The Karger Workshop is a one-day symposium on a specific topic in comparative or evolutionary neurobiology, organized by one or more members of the J. B. Johnston Club and sponsored by S. Karger AG. The Karger Workshop will be held at the University Center in Chicago IL, on Thursday, October 17th, 2019. The Karger Workshop will precede the regular annual meeting of the JBJC, which will be held on Friday, October 18th.

The 31st Karger Workshop in Evolutionary Neuroscience will be "Evolution of natural and drug-sensitive reward in addiction", organized by Robert Huber.
Moira van Staaden: "Introduction - The Deep Phylogenetic Roots of Addiction"

Special Invited Guest:  Marc Lewis: "Craving, not Chemistry: The Human Face of Addiction"

Rick Born: "Illusions, Delusions and your Backward, Bayesian Brain"

Scott Hall: "The streetlight effect: Implications for understanding the mechanisms underlying addiction"

Randall Petersen: "Zebrafish models of opioid self administration"

Karla Kaun: "How Alcohol Influences Memory Circuits to Induce Cravings"

Rhanor Gillett: "The Neuronal Circuitry of Foraging in the Predatory Sea-Slug Pleurobranchaea, and the Origin of Addiction"

Lucia Carvelli: "Long-term effects and transgenerational inheritance of amphetamine exposure in C. elegans"

Daniel Jacobson: "Digging Deeper:  Tackling the Complexity of Genetics for Opioids Addiction in Human and Model Organism Populations"