Day 1
Registration 8:00 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:10
Sanja Mikulovic, Constanze Lenschow, Kristine Krug
First session: Innate Behaviours
9:10 - 09:50
Silvana Valtcheva: Sensory-hormonal coupling in the postpartum hypothalamus
9:50 - 10:30
Oliver Bosch: The vulnerable maternal brain: when the fine-tuned oxytocin – CRF balance is disturbed
10:30 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:30
Clara Fereira: Social modulation of defensive responses to a threat
11:30 - 12:10
Vanessa Stempel: Midbrain circuits for flexible instinctive behaviours
12:10 - 12:50
Dayu Lin: Win to fight and lose to flight - Innate yet flexible aggression circuit
12:50 - 14:10
Second session: Of sex and play
14:10 - 14:50
Inês Dias: Hypothalamic circuits linking the reproductive cycle to female mouse sexual behavior
Ana Rita Mendes: Spinal modulation of sexual excitation and copulatory behavior in mice
14:50 - 15:30
Shimpei Ishiyama: Neuroscience of fun
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:40
Marina Davila Ross: Laughter and Smiles - towards understanding the complexity and phylogenetic continuity of positive communication in hominids
16:40 - 17:20
Carolina Rezaval: Is love blind? Mating proximity gates threat perception.
17:20 - 19:00
Posters, drinks and snacks
19:00 - onwards
Speakers' dinner
Day 2
First session: Social cognition
9:00 - 09:40
Michael Platt: Neural signatures of natural behavior in socializing macaques
09:40- 10:20
Julia Sliwa: Neurophysiology of social cognition
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:30
Jerome Sallet: On the origins of human social cognition
11:30 - 12:00
Data Blitz
Short presentations chosen from abstract submissions
12:00 - 13:00
Second session: Pro-social behavior
13:00 - 13:40
Weizhe Hong: Neural basis of prosocial behavior
13:40 - 14:20
Julia Fischer: Baboon cooperation and conflict
14:20 - 15:00
Inbal Bartal: Empathy and prosocial behavior in rats
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:10
Judith Burkhardt: Pro-social behavior in primates
16:10 - 16:50
Francesco Papaleo: Neural circuits of social cognition
16:50 - 17:30
Sanja Mikulovic: Behavioral variables and neural circuits underlying helping behavior in mice
17:30 - 19:30
19:30 - end
Day 3
Social communication and group behaviour
9:00 - 09:40
Alison Barker: Linking communication and cooperation - Lessons from the naked mole-rat
09:40 - 10:20
Xiaoquin Wang: Social communication in marmosets
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:30
Joshua Neunuebel: Social communication in mice
11:30 - 12:10
Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin: Communication and group coordination in animal societies
12:10 - 12:50
Yuko Ulrich: Social behaviour and disease dynamics in clonal ant colonies
12:50 - 13:00
Discussion & Closing Remarks
13:00 - 14:30
14:30