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Neuroethology in Vancouver

By clock on July 26, 2007.

Bjoern Brembs is at the ICN meeting and is blogging about the talks he saw. If I went, I would have probably attended a completely different set of talks, e.g., on birdsong, memory in food-caching birds, aggression in crustaceans, strange sensory systems, spatial orientation and animal cognition, but I am certainly glad that Bjoern has highlighted the best of what he saw there:

Robert de Ruyter van Steveninck: Velocity estimation and natural visual input signals

Martin Egelhaaf: Active vision: a strategy of complexity reduction in behavioral control

Roy Ritzmann: Movement through complex terrains by insects and robots

Jack Gray: Complex behavior from compact systems

Leslie Griffith: Sex and the single fly: Pheromone-mediated learning

Sarah Dunlop: Recovery of function after CNS and PNS injury

Leslie Vosshall: Molecular neuroethology of olfaction in Drosophila

Claude Desplan: The color vision circuitry in Drosophila

Jan Ramirez: The neuronal basis of inspiration

Piali Sengupta: Running hot and cold: Thermosensory behaviors in C. elegans

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animal behavior
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