Agenda for Learning and Memory: A Synthesis of Flies and Honeybees

Schedule at a Glance

Sunday November 9th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's

Monday November 10th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 1: Early Sensory Processing in Plasticity
10:30 am Break and Group Photo
11:00 am Session 2: Antennal Lobe to Mushroom Bodies
12:30 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Tour (optional)
2:00 pm Session 3: Mushroom Bodies
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Session 4: Reward and Aversive Learning, Bioamines I
5:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Poster Reception

Tuesday November 11th
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 5: Reward and Aversive Learning, Bioamines II
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Session 6: STM and LTM Transition
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Session 7: Social Learning
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Session 8: Physiological States
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Poster Reception

Wednesday November 12th - REVISED
7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session 9: Computational Models and Signaling
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Closing Remarks
11:30 am Lunch (take out boxes from servery) and Departure
12:00 pm First shuttle to Dulles
12:45 pm Second shuttle to Dulles
1:30 pm Last shuttle to Dulles

Full Schedule

Sunday November 9th
3:00 pm Check-in
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Refreshments available at Bob's Pub

Monday November 10th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 1: Early Sensory Processing in Plasticity
Chair: Ron Davis
9:00 am - Leslie C. Griffith, Brandeis University
Learning and presynaptic modulation
9:30 am - Kathleen K. Siwicki, Swarthmore College
Assessing the role of gustatory sensory inputs in Drosophila courtship conditioning
10:00 am - C. Giovanni Galizia, Universität Konstanz
Bees, brains and behavior: The role of neural networks in insect olfaction
10:30 am - Break and Group Photo
11:00 am - Session 2: Antennal Lobe to Mushroom Bodies
Chair: Ron Davis
11:00 am - Brian Smith, Arizona State University
Distributed components of plasticity in early sensory processing: The antennal lobe
11:30 am - Randolf Menzel, Freie Universität Berlin
Learning and memory in the honeybee: Behavior, neural mechanisms and cellular correlates
12:00 pm - Martin Heisenberg, University of Wuerzburg
Can memory traces be localized by circuit genetics?
12:30 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - Tour (optional)
2:00 pm - Session 3: Mushroom Bodies
Chair: Brian Smith
2:00 pm - Ronald Davis, Baylor College of Medicine
Olfactory memory traces as detected by function optical imaging
2:30 pm - Krystyna Keleman, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Function of the Drosophila CPEB protein Orb2 in long-term courtship conditioning
3:00 pm - Aike Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mushroom body functions as “noise” inhibitor in visual cognition-like behaviors of Drosophila
3:30 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Session 4: Reward and Aversive Learning, Bioamines I
Chair: Brian Smith
4:00 pm - Scott Waddell, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Motivational control of memory retrieval in Drosophila
4:30 pm - Andreas S. Thum, University of Fribourg
The role of dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila Larval olfactory learning
5:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm - Dinner
7:30 pm - Poster Reception

Tuesday November 11th
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 5: Reward and Aversive Learning, Bioamines II
Chair: Randolf Menzel
9:00 am - Kyung-An Han, Pennsylvania State University
Neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying olfactory conditioning in Drosophila
9:30 am - Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga, University of Tsukuba
Distinctive neuronal networks and biochemical pathways for appetitive and aversive memory in Drosophila larvae
10:00 am - Martin Giurfa, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex
10:30 am - Break
11:00 am - Session 6: STM and LTM Transition
Chair: Randolf Menzel
11:00 am - Thomas Preat, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Dopamine and the DAMB receptor gate the transition between short-term and long-term memory in Drosophila
11:30 am - Yi Zhong, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Gating memory consolidation in Drosophila
12:00 pm - Jean-Maurice Dura, Institute of Human Genetics
Uncoupling long-term from short-term memory of courtship conditioning in Drosophila
12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Session 7: Social Learning
Chair: C. Giovanni Galizia
2:00 pm - Alison R. Mercer, University of Otago
Royal manipulation of aversive learning in young worker bees
2:30 pm - Geraldine A. Wright, Newcastle University
The roles of pre- and post-ingestive information in aversive appetitive olfactory learning by honeybees
3:00 pm - Marc A. Seid, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Repertoire size, behavioral flexibility and the ant brain
3:30 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Session 8: Physiological States
Chair: C. Giovanni Galizia
4:00 - pm Jerry C. P. Yin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sleep and memory formation
4:30 - pm Toshi Kitomoto, University of Iowa
The molting hormone ecdysone regulates courtship memory in Drosophila
5:00 - pm Tadeusz J. Kawecki, University of Lausanne
Genetic, nutritional and evolutionary relationships between demographic and cognitive aging in Drosophila
6:00 pm - Poster Reception
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Poster Reception

Wednesday November 12th - REVISED
7:30 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Session 9: Computational Models, Signaling and Molecular Mechanisms
Chair: Leslie Griffith
9:00 am - Jan Wessnitzer, University of Edinburgh
Computational models of the olfactory learning circuit
9:30 am - Minoru Saitoe, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience
Functional significance of Mg2+ block in associative learning and memory
10:00 am - Makis Skoulakis, Alexander Fleming Research Center
Interdependence of associative and non-associative learning? Premature habituation blocks associative learning
10:30 am - Closing Remarks
11:30 am - Lunch (take out boxes from servery) and Departure
12:00 pm - First shuttle to Dulles
12:45 pm - Second shuttle to Dulles
1:30 pm - Last shuttle to Dulles

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