Principal Investigator | Postdocs | PhD students | Master's students | Interns | Collaborators | Alumni
Principal Investigator
Albrecht Haase
I am interested in fundamental processes underlying reception, information coding, processing, and learning. Being a physicist by formation, I am especially attracted by two aspects in these fields: exploring the overlap between neuroscience and physics, where functional processes can be tested regarding possible underlying fundamental mechanisms (e.g. proposed by quantum biology) and the application of experimental techniques which go beyond standard neuroscience approaches (nonlinear microscopy, all optical stimulation/readout). My team is formed by neuroscientists, biologists, engineers, and physicists that like to work in an interdisciplinary environment on a variety of questions to be tested in small brain models.
Postdocs
PhD students
Alan Oesterle
Having a background in ethology has instilled in me a deep curiosity about the cognitive processes of non-human animals and their true potential, if only they were given the opportunity to be fully tested. My main motivation is to help bridge the perceived gap that often separates the human mind from all other minds. After years of studying birds of prey, I began working with bees, and I continue to be fascinated on a daily basis by their remarkable abilities. Following an in-depth exploration of how cerebral lateralization affects their decision-making (foraging) and motor skills (flight times), I am now investigating how global warming may impact their cognitive and memory capacities. At the same time, I am exploring how the gut microbiota influences the brain functions of these essential pollinators.
Master's students
Master's students of all life and natural sciences are welcome to join the lab, some of the proposed projects can be found here and a list of past theses is here. Further project ideas are welcome.
Interns
Interns are welcome for projects of at least 6 months
Collaborators
Renzo Antolini - External consultant, former Head of the Biophysics and Biosignals Laboratory, Department of Physics
Uri Hasson - Information and Integration lab, CIMeC
Giorgio Vallortigara - Animal Brain Cognition lab, CIMeC
Graziano Guella - Bio-organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Physics
Sergio Angeli - Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Paolo Fontana, Valeria Malagnini - Beekeeping and apoidea, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Pergine (TN)
Gianfranco Anfora - Entomology and Agricultural zoology Lab, Centre Agriculture, Food, and Environment (C3A)
Martin Beye - Institute for Evolutionary Genetics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Julie Carcaud, Jean-Christophe Sandoz - Evolbee Research Team (Evolution, Genomes, Behavior and Ecology), Centre National de 'la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Paul Szyszka - Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Giovanni Galizia - Neurobiology group, University of Konstanz, Germany
Luca Turin - University of Buckingham, UK
Stefano Mancuso - International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, University of Firenze
Franco Faoro - Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, University of Milano
Donato Antonio Grasso - Myrmecology Lab, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma
Massimo Nepi - Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena
Riccardo Cabassi, Roberto Verucchi, Franca Albertini Albertini - CNR Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism
Ilia A. Solov'yov - Quantum Biology and Computational Physics Group, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Alumni
Claire Dumenil - Postdoc
now Postdoc at the University of Bolzano in the General and Applied Entomology group with Sergio Angeli
Florencia Scarano - Postdoc
Ettore Tiraboschi - Postdoc
Amelie Cabirol - Postdoc
now PI at the Center for Integrative Biology at the University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France
Marco Paoli - Postdoc
now Junior professor at the Center for Taste and Feeding Behaviour, CNRS, Dijon, France
Damiano Zanini - Postdoc
now Imaging scientist at the Multiscale ImmunoImaging Unit, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milano
Anna Eriksson - Postdoc
now at the Communication Group at Fondazione Mach Research and Innovation Centre
Elisa Rigosi - PhD student/ Postdoc
Brain-behavioural olfactory asymmetries in Apoidea. (2013)
now Researcher at the Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden, in the Functional zoology group
Virginia Belloni - Postdoc
Quentin Baudouin - Postdoc
Sebastian Moguilner - Postdoc
Luca Del Torre - PhD student
Mirko Zanon - PhD student
now Postdoc at CIMeC with Giorgio Vallortigara
Mara Andrione - PhD student
now Postdoc at IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria, with Manuel Zimmer
Neloy Kumar Chakroborty - Visiting scientist
now at Thapar School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, TIET, Patiala, Punjab
Matteo Franceschi - Master's student
Development of a new platform for automated insect conditioning experiments (2021)
Luana Leonardelli - Master's student from the University of Bologna
In vivo honeybee brain imaging to study the olfactory system’s role in the processing of mechanosensory information (2021)
Nicola Calliari - Master's student
Object segmentation and recognition techniques for synapse counting in 3D super-resolution imaging (2021)
Simone Monachino - Master's student
Fundamental mechanisms of sensory information processing: functional and effective connectivity of olfactory coding (2020)
Mukilan Deivarajan Suresh - Master's student
Olfactory modulation of defensive behaviour in honey bees (2020)
now PhD student at the University of Edinburgh
Gianluca Segata - Master's student
Tracking bee antenna motions to test brain lateralization (2020)
Sarah Chehaimi - Master's student
A quantitative analysis of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens' vibro-acoustic communication (2020)
Mohammadreza Soltanipour - Master's student from SISSA
Information theoretic measures of tactile decisions in the rat barrel cortex (2020)
Miriam Nodari - Master's student
Analysis of dynamics and connectivity in the olfactory system of the honey bee brain (2019)
Sara Bariselli - Master's student
A new genetic approach to perform calcium imaging in apis mellifera olfactorycenters (2019)
Anita Girelli
Protein interactions and cluster formation in presence of multivalent ions (2018)
Angela Albi - Master's student
Calcium imaging analysis of spatial and temporal coding of odorants in the honeybee brain (2016)
now PhD student at the International Max Planck Research Schools for Organismal Biology in Konstanz, Germany, with Iain Couzin
Paolo Guerra - Master's student
Development of an all-optical setup for optogenetics experiments (2016)
Ben Timberlake - Master's student
Non-associative learning in the honeybee: effects of odor exposure on antennal lobe anatomy and function (2015)
Marco Zanoli - Master's student
Two-photon lifetime imaging system based on high frame-rate SPAD array (2015)
Martina Puppi - Master's student
Effects of imidacloprid insecticide on the learning and memory of the honeybee: a behavioural study (2015)
Zahid Safraz - Master's student
A SPAD-based sensor for spectrally resolved life time-detection imaging in two-photon microscopy (2014)
Giulia Zanini - Master's student
Towards optical biopsy of human skin lesions: a two-photon microscopy feasibility study. (2014)
now Postdoc at the University of Maryland
Cristina Traversa - Master's student
Design and construction of the odor-revolver: computer controlled olfactometer for experiments with bees (2014)
Anna Archetti - Master's student
A SPAD-based sensor for flim and spectroscopy of human skin (2013)
now MSCA fellow at the University of Padova, with Marco Dal Maschio