Einat Couzin-Fuchs
Principal investigator
Insect sensory ecology, sensorimotor integration and neural basis of decision making.
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Sercan Sayin
CASCB Independent Postdoc
Insect neuroscience and VR - studying the behavioural, neural and molecular basis of collective marching and gregarious locust behaviour.
Daniele Carlesso
Postdoc - Humboldt fellow
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
Claire Wong
PhD student
Behavioural plasticity, variation and neurobiology, focusing on individual and population-level traits across phenotypic states.
Juan Vazquez
PhD student - DAAD Scholar
Environmental drivers of locust swarming and collective behaviour, linking ecological context to molecular processes underlying swarming.
Nina Schwarz
MSc student
Locust olfaction: linking starvation and social behaviour and a graphic designer
Elvira Mamonova
MSc student
Locust neuroscience, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for activity mapping.
