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CogEvo 2023

Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution 

July 6 - 7, 2023 

Palazzo Piomarta
Corso Bettini, 84 - Rovereto (TN) – Italy

 opera Fortunato Depero

Image created with Midjourney by Matilde Perrino

 

The goal of CogEvo 2023 is to provide a unique forum for researchers interested in cognition, neuroscience and evolution, to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations.

This year the main topic will be unconventional animal models in brain and cognitive studies.

The workshop, organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences distinguishes itself from larger conferences by hosting a small number of speakers (all invited) with no concurrent talks.

In addition to the talks, there will be a poster session for young researchers to present their work.

Invited Speakers

  • Aurore Avarguès-Weber – Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
  • Mercedes Bengochea – Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
  • Paul Manger – School of Anatomical Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Niels Rattenborg – Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen, Germany
  • Ronen Segev – Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
  • Nachum Ulanovsky – Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Programme

The workshop, organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences will start on Thursday (July 6) at 9 am, and end on Friday (July 7) at 6 pm.

There will be a Social Dinner (optional) on the evening of Thursday, July 6th.

All sessions (including registration) will be held at Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini, 84 - Rovereto, Italy. Talks will be 45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions following each talk.

Preliminary Program

Day 1, Wednesday, July 5 th

17.30: Sen.ce Elena CattaneoL’avventura della conoscenza

Further information on this event that will be held in Italian.

Day 2, Thursday, July 6 th

Morning session
8.30: Registration
9.15: Introduction to the Workshop from the Organizing Committee 
9.30: Mercedes BengocheaBehavioral and neural basis of numerical discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster
10.30: coffee break
11.30: Niels RattenborgA bird's-eye view of sleep
Afternoon session
15.00: Nachum UlanovskyNeural codes for natural behaviors in the hippocampus of flying bats
19.30: Social Dinner

Day 3, Friday, July 7 th

Morning session
9.30: Ronen SegevWhat can fish teach us about the brain?
10.30: Poster session and coffee break
11.30: Aurore Avargues-WeberMastering concept learning: a honeybee perspective
Afternoon session
14.30: Paul MangerCan a neuroanatomist contribute to solving humanity’s self-induced existential crisis?
15.30: Poster session
17.00: Closing remarks

Important deadlines

  • Submissions for poster presentations has been postponed to June 20th, 2023.
  • Workshop registration due June 20th, 2023

Scientific organizers

  • Maria Bortot, University of Trento, Italy
  • Elisa Frasnelli, University of Trento, Italy
  • Elena Lorenzi, University of Trento, Italy
  • Matilde Perrino, University of Trento, Italy
  • Lucia Regolin, University of Padua, Italy
  • Valeria Anna Sovrano, University of Trento, Italy
  • Giorgio Vallortigara, University of Trento, Italy

Abstract submission and workshop registration

Registration to the workshop is mandatory for all participants, poster presenters too.
If you also like to submit an abstract to participate in the poster session, please, first make your registration by "Registration form" button and then submit an abstract by "Call for abstract for poster session" button.
In order to submit the registration successfully and to ensure participation in this event, all sections of the registration form must be completed.

Fees

  • External Students (Master Students, Bachelor Students): free
  • External PhD: 50 euro
  • External Postdoc: 90 euro
  • External Faculty: 130 euro
  • UniTrento students (Master Students, Bachelor Students): free
  • PhD UniTrento: 30 euro
  • Postdoc UniTrento: 50 euro
  • Faculty UniTrento: 100 euro

Social dinner (45 euro per person) is not included in the registration fee.

Registrations are closed.

Fees cannot be refunded.


Poster Session

Abstracts (maximum of 250 words) should briefly state the background of the research, the methods used, the principal findings (no statistics), and the theoretical significance of the work. Please do not cite references in the abstracts. Each author can appear as first author on one poster only.

In order to present the poster at the workshop, every poster presenter will be provided with a freestanding bulletin board, approximately 125 cm high and 95 cm wide, to hang the poster. Each presenter should make sure that the poster does not exceed these dimensions.

The programme of the poster session will be available as soon as defined.


Abstract Award Winners

Five 200 Euro awards will be granted at the workshop, on the basis of the submitted abstracts. The award is meant to be a travel grant to participate in the workshop. Only non-faculty first authored posters are eligible for the awards. The organizing committee will jointly decide the winning posters and will send emails with decisions to the winners.

Before sending your abstract by the form below, please remember to do your enrollment in CogEvo workshop by the registration form in the previous section.

Accommodation

The workshop venue is Rovereto.

We advise participants to contact the chosen accommodation directly to make a reservation. Booking details should include as reference “CogEvo Workshop 2023- University of Trento”, surname, length of stay and credit card details. Please, contact the accommodation directly if there are any cancellations or changes to the reservation.

Due to the holiday season, we suggest booking your accommodation as soon as possible.

List of Accommodations in Rovereto with reserved rooms

Rooms at these Hotels in Rovereto have been reserved for workshop participants for the nights of the 5, 6, 7 of July 2023.

  • Hotel Rovereto (walking distance from the conference venue): rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until May 19, 2023
  • Hotel Leon D'Oro (walking distance from the conference venue): rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until May 31, 2023
  • Hotel Mercure Nerocubo Rovereto (car or taxi needed to reach the conference venue): rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until May 15, 2023
  • Ostello di Rovereto (walking distance from the conference venue): rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until May 8, 2023

List and fees of Accommodations 

Other accommodations in Rovereto

To have further information about other accommodations in Rovereto, please, go to the accommodation page of the “Azienda per il turismo di Rovereto e Vallagarina”.

Venue

The workshop, organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento, will take place at Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini 84 - Rovereto (TN), Italy.

 

How to reach Rovereto


By car
A22 Brennero Motorway, exit Ala-Avio, exit Rovereto sud/Lago di Garda nord and exit Rovereto nord. Create your own route with http://www.google.com/maps/ or www.viamichelin.com

By train
Rovereto Railway Station, on the Bologna-Brennero line. For timetables check the Trenitalia website

By plane
Rovereto is about 100 km from Verona airport (Valerio Catullo), 200 Km from Venice airport (Marco Polo), 215 Km from Milano-Linate airport, 170 km from Milano Bergamo airport, 203 from Bologna airport and 245 km from Milano Malpensa airport.

 

Moving around by bus


You can use buses to move around the city or to reach nearby places. For further information about routes, timetables and connections, check the Trentino Trasporti website and on the map (JPG | 114 KB).

 

Taxi service in Rovereto


At the Railway Station – Piazzale Orsi n. 9, Ph. 0464 421365

 

Useful links


 

About Rovereto


Set amid hills and vineyards, Rovereto is in the center of Valle dell’Adige, along the main road linking Trento and Verona.

We advise you to explore the city on foot, the streets of the city center are like a journey through different time periods:

  • the Middle Ages in the walls of Castelbarco
  • the dominion of the Republic of Venice in the home of the Podestà
  • the Eighteenth Century in the palazzi of Corso Bettini
  • the First World War in the rooms of the castle

Along the city streets, you can see the most important and prestigious Eighteenth century palazzi, from Accademia degli Agiati, to Teatro Zandonai, to the city library in palazzo Annona.

Many illustrous guests have visited the city. Perhaps the most famous is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who held his first concert in Italy in the church of San Marco.

In Rovereto you can visit museums of art, history and science such as Mart, Depero’s House of Futurist Art, the Italian War Museum and the City Museum Foundation.

Rovereto is also a City of Peace, as evidenced by the large memorial bell Campana dei Caduti. Cast using bronze of the cannons of the nations that took part in WWI, each evening its 100 tolls spread a universal message of peace.

Map of Rovereto with the main places of interest for CAOs 2023 attendees is available.

Contacts

Elena Lorenzi: elena.lorenzi@unitn.it

Events Office
University of Trento
Corso Bettini, 84 - Rovereto (Trento)
eventi-rovereto@unitn.it