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)

now University of Zürich

 

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)