SEMINAR & TALKS

Seminar series on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals

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 emails for more details)

UPCOMING TALKS



  • September 3 - no seminar due to SFB rehearsal


  • September 10 - no seminar due to SFB evaluation


  • September 17 - guest talk: Roger Kutta


  • September 24 - guest talk: Jesse Granger


  • October 1 - Ümmügülsüm Güzelsoy-Flügge & Inga Peters


  • October 8 - no seminar due to NaviSense meeting


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

    1. Introduction to magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates (Henrik Mouritsen)
    2. Spectroscopy methods to measure magnetic field effects in proteins (Christiane Timmel/Stuart Mackenzie)
    3. Spin dynamics of cryptochrome proteins (Peter Hore)
    4. Optical microscopy techniques in biophysics (Christoph Lienau)
    5. Magnetic-particle-based magnetoreception (Michael Winklhofer)
    6. Purifying cryptochrome proteins (Rabea Bartölke)
    7. Ultrafast optical spectroscopy in biology and chemistry (Antonietta de Sio)
    8. Modelling cryptochrome proteins (Ilia Solov'yov)
    9. The genetics of bird migration (Miriam Liedvogel)
    10. Using virus techniques to study bird behaviour (Constance Scharff/Ezequiel Mendoza)
    11. Cryptochrome molecules and their interaction partners (Karl Koch)
    12. Processing of light and magnetic stimuli in the retina (Karin Dedek)
    13. Electrophysiological methods and magnetic stimulation (Martin Greschner)
    14. Brain pathways for magnetoreception (Dominik Heyers/Onur Güntürkün)
    15. Orientation in fish (Gabriele Gerlach)
    16. Navigation in bats (Nachum Ulanovsky)
    17. Magnetoreception in bats (Oliver Lindecke)
    18. Designing behavioural experiments to study magnetoreception (Henrik Mouritsen)
    19. Studying migration and navigation in free-flying birds (Heiko Schmaljohann)
    20. Unraveling the navigational phenotype - a variance partitioning approach (Sandra Bouwhuis)
    21. Models of animal movement, collective motion and swarming (Bernd Blasius)
    22. Introduction to High-Performance Computing (Stefan Harfst)
    23. The geomagnetic field as a cue for spatial orientation in insects (Pauline Fleischmann)
    24. Introduction to molecular evolution especially for non-biologists (Takaoki Kasahara)