We are addressing fundamental problems in Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, and Evolutionary Biology. We are particularly interested in:

 

  • How complex neural circuitry arises in development
  • How the activity of neuronal networks regulates animal behavior
  • How animal genomes, body plans and cell types evolved

In order to address these questions, we use several animal systems encompassing cnidarians, mollusks, fruit flies and nematodes, and a broad spectrum of experimental approaches. Our expertise ranges from genetics, cell- and developmental biology, and genomics to systems neuroscience. We are an interdisciplinary collaborative team of six groups. Click here to find out about their specific fields of research.

Department News

02.07.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is co-author in a new Communications Biology paper about the evolution of bobtail and bottletail squid

01.07.2021
 

Congratulations to Uli Technau for obtaining yet another FWF Grant!

29.06.2021
 

Genikhovich group has a new Nature Communications paper about the regulatory logic of the beta-catenin-dependent axial patterning

11.05.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is co-author in a new Nature Ecology and Evolution paper about the genome of Nautilus pompilius

07.05.2021
 

EMBL/EMBO Symposium Poster Prize for Alison Cole

01.04.2021
 

Congratulations to Ulrich Technau for obtaining an FWF Grant!