Werner Reichardt Symposium
Symposium on April 19, 2024
This symposium will be held in honour of the centenary of the birth of Werner Reichardt, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and a pioneer in the fields of vision science and what is now known as computational neuroscience.
Reichardt's own research focused on information processing in the nervous system of flies, with a particular focus on understanding motion. Together with his three co-directors at the Institute, Valentino Braitenberg, Kuno Kirschfeld, and Karl G. Götz, Reichardt contributed seminal concepts, results and methods.
Since then, many colleagues have continued along the lines that he and his colleagues established, contributing notably to the modern landscape. The symposium will offer an opportunity to look backwards and forwards, covering new developments, ideas, and hypotheses, with sessions dedicated to general discussions and a program designed to promote interactions.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Alexander Borst, MPI for Biological Intelligence
- Gwyneth Card, Columbia University
- Lisa Fenk, MPI for Biological Intelligence
- Kuno Kirschfeld, MPI for Biological Cybernetics
- Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Srini Turaga, Janelia Research Campus
- Johannes Zanker, Royal Holloway, University of London
The symposium will be hybrid. Please register here and indicate whether you plan to come in person or attend online. The size of the room is limited, so it may not be possible to accommodate everyone in Tübingen.
Agenda:
Time
Programme
09:10 a.m. - 09:15 a.m.
Introduction, Li Zhaoping, MPI for Biological Cybernetics
09:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
“The story of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics: a Virtual Dream Come True“, Kuno Kirschfeld, MPI für biologische Kybernetik
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
“Ten years of research with Werner across levels of understanding”,
Tomaso Poggio, Massachussetts Institute for Technology
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Coffee break
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
“Active Vision in Flies“,
Lisa Fenk, MPI for Biological Intelligence
12:15 p.m. - 01:00 p.m.
“How Flies See Motion: from the Reichardt Detector to Neural Circuits“,
Alexander Borst, MPI for Biological Intelligence
01:00 p.m. - 02:30 p.m.
Lunch break
02:30 p.m. - 03:15 p.m.
“Building a Connectome Constrained Model of the Fruit Fly Visual System“,
Srinivas C. Turaga, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
03:15 p.m. - 04:30 p.m.
“Cracking Circuits with Connectomes: a Reverse Neuroethology Perspective”,
Gwyneth Card, Columbia University
04:30 p.m. - 05:15 p.m.
“From Kybernetik MPI into the wonderous world of motion – a journey…”,
Johannes Zanker, Royal Holloway, University of London
05:15 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Reception