I am very happy to announce that our lab will soon move to the University of #Heidelberg to join the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en
#COS
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We will build up a new department on Evolutionary Neurobiology with a focus on marine larval behaviour, comparative #connectomics, molecular organismal biology, #neuromodulation and related topics.
#neuroscience #evolution
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There will be new #postdoc and #PhD openings, if you are interested to work with us, please get in touch. Possible topics include #Platynereis neurobiology, eye #evolution, #connectomics, the behaviour of ciliated #larvae etc. You can work on a growing selection of organisms kept in the lab, including Platynereis (still our no. 1), #Trichoplax, #Nematostella or join more exotic projects investigating hard-to-culture marine animals including polyclads, hemichordates or amphioxus.
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Alternatively, if you have experience in electron microscopy or image analysis and are interested in volume EM, you can join our #volumeEM projects either to do EM or work on the data analysis side of volume EM and connectomics projects
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@jekely this is great news! I’m happy to hear this! Good luck… and… have fun!!! 👍
@florianjug Thanks Florian! We are happy about it, and hopefully we will enjoy the new life HD can offer!
@allan_littlecar Thanks Allan! Not much on funky annelids at the moment, but happy to discuss!
@jekely this is nightmare fuel
H.R. Giger has nothing on evolution
@graemewinter This cute Platynereis worm?
Check out the bobbit worm for real nightmare fuel:
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/bobbit-worm
@jekely Congrats Gaspar, excellent news!
@frankschnorrer Thank you Frank!
We am very excited to move to COS and join its vibrant community. We have a shared interest in the study of organismal biology across the boundaries of biological levels of organization.
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