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Assistant Professors and Junior Research Groups
PD Dr. Annette Aichem
Department of Biology
Contact
Phone: +41 71 6785034Website Write an e-mail
Responsibilities
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- ubiquitin-like protein FAT10
PD Dr. Sascha Beneke
Assistant Professor for Toxicology and Cell Biology
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-3172Room: M 1055
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Toxicology and Cell Biology
- stress-signaling
- chromatin regulation and aging
with focus on posttranslational modification of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation
Einat Couzin Ph.D.
Group Leader for Behavioural Neurobiology
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-2100Room: M 1125
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Behavioural Neurobiology
- sensory perception, decision making and locomotion in insects
- active smelling: the use of motion to facilitate olfaction
- the neural basis of adaptive locomotion in insects
PD Dr. Dina Dechmann
Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute of Animal Behaviour
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Ephemeral resource adaptation
- Evolutionary ecology
- Ecophysiology
- Brain size evolution
Dr. Ahmed El Hady
Group Leader for Integrative Biophysics
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-4742Room: Z 907
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Foraging across biological systems, from cells to organisms
- Mechanistic Integrative Theory of foraging
- Collective (neuro)economics
- Global brain-behaviour dynamics
- Biophysics of excitability
PD Dr. Dietmar Funck
Assistant Professor for Biopolymer Chemistry
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-4142Room: L 947
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Biopolymer Chemistry
- Enzymes and pathways for guanidino compound metabolism in plants and bacteria
PD Dr. Michael Griesser
Heisenberg Fellow for Evolution of Sociality and Cooperation
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-4947Room: Z 805
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Evolution of sociality and cooperation
- social evolution
- family living
- mechanisms of cooperation
- comparative studies
- model system: Siberian Jay
Dr. Julia Gutjahr
Group Leader at the Biotechnology Institute Thurgau
Contact
Phone: +41 71 678-5027Website Write an e-mail
Responsibilities
Hematology and Immunology
- Erythropoiesis
- Chemokines and Chemokine receptors
- Bone marrow microenvironment
Dr. Alex Jordan
Group Leader for Comparative Evolution of Social Behaviour
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-4928Room: Bücklestraße 5
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Comparative Evolution of Social Behaviour
- social evolution
- animal behaviour
- behavioural ecology
- Tanganyikan cichlids and marine fish
- automated tracking of behaviour and 3D reconstruction of environments
Dr. Fumihiro Kano
Group leader for comparative social cognition
Contact
Room: ZT 924
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evolutionary origin of social intelligence
- study of animal social cognition in naturalistic situations
- develop non-invasive methods for studying (fine-scale) behaviors that have previously gone undetected
- advance new theoretical frameworks that can assimilate our understanding of animal cognition shared with, and unique to, humans
- personal website
Dr. Gisela Kopp
Research Fellow at the "Zukunftskolleg"
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-4790Room: Y 216
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Sociality and Evolution
- behavioural ecology
- animal social systems
- influence of behavioural traits on population genetic structure
- diversification and speciation
Morgane Nouvian Ph.D.
Research Fellow at the "Zukunftskolleg"
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88 2115Room: M 1108
Post office box: 624
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Neurobiology and Collective Behaviour
- Individual brains, collective task: social regulation of stinging behavior in honeybees.
Dr. Jérémie Rossy
Group Leader at the BITg
Contact
Phone: +41 71 678 5020Website Write an e-mail
Responsibilities
Endosomal networks in immunology
- Membrane organisation
- Intracellular trafficking
- T cell migration and activation
- Cell signalling
- Fluorescence microscopy
PD Dr. Christina Schlatterer
Department of Biology
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-5464Room: ML 728
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Molecular Microbiology
PD Dr. Gunter Schmidtke
Assistant Professor for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-2157Room: P 1111
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PD Dr. Dietmar Straile
Assistant Professor for Food Web and Population Ecology
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-2969Room: U 222
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Food Web and Population Ecology
- climate change ecology
- models and statistical analysis of population dynamics
- life history strategies
- ecology of Lake Constance
Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin Ph.D.
Group Leader in Animal Social Networks
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-3546Room: M 1106
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Animal Social Networks
- Communication and collective behavior of animal groups
Dr. Katrin Vogt
Group Leader for Behavioral Neurogenetics
Contact
Phone: +49 7531 88-2264Room: M 1120a
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Behavioral Neurogenetics
- Neuromodulation
- Multisensory integration
- Neural circuit dissection