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Neural Circuits of the Insect Ventral Nerve Cord

Submitted by bass on Wed, 2017-08-02 15:51

The goal of this meeting is to synthesize the fundamental insights gleaned from classic studies of the VNC, and to identify outstanding questions that can be answered as these new tools begin to be applied to VNC circuits. The major themes will be: 1) motor control of walking and flight, 2) mechanosensory processing of touch and proprioception, and 3) descending and ascending communication with the central brain. Presentations and discussions will cover current approaches for studying the VNC using electrophysiology, functional imaging, behavior, and anatomy.

Junior Scientist Workshop on Solving Biological Problems with Chemistry

Submitted by bass on Tue, 2017-08-01 17:05

Although the meeting will include a few plenary talks from senior researchers, the main goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for junior scientists to present their research, discuss bold ideas for the future, and network with peers, while also discovering potential independent early-career options at Janelia. The meeting is open to chemists from all backgrounds (e.g., organic, inorganic, analytical, materials, computational) who are interested in applying the “central science” to a broad array of biochemical or biological problems.

Distributed, Collective Computation in Biological and Artificial Systems

Submitted by bass on Tue, 2017-08-01 16:47

This conference will bring together experimental and computational researchers from neurobiology, distributed computing, animal collective behavior, machine learning, and bio-inspired swarm robotics, with the goal of identifying common challenges and inspiring new solution methods. All of these fields aim to understand systems in which data is processed in distributed form by harnessing efficient, parallel, learnable and scalable operation of simple, locally informed, units.

Junior Scientist Workshop on Protein Engineering: Making and Using Tools for Neuroscience and Other Biological Problems

Submitted by bass on Tue, 2017-08-01 15:33

Topics will cover aspects of modern protein engineering, particularly as it pertains to making tools for biology. Examples include genetically encoded sensors for molecules or cellular states; light-, temperature-, or ligand-gated effectors of cell state; fluorescent proteins; labels for light or electron microscopy; tools for improving the performance and/or analysis of next-generation sequencing; viruses or other transgene delivery agents, etc.