Current students

Sophie Dejosez (BSc Student)
Sophie is studying the neuronal control of adaptive locomotion in Drosophila. In particular, she is interested in unraveling how a population of brain interneurons controls stopping.

Mia Vögtle (BSc Student)
Mia is working on the neuronal control of forward walking and turning by descending neuron populations in Drosophila.

Edda Sauer (BSc Student)
Edda is trying to figure out how flies stop in response to sensory stimuli. She works closely together with Sander in the lab to test novel behavioral paradigms optimized to challenge flies to perform complex motor tasks.

Alumni

Hannah Soyka (MSc Student)
Hannah is characterizing a population of neurons that control a complex walking sequence in flies. To this end, she combines electrophysiological recordings with kinematic analysis and optogenetics.

Isabella Balles (MSc Student)
Isabella performed calcium imaging experiments in insulin-producing cells. She is now a PhD student with Prof. David Owald (Charité Berlin).

Aleyna Meric (MSc Student)
Aleyna performed patch-clamp recordings from descending neurons controlling backward walking in flies. She is now a PhD student with Prof. Tobias Moser (University of Göttingen).

Hannah Volk (BSc Student)
Hannah performed recordings from brain interneurons controlling stopping in Drosophila.

Alexandra Keller (BSc Student)
Alex worked closely with Feffo on modeling Drosophila walking trajectories and inferring the influence of different brain neurons on walking parameters.

Hannah Soyka (BSc Student)
Hannah worked on characterizing the integration of sensory stimuli by modulatory neurons using patch-clamp recordings.

Nicole Enslinger (BSc Student)
Nicole worked on characterizing modulatory neurons in the fly brain by combining calcium imaging experiments with optogenetic activation protocols.