Y1
Young Researchers’ Workshop
Comparative Neurobiology of Arthropod Behavior
Organizers:
Noriyasu Ando (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
Hidehiro Watanabe (Fukuoka Univ., Japan)
S. Shuichi Haupt (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
To a large extent, animal behavior results from hierarchical operations in the nervous system. Sensory systems receive information from the environment and convey it to higher center of the central nervous system, where multimodal integration and information processing influenced by learning and memory occur. Finally, motor commands and the subsequent motor patterns are generated in the motor systems. To reveal how nervous systems fulfill these three basic tasks is a major goal of scientists interested in the mechanisms of animal behavior. To tackle this problem, researchers have focused on model species that exhibit particularly conspicuous behaviors, and have analyzed the neural basis of these behaviors at the level of single neurons and neural networks in the chain of sensory, integrative, and command neurons. For this workshop, we have invited six young scientists studying the neural basis of arthropod behavior at the level of the sensory nervous system, the central nervous system, and the behavioral output system using model species especially suited to their research hypotheses to provide an overview over the state of the art in neuroethology.
Speakers:
1) Hidehiro Watanabe (Fukuoka Univ., Japan):
Neural basis of general odor processing in the cockroach antennal lobe
2) Sonja Bisch-Knaden (Max Planck Inst. Chem. Ecology, Germany):
Evolution of olfactory coding in moths: different resolutions for different needs?
3) S. Shuichi Haupt (Univ. Tokyo, Japan):
Sugar perception and plasticity in antennal system of the honey bee
4) Jean-Christophe Sandoz (Laboratory for Evolution Genome Speciation, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France):
Neural plasticity related to olfactory long-term memory in the honeybee
5) Katsushi Kagaya (Hokkaido Univ., Japan):
Sequential synaptic activation in the brain for voluntary initiation of walking in the crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
6) Noriyasu Ando (Univ. Tokyo, Japan):
Exploring insect adaptability with the insect-controlled robot