How do fish find their way around? Our new review explores how teleosts use multiple strategies and brain mechanisms to navigate their environments. Written with Adelaide Sibeaux, Theresa Burt de Perera, and Thomas Mueller. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beetz Lab Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....

Let me introduce our new lab homepage.

www.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. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org

Our findings suggest that early-stage visual processing in archerfish is specialized for efficient object categorization. This study contributes to understanding how different brains process visual information across species. #Neuroscience #Vision #archerfish. (4/4)

By recording single neurons in the optic tectum, we discovered that object category information is already present at this early stage! This differs from primates, where object representation emerges in higher visual areas. A unique feature in the archerfish. (3/4)

Archerfish shoot water at aerial targets, making them perfect for studying vision. In previous study we trained them to categorize objects & found they rely on a small set of visual features, prioritizing contours over textures. But what happens in their brain? (2/4)

I am excited to share our latest study, led by Svetlana Volotsky, reveals that archerfish can categorize objects using a small population of neurons in their optic tectum—an early visual processing stage www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)

ISN is here too! Now I feel at home😀