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!
PhD student
CLaire Wong
Behavioural plasticity, variation and neurobiology, focusing on individual and population-level traits across phenotypic states
PhD student
juan vazquez
Environmental drivers of locust collective behaviour, linking ecological context to molecular processes underlying swarming.
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
