SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Mechanistic and Evolutionary Perspectives on Genes and Behavior |
| Discussion Leaders: Kenneth S. Kendler (Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, US) & David Clayton (University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois, US) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Gene E. Robinson (Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, US)
"Gene Discovery for Social Behavior: Adventures with Candidate Genes" |
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Nick Martin (Queensland Institute of Medical Research Post Office, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane Australia)
"Human behavior genetics; What have we learnt?" |
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Mark Kirkpatrick (Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Texas, US)
"Sex chromosome evolution driven by sexual selection and sexual antagonism" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Opening Session: Discussion |
9:30 pm - 12:00 am | Welcome Reception (Tea Room) |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Epigenetics and Evo/Devo |
| Discussion Leaders: Douglas J. Emlen (Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Montana, US) & Douglas Wahlsten (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, US) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Moshe Szyf (Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
"Epigenetics, an interface between nurture and nature" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | John Ewer (Centro de Neurociencia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)
"How the field of "Evo/devo" can help us understand behavior" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Epigenetics and Evo/Devo: Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Student Data Blitz |
| Discussion Leader: Allen J. Moore (School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK) |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session 1 (alphabetically by last name A-K) |
| Chair: John G. Hildebrand (Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US) |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Conflict and Cooperation |
| Discussion Leaders: Joan E. Strassmann (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, US) & Alison M. Bell (Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana) |
5:30 pm - 5:55 pm | Kevin Foster (Centre for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, US)
"Cooperation and conflict in microbes" |
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm | Laurent Keller (Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Ant behavior is modulated by complex interactions between genes and social environment" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:55 pm | Edward Kravitz (Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US)
"Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: Love and War in a single gene and other stories" |
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Conflict and Cooperation: Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vertebrate Social Life |
| Discussion Leaders: Darcy Kelley (Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, NY, US) & Stephen J. Suomi (Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS Bethesda, MD, US) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Russell D. Fernald (Biological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, US)
"Social regulation of the brain: From behavior to genes" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Larry J. Young (Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, US)
"Genetic Mechanisms underlying diversity in social behavior" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:25 am | Benoist Schaal (Centre Europeen des Sciences du Gout, CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
"Mammary messages that engage social behavior and learning in infant mammals" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Donna L. Maney (Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)
"Social strategies and chromosomal structures in songbirds" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | David H. Skuse (Behavioral and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom)
"Genetic influences on the neural basis of social cognition" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Vertebrate Social Life: Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session 2 (alphabetically by last name L-Z) |
| Chair: Stephen Goodwin (Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow) |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Behavior, Imaging, and Genomics |
| Discussion Leaders: Robert Hitzemann (Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University. Portland, Oregon, US) & Daisuke Yamamoto (Graduate School of Life Sciences and Department of Biology, Tohoku University, Japan) |
5:30 pm - 5:55 pm | Martin Heisenberg (Department of Genetics and Neurobiology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany)
"Behavior and the limits of genetic determinism" |
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm | Gero Miesenbock (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK)
"Change of mind: Control of neural circuits and behavior" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:55 pm | Seth Grant (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Cognition and the postsynaptic proteome" |
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Behavior, Imaging and Genomics: Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:30 am | Courtship, Mating, and Sexual Selection |
| Discussion Leader: Mariana Federica Wolfner (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US) & Jean-Marc Jallon (NAMC, University of Paris South, Orsay, France) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Gro V. Amdam (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, US)
"Complex social behavior derived from maternal reproductive traits" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Barry J. Dickson (Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria)
"Genetics of Drosophila mating behavior" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Tracey Chapman (School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
"Uncovering the genetic agents that mediate mating behavior, sexual selection and sexual conflict in flies" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Courtship, Mating and Sexual Selection: Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Junior Scientist Short Talks |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Clement Kent (Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada)
"Interactions between genes, physical environment, and social context in fruit fly mating" |
11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Yun Zhang (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Mass. US)
"Pathogenic bacteria induce aversive olfactory learning in C. elegans" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Sarah E. London (Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US)
"Identification of a molecular mechanism required for song learning" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Free Time |
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Rhythms |
| Discussion Leaders: Charalambos P. Kyriacou (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK) & Martha Merrow (Department of Chronobiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands) |
5:30 pm - 5:55 pm | Rodolfo Costa (Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy)
"Natural behavioral rhythmicity in Drosophila" |
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm | Till Roenneberg (Centre for Chronobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)
"Chronotype - phenotyping and genotyping daily human behavior" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Rhythms: Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Junior Scientist Short Talk |
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Sonja Vernes (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, The University of Oxford, UK)
"Functional genomic dissection of pathways involved in developmental speech and language disorders" |
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Language and Communication |
| Discussion Leaders: Joel Levine (Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) & Kerry Shaw (Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, US) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Andrew Barron (Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
"Towards a molecular dissection of the honey bee dance language" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Leslie B. Vosshall (The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, US)
"The odor universe of humans and the fly" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:25 am | William R. Schafer (Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)
"Touch related behaviors in C. elegans" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Constance Scharff (Abteilung Verhaltensbiologie, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany)
"Gene function analysis in songbirds: FoxP2" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | Simon E. Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, UK)
"Molecular windows into the neural bases of speech and language" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Language and Communication: Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Genes and Behavior: Unifying Principles? |
| Discussion Leaders: Jonathan Flint (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK) & Catherine Rankin (Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) |
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm | Opening comments by Discussion Leaders |
5:40 pm - 6:05 pm | Mike Ritchie (School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland)
"Evolutionary Genetics & Behavior: do unifying principles extend to multiple species with real ecologies?" |
6:05 pm - 6:20 pm | Discussion |
6:20 pm - 6:45 pm | Ralph Greenspan (The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, US)
"Genes and Behavior: Is there a unifying principle, or is it just a lot of stuff" |
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Genes and Behavior: Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |