We compared learning across differential conditioning paradigms in the hummingbird hawkmoth and, surprisingly, associations were worse with strong negative reinforcements. Find out how reinforcements like quinine interfere with learning in these hawkmoths in the article, as well as on the BlueSky thread.

We are excited for Ronja, who was the lead author on a new paper published in Current Biology : The functional morphology of hawkmoth lamina monopolar cells reveals mechanisms of spatial processing in insect motion vision Check out the article for more information, as well as the (German) press release from the University of Konstanz!

Anna Stöckl & president of the society, Sven Bradler. Foto: Sabine Giessler Anna received the award of the German Zoological Society...

The fina version of our paper is out in eLife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/104118 We show that in hummingbird hawkmoth flight...

Anupama and Emma presented our research at the Exzellent gefragt event of the two excellence clusters to the public, at the Bodensee...

We are thrilled to share a proud moment for our team - Ronja has successfully defended her thesis and officially earned her doctoral...

Alex has officially started in our lab as a PhD student, and will be comparing native and ornamental flowers in their ability to be an...

We are excited to have Aruna visit our lab over the summer as part of her PhD research! She is investigating how hawkmoths actively shape...

We are excited to welcome Aditi Mishra, who has joined us as a postdoc and will be investigating how insect pollinators grapple with the...

We are excited that Emma has recently joined us as a research assistant! She is currently investigating how bumblebees generalize visual...

Farhan joined the team this year to pursue his PhD. He will study natural and polluted light environments, and how these are perceived by...

We had a fantastic retreat in the Black Forest together with the Foster and Nouvian labs. We escaped rooms, worked on laboratory code of...

The annual Neurobiology Christmas Party was another huge success! Season's greetings and a happy new year from our hive to yours. :-)

Hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" and "Collective Behaviour", a citizen dialogue was held at the...

As part of the Junges Kolleg, Anna organized a workshop for researchers investigating the many diverse aspects of plant-pollinator...

We were excited to host PhD students from the Hector Fellow Academy here in Konstanz for two days of workshops, networking and exploring....

Big congratulation to Nina! Today we celebrated her successful defense of her Bachelor thesis. The topic of her B.Sc. project is '...

Our whole team travelled to Berlin to attend this year's International Congress of Neuroethology and additionally the preceding...

A warm welcome to our new Postdoc Andrew. We are extremely happy to welcome him to our team. Andrew is fascinated by how insects...

Our Hector fellows Anna, Andrea and Lochlan travelled to Hamburg to attend the 9th symposium of the Hector Fellow Academy 2024. A great...