Neuronal control of walking: studies on insects
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Ansgar Büschges
Studied biology at the University of Bielefeld and graduated in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. U. Bässler at the University of Kaiserslautern with a PhD thesis analyzing the neural basis of posture and movement control in insects. After a postdoctoral period with Prof. K.G. Pearson at the University of Alberta, CDN from 1989–1991, where he studied the neuronal mechanisms of regeneration following sensory deprivation in the locust flight system, he returned in 1989 as research associate to the University of Kaiserslautern. There he passed his habilitation for Zoology in 1995 based on his previous research work on the neural basis of locomotion in insects. In 1997 he joined the group of Prof. S. Grillner at the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Stockholm, Sweden, supported by a DFG-Heisenberg Fellowship working on the cellular mechanisms of swimming motor pattern generation in the spinal cord of the lamprey. In 1998 he received the offer for a full professorship for Animal Physiology at the Institute for Zoology of the University of Cologne. During the academic year 2001–2002 he was convener of the research group “Neural Control of Locomotion” as Daimler-Chrysler-Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.
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Joachim Schmidt
Studied Biology at the University of Göttingen. As a PhD student he worked in the lab of Prof. W. Rathmayer at the University of Constance on the neural control of motor activity in locust. He was a postdoc with Prof. R.L. Calabrese, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, working on rhythmogenesis in an oscillatory neuronal network in the leech. Subsequently he worked with Prof. J.W. Deitmer on aspects of neuron-glial interaction in the leech. Since 1999 he is a lecturer with Prof. A. Büschges at the University of Cologne where he habilitated. Ever since, he is working on the neural control of locomotion in insects. Since a couple of years he is an Electrain faculty member at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen and he served as a DAAD summer school visiting professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, for two periods.
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