Paul Szyszka (Group leader)
2019: Lecturer in Neuroethology, University of Otago, New Zealand
2012: Visiting Researcher, Arizona State University - Lab of Brian Smith
2006 - 2018: Postdoc/Group leader, University of Konstanz - Lab of Giovanni Galizia
2005: PhD, Neuroscience, Free University of Berlin - Lab of Randolf Menzel
paul@szyszkalab.com
I am looking for master students and PhD students!
Projects with bees, wasps and fruit flies available.
Please contact me if you are interested.
Alja Lüdke
Physiology of short term odor memories in Drosophila (2011)
now in Giovanni Galizia’s group
Aarti Sehdev
Odour-background segregation and source localisation using fast olfactory processing
now at Yale University
Yunusa Mohammed
Odor source separation and olfactory learning in Drosophila
Kristina Dylla
Physiology of trace memories in fruit flies (2016)
now at Caltech
Jacob Stierle
Mixture processing and odor-object segregation in the insect olfactory system (2013)
now at MaxCine
Fabian Hersperger
The effect of adaptation on the response dynamics and temporal resolution of olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila melanogaster - An electrophysiology study (2016)
now at University Freiburg Medical Centre
Hendrik Hartmann
Behavioral and molecular analysis of trace and delay conditioning and the effect of training intensity in honey bees (2014)
now at MPI Leipzig
Jacob Stierle
Optophysiological analysis of projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the honeybee (2007)
now at MaxCine
Cansu Tafrali
Social influences on associative odor-food learning in Drosophila melanogaster (2018)
Ole Lessmann
Temporal resolution of CO2-transduction in Drosophila, revealed by electrophysiological recordings (2016)
Sabrina Henke
The effect of sweetness and nutritiousness on reward learning in honey bees (2016)
Doreen Taube
The effect of temporal stimulus structure on mixture interactions in Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons (2016)
now at ETH Zürich
Alexander Egea-Weiss
Sub-millisecond temporal precision of olfactory receptor neuron responses revealed by electrophysiological double recordings in Drosophila) (2016)
now at University College London
Kym Ahrens
The role of nutritional value and sweetness in odor-reward learning in honey bees (2015)
David Sailer
Characterizing trace and delay conditioning in the honey bee using behavioural studies and pharmacology (2014)
Alpha Renner
Speed and temporal resolution of olfactory reception in Drosophila melanogaster measured by single sensillum recordings (2013)
Oliver Kühn
A new imaging based approach to analyse internal states and learning performance of individual honey bees (2013)
Florian Kaiser
A new approach to measure behavior and brain activity in single flies during olfactory conditioning (2011)
Julia Bauer
A new behavioral assay to study aversive memory formation in harnessed fruit flies (2010)
Martin Rüssler
Processing of stimulus dynamics in the olfactory system of the honey bee (2009)
Mariann Oemisch
Behavioral characterization of classical trace conditioning and memory formation in honey bees (2009)
now at Yale School of Medicine
Stephanie Biergans
The role of GABAb in the processing of perfect and imperfect odor mixtures (2009)
now at University of Toronto
Judith Sorge
Analysis of single projection neuron responses in the honey bee antennal lobe (2008)
Ludwig Sommer
The time course of olfactory working memory in honey bees (Apis mellifera) (2008)
Jenny Plath
Delayed matching-to-sample memory in harnessed honey bees (2008)
Benjamin Birnbach
The olfactory working memory in the honey bee antennal lobe: an imaging study (2008)
Lena Blocher
The perception of temporally structured odor mixtures by honey bees and humans (2007)