Origins of Eukaryotic Excitability Origins of Eukaryotic Excitability
19-20 May 2025
An interdisciplinary workshop and discussion meeting organised by Kirsty Wan (LSI, Exeter) and Gáspár Jékely.
Venue:
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
We would like to thank the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg for providing its rooms for the workshop.Registration:
Keynote speaker:
Peter Hegemann (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Speakers:
Buzz Baum (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Thibaut Brunet (Institut Pasteur)
"From individual to collective cell behavior in early animal evolution"
Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre)
Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute for Biology)
"(Exciting) mating rituals in brown algae”
Laura Eme (Université Paris-Saclay)
Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg University)
Emmanuelle Javaux (University of Liège )
"Paleobiology sheds light on the early evolution of protist cell and behavior"
Thomas Kiørboe (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet)
"The functional diversity of the flagella of free-living protists"
Aneta Koseska (Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar)
"Memory and learning in single cells"
Michelle Leger (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
"Stress, recognition and death: the role of environmental responses and inter-organismal relationships in the emergence of animals"
Alastair Simpson (Dalhousie University)
"The deep history of motility and feeding systems in microbial eukaryotes"
István Zachar (Eötvös Loránd University)
Funding:
Heidelberg University, Expanding Internationality Programme
Detailed programme coming soon!