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:

Please register here.

Deadline: 1 May 2025

Keynote speaker:

Peter Hegemann  (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
“Enzymerhodopsins guide photobehavioural Responses in Chytridiomycotal fungi ”

 

Speakers:

Buzz Baum (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
“Using archaea to shed light on the origins of eukaryotes”

Thibaut Brunet (Institut Pasteur)
"From individual to collective cell behavior in early animal evolution"

Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre)
"Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals"

Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute for Biology)
"(Exciting) mating rituals in brown algae”

Laura Eme (Université Paris-Saclay)
"From prokaryotic beginnings to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor: tracing the roots of eukaryotic complexity"

Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg University)
"Engineering synthetic cellular machinery with RNA origami"

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)
"Dynamical models of microbial interactions can help explain endosymbioses and eukaryogenesis"

Funding:

Heidelberg University, Expanding Internationality Programme

Detailed programme coming soon!