Fourth TIBBE Seminar of the Series
Topic: Comparative data databasing
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Time:
7 AM Seattle | 10 AM Baltimore/New York/Boston | 3 PM UK | 4 PM France/Sweden
Seminar on Theory in Brain Evolution Research:
How do we increase our comparative dataset and make it more transferable between different disciplines?
This seminar will host an outstanding neuroscientist who is interested in understanding fundamental mechanisms underlying animal behaviour, with a particular focus on the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of the insect central complex.
Speaker:
Stanley Heinze (Lund University, Sweden)
The insect brain database – a free online platform to facilitate our understanding of structure-function relations in insect nervous systems
Hosted by: Max Farnworth & Alexandra de Sousa
About TIBBE
This seminar is part of the launch of TIBBE – The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution network. TIBBE brings together researchers from across disciplines to explore brain evolution, exchange ideas, share tools and data, and discuss new findings.
→ Visit our website and JOIN the network:
https://tibbe-network.github.io
Watch our short intro video and get involved.
Register here to attend the seminar:
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/comparative-databasing
Please share the attached flier widely. We look forward to seeing you there!
TIBBE Team
Stephen H Montgomery, University of Bristol, UK
Alexandra A de Sousa, Allen Institute, USA
Roberto Toro, Institut Pasteur, France
Zegni Triki, Bern University, Switzerland
Maria Castello, IIBCE, Uruguay
Lucia Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Rogier Mars, University of Oxford & Radboud University, The Netherlands
Carmen Falcone, SISSA, Italy
Kristina Kverková, Charles University, Czech Republic