Program

SCB 2017 Program

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Wednesday, December 13

Time Session/Lecture info
08:00-18:20
Wednesday, December 13
 
08:30-09:10
Gilles Laurent, MPI, Frankfurt
Camouflage, texture processing and neural dynamics
09:10-09:50
Don Pfaff, Rockefeller University
Quantitative modeling of optimal CNS arousal in the service of complex behaviors
09:50-10:30
Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar-Ilan University
Mechanisms shaping social interaction in fruit flies; an interplay between internal state, prior experience and reactions from other individuals
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:40
Josh Shaevitz, Princeton University
The song and dance of love: how two flies interact during courtship
11:40-12:20
Ilan Golani, Tel Aviv University
Deciphering complex behavior by measuring its growth and differentiation in reference to natural origins
12:20-14:30
Lunch break and posters
14:30-15:10
Ronen Segev , Ben-Gurion University
What can fishes teach us about the brain?
15:10-15:50
Tali Kimchi, Weizmann Institute of Science
Neurobiology of sexually dimorphic social behavior
15:50-16:30
Yossi Yovel, Tel Aviv University
From sensory perception to foraging decision making, the bat's point of view
16:30-17:00
Break
17:00-17:40
Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University
Encoding and learning of action by the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum
17:40-18:20
Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science
The mirror game as a paradigm for joint creativity without leader and follower

Deadline for registration
November 30, 2017

Deadline for abstract submission
November 1, 2017

Organizing committee

  • Alon Chen,
    Weizmann Institute of Science and Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry
  • Elad Schneidman,
    Weizmann Institute of Science

Supported by:

Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Reut Hershenhoren
reut.hershenhoren@weizmann.ac.il