Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Behavioral Mechanisms in Non-Traditional Animal Species: Challenges, Frustrations, Risks, and Rewards
Discussion Leader: Amy LeMessurier (NYU School of Medicine, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:50 pm - 4:25 pm
Matthew Fuxjager (Brown University, United States)
"Behavioral Mechanisms in Non-Traditional Animal Species: Challenges, Frustrations, Risks, and Rewards"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Acoustic Communication and Bioacoustics Bootcamp (ACABB)
Discussion Leader: Therese Koch (UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:15 pm
David Nicholson (Independent Researcher, United States)
"BioSoundSegBench Version 0.1: Towards Community-Built Benchmarks of Methods to Segment Speech and Other Animal Sounds"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm
Tessa Rhinehart (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Monitoring Wild Birds' Behavior with Automated Acoustic Detection and Localization"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Diversity in Animal Communication: Mechanisms, Behavior, and Ecology
Discussion Leader: Douglas Reilly (Tufts University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Theophane Piette (UNIGE, France)
"Rhythm in Animals Acoustic Communication Evolved Towards an Optimum Rhythm"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Melanie Stenger (European Neuroscience Institute, Germany)
"Overlapping Muscles Drive Multimodal Courtship Signals in Drosophila "
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Tom Quigley (CUNY Brooklyn College, United States)
"Biogeography, Behavior and Brain of Opsanus tau , an East Coast Singing Fish"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Katherine Anderson (City College of New York, United States)
"So What's the Scenario?: Retracing Social Brain Afferents to the Zebra Finch Vocal Control Network"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Elin Kang (Stanford, United States)
"Molecular Basis Underlying Brainstem Control of Acoustic Features During Innate Vocalization"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Xiaoyue Zheng (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
"Evolutionary Diversification of Vocal Behavior Requires the Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Ava Kiai (Ernst Strüngmann Institute/Goethe University, Germany)
"Investigating the Role of the Bat Frontal Cortex in Auditory Processing and Vocal Production"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Shelby Lawson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"Eavesdropping by Red-Winged Blackbirds on Heterospecific Call for Brood Parasite"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Alena Lemazina (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:35 pm - 2:05 pm
Talmo Pereira (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States)
"Effective Collaboration Across Science by Maximizing Diversity"
2:05 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes