Max Widmann
Master Student
M1125
Bio#
As a little boy, I wanted to become a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs (who doesn’t). But when I first heard and saw about zebrafish neuroscience and watched their brain compute live under the microscope, I became fascinated by it. Why care about long-dead lizards when you can watch live fish brains? I am interested in finding out all there is about the neurons that make up this brain:
- What is their anatomy?
- How do they react to visual stimuli?
- What is their molecular makeup?
- And what is their role in the neural circuitry leading to the behavior of the animal?
Leveraging the new methods, I plan to answer all of these questions for single cells and, through this, find out more about the whole brain
Projects#
Methods#
Thesis#
Title
Molecular and Functional Profiling of Motion-sensitive Neurons in the Zebrafish Hindbrain
Type
Master’s thesis
Period
2026/02–2026/08
Summary
Short summary of the thesis
CV#
Education
2024–2026
MSc. Life Science, University of Konstanz
2018–2023
BSc. Molecular Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Publications#
2025
- Musella L., Castro A. A., Lai X., Widmann M., Vera J. (2025) ENQUIRE automatically reconstructs, expands, and drives enrichment analysis of gene and Mesh co-occurrence networks from context-specific biomedical literature. PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012745