Title:
Contributions of simpler nervous systems in the modern neuroscience
Organizers:
Zsolt Pirger – István Fodor (HUN-REN BLKI)
Summary:
The planned symposium will focus on the most recent findings obtained in any field of invertebrate neuroscience, from functional anatomy to molecular aspects of behaviour and learning. Priority will be given to the question of evolutionary aspects from the perspectives of vertebrate neuroscience. In addition to the wide range of scientific insights, special emphasis will also be placed on cutting-edge technologies in invertebrate neuroscience. The symposium also aims to highlight the potential of invertebrate models to address a large range of neurobiological questions, problems, and phenomena.
Dr. Istvan Fodor and Zsolt Pirger (Adaptive Neuroethology, and Ecophysiology and Environmental Toxicology, HUN-REN BLKI, Hungary)
Tracing the evolution of the neuroendocrine system behind animal reproduction: functional and evolutionary insights from mollusks
Prof. George Kemenes et al. (Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
A circuit mechanism linking past and future learning through shifts in perception
Dr. Veronica Rivi et al. (Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)
A translational and multidisciplinary approach to studying the Garcia effect, a higher form of learning with deep evolutionary roots
Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra et al. (School of Biology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
Large-scale deorphanisation of GPCRs in placozoans, reveals the ancestral origin of neurotransmitter signalling systems
Dr. Laszlo Molnar et al. (Adaptive Neuroethology, and Ecophysiology and Environmental Toxicology, HUN-REN BLKI, Hungary)
Neural dependence and genes of the CNS regeneration