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J.B. Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience Annual Meeting
Friday, October 23, 2020
(Times are EDT)
8:15-8:30 Introduction/Welcome, Program Committee
8:30-8:45 Neuronal plasticity in large-brained mammals: Adult neurogenesis or “immature” neurons?
Luca Bonfanti*, Chet C. Sherwood and Chiara La Rosa
8:45-9:00 Sequence heterochrony in insect brain development leads to an immature form of the central complex: a fly-beetle insight
Max S. Farnworth* and Gregor Bucher
9:00-9:15 Does the evolution of food-hoarding involve the modification of the appetite-regulation system?
Tom V. Smulders*, Lindsay J. Henderson, Bedour Alsayegh and Tim Boswell
9:15-9:30 Break
9:30-9:45 Evolutionary trajectory of the primate neocortical expansion
Katja Heuer* and Roberto Toro
9:45-10:00 Cutting across structural and transcriptomic scales translates time across the lifespan and maps frontal cortex circuitry development in humans and chimpanzees
Christine J. Charvet
10:00-10:15 Cortical interlaminar astrocytes are generated prenatally, mature postnatally, and express unique markers in human and non-human primates
Carmen Falcone*, Elisa E. Penna, Tiffany Hong, Alice F. Tarantal, Patrick R. Hof, William D. Hopkins, Chet C. Sherwood, Stephen C. Noctor and Veronica Martínez-Cerdeño
10:15-10:30 Evolutionary and homeostatic changes in morphology of visual dendrites of Mauthner cells in Astyanax
Zainab Tanvir*, Daihana Rivera, Kristen E. Severi, Gal Haspel and Daphne Soares
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:15 Evolution of visual pathways in teleosts and topographic organization of the tectal projections to the nucleus prethalamicus
Hanako Hagio* and Naoyuki Yamamoto
11:15-11:30 Organization of telencephalic- “ponto”-cerebellar pathways in birds.
Cristián Gutiérrez-Ibáñez*, Maximo Fernandez, Madison Pilon, Gonzalo Marin and Douglas R. Wylie
11:30-11:45 Variation in Oculomotor Nuclei Size Reflects Behavior in Birds
Felipe Cunha*, Cristián Gutiérrez-Ibáñez, Douglas R. Wylie and Andrew N. Iwaniuk.
11:45-12:00 The marsupial visual system gives new insights into the evolution of parallel visual pathways in mammal: A comparative study
Alfonso Deichler*, Macarena Ruiz-Flores, Tomas Vega-Zuniga, Daniel Severín, Gonzalo Marín and Jorge Mpodozis.
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15 -12:30 Magnification of the tongue for echolocation in movement maps of the Egyptian fruit bat
Andrew C. Halley*, Michael Yartsev, and Leah Krubitzer
12:30-12:45 Artificial gene networks and high throughput analysis of in-situ hybridization data reveal the impact of experience and species on cortical Id2 and RZRb expression during development.
Mackenzie Englund*, Sebastian James, Riley Bottom, Kelly Huffman, Stuart Wilson and Leah Krubitzer
12:45-1:00 Convergent mosaic enlargement of brain regions related to the evolution of novel electrosensory systems
Erika L. Schumacher* and Bruce A. Carlson
1:00-1:15 The Zombie Plot Thickens—A Tale of New Stings from the Jewel Wasp’s Crypt
Kenneth C. Catania
1:15-2:45 Lunch
2:45-3:00 Pallial Eversion Demystified: Lhx5- and vGlut2a-driven GFP-Expressions in Zebrafish Identify the Thalamic Eminences as the Missing Links between the Teleostean and Mammalian Prosomeric Amygdala Ground Plan
Thomas Mueller
3:00-3:15 Corollary discharge evolution in mormyrid electric fish
Matasaburo Fukutomi* and Bruce A. Carlson
3:15-3:30 Variation in auditory sensitivity of salamanders reflects ecomorphological diversity of the inner ear
Grace Capshaw*, Daphne Soares, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Catherine E.Carr
3:30-3:45 From complex to simple: Evolution of the amniote thalamic reticular nucleus
Michael B. Pritz
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-4:30 DataBlitz: Nicole Barger, Adalee Lube, Norma Pena-Flores and Laurel Yohe
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Business Meeting