Principles of Biological and Robotic Navigation
| 08:00 - 11:00 | Registration |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| Sensori-motor coupling | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Opening - Frank Jülicher (MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Matthieu Louis (Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)) Sensorimotor integration directing Drosophila chemotaxis |
| 12:00 - 12:35 | Tim Landgraf (Freie Universität Berlin) Bees can follow routes with an ant brain: reimplementation and screening of a neural network model for view matching |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | lunch |
| Statistical physics of chemotactic behavior | |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Massimo Vergassola (University California San Diego) Navigation in turbulent environments |
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Robert Endres (Imperial College London) Self-organized, near-critical behavior in aggregation of social amoeba |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | poster presentation - flashmob (1 minute talk to each poster) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | bionav16 colloquium Eberhard Bodenschatz (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization) Ciliated surfaces and transport networks |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | supper |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | poster session |
| Microswimmer navigation | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Gáspár Jékely (MPI for Developmental Biology) Systems neurobiology of the Platynereis larva |
| 09:50 - 10:05 | Richard Henshaw (University of Warwick) Twist and Turn: Phototaxis of the Dominant Marine Pico-Eukaryote Micro-monas pusilla |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Julius Kirkegaard (University of Cambridge) Navigation of colonies of choanoflagellates |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | group photo (to be published on the workshop’s web page) & coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Luis Alvarez (Cesar Bonn) Sperm Chemotaxis |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Justus Kromer (cfaed / TU-Dresden) Decision making in sperm chemotaxis |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Jaideep Katuri (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) Cross-streamline migration of chemically active Janus particles in flow (experiment) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | William Uspal (MPI for Intelligent Systems) Cross-streamline migration of chemically active Janus particles in flow (theory) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | lunch |
| The neuronal basis of navigation | |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge) Towards real-world evolution of robot navigation |
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Claudius Gros (Goethe University Frankfurt) The role of short-term synaptic plasticity for locomotion |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:35 | Nihat Ay (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences) Mathematical Aspects of Embodied Intelligence |
| 16:35 - 17:10 | Peter Thomas (Case Western Reserve University) Information theory and signal transduction in biological systems |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | guided tour of city center |
| 19:30 - 22:00 | workshop dinner in restaurant in town |
| Steering in complex environments | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Barbara Webb (University of Edingburgh) Neural mechanisms of ant navigation |
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Alexander Garthe / Gerd Kempermann (DZNE and CRTD Dresden) Spatial learning as proxy for cognitive flexibility |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Rainer Klages (Queen Mary University of London) Statistical physics and anomalous dynamics of foraging |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Juliane Simmchen (TU Dresden) Topographical pathways guide chemical microswimmers |
| 11:25 - 11:40 | Axel Voigt (TU Dresden) A mesoscopic field theoretical approach for active systems |
| 12:00 | lunch |
| 13:00 | discussions and concluding remarks |