Program

Brauwerk Freistil Tübingen
| Wöhrdstraße 25, 72072 Tübingen

17:00 - 20:00

Registration / Information desk open

17: 00 - 21:00

Get-together
w/ beverages and finger food

19:00 - 20:00

Keynote lecture
Jason Kerr | MPI-NB Bonn, Germany
Tracking the visual and retinal scene in mice, rats, ferrets, and tree shrews chasing prey.

Neue Aula – Audimax
| Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen

8:00 - 16:45

Registration / Information desk open

9:00 - 10:25

Session 1.1 | Retinal Circuit Function (1)
Chair: Antonio  Hinojosa
Supported by the DFG Heisenberg program

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome & Announcements

9:10 – 9:40

Teresa Puthussery | UC Berkeley, USA
Identification of ON-type direction selective ganglion cells in primate retina.

9:40 – 9:55

Wei Wei | U Chicago, USA
Voltage-gated mechanisms compartmentalize starburst amacrine cell dendrites for motion detection.

9:55 – 10:25

Jonathan Oesterle | U Tübingen, Germany
Regional difference in dendritic signal processing in mouse sON alpha retinal ganglion cells.

10:25 – 10:45

Coffee break w/ beverages & snacks

10:45 – 12:00

Session 1.2 | Retinal Circuit Function (2)
Chair: Anna Vlasits
Supported by the Bernstein Award 2015

10:45 – 11:15

Stephanie Palmer | U Chicago, USA
Sparse, common correlation structure in retinal populations across natural scenes.

11:15 – 11:30

Saad Idrees | York U, Toronto, Canada
Photoreceptor biophysics enables deep learning models to capture dynamic retinal computation.

11:30– 11:45

Christian Puller | MPI-NB Bonn, Germany
The divergence of S-cone pathways in the inner primate retina.

11:45 – 12:00

Gergely Szarka | U Pécs, Hungary
Transient OFF alpha cell gap junctions subserve the detection of approach motion.

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 14:45

Session 2.1 | From the Retina to the Brain (1)
Chair: Florencia Gonzalez Fleitas
Supported by the CRC 1233 "Robust vision"

13:30 – 14:00

Katja Reinhard | SISSA, Italy
Neural basis of flexibility in visually-guided defensive behaviors.

14:00 – 14:15

Alina Heukamp | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Direction and axis selective responses in LGN neurons suggest multiple modes of retinal convergence.

14:15 – 14:45

Laura Busse | LMU Munich, Germany
Neuronal circuit dynamics in the visual thalamus.

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee break w/ beverages & snacks

15:00 – 16:00

Session 2.2 | From the Retina to the Brain (2)
Chair: Lea Ankri

15:00 – 15:30

Max Jösch | ISTA, Austria
A corollary discharge hub for visuomotor transformation.

15:30 – 16:00

Sylvia Schröder | U Sussex, UK
The impact of locomotion, arousal and reward on early visual processing in the mouse.

16:00 – 16:30

Quick-fire presentations from Poster Session 1

Museum – Silchersaal / Uhlandsaal
| Wilhelmstraße 3, 72074 Tübingen

16:45 – 19:00

Poster Session 1
w/ open bar and finger food

19:15 – 20:45

City tours (to be booked w/ registration)

Neue Aula – Audimax
| Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen

8:00 – 17:00

Registration / Information desk open

9:00 – 10:30

Session 3.1 | Primate Retina
Chair: Paul Martin
Supported by the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)

9:00 – 9:30

Alexandra Kling | Stanford, USA
Functional Diversity of Novel Amacrine and Ganglion Cell Types in the Primate Retina.

9:30 – 10:00

Irene Aji | MPI-NB Bonn, Germany
Correlated electrophysiological and connectomic analysis of neural circuitry in the primate retina.

10:00 – 10:30

Petri Ala-Laurila | U Helsinki, Finland
Linking human perception to retinal function at the sensitivity limit of vision.

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee break w/ beverages & snacks

10:50 – 12:20

Session 3.2 | New Perspectives
Chair: Dominic Gonschorek

10:50 – 11:20

Karthik Shekhar | UC Berkeley, USA
Evolutionary conservation of retinal cell types: a single-cell transcriptomic perspective

11:20 – 12:20
(10+2 min)

Sacha Sokoloski | U Tübingen, Germany
Modelling ecological constraints on visual processing with deep reinforcement learning.

Thomas Buffet | Paris Vision Institute, France
Estimating the surround of ganglion cells in large-scale recordings.

Tim C. Hladnik | U Tübingen, Germany
A spherical visual stimulation arena for chromatic stimulation and RF mapping during behavioral and 2-photon calcium imaging.

Samuel A. Budoff | U Colorado, Denver, USA
Spatial Assessment of Murine RGC Subclasses.

Tessa Herzog | U Sussex, Brighton, UK
Information encoding at the first synapse in vision.

12:20 – 13:45

Lunch break

13:45 – 15:00

Session 4.1 | Disease & Restoration (1)
Chair: Marius Ueffing

13:45 – 14:15

Marius Ader | CRTD / TU Dresden, Germany
Transplantation of human photoreceptors into mouse models of retinal degeneration.

14:15 – 14:30

Annalisa Bucci | IOB, Basel, Switzerland
Propagation speeds of action potentials in the human retina compensate for traveling distances.

14:30 – 15:00

Deniz Dalkara | Paris Vision Institute, France
Innovative therapies for retinal dystrophies and their tailored delivery mechanisms.

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee break w/ beverages & snacks

15:15 – 16:15

Session 4.2 | Disease & Restoration (2)
Chair: Noora Nevala

15:15 – 15:45

Sonja Kleinlogel | U Bern / Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland
Designer optogenetic gene therapies targeted at the ON-bipolar cells to restore fundamental features of vision.

15:45 – 16:00

Varsha Ramakrishna | U Göttingen, Germany
Visual encoding by retinal ganglion cells in optogenetic models for vision restoration.

16:00 – 16:15

Maya Carleton | UCSD, La Jolla, USA
Inhibition selectively gates Off-cell response in the degenerated retina.

16:15 – 16:45

Quick-fire presentations from Poster Session 2

Museum – Silchersaal/Uhlandsaal
| Wilhelmstraße 3, 72074 Tübingen

17:00 – 19:15

Poster Session 2
w/ open bar and finger food

Liquid Kelter
| Schmiedtorstrasse 17, 72070 Tübingen

20:15 – 22:30

Conference Dinner
(to be booked w/ registration)

Neue Aula – Audimax
| Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen

8:30 - 15:00

Information desk open

9:00 – 10:30

Session 5.1 | Vision across Species (1)
Chair: Inbal Shaine
Supported by EMBO

9:00 – 9:30

Aristides Arrenberg | U Tübingen, Germany
Motion processing in zebrafish: receptive field code and spatial anisotropies supporting optomotor behavior.

9:30 – 9:45

Michael Forsthofer | LMU, Munich, Germany
Tuning of visual behaviors during metamorphosis of frogs.

9:45 – 10:00

Einat Hauzman | Natural History Museum, London, UK
Probing the inner retina of snakes: a first glance into the photoreceptor-bipolar cell synapses.

10:00 – 10:30

Ines Ribeiro | LMU Munich, Germany
Friend or foe: processing visual cues in insect social behavior

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee break w/ beverages & snacks

10:50 – 12:20

Session 5.2 | Vision across Species (2)
Chair: Carola Yovanovich

10:50 – 11:20

Tiffany Schmidt | Northwestern University, USA
Visual circuits underlying threat anticipation.

11:20 – 11:35

Anja Günther | MPI-NB, Bonn, Germany
Species-specific wiring in bipolar cell types in two avian retinas.

11:35 – 11:50

Marvin Seifert | U Sussex, Brighton, UK
"On-Off” switching across seven input channels:  A multiplexed approach to visual processing in the bird retina.

11:50 – 12:05

Max Manackin | U Oldenburg, Germany
Direction selective ganglion cells in quail retina.

12:05 – 12:35

Henrik Mouritsen | U Oldenburg, Germany
Light-dependent, quantum-based, magnetoreception in the bird retina.

12:35 – 13:15

Lunch break (catered light lunch)

13:15 – 14:00

Kerstan ERM Poster Award ceremony
Business Meeting, Goodbye

14:00

End of Meeting