News
April 2020 Foosball in Dunedin
We are very happy to announce that soon there will be a place for foosball in Dunedin: The Unipol.
We owe this Dunedin-Foosball-Project to Marcus Schulz, vice president of the German Table Soccer Federation (DTFB) and foosball super-spreader, to Christian Fiedler, managing director of the foosball table company Leonhart, who sponsors professional foosball tables (leo-pro tournament) for this project, and to the Unipol team, which offers the space to set up tables!
We expect the foosball tables to be set up in July 2020. You are welcome to use them free of charge, and we will provide free coaching once or twice a week. I will post updates on https://www.foosball-dunedin.org.
April 2020 What the Kiwi of the insect world - the New Zealand stonefly - can teach us about the evolution of olfaction
Adaptive evolution of olfactory degeneration in recently flightless insects
Neupert S, McCulloch AG, Foster JB, Waters MJ, Szyszka P
- Flight poses a selective pressure for fast olfaction.
- Flightless stonefly lineages rapidly lose olfactory acuity (within 15,000 years).
- Evolution of olfactory degradation occurs in genetically independent lineages.
March 2020 Arrival of two photoionisation detectors funded by an University of Otago Research Grant
Two photoionisation detectors (miniPID B, Aurora) to measure olfactory stimulus dynamics with millisecond precision.
February 2020 Interview about brain waves in honey bees
February 2020 New Paper about brain waves in honey bees with Tzvetan Popov
Alpha oscillations govern interhemispheric spike timing coordination in the honey bee brain
Popov T, Szyszka P
February 2020 Air compressor for operating olfactory stimulators arrived
November 2019 Honey bee hive arrived
June 2019 Foosball table arrived
September 2018 Moving to New Zealand
I am looking forward to becoming a Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Otago in February 2019.