Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

by Barry Dickson, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Cori Bargmann, The Rockefeller University

Connectomics in the Developing Nervous System

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Reverse Engineering the Drosophila Brain

Why so many neurons? Advantages of over-complete representations

Optical dissection of the cortical circuits underlying somatosensation

Contributions of basal ganglia circuitry to vocal learning in the songbird

Correlating retinal function and structure using two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

Two-photon Single Cell Optogenetic Control of Neuronal Activity by Sculpted Light

Ventral nerve cord circuitry in Drosophila larva with synaptic resolution

Global analysis of sexual dimorphism in the fly brain

Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Talk title to be announced

Chaired by David Anderson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

A Drosophila model for alcohol reward

Kyle Gobrogge, Harvard Medical School
Anterior Hypothalamic Neural Circuits Mediate Vasopressin and Serotonin Regulation of Aggression in Monogamous Male Prairie Voles

Circuit mechanisms of courtship conditioning in Drosophila

Deconstructing olfactory representations in the Drosophila mushroom body

Increased spanning time between stimuli  recruits different neuronal circuits in fear conditioning

Lustful  : Molecular genetic analysis of aberrant female courtship behavior in mice

Defining the neuronal circuitry of fear

Connecting motor circuits

German Sumbre , Ecole Nomale Supérieure
Time processing in the zebrafish larva nervous system

Adaptive motor learning in the zebrafish larva

A ground plan for networks in the hindbrain

Rapid desynchronization of an electrically coupled interneuron network with sparse excitatory synaptic input

Gain control of auditory-motor circuit by visual cue via dopaminergic neuromodulation in zebrafish

Optogenetic dissection of the oculomotor system in zebrafish

TRIGGERING SUBROUTINES OF A MOTOR BEHAVIOR TO IDENTIFY NEW NEURONS IN FLY FEEDING CIRCUITRY

Screen for interneurons involved in sensorimotor integration in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila larva

The Neurobiology of Aggression in flies and Mice

Chaired by Barry Dickson, Institute of Molecular Pathology

Dissecting a circuit for aggregation behavior

William R. Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Pain circuits in worms

In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision

Botond Roska , FMI Basel
Genetic approaches to understand and manipulate retinal circuit function

Optogenetics-assisted functional analysis of a harsh touch nociceptive neuronal network in Caenorhabditis elegans

Ana Silbering, University of Lausanne
Functional neuroarchitecture of the fly's "second nose": physiological, anatomical and behavioural characterisation of Ionotropic Receptor circuits in Drosophila

Pattern classification by neuronal ensembles in the olfactory system

Olfactory processing in Drosophila

Visual computation in the retina and beyond