2021 Karger Workshop & J.B. Johnston Meeting
Welcome to the 2021 Karger Workshop and J.B. Johnston Club Meetings
We're excited to have you join our first virtual meetings and look forward to bringing you a fun and inspiring two days of science.
33rd KARGER WORKSHOP IN EVOLUTIONARY NEUROSCIENCE
“Conservation, divergence and convergence in amygdala evolution”
Honoring Prof. Luis Puelles, University of Murcia, Spain
In memoriam of Dr. Laura L. Bruce, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Organizers: Loreta Medina and Ester Desfilis, University of Lleida and Lleida’s Institute of Biomedical Research-Dr. Pifarré Foundation (IRBLleida), Spain
11th November, 2021 Virtual Conference
The amygdala is a complex brain structure that is critical for regulating emotions, social behavior and cognition in mammals, but whose identification in non-mammalian species and across evolution has been highly controversial. In this workshop, across-species aspects of amygdala expression will be covered from various viewpoints, considering distinct developmental and evolutionary mechanisms involved in conservation, divergence and convergence. This Workshop is also held in honor to Prof. Luis Puelles, an internationally highly recognized researcher, who officially retired a year ago, but continues to publish at the highest levels of excellence on forebrain development and evolution, His latest publications challenge some of the earlier views on amygdala organization, function and evolution. The Workshop also commemorates Dr. Laura L. Bruce, who greatly contributed to telencephalic evolution by challenging the predominant view on cortex versus amygdala in the brain of non-mammals.
Schedule (US Central Standard Time-Chicago): All virtual
8:45 Opening Remarks Loreta Medina and Ester Desfilis.
9:00 Thomas Mueller, Kansas State University, KS, USA
Despite Morphological Divergences–Molecular Studies in Zebrafish Reveal Strikingly Conserved Missing Links between Amygdalae of Ray-Finned Fish and Mammals
9:30 Nerea Moreno, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain;
Evolutionary analysis of the pallial region of anurans, including the pallial amygdala
10:00 Maria Antonietta Tosches, Columbia University, NY, USA;
Evolution of the pallial amygdala: a cell type perspective
10:30 Break
11:00 Helen Barbas, Boston University, MA, USA;
Relationship of cortex with amygdala in primates: all roads lead to development and evolution
11:30 Loreta Medina and Ester Desfilis, University of Lleida and Lleida’s Institute of Biomedical Research-Dr. Pifarré Foundation (IRBLleida), Spain;
Evolution and development of amygdala subdivisions: pallial, subpallial and beyond
12:00 Lunch
Session 3
14:00 Prof. Luis Puelles, University of Murcia, Spain;
Topological criteria in the search of primitive amygdalae
14:30 Mario F. Wullimann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany;
Neural pathways of olfactory kin imprinting and kin recognition in zebrafish
15:00 Bradley Colquitt, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA;
Cellular evolution of birdsong control circuits
15:30 Panel Discussion Question and Answer
16:00 Concluding remarks and closing Loreta Medina and Ester Desfilis.
J.B. Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience Annual Meeting
12th November, 2021 Virtual Conference
Schedule (US Central Standard Time-Chicago): All virtual
Session 1
8:30-8:45 Introduction/Welcome, Program Committee
8:45-9:00 Polish crested chickens: a comparative model for studying the evolution of aberrant brains and skulls
Akinobu Watanabe, Mariel Bedell, Scott Landman, Sylvia S. Marshall, Yekaterina Okouneva, and Paul M. Gignac
9:00-9:15 Chickens have smaller visual and limbic brain regions than junglefowl: effects of domestication on the brain
Kelsey J. Racicot, Jackson R. Ham, C. Popic , Rie Henriksen, Dominic Wright, and Andrew N. Iwaniuk
9:15-9:30 The evolution of skilled hindlimb movements in birds
Cristian Gutiérrez-Ibáñez, Clara Amaral, Douglas R. Wylie, and Jerome Baron
9:30-9:45 Seasonal plasticity of utricular hair cell auditory sensitivity in the plainfin midshipman
Loranzie S. Rogers and, Joseph A. Sisneros
9:45-10:00 NMDA receptor activity differentially affects zebrafish neural stem cells
Amalia J. Napoli, Josiah D. Zoodsma, Bismi Biju, Olgerta Mucollari, Sarah Schubel, Aaliya Sayed, Lonnie P. Wollmuth, and Howard I. Sirotkin
10:00-10:15 Break
Session 2
10:15-10:30 Uncovering genetic architectures of neural circuits for an innate behavior: Xenopus vocal communication
Darcy B. Kelley, Young Mi Kwon, Elizabeth G. Bagnato-Conlin, Emilie Perez, Avelyne Villain, Christa Baker, Mala Murthy, and Andres Bendesky
10:30-10:45 The macroevolution of a substrate for representational memory in mammals
David Vanier, Jeroen Smaers, and Paul Manger
10:45-11:00 Mental categories and the vertebrate brain: The neural basis of behavior
Luiz Pessoa, Loreta Medina, and Ester Desfilis
11:00-11:15 Pair bonding and parental care: how does an evolutionarily conserved social decision-making network integrate conflicting social stimuli to generate context-appropriate behavior?
Ross S. DeAngelis, Marisa Ballard, and Hans A. Hofmann
11:15-11:30 Complexity of scaling relationships suggests an absence of trade-offs in sensory organ and brain evolution
Max S. Farnworth, and S. H. Montgomery
11:30:11:45 Conserved stochastic algorithms for learning and discrimination
Shyam Srinivasan, and Saket Navlakha
11:45-13:15 Lunch
Session 3
13:15-13:30 Encephalization in teleost fishes: yet another way of allowing complex behaviors?
Pierre Estienne, Jean-Michel Hermel, and Kei Yamamoto
13:30-13:45 Parceling out the brain: allometry and encephalization deconstructed
Daniel Hoops, Jason Lerch, and John Sled
13:45-14:00 Paleoneurobiology of the tetrapod olfactory bulb inferred from extant olfactory receptor repertoires
Laurel R. Yohe, Matteo Fabbri, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar
14:00-14:15 Re-interpretation of pallial regionalization in vertebrates
Kei Yamamoto
14:15-14:30 Evolutionary transcriptomics of the subpallial amygdala across twelve species of vertebrates
Jiawei “Will” Han, and Hans A. Hofmann
14:30-14:45 Significant cerebellar reorganization at the marsupial-placental dichotomy
Wensheng Liu, and Jeroen B. Smaers
14:45:15:00 Redefining varicose projection astrocytes in primates
Carmen Falcone, Erin L. McBride, Patrick R. Hof, William D. Hopkins, Paul R. Manger, Chet C. Sherwood, Stephen C. Noctor, and Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño
15:00-15:15 Break
Session 4
15:15-15:30 Phylogenetic and neuroanatomical determinants of primate behavior
K. Heuer, N. Traut, S.N. Pashaki, R. Mylapalli, F. Alavi, and R. Toro
15:30-15:45 Tip of the tongue: the evolution of motor cortex for lingual echolocation in the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus)
Andrew C Halley, Michael Yartsev, and Leah Krubitzer
15:45-16:00 Coordinated activity in primary motor cortex and the red nucleus first emerges during REM sleep-associated theta oscillations in preweanling rats
James C. Dooley, G. Sokoloff, and M. S. Blumberg
16:00-16:15 Structural and transcriptomic data reveals very old age as a distinct feature in humans relative to great apes
Kwadwo Ofori, and C. J. Charvet
16:15-16:30 Visual and vestibular guided control of posture, movement and self-motion perception across species
Werner M. Graf
16:30-16:45 Comparative biomedicine: the devil lurks in the details
Georg F. Striedter
16:45-17:00 Break
Session 5
17:00-17:10 Karger Award: Grace Capshaw
17:10-17:20 Mark Braford: In Memory of Laura Bruce
17:20-18:00 Business Meeting
18:00-19:00 Virtual Reception
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