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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
Session 1
8:30-8:45 Introduction/Welcome, Program Committee