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Subject: Call for abstract submission: Flies, worms and robots: combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour

The symposium is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). It will t

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The symposium is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
It will take place on 8 - 13 November 2014 at Hotel Eden Roc in San Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

Application deadline: 4 August 2014
Further information about how to apply, grants and fees can be found below and at minibrains.esf.org

ESF-EMBO Symposium
Flies, worms and robots: combining perpectives on minibrains and behaviour

8-13 November 2014, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain

Chaired by: Matthieu Louis, Centre for Genomic Regulation, ES
Co-chaired by: Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK

 Programme

This conference will focus on the latest developments in Drosophila systems neuroscience and their application to biomimetics and biorobotics. It follows the successful 2010 European Science Foundation-EMBO symposium "Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains" (meeting report: Cobb, EMBO reports 2011, 389), which fostered new interactions within an interdisciplinary community of molecular biologists, ecologists and engineers. The meeting will explore progress made during the past 4 years towards a multi-level understanding of how the fly brain functions. We will examine how behaviour emerges from neural circuit computations, how these principles can inspire new technologies and how biologists can benefit from robotics to rigorously test mechanistic hypotheses. As this undertaking necessitates new methods, we will include researchers on another genetic model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans, in which many interdisciplinary approaches have been pioneered that could be readily transferred to Drosophila.

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Invited speakers will include

Richard Benton, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Alexander Borst, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Germany | Albert Cardona, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA | Netta Cohen, University of Leeds, UK | Benjamin de Bivort, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA | Michael Dickinson, University of Washington, Seattle, USA | Bertram Gerber, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany | Miriam Goodman, Stanford School of Medicine, USA | Vivek Jayaraman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA | Ilona Kadow, Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany | Cecilia Laschi, The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa IT | Aurel Lazar, Columbia University, New York, USA | Anthony Leonardo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA | Shih Chii Liu, University of Zurich, Switzerland | Shawn Lockery, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA | Matthieu Louis, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain | Christen Mirth, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal | Michael Nitabach, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA | Akinao Nose , Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo JP | Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal | Silke Sachse, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany | William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK | Greg Stephens, University of Amsterdam, Netherland | David Stern, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA | Glenn Turner, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK | Rob Wood, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA | Bill Schafer, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

 How to Participate

Attendance is possible only after successful application. Conference programme and application form are accessible from minibrains.esf.org
A certain number of grants are available for students and early stage researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs.

Closing date for applications: 4 August 2014

 Sponsorship Opportunities

This conference will be providing the opportunity for leading scientists and young researchers to meet for discussions on the most recent developments in their fields of research. We enable collaboration between international scientists from EU, first world and emerging countries which acts as a catalyst for creating new synergistic global contacts across disciplines.
We invite you to join us in harnessing this great potential, working towards an even more cohesive scientific force in Europe and beyond by contributing to our intense, dynamic and fun events.
If you are interested, please visit our Sponsor Resource Center page: www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/sponsor-resource-center.html

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