Organization of Behavior in Higher and Lower Animals
 

August 24 - 25 Ontogeny of Behavior

August 24, Sunday

9 - 12 AM Reviews by fellows 

  • Behavioral development (James Kozloski and Martin Barth). 
  • Neural correlates of ontogeny of behavior (Beth Capaldi and Joachim Schachtner)
Lectures
  • 4 - 6 PM Peter Marler (UC Davis): Ontogeny of birdsong
  • 8 - 10 PM Allison Doupe (UCSF): Neural correlates in birdsong development

August 25 Monday

Lectures

  • 9 - 12 AM Anne Fernald (Stanford): Development of speech perception
  • 4 - 6 PM Russ Fernald (Stanford): Cellular and molecular correlates of social hierarchy in cichlid fish
8 -10 PM Progress report by fellows

August 26 - 27 Memory/Learning/ Hippocampus

August 26 Tuesday

9 - 12 AM Reviews by fellows

  • Memory systems (hippocampus, mushroom body etc.). (Jeff Dickinson, Martin Giurfa and Björn Brembs)
  • Molecular and cellular correlates of memory. (Caroly Shumway and Sabine Gruesser).
Lectures
  • 4 - 6 PM Lucy Jacobs (UC Berkeley): Phenotypic plasticity and the hippocampus
  • 8 - 10 PM Randolf Menzel (Free Univ. Berlin) : Neural and cellular basis of olfactory learning in honey bees

August 27 Wednesday

Lectures

  • 9 -12 AM Nicky Clayton (UC Davis): Memories of a flying seahorse: of spaces, places and the avian hippocampus 
4 -6 PM Review by fellows 
  • Neural mechanisms of olfaction (Marlene Bartos and Petra Skiebe-Corette) 
Lecture
  • 8 -10 PM Randolf Menzel (Free Univ. Berlin) Olfactory coding in the antennal lobe of honeybees
August 28 Thursday free day


August 29 - 30 Olfaction 

August 29 Friday

9 - 12 AM Reviews by fellows
  • Molecular mechanisms of olfaction (Frank Grasso and Wolfgang Stein)
  • Psychophysics of olfaction (Annette Kleiser and Alejandro Baecker)
Lectures
  • 4 - 6 PM Cori Bargman (UCSF): Molecular and cellular mechanisms of olfactory discrimination
  • 8 -10 PM Gabrielle Nevitt (UC Davis): Mechanisms of olfactory imprinting in salmon

August 30 Saturday

Lectures
  • 9 - 12 AM Heinz Breer (Univ. Hohenheim): Receptors and transduction mechanisms in olfactory neurons
  • 4 - 6 PM Robyn Hudson (Univ. Munich): Influence of experience on olfactory function: behavioral and neural correlates
Reviews by fellows
  • 8 - 10 PM Comparative studies of social behavior in vertebrates (Ari Berkowitz and Hans Hofmann)
  • August 31 - Sept. 1 Social Behavior

    August 31 Sunday

    9 - 12 AM Reviews by fellows
    • Neural substrates of hierarchical behavior (Jim Goodson and Bertram Gerber)
    Lectures
    • 4- 6 PM Andy Bass (Cornell): Neural correlates of social hierarchy in midshipman fish 
    8 - 10 PM Open

    September 1 Monday

    Lectures
    • 9 - 12 AM Ed Kravitz (Harvard): Molecular approaches to aggression: fighting lobsters: from genes to behavior
    • 4 - 6 PM Mike Raleigh (UCLA): Social hierarchy and neuromodulators in monkeys