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
