Meet the Team
Principal investigator
EINAT COUZIN-FUCHS
Insect sensory ecology, sensorimotor integration and neural basis of decision making.
CASCB Independent postdoc
SERCAN SAYIN
Insect neuroscience and VR - studying the behavioural, neural and molecular basis of collective marching and gregarious locust behaviour.
PhD student
YANNICK GÜNZEL
Locusts neuroscience and decision making models. Combining neural recordings with automated behavioural assays to study decision making in neurons, individual animals and groups
Postdoc - Humboldt fellow
DANIELE CARLESSO
Mechanisms of swarm initiation in marching locusts. I combine classic behavioural assays with VR to investigate how solitary individuals become gregarious and initiate swarming. Website: danielecarlesso.com
PhD student (with Ahmed El Hadi)
MADdy NARISETTY
Spatial foraging and social phenotypes in locusts and RATS!
Alumni
ALINA HEBLING
BSc student: Intracellular ephys
Now PhD Student at UCSF
SUSANNE KRAUS
BSc student: AL calcium imaging. Now MSc student, Uni KN
YVONNE HERTENBERGER
MSc student immuno histochemistry and neural labelling. Now lab technician at CASCB
LAURA SCHRÖDER
MSc stduent: locust phase polymorphism
ANTOINE HOFFMANN
PhD student: active sensing, statistics, climbing and advanced odour delivery systems
ROBIN WAGNER
MSc student: olfactory behaviour