Day 1 — Thursday, 4 September 2025
08:30 – 09:00 — Melissa Tan, Registration and Reception
Morning: Session 1 (Chair: Marie Genevieve Guiraud)
09:00 – 09:10 — HaDi MaBouDi, Welcome by organiser
09:10 – 10:00 — Robert Plomin, King’s College London, UK
Genetic research on individual differences in human intelligence
10:00 – 10:50 — Giorgio Vallortigara, University of Trento, Italy
The comparative neurobiology of number sense
10:50 – 11:20 — Networking break
11:20 – 12:10 — Maria Tello Ramos, University of Hull, UK
Apples and oranges? The case of comparative cognition between pollinators
12:10 – 12:25 — Miguel de Guinea, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Cognition across scales: integrating experimental and movement ecology metrics in comparative cognitive research
12:25 – 13:30 — Lunch / Poster presentation
13:30 – 13:40 — Group Photograph (We kindly encourage all participants to join)
Afternoon: Session 2 (Chair: Ali Asgar Bohra)
13:40 – 14:30 — Josep Call, University of St Andrews, UK
The many faces of primate intelligence
14:30 – 14:45 — Daria Zakharova, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Causal Agent Precursor: Reafference Mechanisms in the Development of Causal Understanding
14:45 – 15:00 — Guy Nelinger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Object detection through dynamic motor-sensory convergence
15:00 – 15:40 — Networking break
15:40 – 16:30 — Andrew Barron & Colin Klein, Macquarie University & The Australian National University, Australia
Google and the bee
16:30 – 16:45 — Hazem Toutounji, University of Sheffield, UK
Can Birdsong Learning Inspire Machine Learning
17:00 — Close of Day 1
18:00 – 21:00 — Workshop Dinner at ‘Mercure Sheffield Kenwood Hall & Spa’
Day 2— Friday, 5 September 2025
Morning: Session 3 (Chair: Katharina Bergmann)
09:00 – 09:05 — HaDi MaBouDi, Meeting objectives Day 2
09:05 – 09:55 — Mikko Juusola, University of Sheffield, UK
Synaptic frequency jumping: synchronising vision by high-speed behaviour
09:55 – 10:45 — Aurel Lazar, Columbia University, USA
Elements of Olfactory Intelligence in Drosophila
10:45 – 11:15 — Networking break
11:15 – 12:05 — Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK
Frames of reference, neural circuits and dancing bees
12:05 – 12:20 — Andrew Lin, University of Sheffield, UK
Synaptic depression outperforms potentiation in learned stimulus discrimination under relative integration of opposing outputs
12:20 – 13:30 — Lunch / Poster presentation
Afternoon: Session 4 (Chair: Theo Robert)
13:30 – 14:20 — James Marshall, University of Sheffield, UK
How to build a mind: Exploring insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots
14:20 – 14:35 — James V Stone, University of Sheffield, UK
Efficient Coding Meets the Marginal Value Theorem: Neurons Maximise Bits/Joule Not Bits/Second
14:35 – 14:50 — Rachael Stentiford, University of Freiburg, Germany
Variability of landscape-scale honeybee flight
14:50 – 15:30 — Networking break
15:30 – 17:00 — Panel Discussion / Overview (Chair: HaDi MaBouDi)
17:00 — Closing Remarks
Titles and abstracts are available under Speaker Information.
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