Insect Behavior: Small Brains, Big Functions
March 13 - 15, 2007

This meeting focused on central brain and ventral ganglion functions of insects in bringing about adaptive behavior. It included methods and tools needed from neurogenetics to the simulation of circuits to assess behavior quantitatively and to unravel the underlying neuronal circuits. The meeting omitted many aspects of peripheral visual and olfactory processing, countless important molecules, and olfactory learning and memory—all topics that can fill specialized meetings by themselves.

• ORGANIZERS:

  Ulrike Heberlein, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
  
  Martin Heisenberg, Ph.D. , University of Würzburg
  
  Roland Strauss, Ph.D., University of Würzburg

• INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

  Douglas Armstrong University of Edinburgh Bruce Baker Stanford University Bjoern Brembs Freie Universität Berlin Chiara Cirelli University of Wisconsin/Madison Thomas Clandinin Stanford University Thomas Collett University of Sussex Barry Dickson Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Chris Doe HHMI/ University of Oregon Jean-Francois Ferveur Université de Bourgogne Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga University of Tsukuba Bertram Gerber University of Wuerzburg Tanja Godenschwege Florida Atlantic University Ralph Greenspan The Neurosciences Institute Leslie Griffith Brandeis University Aike Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences Jeffery Hall Brandeis University Charlotte Helfrich-Forster University of Regensburg Uwe Homberg Universitaet Marburg Kei Ito The University of Tokyo Edward Kravitz Harvard Medical School Chi-Hon Lee National Institutes of Health Li Liu Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Trudy MacKay North Carolina State University

  Jean-Rene Martin CNRS, NBCM, UPR-9040 Rodney Murphey Florica Atlantic University Kevin O' Dell University of Glasgow Hans-Joachim Pflüger Freie Universität Berlin Thomas Preat Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Roy Ritzmann Case Western Reserve University Paul Shaw Washington University School of Medicine Marla Sokolowski University of Toronto, Erindale Campus Mandyam Srinivasan The Australian National University Reinhard Stocker University of Fribourg Hiromu Tanimoto Theodor-Boveri Institut fuer Biowissenschaften Hans-Joachim Pflüger Freie Universität Berlin Bruno Van Swinderen The Neurosciences Institute Scott Waddell University of Massachusetts Medical School Barbara Webb University of Edinburgh Rüdiger Wehner University of Zürich Benjamin White National Institutes of Health Fred Wolf University of California, San Francisco Reinhard Wolf University of Wuerzburg Daisuke Yamamoto Waseda University Sch. Sci. Engin

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