A joint seminar series between SFB 1372 and the Cluster of Excellence "NaviSense"
Time: Thursdays, 14:15 - 15:45
Location: W3 1-156 at UOL and online (check mails for more details)
SEMINAR & TALKS
Seminar series on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals
UPCOMING TALKS
Past guest talks & lecture series
Guest talks
- Saikat Ray (Weizmann Institute of Science) "Real world neuroscience"
- Stanley Heinze (Lund University) "The neural circuits underlying navigational decisions across insects"
- Imke Greving (Hereon) "X-ray Imaging for Characterizing Structure-Function in 4D: From Spiders to Sharks"
- Robin Grob (NTNU) "Navigating into the unknown: Multimodal Orientation in Monarch Butterflies"
- Thomas J Lane (DESY Hamburg) "Life at the Atomic Scale - Filming Proteins in Action"
- Clemens Küpper (MPI for Biological Intelligence) "Evolution through opportunities: intraspecific diversity in waders"
- Valeria Marasco (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) "From development to longevity and seasonality: linking challenging exposures to the physiological fine-tuning of life histories"
- Shonali Dhingra (TU Dresden) "Interaction of sensory modalities and adult neurogenesis in rodent navigation"
- Vinod Kumar (University of Delhi) "Understanding complexity of the migratory phenotype in Palearctic-Indian migratory buntings"
- Katja Reinhard (SISSA) "The Neural Underpinning of Flexibility in Survival Behaviours"
- Humberto Fernandes (ICTER) "Molecular Modulators of Photoreceptor Dynamics: From Structure to Functional Biomarkers in the Living Retina"
- Sercan Sayin (University of Konstanz) "The Rules of Collective Locust Marching"
- Alina Sigaeva (KTH Stockholm) "Mapping cellular redox metabolism with quantum-based sensing and spatial proteomics"
- Reinhard Klenke (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, DE) "Spatial distribution of roosts of the greater mouse-eared bat and temporal trends in the movement of individuals between roosts"
- Sissel Sjöberg (Lund University) "Extreme diel flight altitude changes in migratory birds"
- Richard Holland (Prifysgol Bangor University, UK) "A (different) trivial question with a non trivial answer: do pigeons integrate familiar visual landmarks in to their navigational map?"
- Lukas Anneser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH) "Molecular, functional, and behavioral analysis of neuromodulatory networks in zebrafish telencephalon"
- Christian Damsgaard (Aarhus Universiteit, DK) "Neural anoxia tolerance supported the evolution of sharp vision in birds"
- Anna Stöckl (University of Konstanz, DE) "Dynamic processing in insect vision: from single photons to flight control"
- Barbara Helm (Swiss Ornithological Institute, CH) "Bird migration: ancient timers meet environmental change"
- Kristen Ruegg (Colorado State University, USA) "The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the Power of Genomics to Advance Migratory Bird Conservation"
- Basil el Jundi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO) "The neurobiology of the monarch butterfly compass"
- Shaked Ron (Israel Institute of Technology, IL) "Neural respresentation of Head-direction across brain areas in quails"
- Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, DE) "Discovering novel feature-selective retinal circuits through model-guided search of natural stimulus space"
Lecture series
- Introduction to magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates (Henrik Mouritsen)
- Spectroscopy methods to measure magnetic field effects in proteins (Christiane Timmel/Stuart Mackenzie)
- Spin dynamics of cryptochrome proteins (Peter Hore)
- Optical microscopy techniques in biophysics (Christoph Lienau)
- Magnetic-particle-based magnetoreception (Michael Winklhofer)
- Purifying cryptochrome proteins (Rabea Bartölke)
- Ultrafast optical spectroscopy in biology and chemistry (Antonietta de Sio)
- Modelling cryptochrome proteins (Ilia Solov'yov)
- The genetics of bird migration (Miriam Liedvogel)
- Using virus techniques to study bird behaviour (Constance Scharff/Ezequiel Mendoza)
- Cryptochrome molecules and their interaction partners (Karl Koch)
- Processing of light and magnetic stimuli in the retina (Karin Dedek)
- Electrophysiological methods and magnetic stimulation (Martin Greschner)
- Brain pathways for magnetoreception (Dominik Heyers/Onur Güntürkün)
- Orientation in fish (Gabriele Gerlach)
- Navigation in bats (Nachum Ulanovsky)
- Magnetoreception in bats (Oliver Lindecke)
- Designing behavioural experiments to study magnetoreception (Henrik Mouritsen)
- Studying migration and navigation in free-flying birds (Heiko Schmaljohann)
- Unraveling the navigational phenotype - a variance partitioning approach (Sandra Bouwhuis)
- Models of animal movement, collective motion and swarming (Bernd Blasius)
- Introduction to High-Performance Computing (Stefan Harfst)
- The geomagnetic field as a cue for spatial orientation in insects (Pauline Fleischmann)
- Introduction to molecular evolution especially for non-biologists (Takaoki Kasahara)
