ESF-EMBO Symposium - Flies, Worms and Robots: combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour
08/11/2014 13/11/2014
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ESF-EMBO Symposium - Flies, Worms and Robots: combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour
Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Costa Brava)
Organizers:
This conference will focus on the latest developments in Drosophila systems neuroscience and their application to biomimetics and biorobotics.
- Matthieu Louis, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona ES
- Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK
This conference will focus on the latest developments in Drosophila systems neuroscience and their application to biomimetics and biorobotics.
It follows the successful 2010 ESF-EMBO symposium "Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains" (meeting report: Cobb, EMBO reports 2011, 389), which fostered new interactions within an interdisciplinary community of molecular biologists, ecologists and engineers. The meeting will explore progress made during the past 4 years towards a multi-level understanding of how the fly brain functions. We will examine how behaviour emerges from neural circuit computations, how these principles can inspire new technologies and how biologists can benefit from robotics to rigorously test mechanistic hypotheses. As this undertaking necessitates new methods, we will include researchers on another genetic model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans, in which many interdisciplinary approaches have been pioneered that could be readily transferred to Drosophila.
SPEAKERS
- Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH
- Alexander Borst, Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie, Martinsried DE
- Albert Cardona, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn (VA) US
- Netta Cohen, School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds UK
- Benjamin de Bivort, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) US
- Michael Dickinson, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle US
- Bertram Gerber, Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg DE
- Miriam Goodman, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford CA
- Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn (VA) US
- Ilona Kadow, Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie, Martinsried DE
- Aurel Lazar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York US
- Anthony Leonardo, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn (VA) US
- Shih Chii Liu, Institut für Neuroinformatik, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Zürich CH
- Sean Lockery, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene (OR) US
- Christen Mirth, Development, Evolution and the Environment, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras PT
- Michael Nitabach, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology & Department of Genetics & Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (CT) US
- Carlos Ribeiro, Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisboa PT
- Silke Sachse, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena DE
- Greg Stephens, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL
- David Stern, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn (VA) US
- Glenn Turner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor (NY) US
- Rob Wood, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) US
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CONFERENCE VENUE
Hotel Eden Roc
C/Port Salvi 57
17220 Sant Feliu de Guixols, Costa Brava
Spain
CONTACT
European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex, France
Tel.: Tel: +33 (0) 388 762181
Fax: +33 (0) 388 370532
