Monday, May 22, 2017
Time | Event | |
08:30 - 09:00 | Arrival/Registration - Registration of the attendees | |
09:00 - 09:10 | Introduction/Announcements - Short description of the meeting and planning | |
09:10 - 09:50 | An endless and confusing story: neurogenesis in the song system - Constance Scharff | |
09:50 - 10:30 | What do birds learn from artificial grammar stimuli? Problems and solutions - Gabriel J.L. Beckers | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:40 | Why do titmice hoard food? - Tom Smulders | |
11:40 - 12:20 | Singing in the nest: acoustic communication between partners in monogamous birds - Clémentine Vignal | |
12:20 - 13:50 | Lunch | |
13:50 - 14:30 | Female song, male song: molecular correlates - Manfred Gahr | |
14:30 - 15:10 | What can we learn from studying dynamic patterns of gene expression in the songbird brain? - David Clayton | |
15:10 - 16:40 | Coffee break and Posters | |
16:40 - 16:55 | Tracing structural neuroplasticity in the developing zebra finch brain during the critical period for vocal learning by in vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Julie Hamaide | |
16:55 - 17:10 | Vocal cues and flock decisions in orange-fronted conures - Heidi Maria Thomsen | |
17:10 - 17:25 | Investigating the Role of FoxP1 on Auditory Perception - Fabian Heim | |
17:25 - 17:40 | Cerebellar circuits and function in song learning and production: a new player ? - Ludivine Pidoux | |
17:40 - 17:55 | Songbirds can fill discrete rhythm templates with variable note content - Tina Roeske | |
17:55 - 18:10 | Neuronal mechanisms of vocal imitation: a theoretical model for a role of sleep replay in shaping mirror neurons - Nicolas Giret | |
18:10 - 18:50 | Neural and behavioral correlates of vocal communication in macaque and marmoset monkeys - Steffen Hage | |
18:50 - 20:00 | Discussions/Posters/Apero (Wine tasting) | |
20:00 - 23:00 | Dinner at the Bar du boucher |
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Neuronal patterning of acoustic communication signals - Boris Chagnaud | |
09:40 - 10:20 | How to reconcile pitch learning from templates, reinforcement, and auditory feedback - Richard H.R. Hahnloser | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
10:50 - 11:05 | Recovery after brain damage is related to temporary changes in singing in the songbirds - Kristina Lukacova | |
11:05 - 11:20 | Savings of vocal motor skills - Michiel Vellema | |
11:20 - 11:35 | Seasonal female processing of social/sexual vocal signals is state dependent - Hugo Cousillas | |
11:35 - 11:50 | The machine learning revolution in connectomics - Joergen Kornfeld | |
11:50 - 12:05 | Neural representations of variation in song performance and of its behavioral relevance in the zebra finch forebrain - Lisbeth Van Ruijssevelt | |
12:05 - 12:20 | DNA methylation dynamics during zebra finch vocal development - Jolien Diddens | |
12:20 - 13:40 | Lunch | |
13:40 - 14:45 | Posters | |
14:45 - 15:00 | Acoustic competition and bird song evolution: an island/mainland comparaison - Aloïs Robert | |
15:00 - 15:15 | 3D Simulation of Avian Vocalization - Jeppe Rasmussen | |
15:15 - 15:30 | A minimal neural network for the generation of behavioral variability - Arthur Leblois | |
15:30 - 16:10 | Evolution, function, and development in the song learning behaviour of chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) - Robert Lachlan | |
16:10 - 16:50 | Artificial song dialects in the Zebra Finch - Sébastien Derégnaucourt | |
16:50 - 18:00 | Final discussions - - Organization of the next meeting (place, scientific committee, gender balance) - Funding: building a EU network (COST program), student exchanges, funding of annual meeting |