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.
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!
MSc student
nina schwarz
Locust olfaction: linking starvation and social behaviour and a graphic designer
MSc student
HANNES KÜBLER
Locust behaviour and 2 photon functional imaging
MSc student
elvira mamonova
Locust neuroscience, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for activity mapping
Alumni
YAnnick Günzel
PhD Alumni: Neural basis of collective decisions. Current: Postdoc, Rockefeller (Kronauer Lab)
INGA petelski
PhD Alumni: Olfactory processing and sensory integration in the desert locust.
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. 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
Thule laabs
MSc student, Nutritional state and social behaviour
ROBIN WAGNER
MSc student: olfactory behaviour
