Teaching

Basic Skills for Biology introduces fundamental biological concepts and practical laboratory skills through the comparative study of cells, tissues, and organisms.

This lecture series introduces the diversity of animals by exploring body plans, phylogeny, and taxonomy, and shows how comparisons of morphology, physiology, genetics, and ecology across selected groups reveal evolutionary relationships and key transitions in the animal kingdom.

This course explores how animal organs and tissues are adapted to function, combining comparative morphology with hands-on training in microscopy, histology, dissection, and basic data analysis.

Animal Physiology is an undergraduate course that introduces the functional principles underlying animal life, with a particular emphasis on how nervous systems support perception, sensory processing, and behavior.

Methods in Biology is a master-level course that provides an interdisciplinary overview of contemporary approaches in biological research.

This research-oriented master’s course introduces students to the neural basis of animal behavior across diverse model systems. Students gain hands-on experience with modern experimental and analytical methods.

This course introduces students to the quantitative analysis of collective animal behavior in both laboratory and field settings. It combines key concepts such as automated tracking, social interactions, information flow, and collective dynamics with hands-on work in simulation, virtual reality, and data analysis, culminating in the development of novel research projects.

In this course, we discuss recent literature covering the broader insect ecology and sensory neuroscience field.

This course discusses recent literature in systems neuroscience, with a focus on but not limited to zebrafish. Students critically evaluate current papers, place them in a broader context, and relate published findings to ongoing research in Konstanz.

The neurobiology groups meet weekly to discuss recent progress, new ideas, and ongoing research. Talks are aimed at a broad neuroscience audience.