Program of the International Symposium in Honeybee Neuroscience, Berlin, June 10-13, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
16:00-17:00 Registration and hanging of posters
17:00-17:30 Introductory remarks
“What do learning and motor control have in common”
(Jochen Pflüger, Berlin, Germany)
17:30-19:00 Plenary lecture
Visual cognition in honeybees: from elemental stimulus learning and discrimination to non-elemental categorization and rule extraction
(Martin Giurfa, Toulouse, France)
19:00-19:30 Meeting of the authors of the forthcoming book (Springer Publisher):
“Honeybee neurobiology and behavior – a tribute for Randolf Menzel”
20:00 Dinner and reception (at Seminaris hotel)
Friday, June 11, 2010
08:30-08:45 Opening remarks
(Dorothea Eisenhardt, Berlin, Germany)
08:45-11:15 Session 1: Sensory systems
(Chair: Giovanni Galizia, Konstanz, Germany)
08:45-09:15 The auditory system of the honeybee
(Hiroyuki Ai, Fukuoka, Japan)
09:15-09:45 Chromatic and achromatic vision of bees in relation to flower patterns
(Misha Vorobyev, Auckland, New Zealand)
09:45-10:15 Psychophysics of honeybee colour processing in complex environments
(Adrian Dyer, Monash, Australia)
10:15-10:45 Break and poster session
10:45-11:15 Olfaction in the honeybee: multiple odour representations in the honeybee brain
(Jean-Christophe Sandoz, Toulouse, France)
11:15-15:05 Session 2: Genetics and molecular biology
(Chair: Jean-Christophe Sandoz, Toulouse, France)
11:15-11:45 Molecular dissection of the honeybee brain: an approach to solving the mystery of 'dance communication' and the sociality of the honeybee
(Takeo Kubo, Tokyo, Japan)
11:45-12:15 Elucidating the path from genotype to behaviour: is epigenomics a way forward for the honey bee neuroscience?
(Ryszard Maleszka, Canberra, Australia)
12:15-14:15 Lunch (at FU Mensa)
14:15-14:45 Molecular insights into honeybee brain plasticity
(Judith Reinhard and Charles Claudianos, Queensland, Australia)
14:45-15:05 Glutamate neurotransmission in the honeybee central nervous system
(Gerard Leboulle, Berlin, Germany)
15:05-16:35 Session 3: Social organization within the hive
(Chair: Judith Reinhard, Queensland, Australia)
15:05-15:35 The genetic and developmental evolution of social organization
(Rob Page, Tempe, USA)
15:35-16:05 Molecular genetic regulation of division of labor
(Gro Amdam, Tempe, USA)
16:05-16:35 The social regulation of task-related plasticity in circadian rhythms in honeybees
(Guy Bloch, Jerusalem, Israel)
16:35-17:05 Break and poster session
17:05-18:05 Session 4: Communication within the hive
(Chair: Gro Amdam, Tempe, USA)
17:05-17:35 Foraging honeybees: how foragers determine and transmit information about feeding site locations
(Harald Esch , Notre Dame, USA)
17:35-18:05 Olfactory information transfer during recruitment in honeybees
(Walter Farina, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
19:30 Dinner (at Museum Dahlem)
Saturday, June 12, 2010
08:30-10:30 Session 5: Learning and memory
(Chair: Guy Bloch, Jerusalem, Israel)
08:30-09:00 Universal laws of behavior tested in the honeybee
(Ken Cheng, Sydney, Australia)
09:00-09:20 Tactile learning in the honeybee
(Joachim Erber, Berlin, Germany)
09:20-09:40 Formation of contrasting memories in honeybees
(Dorothea Eisenhardt, Berlin, Germany)
09:40-10:00 Molecular biology of learning and memory: from memory phases to signaling cascades
(Uli Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany)
10:00-10:30 Distributed plasticity in the honeybee brain
(Brian Smith, Tempe, USA)
10:30-10:50 Break
10:50-14:40 Session 6: Brain anatomy and physiology
(Chair: Dorothea Eisenhardt, Berlin, Germany)
10:50-11:10 The honeybee standard brain
(Jürgen Rybak, Berlin, Germany)
11:10-11:40 Dopamine signalling in the bee
(Alison Mercer, Otago, New Zealand)
11:40-12:10 Modification of olfactory learning and memory induced by siRNA targeting nicotinic acetylcholine subunits in the honeybee
(Monique Gauthier, Toulouse, France)
12:10-12:30 Cellular pysiology of the honeybee brain
(Bernd Grünewald, Frankfurt, Germany)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (buffet in the lobby) and poster session
14:00-14:20 Plasticity of synaptic microcircuits in the mushroom-body calyx of the honeybee
(Wolfgang Roessler, Wuerzburg, Germany)
14:20-14:40 Neuropeptides in the bee brain
(Giovanni Galizia, Konstanz, Germany)
14:40-15:40 Session 7: Orientation and navigation
(Chair: Alison Mercer, Otago, New Zealand)
14:40-15:10 How do honeybees obtain the specific messages from dances in the darkness of the hive?
(Axel Michelsen, Odense, Denmark)
15:10-15:40 Molecular dissection of honey bee dance language: progress and prospects
(Gene Robinson, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
15:40-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Past, presence, future of honeybee neurobiology
Randolf Menzel
17:00-19:30 Poster session
19:30 Closing of the day
Sunday, June 13, 2010
09:00-12:00 Session 8: Comparison with other invertebrate systems
(Chair: Wolfgang Roessler, Würzburg, Germany)
09:00-09:30 Multi-component signals in ant communication
(Bert Hölldobler, Tempe, USA)
09:30-10:00 Neurogenetics of associative function in Drosophila
(Bertram Gerber, Würzburg, Germany)
10:00-10:30 Neural processing of behaviorally significant odors in the antennal lobe of the moth Manduca sexta
(John Hildebrand, Tucson, USA)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 How time flies: the molecular architecture of long-term memory in Aplysia
(Tom Carew, Irvine, USA)
11:30-12:00 Chemosensory coding and learning in the moth Heliothis virescens: searching for the neuronal network involved
(Hanna Mustaparta, Trondheim, Norwegian)
12:00-12:30 Closing remarks
(C Giovanni Galizia, Konstanz, Germany)