Motor Control Circuits: Structure, Function and Behavior
Understanding the logic of motor control systems is central to any mechanistic explanation of animal behavior. This conference will cover principles of motor circuit organization and function in both vertebrate and invertebrates. Questions to be addressed will include how motor circuits are organized into functional modules, how these modules are selectively engaged during motor behavior, how their functioning is modified in a task-specific fashion to allow for motor flexibility, and how they change during motor learning.
Organizers
Silvia Arber, University of Basel and FMI
Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne
Rui Costa, HHMI/Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Barry Dickson, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Gwyneth Card, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Megan Carey, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
Jose Carmena, University of California, Berkeley
Eugenia Chiappe, Champalimaud Foundation
Kathleen Cullen, McGill University
Jeremy Dasen, NYU School of Medicine
Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet
Florian Engert, Harvard University
Edgar Garcia-Rill, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Martyn Goulding, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institutet
Adam Hantman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Okihide Hikosaka, National Eye Institute/NIH
Thomas Jessell, HHMI/Columbia University
Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs
Ole Kiehn, Karolinska Institutet
David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego
Francesco Lacquaniti, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Michael Long, NYU Langone Medical Center
Richard Mann, Columbia University
Eve Marder, Brandeis University
Roy Ritzmann, Case Western Reserve University
Hans Straka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Lena Ting, Emory University
Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University
Fan Wang, Duke University
Mei Zhen, Mt. Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto
Marta Zlatic, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Top Image: Head-fixed mouse performing skilled forelimb reach. Courtesy of Hantman and Branson
Labs (Janelia). Submitted by Adam Hantman.
Bottom Image: Rabies virus trans-synaptic GFP-labeling of motor neurons and premotor interneurons
within the lumbar spinal cord. Cells were depth coded based on their position within the tissue. Image
created by Ariel Levine and Chris Hinckley (Pfaff Lab/Salk Institute for Biological Studies). Submitted
by Samuel L. Pfaff.