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Andrea Adden – new PhD student in the Vision Group

A portrait of a smiling person outside in the woods.

I joined the Vision Group in February 2015 to do my PhD project with Stanley Heinze and Eric Warrant. I will be working on the Bogong moth,  Agrotis infusa. These small, nocturnal moths travel many miles from their reproduction site to the cool caves in the Australian alps where they spend the summer months. How these moths find their way, especially considering the very limited amount of visual information available during their nocturnal migration, remains a mystery.

I will attempt to shed light on the neurophysiological basis of navigation in these fascinating insects. I also plan to model the neuronal networks involved in navigation, in a collaboration with Barbara Webb at the
University of Edinburgh.

Before coming to Lund, I completed a Master in neuroscience at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

mars 16, 2015

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