Comparative Physiological and Biochemical Interoception

Comparative Physiological and Biochemical Interoception

• Organizers
  Masashi Tabuchi (Case Western Reserve University)
  Yoshinori Suzuki（Nagoya City University）

• Aim
  Interoception is an endoreceptive process that monitors the internal state of the body and controls the internal drive to achieve homeostasis. Interoceptive neural processing serves not only as an important mechanism to promote adaptive responses through brain and interorgan communication but also plays a critical role in the higher-order functions of brain computation, providing motivational internal drives and regulating autonomic, cognitive, and behavioral functions. This symposium aims to provide an overview of current interoceptive neural information processing, especially from the perspective of comparative physiology and biochemistry, and to shape a place for knowledge synthesis from the unique perspective of comparative interoceptive neural information processing.

• Speakers & Titles
  • Akane Ohta (Konan University)
                 The interplay of multi-organ coordination in temperature acclimatization of Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Ryo Hoshino (University of Tsukuba)
                  A neuronal system for seminal fluid replenishment in mated male Drosophila
  • Manami Oya (Nagoya University)
                   Middle-aged obesity is caused by age-related shortening of rat neuronal primary cilia
  • Masashi Tabuchi (Case Western Reserve University)
                   Metaplastic neuronal state transition regulates species-specific interoceptive processing in Drosophila
• Language : The session presentations will be given in English, while the Q&A session will be based on both Japanese and English.