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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

Nina Schwarz

MSc student
Locust olfaction: linking starvation and social behaviour and a graphic designer

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.

Elvira Mamonova

MSc student
Locust neuroscience, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for activity mapping.

Zoe Wild

MSc student
Locust social behaviour and solitarious colony maintenance

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