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Assistant Professors and Junior Research Groups

PD Dr. Annette Aichem

Assisstant Professor for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the BITG

Contact

Phone: +41 71 6785034
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Responsibilities

Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology Thurgau (BITG)

Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

  • ubiquitin-like protein FAT10

PD Dr. Sascha Beneke

Assistant Professor for Toxicology and Cell Biology

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-3172

Room: M 1055

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Responsibilities

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 88-2100

Room: M 1125

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Responsibilities

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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Responsibilities

Ephemeral resource adaptation

  • Evolutionary ecology
  • Ecophysiology
  • Brain size evolution

Dr. Ahmed El Hady

Group Leader for Integrative Biophysics

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-4742

Room: Z 907

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Responsibilities

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  88-4142

Room: L 947

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Responsibilities

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  88-4947

Room: Z 805

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Responsibilities

Evolution of sociality and cooperation

  • social evolution
  • family living
  • mechanisms of cooperation
  • comparative studies
  • model system: Siberian Jay

Dr. Julia Gutjahr

Group Leader for Hematogoly and Immunology at the BITG

Contact

Phone: +41 71 678-5027
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Responsibilities

Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology Thurgau (BITG)

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  88-4928

Room: Bücklestraße 5

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Responsibilities

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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Responsibilities

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 88-4790

Room: Y 216

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Responsibilities

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 2115

Room: M 1108

Post office box: 624

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Responsibilities

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 5020

Room:

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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  88-5464

Room: ML 728

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Responsibilities

Molecular Microbiology

PD Dr. Gunter Schmidtke

Assistant Professor for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-2157

Room: P 1111

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Responsibilities

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

PD Dr. Dietmar Straile

Assistant Professor for Food Web and Population Ecology

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-2969

Room: U 222

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Responsibilities

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 88-3546

Room: M 1106

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Responsibilities

 Animal Social Networks

  • Communication and collective behavior of animal groups

 

Dr. Katrin Vogt

Group Leader for Behavioral Neurogenetics

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-2264

Room: M 1120a

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Responsibilities

Behavioral Neurogenetics

  • Neuromodulation
  • Multisensory integration
  • Neural circuit dissection