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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.
albrecht.haase [at] unitn.it
Postdocs
Florencia Scarano
I am interested in perception, in how neural circuits process sensory information and govern behaviours. I like to study how behaviours are shaped by ecological and evolutionary factors, and how stimuli in the environment affect sensory capabilities and neural circuits of different animals. In my previous research, I did behavioural experiments, electrophysiological intracellular recordings and morphological reconstruction of neurons in order to study visual processing of movements in crabs. Currently, I am studying ant-plant interactions. By using optical neuro-imaging methods I study the influence of plant-derived neuroactive chemicals on the olfactory pathway in the ant’s brain.
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Claire Duménil
I am a biologist working towards developing sustainable and environmentally friendly methods to protect crops and people from pest insects. My research interests are broad but currently revolve around understanding species interactions, notably how insects perceive their environment. I like to explore how the insect brain processes complex odours and enables insects to locate food and mates while avoiding danger. During my PhD I specialised in electrophysiology, namely single sensillum recording to study how the olfactory system encodes complex fruit odours in the Spotted Wing Drosophila. I now pursue the study using the latest optical and genetics tools and further explore how the system behaves under external pressure such as pesticides.
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PhD students
Alan Oesterle
alansven.oesterle [at] unitn.it
Master's students
Heather Nicole Strelevitz
heather.strelevitz [at] studenti.unitn.it
Interns
are welcome for projects of at least 6 months
Federico Antonio Giacomazzi (University of Verona)
federicoantonio.giacomazzi [at] studenti.univr.it
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 Cognition and Neuroscience Laboratory, 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 - Plant protection and biodiversity in agriculture or forestry unit, Fond. E. Mach, Pergine (TN)
Gianfranco Anfora - Centre Agriculture, Food, and Environment (C3A) and Chemical Ecology research group, Fond. E. Mach, S. Michele all'Adige (TN)
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
Ettore Tiraboschi - Postdoc
Amelie Cabirol - Postdoc
now Postdoc at the University of Lausanne in the Department of Fundamental Microbiology with Philipp Engel
Marco Paoli - Postdoc
now MSCA Fellow at CRCA/CNRS Toulouse
Damiano Zanini - Postdoc
now Postdoc at the University of Würzburg, Institute of Neurobiology and Genetics, in the group of Charlotte Förster
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)
PhD from University of Groningen, Netherlands, in the Molecular Systems Biology group of Matthias Heinemann (2021)
Ben Timberlake - Master's student
Non-associative learning in the honeybee: effects of odor exposure on antennal lobe anatomy and function (2015)
now Postdoc at CIMeC with Katya Tentori
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