TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

12:45 REGISTRATION

13:30 OPENING

Pauline Fleischmann | Scientific Organiser, University of Oldenburg

SESSION – BEHAVIOUR, SENSES, CUE INTEGRATION    

13:45 Neural mechanisms for robust navigation in naturalistic visual environments
Hannah Haberkern | University of Würzburg

14:15 Australian Bogong moths use the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses for long-distance navigation at night

Eric Warrant | Lund University, SWE

14:45 Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence

Amany Azevedo Amin | University of Sussex, UK

15:00 COFFEE BREAK

15:30 Viewing olfaction from within
Hanne Stensola | University of Agder, NOR

16:00 How microbes sense magnetic fields: Biosynthesis and function of the magnetosome organelle in magnetotactic bacteria
Dirk Schüler | University of Bayreuth

16:30 The third hypothesis: electromagnetic induction in pigeons
David Keays | Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München

17:00-20:00 POSTER SESSION A

18:30-19:30 DINNER (during the poster session)

20:00 GET-TOGETHER

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

SESSION – QUANTUM EFFECTS

9:00 From spin dynamics of molecular triads to thermally activated delayed fluorescence     

Christoph Lambert | University of Würzburg

9:30 Light-induced spin order by magnetic electron-nuclear interactions in flavin containing systems     

Guzel Musabirova | University of Leibzig

10:00 Spreading magnetosomes on surfaces: Let’s open the membrane for biophysical analyses

Izabella Brand | University of Oldenburg

10:15 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 Collective quantum phenomena of 2D magnets in optical cavities
Christian Schneider | University of Oldenburg

11:15 Spin-correlated radical pairs in cryptochromes: fit for purpose as biological compass?
Till Biskup | University of Rostock

11:45 Potential effects of weak radiofrequency radiation in biological systems based on the radical pair mechanism
Luca Gerhards | University of Oldenburg

12:15 LUNCH (Mensa Haarentor)

SESSION – NEURAL CIRCUITS, ROBOTICS         

13:00 Neural mechanisms of vocal learning and production in songbirds
Daniela Vallentin | Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen

13:30  Identification of retinal circuits using volume electron microscopy
Anja Günther | Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behaviour – caesar, Bonn

14:00  Representation of space and the neural basis of navigation in goldfish
Ronen Segev | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL

14:15 A multimodal imaging approach reveals no evidence for magnetite magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat cornea and retina
Pascal Malkemper | Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behaviour – caesar, Bonn

14:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:00  Frames of reference, neural circuits and dancing bees
Barbara Webb | University of Edinburgh, UK

15:30  Avian-inspired design     

David Lentink | University of Groningen, NL

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION B

18:00-18:30 Individual (public) transfer to the restaurant

18:30 DINNER, Restaurant “Ratskeller”, Markt 1, 26122 Oldenburg

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

SESSION – ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES       

9:00 Ancient DNA from Azores extinct taxa provided insights on the evolutionary history of the Western Palearctic robins

Juan Carlos Illera | University of Oviedo, SP

9:15 Large scale monitoring of migratory bird movements

Cecilia Nilsson | Lund University, SWE

9:45 Animal Movement and Wildlife Conservation

Thomas Müller | Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt/M.

10:15 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 Effects of artificial light at night on avian migratory flights

Baptiste Schmid | Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempbach, CH

11:00 Lost in light: How light pollution disrupts moth orientation
Jacqueline Degen | University of Würzburg

11:45 The seasonal migration of the Southern Ocean key species, Antarctic Krill, in a fisheries management context
Bettina Meyer | Alfred Wegener Institute, Wilhelmshaven

12:00 CLOSING REMARKS

Henrik Mouritsen | Spokesperson of the SFB 1372, University of Oldenburg