Learning and Memory: A Synthesis of Bees and Flies
Associative learning and memory are fundamental capacities of all animals with a nervous system. Invertebrates have been pivotal to the understanding of learning and memory at the behavioral, cellular and molecular level. Honeybees and fruit flies, in particular, have paved the way to the dissection of mechanisms underlying different forms of learning and memory. The identification of memory traces at various levels, including brain structures such as antennal lobes, mushroom bodies and extrinsic mushroom-body neurons, suggests a system consolidation of memories and requires focus at the network level. Given these recent significant advancements, we look forward to vigorous discussion by experts from around the world on the dynamic exchange and cross talk between structures and circuits during memory formation and retrieval.
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Organizers
Dorothea Eisenhardt, Freie Universität Berlin
Martin Giurfa, University of Toulouse - CNRS
Troy Zars, University of Missouri
Invited Participants
Andrew Barron, Macquarie University
Ann-Shyn Chiang, National Tsing Hua University
Lars Chittka, Queen Mary University of London
Ron Davis, Scripps Research Institute, Florida
Jean-Marc Devaud, University of Toulouse - CNRS
Walter Farina, University of Buenos Aires
Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology
Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University
Aike Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Randolf Menzel, Freie Universität Berlin
Alison Mercer, University of Otago
Frederic Mery, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Uli Müller, University of Saarland - Saarbruecken
Minoru Saitoe, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience
Jean-Christophe Sandoz, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Martin Schwaerzel, Freie Universität Berlin
Paul Shaw, Washington University
Efthimios (Makis) Skoulakis, Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center
Brian Smith, Arizona State University
Paul Szyszka, University of Konstanz
Hiromu Tanimoto, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Andreas Thum, University of Konstanz
Seth Tomchik, Scripps Florida
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Geraldine Wright, Newcastle University
Jerry Yin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
