Photo credit: Jens Rydell
Programme
With the exception of the Introductory lecture, speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.
Click on the title of each presentation to view the abstract.
Saturday 24 March
17.30 Welcome reception and drinks
Introductory lecture (Chair: Almut Kelber)
18.30 Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Robotic perspectives on animal orientation, navigation and spatial cognition
19.30 Dinner
Sunday 25 March
Session I: Sensory control of navigation (Chair: Almut Kelber)
09.00-09.40 Russell Wyeth (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Olfactory navigation in aquatic gastropods
09.45-10.25 Matthias Wittlinger (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Distance measurement in navigating ants
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Gabriele Gerlach (Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany)
Imprinting and orientation behavior in fish
11.45-12.25 William Warren (Brown University, USA)
12.30 Lunch
Session II: Long-distance navigation: genetics and behaviour (Chair: Basil el Jundi)
13.30-14.10 Martin Wikelski (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany)
Large-scale animal movements
14.15-14.55 Ken Lohmann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Geomagnetic imprinting, natal homing, and mechanisms of magnetoreception in aquatic animals
15.00 Refreshment break
15.30-16.10
Miriam Liedvogel (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany)
Genetics of orientation in the European blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
16.15-16.55 Christine Merlin (Texas A&M University, USA)
Circadian clock and epigenetic control of monarch butterfly seasonal migration
17.00 Practical robotics session (led by Barbara Webb)
19.30 Dinner
Monday 26 March
Session III: Neural substrate of navigation (Chair: Michael Dickinson)
09.00-09.40 Stanley Heinze (Lund University, Sweden)
The central complex of the bee brain as neural substrate for path integration
09.45-10.25 Basil el Jundi (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Compass orientation in ball-rolling dung beetles
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 James Knierim (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Path integration and representations of space–time in the hippocampus
11.45-12.25 Yossi Yovel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Neuroethology of bat navigation
12.30 Lunch
14.00-21.00 Social event (including dinner at local restaurant)
Tuesday 27 March
Session IV: Development of navigation (Chair: Barbara Webb)
09.00-09.40 Nora Newcombe (Temple University, USA)
Navigation and the developing brain
09.45-10.25 Thomas Wolbers (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany),
Spatial navigation – a unique window into mechanisms of aging and dementia
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Philippe Gaussier (ETIS Lab, Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Merging information in the entorhinal cortex: what we can learn from robotics experiments
11.45-12.00 An introduction to The Company of Biologists and JEB
12.00 Lunch
12.30-16.00 JEB Editors’ Meeting (JEB Editors and Directors only)
Session V: Navigation in context (Chair: Almut Kelber)
16.00-16.40 Michael Dickinson (California Institute of Technology, USA)
The mechanisms of long-distance dispersal in Drosophila
16.45-17.25 Lucia Jacobs (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Constraints on cognition: how olfaction shaped vertebrate navigation
17.30 Refreshment break
17.45 General discussion (led by Almut Kelber and Barbara Webb)
19.30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 28 March
Departure
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