" |
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Gesa Feenders (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) "A motor theory for the origin of vocal learning" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Theo Mota (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) "Integrative study of colour perception and learning in the honeybee Apis mellifera" |
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Informal discussion and wrap up |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neuroethology’s Future |
| Discussion Leaders: Jochen Zeil (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) Kathy French (University of California, San Diego) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Integrative Approaches in Neuroethology: A Look to the Future |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Andrew Barron (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) "Bees on crack" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Catharine Rankin (University of British Columbia) "Plasticity: From behavior to neural circuits to networks of genes and back again" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:10 am - 11:30 am | Advances in Neuroethology: Where are we Heading? |
| Selected Student Presentations |
10:10 am - 10:25 am | Stephen Shepherd (Duke University, Durham, NC) "Parietal "mIrror neurons" reflect both deployed and observed attention" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:45 am | Andrew George (University of Texas, Austin) "Calcium-Mediated Change in Neural Intrinsic Excitability in Weakly Electric Fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus and Eigenmannia virescens" |
10:45 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
10:50 am - 11:05 am | Anna Greenwood (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) "What can genetics teach us about the evolution of the nervous system?" |
11:50 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:25 am | Jeff Riffel (University of Arizona, Tucson) "Olfactory behavior and neural processing of complex odor mixtures in the moth, Manduca sexta" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Directed Questions and Wrap up Discussion: What are Future Challenges and Promises of Neuroethology? |
11:30 am - 11:35 am | Seth Ament (Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "What will neuroethology’s place in science be in 2050?" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 11:50 am | Helga Groll (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) "What aren’t we going to predict?" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Discuss request for a subsequent GRS; Nominations for the next Student/Post-doc Vice Chair(s) to work with GRC Chair (serving as mentor); Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |