XII Meeting of the Red NeuroEvoDevo Pedro Ramón y Cajal (PRAMON-2021)
This year’s edition is honoring three internationally recognized Spanish neuroscientists, recently retired, who were founders of the PRamon club and greatly contributed to improve our understanding of brain evolution: Ramón Anadón, Agustín González and Luis Puelles.
Summary of the event, goal and broad appeal: Evolutionary Neuroscience is currently experiencing a rebirth due to the need of broadening the number of species employed in brain research, in order to understand general organizing principles that can also apply to humans and to address more focused questions in neuroscience. Spain has a great tradition in evolutionary neuroscience, and counts with many internationally reputed neuroscientists that have greatly contributed to advance our knowledge on brain organization and evolution. A group of them founded the Pedro Ramón y Cajal Club in the ‘90s, and members meet every other year, before the SENC meeting, to present new results and exchange ideas on brain evolution. It is also a good platform for young research trainees to get experience in presenting results to a broader audience. This year the proposed meeting will be in honor of three highly reputed Spanish neuroscientists, recently retired, whose work and ideas had a great impact on our understanding of brain development and/or evolution: Ramón Anadón, Agustín González and Luis Puelles. The contribution of the first two for understanding the anamniote brain is of paramount importance, while the third is the father of the prosomeric model, a framework of brain divisions that has changed our way of understanding the forebrain, and that has become a reference for developmental and evolutionary neuroscientists. The meeting counts with a first group of presentations by young research trainees and, after a break, a group of senior neuroscientists that were trained and collaborated during many years with at least one of the honored scientists.
Preliminary programme:
9:00 Presentation
9:15 Colocalization of Foxg1 and Otp in sauropsids confirms the existence of a new division at the transition between telencephalon and hypothalamus
Alek H. Metwalli*, Antonio Abellán, Ester Desfilis and Loreta Medina (Universitat de Lleida – IRBLleida).
9:30 Neuron subtypes in the central extended amygdala of chicken and comparison to those in mouse
Alessandra Pross*, Ester Desfilis and Loreta Medina (Universitat de Lleida – IRBLleida).
9:45 Organization and development of the medial pallium in anurans
Sara Jiménez* and Nerea Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
10:00 Conservation of the cellular composition of the vertebrate phylotypic brain
Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo* and Fernando García-Moreno (Achucarro – Basque Center for Neuroscience).
10:15 Decline in constitutive proliferative activity in the shark and zebrafish retinas after sexual maturation
Ismael Hernández-Núñez*, Fátima Adrio, Antón Barreiro-Iglesias and Eva Candal (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela).
10:30 Is there a prechordal material and an acroterminal domain in amphioxus?
José Luis Ferrán* (Universidad de Murcia).
10:45 Morphogenetic organizers and prosomeric model
Salvador Martínez* (Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC).
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Conservation of the developmental formation of brain circuits
Fernando García-Moreno* (Achucarro – Basque Center for Neuroscience). Title:
11:45 Natural evolution of encephalic organization in lampreys
Manuel Pombal* (Universidad de Vigo).
12:00 The anuran diencephalon and the prosomeric model
Ruth Morona* (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
12:15 Lateral hypothalamus in the context of the prosomeric model
Carmen Díaz-Delgado* (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha en Albacete).
12:30 The prosencephalon of cartilaginous fishes and its divisions in the origin of jawed vertebrates
Isabel Rodríguez-Moldes* (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela).
12:45 Final remarks: past, present and future of the PRamón.
13:00 End
