Michael Kunst

EDUCATION

College / University

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Highest Degree

Vordiplom

Major Subjects

Biology

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Country

Germany

Lab Experience

Pharmacological brain stimulation of grasshoppers (chorthippus biguttulus); behavioural experiments with honeybees; signal cascades during the olfactory conditioning of honeybees; immunohistochemistry from the CNS of crayfish.

Projects / Research

  • Agonistic behaviour of crayfish (Procambarus spec.)
  • Bidirectional communication of bushcrickets

Scholarships / Awards

2003 – 2004: Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I want to gain a broad education in the neurosciences in order to understand the molecular basis of behaviour. I am mostly interested in neuropharmacology and neurogenetics. I want to understand in which way genes and their products, the proteins, influence behaviour.