April 18 - 20, 2013

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Reto Weiler, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
PD Dr. Karin Dedek, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

The final meeting of the research group „FOR 701: Dynamics and Stability of Retinal Processing" (www.fg-retina.uni-oldenburg.de/) will be held at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst after six years of funding by the DFG. There will be ten invited lectures from internationally renowned vision scientists and talks from each of the participating groups.

April 18 - 20, 2013

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Reto Weiler, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
PD Dr. Karin Dedek, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

The final meeting of the research group „FOR 701: Dynamics and Stability of Retinal Processing" (www.fg-retina.uni-oldenburg.de/) will be held at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst after six years of funding by the DFG. There will be ten invited lectures from internationally renowned vision scientists and talks from each of the participating groups.

April 18, 2013

19:00 – 19:15        Introductory remarks (Reto Weiler, HWK)
19:15 – 20:00        Botond Roska (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, CH)
                                 Cell type specific computations in retina and cortex
20:00                       Dinner

April 19, 2013

09:00 – 10:30        TP1 (Karl-Wilhelm Koch, University of Oldenburg)
09:00 – 09:45        Stephan C. Neuhauss (University of Zurich, CH)
                                 Glutamate signaling at the photoreceptor synapse through fish eyes
09:45 – 10:05        Karl-Wilhelm Koch (University of Oldenburg)
                                 The guanylate cyclase signaling system in zebrafish rods and cones
10:05 – 10:25        Alexander Scholten (University of Oldenburg)
                                 zGCAP5: unexpected properties of a Ca2+-sensor protein
10:25 – 10:30        Discussion
10:30 – 10:45        Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15        TP2 (Leo Peichl, MPI for Brain Research)
10:45 – 11:30        Shaun Collin (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
                                 The evolution of visual and non-visual photoreception in
                                 early vertebrates
11:30 – 11:50        Leo Peichl (MPI for Brain Research)
                                 Thyroid hormone controls cone opsin expression in the adult
                                 mammalian retina
11:50 – 12:10        Martin Glösmann (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
                                 Thyroid hormone action in the adult retina: gene expression
                                 profiling of the effects of hypothyroidism and single doses of 
                                 triiodothyronine in mouse photoreceptors
12:10 – 12:15        Discussion
12:15 – 13:15        Lunch
13:15 – 14:45        TP3 (Silke Haverkamp, MPI for Brain Research; Thomas Euler,
                                 University of Tübingen)
13:15 – 14:00        Wei Li (NIH, USA)
                                 S-cone signal processing in a mammalian retina
14:00 – 14:20        Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen)
                                 Diverse chromatic coding strategies in the mouse retina
14:20 – 14:40        Silke Haverkamp (MPI for Brain resaerch)
                                 Cell type-specific synaptic connections of bipolar and ganglion cells
                                 in the mouse retina
14:40 – 14:45        Discussion
14:45 – 15:00        Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30        TP4 (Karin Dedek, Reto Weiler, University of Oldenburg)
15:00 – 15:45        Karl Farrow (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, CH)
                                 Toggling a neural circuit switch in the retina
15:45 – 16:05        Karin Dedek (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Morphological and functional characterization of wide-field
                                 amacrine cells in the mouse retina
16:05 – 16:25        Mark Pottek (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Wide-field amacrine cells identified in the ChAT-EGFP mouse retina
16:25 – 16:30        Discussion
16:30 – 16:45        Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:15        TP5 (Jutta Kretzberg, Josef Ammermüller, University of Oldenburg)
16:45 – 17:30        Martin Greschner (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Populations of spiking neurons in the retina
17:30 – 18:05        León Maurizio Juárez Paz (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Visual motion encoding by retinal ganglion cell activity
18:05 – 18:15        Discussion
18:30 – 19:30        Dinner
19:30 – 20:15        David Vaney (University of Queensland, Australia)
                                 Direction selectivity in the retina: open questions and new findings 

April 20, 2013

09:00 – 10:30        TP6 (Henrik Mouritsen, University of Oldenburg)
09:00 – 09:45        Keram Pfeiffer (University of Marburg)
                                 Processing of polarized-light information in the insect nervous system
09:45 – 10:30        Nils-Lasse Schneider, David Dreyer (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Electrophysiological characterization of retinal ganglion cells in the
                                 avian retina
10:30 – 10:45        Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15        TP8 (Johann Helmut Brandstätter, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
10:45 – 11:30        Leon Lagnado (University of Cambridge, UK)
                                 Synaptic mechanisms of adaptation and sensitization in the retina
11:30 – 12:15        Johann Helmut Brandstätter (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
                                 Vesicle recruitment and adaptation at photoreceptor ribbon synapses
12:15 – 13:15        Lunch
13:15 – 14:45        TP9 (Andreas Feigenspan, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
13:15 – 14:00        Nick Brecha (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
                                 Mammalian horizontal cells release GABA by a Ca2+-dependent
                                 vesicular mechanism
14:00 – 14:45        Andreas Feigenspan (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
                                 Synaptic input to horizontal cells of the mouse retina - spontaneous
                                 EPSCs and glutamate receptors
14:45 – 15:00        Closing remarks (Reto Weiler) 

April 18, 2013

19:00 – 19:15        Introductory remarks (Reto Weiler, HWK)
19:15 – 20:00        Botond Roska (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, CH)
                                 Cell type specific computations in retina and cortex
20:00                       Dinner

April 19, 2013

09:00 – 10:30        TP1 (Karl-Wilhelm Koch, University of Oldenburg)
09:00 – 09:45        Stephan C. Neuhauss (University of Zurich, CH)
                                 Glutamate signaling at the photoreceptor synapse through fish eyes
09:45 – 10:05        Karl-Wilhelm Koch (University of Oldenburg)
                                 The guanylate cyclase signaling system in zebrafish rods and cones
10:05 – 10:25        Alexander Scholten (University of Oldenburg)
                                 zGCAP5: unexpected properties of a Ca2+-sensor protein
10:25 – 10:30        Discussion
10:30 – 10:45        Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15        TP2 (Leo Peichl, MPI for Brain Research)
10:45 – 11:30        Shaun Collin (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
                                 The evolution of visual and non-visual photoreception in
                                 early vertebrates
11:30 – 11:50        Leo Peichl (MPI for Brain Research)
                                 Thyroid hormone controls cone opsin expression in the adult
                                 mammalian retina
11:50 – 12:10        Martin Glösmann (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
                                 Thyroid hormone action in the adult retina: gene expression
                                 profiling of the effects of hypothyroidism and single doses of 
                                 triiodothyronine in mouse photoreceptors
12:10 – 12:15        Discussion
12:15 – 13:15        Lunch
13:15 – 14:45        TP3 (Silke Haverkamp, MPI for Brain Research; Thomas Euler,
                                 University of Tübingen)
13:15 – 14:00        Wei Li (NIH, USA)
                                 S-cone signal processing in a mammalian retina
14:00 – 14:20        Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen)
                                 Diverse chromatic coding strategies in the mouse retina
14:20 – 14:40        Silke Haverkamp (MPI for Brain resaerch)
                                 Cell type-specific synaptic connections of bipolar and ganglion cells
                                 in the mouse retina
14:40 – 14:45        Discussion
14:45 – 15:00        Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30        TP4 (Karin Dedek, Reto Weiler, University of Oldenburg)
15:00 – 15:45        Karl Farrow (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, CH)
                                 Toggling a neural circuit switch in the retina
15:45 – 16:05        Karin Dedek (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Morphological and functional characterization of wide-field
                                 amacrine cells in the mouse retina
16:05 – 16:25        Mark Pottek (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Wide-field amacrine cells identified in the ChAT-EGFP mouse retina
16:25 – 16:30        Discussion
16:30 – 16:45        Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:15        TP5 (Jutta Kretzberg, Josef Ammermüller, University of Oldenburg)
16:45 – 17:30        Martin Greschner (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Populations of spiking neurons in the retina
17:30 – 18:05        León Maurizio Juárez Paz (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Visual motion encoding by retinal ganglion cell activity
18:05 – 18:15        Discussion
18:30 – 19:30        Dinner
19:30 – 20:15        David Vaney (University of Queensland, Australia)
                                 Direction selectivity in the retina: open questions and new findings 

April 20, 2013

09:00 – 10:30        TP6 (Henrik Mouritsen, University of Oldenburg)
09:00 – 09:45        Keram Pfeiffer (University of Marburg)
                                 Processing of polarized-light information in the insect nervous system
09:45 – 10:30        Nils-Lasse Schneider, David Dreyer (University of Oldenburg)
                                 Electrophysiological characterization of retinal ganglion cells in the
                                 avian retina
10:30 – 10:45        Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15        TP8 (Johann Helmut Brandstätter, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
10:45 – 11:30        Leon Lagnado (University of Cambridge, UK)
                                 Synaptic mechanisms of adaptation and sensitization in the retina
11:30 – 12:15        Johann Helmut Brandstätter (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
                                 Vesicle recruitment and adaptation at photoreceptor ribbon synapses
12:15 – 13:15        Lunch
13:15 – 14:45        TP9 (Andreas Feigenspan, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
13:15 – 14:00        Nick Brecha (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
                                 Mammalian horizontal cells release GABA by a Ca2+-dependent
                                 vesicular mechanism
14:00 – 14:45        Andreas Feigenspan (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
                                 Synaptic input to horizontal cells of the mouse retina - spontaneous
                                 EPSCs and glutamate receptors
14:45 – 15:00        Closing remarks (Reto Weiler)