Time | 14:00-16:00 o’clock iCAL |
Start date | 03.05.2017 |
Interval | Every fortnight |
Location | H4, Room |
Moodle | evonervo2017 |
This fortnightly seminar discusses recent advances in the understanding of the early evolution of nervous systems.
Following an introductory lecture on the precambrial species in which the first nervous systems evolved, research articles on the following and related topics are discussed
Checkout some initial reading material by klicking on the respective topic.
We might conclude each meeting with a general discussion on evolutionary scenarios in which it is attempted to synthesis what was learned from different perspectives.
03.05.2017 | Jan-Hendrik Schleimer | Overview |
17.05.2017 | Adam Wilkins | Early metazoan phylogeny: |
Independent NS origin in cnidaria | ||
& ctenophora | ||
31.05.2017 | Evolution of synapses | |
14.06.2017 | Evolution of the glia support system | |
28.06.2017 | NO SEMINAR | |
12.07.2017 | NO SEMINAR (Janina’s defence on neural morphology) | |
26.07.2017 | Developmental biology of the nervous system |