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**Over 175 people have already registered. We have participants from 20 universities in seven states across the Southeast. There are still two openings for oral presentations and 10 openings for posters

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Schedule of Events

  • Evening Reception and Special Programs
    Date: Friday March 31, 2006
    Location: Georgia Aquarium
  • Talks and Posters
    Date: Saturday April 1, 2006
    Location: Georgia State University Student Center

  • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susan Fahrbach
    Wake Forest University
    Title: "Plastic Behavior, Plastic Brains    "
    The mushroom bodies are insect brain centers critical for multi-modal sensory integration and olfactory association learning. Intensive study of the mushroom bodies of the honey bee during the past decade has revealed that bees with experience foraging outside of the hive have larger mushroom bodies than hive bees with little or no foraging experience. Golgi analyses have revealed that this growth reflects increased length and branching of dendrites within the mushroom body neuropils. What couples foraging experience to dendritic growth in the mushroom bodies? Our recent studies have revealed that pharmacological stimulation of muscarinic cholinergic receptors mimics the effects of a week's foraging experience on the honey bee brain. This finding suggests that activity at cholinergic synapses regulates structural plasticity in the mushroom bodies.



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Sponsors

This meeting is co-sponsored by the
International Society for Neuroethology

 

This conference is funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and from support from the Center for Neural Communication and Computation , the Brains & Behavior Program and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience