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

11.01.2019
 

PNAS paper for Oleg Simakov, Hannah Schmidbaur and co-authors!

13.11.2018
 

Prof. Technau part of an article in the Kronenzeitung

08.10.2018
 

Uni:docs fellowship for Luohao Xu!

07.05.2018
 

Ekaterina Pukhlyakova published a paper in PNAS about β-catenin mechanotransduction

30.04.2018
 

Rohit Dnyansagar wrote a paper about cnidarian relationships across the Atlantic

24.04.2018
 

Stefan Jahnel defended his PhD thesis