13:30 - 15:30
Fri-S7
Making (chemo)sense of evolution - taste across animal phyla
Goethe Hall
Chair/s:
Thomas O. Auer
In this symposium we will cover taste research in bird, cephalopod, fish and fly species drawing a broad picture of taste receptor and circuit evolution across animal phyla. We will highlight the strength of a comparative framework to extract general principles of chemosensory circuit function based on novel genomic, transcriptomic and physiological methods in classical model and non-model species in aquatic and non-aquatic environments.
Fri-S7-001
Molecular and cellular basis of octopus touch-taste
Lena van Giesen

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Fri-S7-002
Evolution of gene expression in the taste tissues of ecologically diverse Drosophila species
Roman Arguello 1, 2, Gwénaëlle Bontonou 1, 2, Bastien Saint Leandre 1, 2, Tane Kafle 1, 2, Tess Baticle 1, Afrah Hassan 1, Justine Pascual 3, Enrico Bertolini 3, Juan Sanchez-Alcañiz 4, Thomas Auer 3

1 University of Lausanne Department of Ecology and Evolution, 2 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 3 University of Lausanne Center for Integrative Genomics, 4 Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC
Fri-S7-003
Molecular evolution of taste in jawed fish and an unexpected link to olfaction
Sigrun I Korsching, Kanika Sharma, Günes Birdal

Institute of Genetics, MNF, University at Cologne, Germany
Fri-S7-004
A novel mechanism underlying selective loss of sugar-sensing in wrynecks
Julia F. Cramer 1, Eliot T. Miller 2, Meng-Ching Ko 1, Qiaoyi Liang 1, Glenn Cockburn 1, Tomoya Nakagita 3, 4, Massimiliano Cardinale 5, Leonida Fusani 6, 7, Yasuka Toda 3, Maude W. Baldwin 1

1 Evolution of Sensory Systems Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, 2 Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA, 3 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, 4 Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan, 5 Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Lysekil, Sweden, 6 Austrian Ornithological Centre, Konrad-Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Wien, Austria, 7 Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Fri-S7-005
The progresion of change in neuronal activity that underlie the formation and consolidation of a gustatory associative memory
Neta Dagan 1, Anan Moran 1, 2

1 Department of Neurobiology, School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science Tel Aviv University Israel, 2 Sagol School of Neuroscience Tel-Aviv University Israel