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FRONTIERS IN CRUSTACEAN NEUROBIOLOGY Research on design and function of nervous systems emphasizing the comparative approach International Scientific Conference July 8 to 11, 1999 Hamburg - Blankenese Elsa Braendstroem Conference Center Organization: Konrad Wiese Manfred Schmidt Universitaet Hamburg Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum Thursday July 8, 19:30 Conference opening Musical Introduction Thursday July 8 19:30 - 19:45 Conference Opening Musical Introduction Christoph Moinihan, Schwerin French Horn Welcome address: Professor Melitta Schachner, Zentrum fuer Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg on behalf of the organizers: Konrad Wiese Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum Universitaet Hamburg Thursday July 8 Opening session 19:45 - 22:15 General principles and historical overview Chair: Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA 19:45 Edward Kravitz, Harvard University, Boston, USA The transmitter GABA and the crustacean nervous system 20:05 Franklin Krasne, University of California at Los Angeles, USA The giant fiber circuit in the ventral nerve cord of crustaceans 20:25 Allen Selverston, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA New developments in understanding neural pattern generators 20:45 David Sandeman, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The Crustacean brain: from Maynard s work to present day 21:05 - 21:15 refreshments 21:15 Brian Mulloney, University of California at Davis, USA The swimmeret system of crustaceans: the origins 21:35 Dorothy Paul, University of Victoria, Canada Synergies between disparate motor systems: Loci for behavioural evolution 21:55 Francois Clarac, CNRS, Neurobiologie et Mouvements, Marseille, France Neurobiology of crustacean walking: from past to future 22:15 end of session Friday, July 9, 8:30 - 10:30 Early morning session Aminergic modulation of behavior. Chair: Edward Kravitz, Harvard University, Boston, USA 8:30 Edward Kravitz, Harvard University, Boston USA Fighting behavior in lobsters and the identification of the amine-containing neurosecretory systems 8:45 Michael Hoerner, Universitaet Goettingen, FRG Identified synaptic inputs to lobster amine-containing neurosecretory neuron systems 9:00 Ralf Heinrich, Harvard University, Boston, USA Autoinhibition on lobster neurosecretory neurons - Comparison with vertebrate amine-containing neurons 9:15 Donald Edwards, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Changes in the nervous system and behaviour of crayfish with changes in social status 9:30 Brian Antonsen, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Amines in the behaviour and neurons of the squat lobster Munida quadrispina 9:45 Wulf-Dieter Krenz, N.L. Perez-Acevedo, D. Nguyen, and A. I. Selverston, University of Puerto Rico, USA Is Glutamate a neuromodulator in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system? 10:00 Nivia Perez- Acevedo, W.D. Krenz, Y.I. Archavsky and A.I. Selverston, University of Puerto Rico, USA Metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists modulate the pyloric output 10:15 - 10:35 coffee Friday, July 9 10: 35 - 12:15 Late morning session: Amines: Neuronal mechanisms and Ion Channels Chair: Ronald M. Harris -Warrick, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 10:45 Bruce Johnson, R.M. Harris-Warrick, P. Kloppenburg, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA Ionic mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the lobster pyloric network 11:00 Peter Kloppenburg, W.R.Zipfel, W.W. Webb, R.M. Harris Warrick, Neurobiology and Applied Physics Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA Dopamine modulation of localized Ca2+ accumulation in identified motoneurons monitored by multi - photon extinction microscopy 11:15 Thomas Roeder, Universitaet Hamburg, FRG Aminergic receptors in invertebrates 11:30 Edouard Pearlstein, D.Cattaert, F. Clarac, CNRS, Neurobiologie et Mouvements, Marseille, France Aminergic modulation of sensory-motor integration in the walking system of the crayfish 11:45 Deborah Baro, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA Differential expresssion and targeting of K+ channel genes in lobster pyloric pattern generator 12:00 Ronald M. Harris - Warrick, J.MacLean, Y.Zhang,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Expression of lobster ,shal" potassium channel RNA in lobster stomatogastric neurons 12:30 lunch Friday, July 9 14:00 - 16:00 Early afternoon session Peptidergic modulation of identified function Chair: Werner Rathmayer, Universitaet Konstanz, FRG 14:00 Werner Rathmayer, Universitaet Konstanz, FRG Pre- and postsynaptic modulation of neuromuscular parameters by peptides 14:20 Joffre Mercier, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada Intracellular signals that mediate modulation of crayfish synapses by a FMRF-amide related neuropeptide 14:35 Christian Erxleben, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA and Statione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Italy Modulation of muscle contractions and ionic currents in a marine isopod 14:50 Robin Cooper, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Influence of neuromodulators and vesicle docking related proteins on the kinetics of vesicle release 15:05 Petra Skiebe, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, FRG Identifiable neurons involved in peptidergic modulation within the stomatogastric nervous system of the crayfish Cherax destructor 15:20 Dieter Wicher, Universitaet Jena, FRG Peptidergic modulation of ionic currents in an insect neuron 15:35 - 16:00 coffee Friday, July 9 16:00 - 17:55 Late afternoon session Hormonal Control Systems Chair: Rainer Keller, Universitaet Bonn, FRG 16:15 Rainer Keller, Universitaet Bonn, FRG Biological effects of neuropeptides of the CHH/MIH/GIH family in crustaceans 16:35 Heinrich Dircksen, Universitaet Bonn, FRG Neurosecretory cells in peripheral nervous systems produce unusual crustacean hyperglycemic hormone-like peptides presumably by alternative splicing 16:55 Hugo Arechiga, University of Mexico City, Mexico A distributed system of circadian pacemakers in the crayfish nervous system Special highlight The Control of Chromatophores 17:15 Luiz Eduardo Maia Nery, Zoophysiologia, Fundacao Universidade do Rio Grande, Brasil Crustacean Chromatophore: Endocrine Regulation and intracellular signaling system End of session 17:40 Extra: Short plenary discussion on the topic: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: Unique opportunities in the crustacean nervous system. Introduction: Timothy McClintock, Lexington, KY, USA 18:30 dinner, followed by an evening for communication among participants, no other program Saturday, July 10, 8:30 - 10:00 Early morning session Olfaction Chair: Barry W. Ache, Whitney Laboratory, St. Augustine and University of Florida, Gainesville, USA 8:30 Charles Derby, Pascal Steullet, Holly Cate, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA A compound nose: functional development, odotopic mapping, and behavioral role of the aesthetasc sensilla and their olfactory neurons. 8:45 Timothy McClintock, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Molecular physiology of G-proteins in olfactory transduction and CNS -neurotransmission 9:00 Barry Ache, Aslbek Zhainazarov, Richard Doolin, Whitney Laboratory, St. Augustine, USA Characterization and phosphatidylinositol regulation of a N+-gated nonselective cation channel implicated in lobster olfactory transduction 9:15 Eric Hallberg, M. Ekerholm, Lund Universitet, Sweden Ontogenetic development of the olfactory system in the shore crab Carcinus maenas (focus on aesthetascs and flicking muscles) 9:30 David Sandeman, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The 5-HT -immunoreactive dorsal giant cell and olfaction in crayfish 9:45 DeForest Mellon, University of Virginia, Charlotteville, USA Are electrical oscillations in lateral forebrain local neurons the gatekeeper for olfactory system output in crustaceans? 10:00 - 10:15 coffee and tea Saturday, July 10 10:15 - 12:15 Late morning session Circuitry analysis, MRO and muscle Chair: Brian Mulloney, University of California at Davis, USA 10:15 David Macmillan, University of Melbourne, Australia The abdominal muscle receptor organ of crayfish and lobsters: old models, new challenges 10:30 Michelle Bevengut, D. Le Ray, D. Cattaert, CNRS, Neurobiologie et Mouvements, Marseille, France Active shaping of a proprioreceptive message in crayfish 10:45 Toshiki Nagayama, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Synaptic organization of local circuit neurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the crayfish 11:00 Peter Fraser, University of Aberdeen, UK Long term recordings from statocyst interneurones in the crab Carcinus maenas 11:15 Janet M. Holmes, Douglas M. Neil, Stefan Galler and Karlheinz Hilber, University of Glasgow, UK and University of Salzburg, Austria The synaptic and mechanical properties of the two slow muscle fibre types that control abdominal posture in the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus 11:30 Philip Newland, University of Southampton, UK Proprioception in the tailfan of the crayfish 11:45 Masakazu Takahata, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying facilitatory control of postural reflexes during walking in crayfish 12:30 lunch Saturday, July 10 14:00 - 16:00 Early afternoon session Development Chair: Renate Sandeman, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 14:00 Renate Sandemann, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Growth and plasticity in the crayfish brain olfactory centers 14:20 Jeannie Benton, Barbara Beltz, Wellesley College, Wellesley,USA Development and maturation of olfactory centers in the lobster: Influences of serotonine and adult neurogenesis 14:35 Barbara Beltz, J. Benton, J. Long, M. Lee, K. Piech, Wellesley College, Wellesley,USA Ecological factors may influence the evolution of species specific glomerular numbers in the olfactory lobes of decapod crustaceans 14:50 Steffen Harzsch, Univeristaet Ulm, FRG Mechanisms of neurogenesis in Crustacea 15:05 Valerie Fenelon, Pierre Meyrand, CNRS et Universite de Bordeaux, Talence, France Ontogenetic alteration of identified neural network in the lobster stomatogastric system 15:20 Jeremy Sullivan, Wellesly College, Wellesley, USA Embryonic and postembryonic neurogenesis in the ventral nerve cord of the freshwater crayfish Cherax destructor 15:35 Gerhard Scholtz, Matthias Gerberding, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin, FRG Cell lineage of crustacean neuroblasts 15:50 Manfred Schmidt, Universitaet Hamburg, FRG New neurons in adult crustacean brains 16:05 - 16:20 coffee, tea Saturday, July 10 16:25 - 18:00 Late afternoon session Sensory integration Chair: Jelle Atema, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, MA, USA 16:20 Jelle Atema, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, USA Eddy chemotaxis and the case for bimodal chemo-mechanosensory signal processing 16:40 Thomas Breithaupt, Universitaet Konstanz, FRG Chemo-mechanical stimulus fields, rheotaxis and chemical signal exchange in crayfish 16:55 Barbara Schmitz, Jens Herberholz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, FRG The use of different water currents during intra- and interspecific encounters in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis 17:10 Daniel Hartline, Petra Lenz, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA Adaptations for mechanoreceptively triggered predator evasion in copepods 17:25 Zhanna Shuranova, Institute for Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Ventilatory activity in freely moving crayfish is indicative of functional status and perception of external stimuli 17:40 Denis Combes, P. Meyrand, J. Simmers, CNRS et Universite de Bordeaux, Talence, France Motor program switching by an identified sensory neuron in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion 18:00 dinner Saturday july 10 19:30 - 21:30 Evening session Synaptic plasticity and modulation Chair: Harold Atwood, University of Toronto, Canada 19:30 Harold Atwood, University of Toronto, Canada Differential properties of crustacean synapses 19:50 Greg Lnenicka, State University of New York at Albany, USA The influence of impulse activity on growth cones and synapses 20:10 Josef Dudel, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, FRG Excitatory synaptic currents in crayfish, Drosophila and mice: The role of desensitisation 20:30 Hitoshi Aonuma, Ph. Newland, University of Southampton, UK Nitric Oxide and cyclic GMP modulate synaptic transmission in local circuits of the crayfish 20:45 Katherine Graubard, University of Washington, Seattle, USA The actions of nitric oxide and cGMP in modulating stomatogastric and cardiac ganglion motor activity 21:05 Eve Marder, A. Swensen, D. Blitz, M.P. Nussbaum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Cotransmission and convergence in the neuromodulatory projections to the stomatogastric ganglion 21:25 A word about the book in production Sunday, July 11 8:30 - 11:00 Early morning session Learning and Memory Chair: David Sandeman, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 8:30 Hector Maldonado, Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina I. A brief introduction to Learning in Crustacea II. Two memories for the same danger stimulus in Chasmagnathus: A behavioural, pharmacological and molecular approach 8:50 Daniel Tomsic , Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina Behavioral, ecological and electrophysiological aspects of habituation to visual danger stimulus in crabs 9:05 Transition into the session ,Visual Systems" Sunday, July 11 9:05 - 12:30 Midmorning session Visual systems in crustacea Chair: Jon Barnes, University of Glasgow, UK 9:05 Jochen Zeil, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia The flexible use of vision and path integration in fiddler crabs 9:20 Benno Meyer-Rochow, University of Oulu, Finland Photoreceptor adaptation and damage 9:35 Silvana Allodi, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Glial cells in the crustacean visual system 9:50 Thomas Cronin, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Spectral and polarization sensitivity in the eyes of crabs 10:05 Masakazu Hariyama, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Diurnal changes in the crustacean eye 10:20 - 10:40 coffee and tea 10:40 Alberto Ugolini, Universita de Firenze, Italy The sun, the moon and the sandhopper 10:55 Stefan Richter, Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin, FRG The evolution in optical design in crustacea 11:10 end of session Sunday, July 11, 11:15 - 12:15 Late morning session From rhythmic behavior in vivo to biomimetic robots Chair: Allen Selverston, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA 11:15 Hartmut Boehm, C. Gutzen, S. Hinterkeuser, D. Weigeldt, Universitaet Bonn Performance of neural networks controlling vegetative rhythms 11:35 Hans-Georg Heinzel, E. Dybek, K. Halen, D. Sandeman, H. Boehm, Universitaet Bonn, FRG, and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Connections of the head to networks of the stomatogastric system 11:55 Joseph Ayers, Northeastern University, Eastpoint, Nahant MA, USA Neurotechnology and behavioral animatronics for lobster-based underwater robots. 12:15 end of session 12:30 lunch 14:00 end of conference. Posters: on display in the conference room of the Gaestehaus: 1) Janet M. Holmes, A.-S. Graens, D. M. Neil, S. Pihl - Baden, University of Glasgow, UK and Kristineberg`s Marina Forskningsstation, Fiskebaeckskil, Sweden The effect of metal ions Mn2+ and Co2+ on muscle contraction in the norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus 2) Olga Ganeshina, Petra Skiebe, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, FRG The ultrastructure of a nerve junction with possible modulatory function in the stomatogastric nervous system of the crayfish Cherax destructor 3) Romouald Nargeot, CNRS et Universite de Bordeaux, Talence, France Sensory induced plasticity in lobster stomatogastric nervous system 4) Peter Jaros, Inka Gerhold, Universitaet Oldenburg, FRG Evidence of NO synthase activity by NADPH-diaphorase staining? 5) Garry Jolley-Rogers, University of Melbourne, Australia The edge of homology - crayfish suboesophageal ganglia 6) Dominic Lewis, Douglas Neil, University of Glasgow, UK Lobster claw development 7) Bruce Johnson, R.W. Wyttenbach, R.R. Hoy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA Crawdad: A CD-ROM-lab manual for neurophysiology 8) Martin Heine, D. Wicher, Universitaet Jena, FRG Peptide-induced activation of ryanodine receptors in an insect neuron 9) Luke Finley and David Macmillan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stimulus location and giant fibre escape responses in Cherax destructor 10) Konrad Wiese, Universitaet Hamburg, FRG The origin of commands for neuromodulation 11) Mufti P. Patria, Konrad Wiese, Universitaet Hamburg, FRG Antennular sensitivity, flow field of propulsion jet and response to signals of turbulent flow in Meganyctiphanes norvegica 12) Ulrike Spoerhase-Eichmann, D. Edwards, Universitaet Goettingen FRG and Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Serotonin-, dopamine-, and octopamine immunoreactivity in the abdominal nervous system of the crayfish. 13) Jon W.P. Barnes, B.G. Horseman, M.W.S. Macauley, University of Glasgow, UK Optic flow interneurones in the crab visual system 14) J.E. Layne, W.J.P. Barnes, L. Duncan, University of Glasgow, UK Homing in fiddler crabs: path integration and the optomotor response