@BeetzJerome

Neuroethologist | Electrophysiologist | spatial orientation | @NSB_MBL alumni | Research fellow @Uni_WUE

 Würzburg, Germany
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Joined August 2021
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Let me introduce our new lab homepage. spatial-navigation.com We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025. Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. #neuroethology #neuroscience
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Mantises use their 3D vision to hunt, but which target do they choose if more than one tasty treat shows up? Recently, Robert &co showed that mantises might use cues to choose their target, but cues can also distract them if the contrast is high enough journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
A female African praying mantis standing on a branch. Photo credit: Hugo Le Lay.

ALT A female African praying mantis standing on a branch. Photo credit: Hugo Le Lay.

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Beautiful comparative study on the visual system of stingless australian bees. Featuring eye morphology & electroretinograms link.springer.com/article/10… @YuriOgawa13

Visual physiology of Australian stingless bees

Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Stingless bees engage in a range of visually guided behaviours that require relatively high spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity. Although the eyes of...

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Today, I signed my first contract as a principal investigator. My Emmy-Noether group can now officially start on 1st of May. If someone is interested working with me on the spatial memory of 🐝 as a PhD student or postdoc, contact me. More details: spatial-navigation.com
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And now its published as a version of record in Elife. In @elife: Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104764…
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🎙️ New episode is live! We had the absolute pleasure of speaking with @MarieDacke @LundVision about dung beetles navigating by the Milky Way, her journey in sensory biology, and the importance of science outreach. open.spotify.com/episode/0S1… #NeuroVoyagers #Podcast #Neuroscience
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Great issue of Hippocampus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… With personal account reviews of scientific discovery by K. Jeffery, L. Nadel, B. Mcnaughton, J. Taube, T. Lomo, T. Bliss, M. Hasselmo, D. Redish, R Morris, and many more (char limit)

Hippocampus: Vol 35, No 1

Hippocampus is an international neuroscience journal exploring the hippocampal formation and its interactions with other brain regions.

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With 12 photoreceptor classes, mantis shrimps have highly complex eyes. A study from Justin Marshall's lab shows behavioral evidence for color opponency, shedding light on visual processing in these eyes. journals.biologists.com/jeb/… @J_Exp_Biol Photo credit: Roy Caldwell
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I am so excited to share the incredible news that I have received funding from the DFG to start my Emmy-Noether group in Würzburg next year to study the neural mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance including their spatial memory. #Neuroethology
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Without the support of my former PIs, Uwe Homberg, Manfred Kössl, Basil el Jundi & Keram Pfeiffer, but also all my colleagues, including @Talking_Bat & Wolfgang Rössler, this would not have been possible. I am so lucky to have so many supporters 🙂
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Pls retweet! Just five more days to apply for this cool (admittedly, I'm biased) and fully-funded #PhD project in our lab! #jobalert ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk
Oliver Barnstedt@obarnstedt2 Dec 2024
Have you ever wondered how memories are processed downstream of the #hippocampus and how this is affected by #Alzheimer's? We believe we may find some answers by riding all the way down the fornix to the mammillary body. Apply here for a #PhD with us: ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk
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For the #neuroscientists who are still here: a new paper from the lab just got published and its open access for 6 months only... Functional Differentiation along the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Avian Hippocampal Formation karger.com/bbe/article/doi/1…

Functional Differentiation along the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Avian Hippocampal Formation

Abstract. Introduction: Different functional domains can be identified along the longitudinal axis of the mammalian hippocampus. We have recently hypothesized that a similar functional gradient may...

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If anyone wants to follow me at 🦋 bsky.app/profile/beetzjerome…
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When we enter a new environment, we use visual input to rapidly build an internal model of the local spatial environment. How does our brain do this? We review past literature and suggest some new ways forward in our new review in @CurrentBiology: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Interested in understanding how the brain makes decisions? Come and do a PhD with us! MIBTP @BBSRC funded #PhD opportunity. Please, get in touch with questions. findaphd.com/phds/project/ho…
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Migration is a marathon – not a sprint – for hoverflies 🪰 Migratory hoverflies fly further – but not faster – than their non-migratory relatives, new research shows. 💻 Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Photo credits: Will Hawkes #Migration #Hoverflies #Hoverfly
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Navigation: Building a cognitive map through self-motion. elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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RT please: Interested in doing a fully funded PhD in Germany working on tick neurobiology? Great opportunity in the lab of my former postdoc Carola Staedele. @neuroethology @Neuroethology_9 @ISUResearch @NSB_MBL
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Lars Chittka@LChittka27 Nov 2024
New paper out in Animal Cognition: bumblebee social learning, Lego, and DeepLabCut 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10…

Bumblebee social learning outcomes correlate with their flower-facing behaviour

Animal Cognition - Previous studies suggest that social learning in bumblebees can occur through second-order conditioning, with conspecifics functioning as first-order reinforcers. However, the...

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Read the full research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/…

Freezing of movements and its correspondence with MLG1 neuron response to looming stimuli in the...

Highlighted Article: The neural control of motion freezing is poorly understood. When confronted with looming stimuli, the crab Neohelice granulata freezes as the stimulus increases by 1.4 deg, which...

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